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New Coronavirus Test Provides Results in as Few as Five Minutes, According to Manufacturer

On March 27, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted emergency use to Abbott Laboratories for its rapid COVID-19 test designed for doctor’s offices, urgent care centers and smaller hospitals without complex testing labs. According to the Illinois-based company, the test can give positive resul

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Apr 4, 2020

Semiconductor giants call for immigration law restructuring

Semiconductor giants are pushing for immigration reform that would allow more highly skilled workers to remain in the U.S. after Congress passed a bill to strengthen domestic chip manufacturing. The semiconductor companies told congressional leaders the U.S. should reform regulations around green c

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Aug 4, 2022

How many COVID-19 cases do we REALLY have?

The official numbers say the US has 2227 deaths and 123750 cases, but we know the lack of testing kits means the number of actual cases is much higher. One way to estimate is to estimate total cases from deaths, which are more reliably tracked. Assuming 1% die then the current 2227 deaths are the 1

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Mar 28, 2020

H-1B: Outsourcing giant games visa system to discriminate against non-South Asians in hiring, lawsuit claims

HCL has been able to secure visas for far more individuals than it actually has a present need for,” the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose, claimed. “For example, HCL is consistently one of the top-10 H-1B visa recipients in the U.S., and from 2015 to 2017, HCL received 10,432 new H-

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Oct 20, 2019

Appraised value came lower than expected. Also, how legit are appraisals?

Hey Blind, I bought a 3b2b SFH in Fremont for 1.03M last August at 3% fixed with $5500 lender credits which I used towards closing costs. I put 265k down (26% of the purchase price). When the interest rates kept falling, I refinanced my mortgage in January this year at 2.5% fixed. During the refina

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Apr 6, 2021

So much for “well-regulated militias”

Fascists flip so fast these days. You guys should stop and smell the roses. https://fox59.com/news/hoosier-oath-keeper-involved-in-capitol-riots-pleads-guilty-to-federal-charges/amp/ “The defendant in this case admits forcing his way into the U.S. Capitol on January 6 for the express purpose of st

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Apr 16, 2021

The metaverse is replacing the office. Meet the gamified workforce of the future

There seem to be many opportunities. Does Metaverse have a viable future? “The metaverse is not quite here, but it is near. The metaverse and evolution of Web3 are reminiscent of the early days of the internet: The potential is enormous, and there is no set playbook. We are creating the future of

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Aug 22, 2022

(Threads) - another data gobbler from meta

Yet another rip off from suckerberg. 1) Twitter was a huge dataset available for LLM training upon which openai also used for training it's models. https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-openai-twitter-data-pay-dispute-2023-4 2) Zuckerberg's metaverse was a flop. Although he might have gotten

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Jul 5, 2023

Day in the Life of a MSFT Product Manager

7AM: wake up and take a call with Europe. They are panicking because their sub just reorged and headcount slashed. Make no progress on roadmap 7:30: Look at Blind to see if today is another wave of “business update” layoff emails. Inconclusive 8AM: go into office because in person facetime is requ

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Feb 25, 2023

Biological differences create uneven height population distributions for employment types in the NBA: true or false?

Related to the debate on gender, I'm wondering if the majority agree that biological differences explain (at least I'm part) why we have more tall people in the NBA. If so, then how would the SJWs argue that the gender debate is different? For example, if biology is related to traits such as height

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Aug 11, 2017

What went wrong at Coinbase?

On surface, it should be a super profitable business as they charge a fee for each transaction that goes through their platform and have a subscription model that gives a steady steam of revenue. So what exactly went wrong? I thought of several items that may have impacted their plans- 1. Coinbase

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Jun 7, 2022

Trump's immigration plan would cancel all current GC applications

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2019/05/16/trump-immigration-plan-may-throw-4-million-people-off-immigrant-waiting-lists/amp/ ... The backlog of Indians who are principals and dependents in the employment-based second and employment-based third categories comes to approximately 550,000,

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May 17, 2019

Marital rape ruling of supreme court (India)

Is India going in right direction to make a fair society for everyone? Also talking about gender biased rules in India. https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/sexual-assault-by-a-man-of-his-wife-can-take-the-form-of-rape-supreme-court/article65950173.ece/amp/ This is hilarious: https://thefauxy

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Sep 30, 2022

Offer Evaluation

I have two offers I'm trying to choose between right now and both are exciting for different reasons, so just wanting to get the opinion of you folks. Both of these offers are before negotiations, so not sure yet how high I can make them go Dremio is offering me L5: Base: 230k Bonus: 15% Stock Opti

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Dec 23, 2021

About time GOP Expands it's BASE

According to census data, there were more non white births than white births in recent years. The white majority America had for years will start disappearing soon(2045). It is about time GOP starts reaching out to minorities. I totally support GOP Economic agenda of small government, free market c

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Sep 22, 2020

Aggression against Asians in America

I want to preface this by saying I’m not Asian, I’m Caucasian but not American, so my insights into this topic are limited to an external to that community view. Recently, the level of racially motivated violence against Asians seems to have skyrocketed. It’s everywhere and not just in California w

