tiny_ta

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by tiny_ta 3y ago
I highly recommend watching the Indian movie: The great Indian kitchen. It does really offer a different perspective to anyone who believes that a housewife's job is better than a corporate drone's :)
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by tiny_ta 3y ago
It's not quite the same thing though, is it? You can walk away from one employer and go to another as long as you have employ-able skills. It's much harder to walk away from a marriage that is not working out for one and if some f
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by tiny_ta 3y ago
Reading this was nostalgic for me as this was how we'd write essays in my Indian high school. It's not so strange when we grow up developing our style to look like this :)
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by tiny_ta 3y ago
I couldn't agree more! :)
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by tiny_ta 3y ago
You're absolutely right that, ideally, this would be a conversation with a professional, non-moralizing doctor. But there could be many scenarios where one doesn't have access to such care - think of the uninsured, think of teenag
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by tiny_ta 3y ago
I was on birth control for 5 years and had some friends on it too. My very anecdotal data is that: while none of us faced any mental health changes, there were some physiological changes that I did not like. You're right that there are
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by tiny_ta 3y ago
I'm sure that's a contributor - thank you for highlighting the other side of this issue! :)
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by tiny_ta 3y ago
Huh, this is even more interesting because I always thought that homeless folk gravitate towards city centers and not that urban areas cause homelessness. I'm not looking to contradict you, just saying it's funny how we look at th
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by tiny_ta 3y ago
Interesting, because I have a theory that less dependence on cars would actually lead to fewer crazy, homeless people and more vibrant neighbourhoods: the reason being that lower income folks wouldn't have to spend so much time and mon
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by tiny_ta 3y ago
I mean, they're still not wrong. Over 95% of US schools do have active shooter training [1] which is what the commenter was referring to. 1. https://everytownresearch.org/report/the-impact-of-active-sh...
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by tiny_ta 3y ago
I was merely trying to show how such strawman statements could be made for anybody and any country. I keep forgetting how tone and subtext can be lost in text format :)
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by tiny_ta 3y ago
Similarly outrageous things could be said about any country. <faux outrage> Would you prefer politicians who are in the pockets of lobbyists? Politicians who repeal regulation that keeps a bank with subpar risk management from getting
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by tiny_ta 3y ago
If I were an economist/social scientist/political scientist, I would be grinning ear to ear right now. This is going to be great data in the years to come, to help understand how these things shake out in the end and impact the br
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by tiny_ta 3y ago
It's good to see at least a few comments further down that wish that similar steps to break up TBTF companies were taken here in the west.
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by tiny_ta 3y ago
> One former customer service employee estimated that 60%-70% of the accounts they reviewed during a typical shift would have more than a dozen linked accounts. Another two former employees estimated 40% and 75%, respectively. I don&#x27
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by tiny_ta 3y ago
Address verification is where the bureaus like Transunion and Experian come in. These vendors have a gold mine of information that should allow a company to verify a host of their users' attributes - not just addresses.
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by tiny_ta 3y ago
I was wondering about this same question today. The reason was a PBS documentary[1] and Jeff Bezos' advice to not make big purchases[2] (which is a stunning stance for the CEO of an online shopping company). I don't know enough to
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by tiny_ta 3y ago
That's my understanding as well. I bet the 996 culture, 69-hour max workweeks, and constant rat race definitely don't help with this. Add to this a younger generation that thinks that they don't want to make the "sacrifi
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by tiny_ta 3y ago
I think the problem is during this transition from a bottom heavy to a top heavy population distribution. Suddenly, you don't have enough of a young and robust workforce to support your aging population. Labour shortage means you can&#
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by tiny_ta 3y ago
I do live in the North east so I partially understand. I would love to go around more of the US and understand these differences. Thank you for your measured response!
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by tiny_ta 3y ago
You're right. Thank you for adding a level of nuance for me to chew on!
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by tiny_ta 3y ago
Europe is definitely on my list! Some things like economic conditions in the likes of UK and Germany give me pause, but I would love to live in all these different places and experience life there. Such a short life and so many places to be
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by tiny_ta 3y ago
I appreciate your question because I have spent a lot of time in the past thinking about this :) > I’m genuinely curious because every person defines personal freedom differently. And great society is very subjective. I couldn't agr
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by tiny_ta 3y ago
Thank you for sharing your experience - I appreciate that a lot of my views around China (and even DACH where I've also considered moving to) may be too rosy. I will definitely visit any place a few times before I move there!
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by tiny_ta 3y ago
Thank you for sharing your experience. I'm Indian and I'm on my third country I've lived in now. I'm beginning to think I should learn to be optimistic and appreciative about wherever I live than trying to find that perf
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by tiny_ta 3y ago
Thank you for your balanced view! I will definitely learn the language and visit the place a few times before I consider moving anywhere :)
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by tiny_ta 3y ago
It's so interesting to read this perspective since it drives home "the grass is always greener.." for me. I've lived a pretty charmed life in the US for the past few years (like the majority of HN, I imagine) but I find