thetruthseeker1

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by thetruthseeker1 7y ago
How? Apples and Oranges comparison
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by thetruthseeker1 7y ago
If you disagree with this view that is not a reason to down vote. If you think the point I am making is irrelevant or insulting or a bunch of other reasons which are not addressing the topic at hand, then that is a reason to down vote. I wi
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by thetruthseeker1 7y ago
Enterprises like these are free to make whatever decisions they want and I don't think it's fair to evaluate them with morals that seem to imply they are evil. What I mean is : this enterprise is not a monopoly, and there is compe
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by thetruthseeker1 7y ago
That is great. However did you guys have a debate about US poverty after every Apollo mission? What about after you buy every F35? The cost of this Indian mission is about the cost of 1 F35. BTW, many decades back Indians also deliberated,
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by thetruthseeker1 7y ago
You don't have the whole picture from what you have seen. Have you been to SF? Have you been to LA. Have you seen problems caused by drugs in US? Every country has problems
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by thetruthseeker1 7y ago
When US was spending billions on Minuteman and Apollo missions, there were many problems in America, including poverty. Not sure? ask the African Americans in the south from that time. However, very little energy was spent on questioning wh
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by thetruthseeker1 7y ago
I think Sikhs are great, they are hard-working people. But, how are they transforming the trucking industry though? It seems to me that the ethnicity of labor force in this industry has changed like how it has happened in multiple other ind
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by thetruthseeker1 7y ago
I think this guy wrote a great article. However I don’t know if I agree with his conclusion of him not being a good web developer. I would bet that most great developers have googled often enough. In their defense googling is a more efficie
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by thetruthseeker1 8y ago
While Amazon’s work culture doesn’t surprise me(similar experiences from multiple sources), while I feel sympathetic to the author’s struggles, I do feel the author went a bit too far with his invectives against his previous manager. The re
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by thetruthseeker1 8y ago
I think subtle racism is a big problem. It can be felt without being verbally communicated to you, the actions from the perpetrators are frustrating and you feel helpless. The perpetrators would not be corrected because they said nothing wr
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by thetruthseeker1 8y ago
I don’t think the requirement that the CEO appear in a public deposition is part regulatory compliance( usually good faith). If Facebook is not in regulatory compliance, I am sure they will be fined millions.
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by thetruthseeker1 8y ago
May be. However lawmakers don’t roast oil execs. It seems to me like there is a lot of kabuki theater here and if law makers want to do something to improve social media, there are better ways to get Zuckerberg to co-operate than this metho
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by thetruthseeker1 8y ago
I think the additional value the newer iphone provides i.e face id and better screens doesn’t warrant the increased price tag. Ideally the price should also be falling like it did for PCs in the 90s.
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by thetruthseeker1 8y ago
doesn’t work on http
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by thetruthseeker1 8y ago
The Algorithm or the concepts behind Asymetric key encryption https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography This makes so much of online trust and verification possible.
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by thetruthseeker1 8y ago
While this is sad, if the scientific journals end up paying the authors, it won’t be 35$ anymore, it will be more(which I am happy to pay). The publishers I am sure won’t be taking a pay cut though!
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by thetruthseeker1 8y ago
Isn’t this system equivalent to vote your disapprovals only, the person with the least disapprovals wins?
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by thetruthseeker1 8y ago
My view is also that it would be better policy if the california government taxed all homes and generated a certain amount of revenue which they could use to generate certain percentage GW of solar power( A goal they should set for themselv
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by thetruthseeker1 8y ago
I think the problem is the pricing model. If I watch one Netflix movie a month, it’s not really worth 11$ to me. These subscriptions should have tiers starting from few cents - but it may be less a Netflix problem and more a problem of labe
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by thetruthseeker1 8y ago
Fines are usually multiple times more than the value they cheated which seems to be the case here( ~100M$ ) - so it is fair in some sense. Just because they are still profitable doesn’t mean the fine was unfair. There might be other divisio
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by thetruthseeker1 8y ago
When I learnt programming, i was confused by x=x+1; After I understood what it really meant, I wondered why they didn’t use some other symbol to capture this semantic. Say something like x <- x+1 ; Which implies assignment rather than eq
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by thetruthseeker1 8y ago
I like Tessa. I hope they succeed as a company. That said, their claim that the driver had his hands of the steering wheel for 6 seconds implying that they are absolved of any wrong doing seems hard to buy. They may eventually be absolved o
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by thetruthseeker1 8y ago
I am sure that I can find flaws in some of the best identity systems in the world - but I am not sure if just finding faults make a good discussion hence I am not going to do that (in addition to not want being labeled a cynic). Also when y
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by thetruthseeker1 8y ago
What is your solution ? It kind of seems like Aadhar should be better managed... rather than reinvent another identity system, sure I am optimistic that Aadhar will improve (Its a very new system compared to SSN or other identity systems) R
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by thetruthseeker1 8y ago
I disagree with the assessment. It seems like any form in which the government tries to identify you is being compared to the scary Orwellian dystopia. There is no cost benefit analysis. Sure it could be misused, however it can also be used
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by thetruthseeker1 8y ago
Seems like a classic case of standardizing interpreting email moniker. Need an RFC for this
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by thetruthseeker1 8y ago
Your comparison is like comparing apples and oranges. You can’t do child labor because there are laws in the US to prevent that. If you lobby to pass a law that prevents AI for defense purposes then that would be similar. Here the US govt i
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by thetruthseeker1 8y ago
I also think that disengaging is the wrong approach. Google once disengaged with China because they didn’t agree with China on some freedom of expression laws and all the management now think that it was a bad decision. In similar vein, if
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by thetruthseeker1 9y ago
Can somebody elaborate why this link from 2016 is gaining steam here? Is it because Cambridge Analytica misused FB data? May be I am missing something, do we know if facebook was wittingly complicit?
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by thetruthseeker1 9y ago
Every company has its ups and downs. Some downs or negative things warrant their demise. I don’t think what FB did here is worth calling burn the witch on them or actively trying to kill them, and I do hope FB are able to learn from this an

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