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Mar 17, 2021

Apple’s strategy on AI and LLMs is the right one

As far as I can tell from my observations on generative AI, the deployment of the currently running large language models is running into roadblocks, such as - LLMs gradually hallucinating more content (https://gizmodo.com/study-finds-chatgpt-capabilities-are-getting-worse-1850655728) as more LLM-g

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Aug 6, 2023

IBM disguised Watson Health layoffs as a 'redeployment initiative'

Many companies are likely to lay off employees IBM way. Required relocation appears to have become a common tactic at IBM to avoid layoffs – it encourages workers to quit rather than go through a disruptive, unwanted move. In recent age-discrimination lawsuits against IBM, the company has been accu

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Aug 29, 2022

Consulting or series D health tech startup?

I think I need some help deciding between two opportunities as I step away from my first job out of college at Deloitte Consulting. 1: Compensation Consultant at solidly established consulting firm: - 110k base; ~127k TC - 30% pay bump - same MCOL city as I am now so expenses relatively unchanged

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Sep 1, 2022

Interview experiences

Hello Blinders - want to share couple of my recent interview experiences and want to get your feedback and learn if anyone has experienced the same? Apple - Technical Product Manager (AMP) Went through the entire interview process. Received great feedback and hiring manager told me me that the team

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Nov 19, 2021

Frontend Eng Looking for Referral

Hey Blinders! Was looking for some help in this rough market. I was part of a large layoff back in June, any referrals would be a huge help. Thanks in advance! TC: 0 YOE: 5.5 #JS #React #TS #HTML #CSS #Git #Cloudflare #Weave #Retool #Apollo #Kargo #Goodrx #Fetch #Nightfall #BlueVine #Nextdoor #Fl

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Oct 3, 2023

Deep Mind Gato - Causing Me An Existential Chrisis

You heard of Deep Mind Gato? The lead researcher on this AI research project claims they're in striking distance of it scaling to human level intelligence. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-deepmind-artificial-general-intelligence-b2080740.html%3Famp I knew this would come

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May 19, 2022

I am fully recovered (and now immune) to coronavirus/COVID-19. AMA

I had my first symptoms mid-afternoon on 3/2 (Monday) - fatigue & a pretty bad headache. Chalked it up to work stress from my new project & didn’t think much of it. When i got a fever that night, i also didnt think much of it. When i woke the next day, i had no symptoms & thought i slept it off. Bu

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Mar 26, 2020

Citi got a $500M lesson due to crappy UI

https://arstechnica-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/02/citibank-just-got-a-500-million-lesson-in-the-importance-of-ui-design/?amp=1 ... The actual work of entering this transaction into Flexcube fell to a subcontractor in India named Arokia Raj. He was presented with a

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Feb 18, 2021

Apple vs Snap vs TikTok

After going through quite a bit of struggle, I managed to get some decent offers from Apple, Snap and TikTok. I am still waiting for Google but might actually sign this week or the next week. All of them are ML Eng focused positions. Name / Level / TC Apple / ICT4 / 420K Snap / L4 / 440K TikTok /

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Apr 27, 2022

What will happen to the zombie Unicorns in the recession?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna27563 It was fun while it lasted, but after years of sky-high valuations, Silicon Valley is engulfed in its worst sell-off since the 2008 stock market crash. After a pandemic-fueled boom sent tech names soaring, many of those businesses have seen the worst six

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May 8, 2022

By far, this is the most popular leader from India

https://m.timesofindia.com/india/your-popularity-is-a-problem-for-me-biden-to-pm/amp_articleshow/100405117.cms https://www.businesstoday.in/amp/latest/politics/story/i-should-take-your-autograph-us-president-joe-biden-to-pm-modi-382149-2023-05-21 https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/at-hiroshima-meet-j

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May 22, 2023

What are your thoughts on this - “Lack Of Engagement By Remote Workers Can Lead To Their Early Termination”

https://www-forbes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.forbes.com/sites/edwardsegal/2022/04/13/lack-of-engagement-by-remote-workers-can-lead-to-their-early-termination-new-study/amp/ Essentially, This article is investigating a study that indicates that executives believe that off-camera/muted employees

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Apr 16, 2022

Koreans only - do Koreans go to study at college in China or US?

European guy was commenting that Korean student enrollment in Chinese college is similar to Korean student enrollment in US college, especially for top level students. I find it hard to believe but there could have been recent development. As a Korean myself, I can name 100s who studied at US colleg

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Aug 20, 2018

So 2 DOJ officials exonerated Trump

But “Both in a public statement and hours of testimony before Congress in 2019, Mueller also directly refuted claims by Trump that his report "exonerated" Trump.” This is after DC circuit ordered the full release of the memo. Most interesting thing is the brainwashed liberal parrots are calling Bar

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New Coronavirus Test Provides Results in as Few as Five Minutes, According to Manufacturer

Semiconductor giants call for immigration law restructuring

How many COVID-19 cases do we REALLY have?

H-1B: Outsourcing giant games visa system to discriminate against non-South Asians in hiring, lawsuit claims