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jp42··on Sr Manager at Google Resigns After Dalit Activist Disallowed from Giving Lecture
There is massive distrust in activists in recent years as a lot of them if not all are exposed as peddling political agendas instead of working on actual cause. Combine that with todays cancel culture trend. Now here I suspect narrative will be on cancelling lecture, less on substance.
jp42··on Tech bubbles are bursting all over the place
just want to add point that Tesla is not just the car company, they are into energy (battery, panels etc), AI, robotaxi etc areas as well, that could be one of the factor in higher valuation.
jp42··on Why video calls are bad for brainstorming
I have not done much of a brainstorming over video call, however debugging session over call is very productive in my experience. 2-3 people is what worked best most of the time.
jp42··on Announcing a16z crypto research
I wish you go through Foundation of Blockchain lecture series by Tim Roughgarden and also understand what cryptography is. I bet you will change you mind on - there is no math in crypto.
jp42··on Elon Musk owns 9.2% of Twitter
precisely thats the point. if its open source then people can dig these things and twitter can't manipulate the crow at scale.
jp42··on Ask HN: What bits of fundamental knowledge are productivity multipliers?
Can someone care to elaborate more on this?
jp42··on N° 9–2022: ExoMars suspended
I dont understand why I'm getting downvoted.

My comment was not at all on the post itself or current affaires. I'm big fan of space exploration regardless of which country achieves success. I was just appreciating the fact that Elon has build SpaceX in a way that it minimize things outside his control so that his mission can succeed.

jp42··on N° 9–2022: ExoMars suspended
In the moments like this I appreciate even more what Elon Musk is doing, its private business, less govt interference, within USA(IMO there is no better country than USA at this moment), and he is relentless on making humans multi planet species.
jp42··on Ask HN: My Google account was hacked, Google says they can't help
Curious what people are doing avoid such situations? apart from 2FA, two different email accounts for banking and other services?
jp42··on Investors bought a record share of U.S. homes in 2021
for those who dont know. Read about "Cantillon Effect", it basically means whoever gets newly printed money first benefits the most at the cost on whoever gets it later.
jp42··on Procrastinatory Doom Loops
This worked incredibly well in my experience for debug sessions.
jp42··on Ask HN: How do you avoid online distractions and tech addiction?
which app you use for RSS feed?
jp42··on Ask HN: Just saw 40 satellites flying in straight line one after another
https://findstarlink.com/ - in case anyone want to see them.
jp42··on Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?
- change city - change job - be useful - read more
jp42··on Using Brave's “Private Window with Tor” could get you fired
Its not allowed to installed in my company since long time.
jp42··on Apple gives top engineers bonuses up of $180k to curtail defections to Meta[..]
https://www.levels.fyi
jp42··on Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-optional push grows
On a slightly tangent, going forward universities will be less and less relevant compared to past. Except few areas where you cant learn things online (e.g medical), universities will be competing with online courses. If university help to get real jobs by innovating itself, it will stay relevant otherwise it will perish. The trend is clear.
jp42··on Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership position at Stripe
to name names - Microsoft, its been over a month and no response after onsite loop.
jp42··on Space debris forces astronauts on space station to take shelter in return ships
For those who dont know already, such activity contribute to the possibility of Kessler Syndrome/Effect in future. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
jp42··on Coinbase Breach Notification
checkout rekt.news to follow attacks in crypto world.

It's wont stop, not just crypto but almost everything that involves software will have potential attacks. Crypto is just another area where attacks happen. IMO More the attacks, over the time crypto industry will become more robust.

jp42··on Brave Talk – Privacy-Preserving Video Conferencing
May be naive question. How does Brave earn money to sustain its operations?
jp42··on Show HN: 40k HN comments mentioning books, extracted using deep learning
Thanks for the comment! My son is 3y8m. He knows letter and many word. Looks like this book could be what he needs to get on next level.
jp42··on Show HN: 40k HN comments mentioning books, extracted using deep learning
Slightly off from post. The best book recommendation I got is from one of the following ways, dedicated recommendation service or app never worked for me:

- told by friend

- someone I admire read book and commented on it

- I'm working on some problem, during that exploration i came across books.

- random people mentioning book on platform like HN on a topic/post of my interest.

jp42··on James Webb Space Telescope launch media kit [pdf]
I really really really hope JWST successfully launches and deploys. It's been almost 3 decades, countless people worked on it and billions of dollars are invested in this project. Not to mention how much it will improve our understanding of the universe. Fingers crossed.
jp42··on El Salvador adopts Bitcoin as official currency, first country to do so
Actually it's far more transparent and verifiable by anyone than you would think. I highly encourage you to read more about it. I have no doubt the more understand the more you appreciate it.
jp42··on Intel’s Turnaround and the Future of Chipmaking
I confirm that several things said in above comments are true.
jp42··on First US Census Bureau Report on Growing Childless Older Adult Population
From my observation in my social circle, there are two pressures that forcing not having kid or more kids. One is support system and second financial stability to take care or kids.

First, with both partner working & almost no one to support(from relatives/close family) during first 3-5 years of kids. It's super exhausting and one starts having second thoughts about having more kids.

Second, People want good future for kids. Daycare expenses, school, college etc. general thinking is if I can support one child really well and not two then its better to have just one.

In my experience I have not seen anyone who genuinely dont like kids or regretted having kid even at their emotionally lowest point. It just above two primary forces, pushing them towards not have anymore kids.

jp42··on Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and from what?
Curious to know where you are running your mining rig? in your house/apartment or you rented some other place? Also is there any limit on how much electricity you can use in apartment/House?
jp42··on The endless quest for a great notes-taking tool
I tried several tools but the only thing that worked for me is just plain text.
jp42··on Dating in Delhi when you're poor
Whenever there is comparison between something in India and west, almost always its not apples to apples. There are 1.3 billion people, and very wide range of social & economic spectrum, which inherently makes comparison very difficult. for the sake of example - for "X", you will find many many Indians spending vastly more than western people, at the same time you will find millions of Indians who could not even dream about X. replace anything in X. Another I have seen many families who give freedom to girl on whatever they want to do, at the same time there are several conservative and hardliners families. its very hard to generalized due to sheer size and diversity of India.

IMO without meaningful context comparison between west & India is pointless.

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