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Having spent some time with Google as SWE, I think Google was by far the best engineering company I have worked with. Even Amazon, Microsoft were terrible when it comes to software…

BS. Most cars drive on freeways and interstates most of the time, especially the large trucks etc. traffic in residential areas is generally pretty low and it more only during morn…

Meh. Why should we reduce our quality of life ? We can always use AC in cars and and at home.

P2P is a loss making feature for nearly everyone involved. If you have some other way to obtaining users and maintaining growth, you are better off not supporting P2P payments. P2P…

Are you saying USPS is not going to screw things up ?

> I wish the post office was a bank and they hosted their own pay apps. Lol.

You have clearly not read the article. $500 is the cost of fine tuning.

Simple policies are easy to understand, easy to comply with and have more predictable externalities and second order effects. The PG&E poppycock is hard to understand. Even I do no…

California's politicians are corrupt and incompetent. PG&E is a great example of this. PUC of California is supposed to protect consumers but consumers right now are paying record …

No one is forced to use G or M but they make better products. It is not monopoly. There are excellent alternatives available very easily. Comcast, ATT are different. You simply don…

Lina Khan is the enabler of these things.

This is not a forum of geopolitics experts but I think this wars is the biggest threat we currently have for tech progress. If Russia takes over Ukraine next step would be proxy wa…

Other than garbage airlines like Frontier, I have never had reasons to complain about any American airlines that much. Competition is so fierce that they all are pretty bad in my o…

> where it hurts their mental health. Why are they working there then ?

Pixel smartphones: Launched in 2016 Google Home smart speaker: Launched in 2016 Google Wifi mesh Wi-Fi system: Launched in 2016 Google Nest smart display: Launched in 2018 Google N…

A cruise ship does many things a fishgin trawler is expected to only fish.

> Google’s problem has always been in product follow through. Google is large enough to not care about small opportunities. It ends up focusing on bigger opportunities that only it…

I think we should all take a pause and just appreciate the amazing work Google, OpenAI, MS and many others including those in academia have done. We do not know if Google or OpenAI…

Read responses to this tweet: https://twitter.com/USAndMumbai/status/1787772852084830251 May be in the HN bubble "South Asia" is an expected term, very likely because HN crowd migh…

I don't care about whatever you frame. South Asia = Pakistan. Read replies to this: https://twitter.com/USAndMumbai/status/1787772852084830251

Read replies to the tweet https://twitter.com/USAndMumbai/status/1787772852084830251

I personally don't care about Musk's reputation. I was hoping that the Model 3 prices will go down and the build quality go up. In my opinion it is simply not worth $40K or so.

At the large well known company where we worked we joked that we paid our +1s some money to sit through the course around diversity.

Is compressed air in itself source of energy ? Or does it depend on the external air pressure as well ? For example I compress air in a canister and move it to outer space or deep …

Well, at one point the academia did think about it and then tried using IED instead but then they thought it might blow up in their face :)