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awa

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About awa

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    Comment #47491760

    Personally, the Lego stuff was unreliable and a lot of time was spent by kids in making sure the robot worked across different conditions and there was a lot of pressure on them on…

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    Comment #39196741

    +1. Employees can generally boost revenues (if used correctly). The post I was replying to was implying that cutting employees boosted revenues somehow.

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    Comment #39196099

    Costs do not impact revenue only profits.

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    Comment #37664021

    Free meals still exists.

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    Comment #34712099

    I think the correct link is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLWXJ22LUEc (atleast the sound is better here)

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    Comment #34704966

    It creates the problem of too many chefs but too few cooks. Too many people discussing how to best construct a thing vs actually constructing the thing.

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    Comment #34370671

    This is thanks to the absurd guidance by the govt. to only give tax break Model Y like vehicles if they are under $55K. (Personally,this hurts as I bought a MY in December)

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    Comment #34163508

    Frankly, Leetcode seems like a more objective test to me than a panel of interviewer grinding me on behavioral questions checklist.

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    Comment #33535392

    However, they would have a loan between 3-4% which seems to 1-2% lower than current rates.

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    Comment #33462170

    Fyi.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manu_Cornet .

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    Comment #32435096

    I hadn't heard of newpipe before so just installed it and found that it had much more intrusive ads than regular YouTube.

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    Comment #31448571

    Can you share some more details? As I have just been prescribed Adderall and I want to make sure that's something I want to take regularly.

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    Comment #31332542

    +1.. COIN trying to hire FAANG engineers so have to pay high salaries to attract them

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    Comment #30909631

    Adderall. Frankly, Get yourself evaluated for ADHD and see if prescription can help. Even just knowing has done wonders for my mental health by making me more forgiving for the mis…

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    Comment #30796305

    I think the point was since the stimulus money has stopped they don't have to compete with the government and with inflation these folks will need to find a job.

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    Comment #30783007

    FYI The announcement is from *spotify not shopify

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    Comment #30676134

    Non paywall story: https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/mp-student-gets-bl...

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    Comment #30005747

    At Google, design documents are a big deal and I have really come to appreciate them a lot. My previous employers were not so big on design documents so it was a big change for me.…

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    Comment #30005734

    Thanks for keeping a open diary. I am wondering if you find the big banner ad on your website worth the extra money, it makes the blog feel like a spam website.

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    Comment #29155926

    Afaik, Google removed the "View image" feature due to the getty lawsuit. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/internet-rages-after...

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    Comment #29084278

    Personally, I feel the characters in Mahabharata are more shades of grey (rather than just Good or Bad) unlike Ramayana which is portrayed as a fight between Good vs Bad. Even Kris…

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    Comment #28558519

    Because PTO needs to be approved by the manager which they weren't ready to do.

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    Comment #28321209

    Congrats! Looks really interesting, I do see a few data issue e.g. NVDA Sep 17 2021 $405.00 Put NVDA(Stock) put 726.44 405 321.44(44%) 2021-09-17(61d) 2 3 0.98 1.29 0.0000 0.0000 0…

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    Comment #27371452

    A few companies under the FAANG umbrella do monthly/quarterly vesting.

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    Comment #27280356

    I have been presently surprised with Google Assistant in this regard, the integration with my TV (with new Google TV Chromecast) is amazing and a lot of time I don't bother to pick…