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"People in other places are not saints. You might get cheated, swindled, or taken advantage of. Paradoxically, the best way to avoid that is to give strangers your trust and treat …

> How would you react if someone demanded you pay them 8% of your annual revenue? Yeah. Like that. If I built my product on the labour of that "someone", I would pay it. Seems thes…

I think we are applying the wrong model here. We should not try to force-fit an app store model. A more applicable model is that of a decentralized internet and intranet. As in the…

This I think is confined to 21st century western world. Asia (India + China largely) on the other hand is seeing a reverse phenomenon where the next generation frequently end up be…

Thank you for bringing this clarity. And as an Indian citizen I am glad we took this step towards building an independent payments infrastructure, given how critical a payments cle…

> Which non-Western countries are competing on creativity? As I see it, Asian economies like India, China, Japan, South Korea offer a reasonable competition to Western economies to…

I am someone who has a masters degree and I have taken Distributed systems, Computer Architecture and Advanced Algorithms at Bradfield. In my experience, I would rate Bradfield bet…

Thank you for building it! This is super useful. I have always been frustrated with not having access to a clean calendar, given that I use mac os (for personal stuff) and windows …

It took me 10 min to see that he is talking about the game and not the language. There is even a "Endgame Pointers" chapter in this book :).

+1. I was on H1B Visa for a decade (6 + 4). Worked at Amazon (AWS networking) for 5 of those years and changed jobs 4 times in those 10 years. I honestly loved working at Amazon, j…

I don't think that's a conspiracy. Motivations there, however misplaced they may be, are quite clear.

That's an interesting perspective. I have never found him arrogant. May be I have not watched the video clips or read tweets that you were exposed to. He does have a counter intuit…

Thats right. Majority of the problems here are from re-zoning agricultural land into an industrial one. If you build your manufacturing unit in an existing industrial area you can …

> If there's a constant small probability of injury per item packed, then of course doing twice as much work per work day, will lead to twice as many injuries per employee per work…

This will also incentivize firms to consider running teams from countries like Ireland, Canada (less restricted on immigration) and India (labor rich). It's also a shot in the arm …

Book - Range by David Epstein - covers this topic really well. The book shows how expanding into neighboring areas increases your performance in your chosen field itself. [1] https…

I agree that is a concern with a US centric team. Imagine a globally distributed team - 3 engineers are in Asia pacific region, 2 in Europe and 2 in US. Everyone in the team is equ…

This will fuel the "remote anywhere" trend that's already underway. If a H1b engineer in US suppresses wage growth, wait until the same engineer can do the work for 1/3rd the cost …

This article feels like a vindication of sorts, for my own speed reading experience. Years ago, I read a book on speed reading, and just as we think everything that is in a book mu…

Lack of sleep increases insulin resistance[1]. Insulin resistance can negatively influence weight loss AFAIK. [1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100505091632.h...

I will show this comment to my grand kids one day - Do whatever you can, think whatever you like - By the end of this decade, we will have at least half a dozen such currencies wit…

Hanlon's razor - Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Yeah. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity ~Hanlon's razor