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Re:India official empties dam to retrieve lost phone on Friday May 26, 2023 @08:16PM (#36090919)
India has some of the best stories.
Hello, Mr. Koothrappali :)
Re:Twitter buyout puts Mastodon into spotlight on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @11:48PM (#31176092)
No it doesn't.
Re:The afterlife of used hotel soap on Sunday April 24, 2022 @02:19PM (#31146681)
"Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" -- in the order of priority. Why select Recycle when alternatives are simple and viable?

  As the largest hotel soap recycler in the world, Clean the World has helped lead to a 60%+ reduction in the number of children who die from diarrheal diseases each year.
Wow, casually overclaiming their ~0% impact. No doubt these folks are getting all the grants and we are discussing them here.
At Houston Methodist, where 150 employees left from a work force of about 26,000 people, the hospital said that there had been little lasting effect on its ability to hire people. And when Texas was hit with rising numbers of Covid cases over the summer, the hospital found that fewer of its workers were out sick.

“The mandate has not only protected our employees, but kept more of them at work during the pandemic,” a hospital spokeswoman said in an email.

ChristianaCare, a hospital group based in Wilmington, Del., said on Monday that it had fired 150 employees for not complying with its vaccine mandate. But the group emphasized that over the last month it had hired more than 200 employees, many of whom are more comfortable working where they knew their colleagues were vaccinated.

From https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/29/health/us-hospital-worker...

More health workers are fed up with constant stream of unvaccinated patients in hospitals (also a big overlap between assholes and unvaccinated in USA where vaccines are available), so they would rather want everyone to be vaccinated. Ask your doctor friends and relatives.

What would your imaginary girl do when all ICU beds are occupied by the unvaccinated?

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/never-ending-nigh...

Care to think about the vaccinated health workers who get breakthrough infection and transfer it to their unvaccinated daughter who had to get a lung transplant? (real story from US)
Re:Understanding Pakistan through the story of Karachi on Friday September 24, 2021 @09:34PM (#28649628)
> you gullible lot

> hate by the Indian media/ruling party

All international media, leaders, and countries are in agreement. If you don't have anything substantial to add then why comment at first place? If you get time then read HN guidelines before next comment.

Re:Understanding Pakistan through the story of Karachi on Thursday September 23, 2021 @08:18PM (#28637212)
> It would be useful to discuss rising extremism in both countries

Because they are not comparable? And in general we cannot hide behind let's give equal presentation to both sides (e.g., vaxx and anti-vaxx getting equal coverage).

What a meta-reference for HN community :D
Why are two Cabinet Ministers (Ashwini Vaishnaw and Prahlad Patel from Modi govt.) are in this list?
Definitely, "Neths" spread their engineering across many continents. However, their engineering practices are now considered a prime reason behind the environment catastrophe that many cities like New Orleans are facing.
Re:Oracle Wins Bid for TikTok in U.S. on Sunday September 13, 2020 @11:27PM (#24466468)
Banned in India. Highly dependent if Chinese open their markets or not.
Limca and Thums Up are also available in Indian stores around the world.
Countries that block "Wikipedia or something like that" already exist. And citizens, corporations, and governments are fine with it.
Re:Bill Gates has stepped down from Microsoft's board on Friday March 13, 2020 @08:30PM (#22572040)
Padmasree Warrior was CTO at Motorola, and then at Cisco.
Re:IBM Names Arvind Krishna CEO on Friday January 31, 2020 @03:26AM (#22200026)
> If you're worried about bamboo ceilings/glass ceilings, don't. It's more likely a genetic ceiling.

I am quite amazed how you felt empowered to write nonsense shit on a public forum. Obviously no need for citations because ???

Re:Ask HN: Quitting Big Tech, what is it like? on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @04:56PM (#21652552)
leetcode
Re:Notice of Retraction due to a programming error on Sunday October 13, 2019 @12:14PM (#21241152)
> On a practical level, using version control and a code review mechanism (e.g. GitHub PRs) within the research group equivalent in rigorousness to what you'd see at a good practice software development shop in industry.

Let us (professional s/w engineers) not pat ourselves in the back by confusing standard industry practices with 'rigorousness'. Rigorousness would be formal verification and proofs. How many s/w engineers can do that? How much will it slow down the development speed?

Re:India Shut Down Kashmir’s Internet Access on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @11:10PM (#20702270)
Any support for your statement? If not, can you stop commenting on this thread? IMO you have degraded this thread enough.
Re:Genomics – A programmer’s guide on Friday May 17, 2019 @01:49PM (#19941897)
There are many people looking for introduction into genomics and NGS applications. One of the books I found to be extremely useful is Genomic Quirks (https://www.amazon.com/Genomic-Quirks-Search-Spelling-Errors...). This book explains genomic concepts with several case studies.

Here is a video by the author - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfVo8EkeDVI

Re:Ask HN: Best things in your bash_profile/aliases? on Sunday January 13, 2019 @04:21PM (#18898768)
alias vim='emacs'
Downvote such commentators. It is a common tactic of racists to write anti-semitic comments and pretend that they are only asking innocent questions.
" b)Asking for a sexual favor off-site while the candidate was still waiting for response. Neither it in and of itself an offense" -> Are you serious? How is this not wrong in HN world?
Re:Apple Intern Open Letter on Diversity on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @10:36PM (#18342940)
Before we discuss the lack of thought and logic in this post -> https://github.com/AviAgarwal/AccountHacked
Re:Wikipedia bans Breitbart as a source for facts on Sunday October 07, 2018 @11:45AM (#18161119)
> The culture in Silicon Valley is exactly the same as the one in Beijing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJ5cZnoodY

> The one in Alabama is identical to Russia?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/russian-than-democrat-shir...

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