fartVader
4hr ago
I understand your concern, but look at it in context.
infested with Indian and Chinese tech workers
I said that
Indian or Chinese, bay-area tech workers
and I am one of them (though I wanna leave the bay area asap)
It is a phrasing we use among ourselves all the time. It is easy to be self-deprecating when you're making bank.
this seems to be a place where it's ok to call an immigrant group an infestation
Yes, I can call my own group of people whatever I want. I was being edgy, sure. But, you're making quite the leap, going from 1 mis-used word to accusations of chattel-slavery era racism.
fartVader
4hr ago
Fair enough. But towns like Edison NJ, Redmond WA, Sunnyvale CA & Fremont CA sit on a whole another tier. (afaik)
nice place with good schools
The schools are good because the people are rich and the residents are hard working. If the schools are to stay good, it makes sense that newest generation of rich and hard working people are moving in.
good schools is 10x in prices
Nimbyism strikes again. Enough place for everyone, but SFHs screw everyone over. Especially true in places like OC and SD, where the populations could 5x without space being an issue.
fartVader
23hr ago
Gah, I knew I should not have used that phrase. I even paused for a good 10 seconds before choosing that word. All the others were no better (run over, taken over).
Yes, I am indeed implying that these filthy 1st gen Indian immigrants are coming to the bay area, taking tech job, stealing our american women and making good money. (sweats profusely).
I made a demonstrative wojak. You're welcome.
fartVader
1d ago
I'm guessing this is South Bay or thereabouts. The Dumbarton bridge marks the beginning of Asian (south and east) tech town. Indians and Chinese tech workers are eating up the area from Palo Alto to San Jose back up tp Fremont. But that is silicon valley proper, so it's hardly surprising.
The rest of California and the Bay Area is not infested with Indian and Chinese tech workers taking over.
fartVader
3d ago
Exactly zero.
The current AI work was inspired by nerds who loved imaging, linguistics, math and gpus.
fartVader
13d ago
Does a Fullstack Engineer on here want to found a startup together with a larger vision of solving communication on the internet?
I'll have a demo for y'all in a month, but if you're keen to take a leap of faith and wanna know specifics, hit me up.
Internet strangers are reputed as neckbeards in their mom's basement, but some of us do well for ourselves. We are both well-compensated engineers but neither of us do web-work / full-stack work. For grounding, we're targetting YC W25 and have a well-defined product plan with sensible unit economics. For once, cynical quokkas might just be the right people for this kind of endeavor.
I'll be doing it anyway, but you know what they say : "2 is a company, 3 is a startup founding team."
fartVader
13d ago
I would take the bear.
It is a whole ass forest! Random collisons would already be unlikely, but on top of that, I am sufficiently experienced with hiking to know how to avoid bears. I also don't need help, so the alternative (friendly human) is kind of useless here.
So, the only bad event that can occur is a freak instance of a pscho-killer sprawning and wanting to screw me over.
I have thought this through:
- If polar bear & aduly grizzly-> climb a tree
- If black bear &
sloth bear-> you can scare it off - If forest has ton of food -> don't need another human
- If forest has very little food -> don't want another human.
- If the forest has no food -> I would rather fight a bear who gives me a few days to prepare, rather than a psycho who can rush me and won't fall for stupid traps. (also, I'd rather eat a bear than a human. Just sayin)
The only situation where I'd take a man, is if I was stuck there for life. Need some companionship, and bear ain't gonna cut it.
Actually, no, scratch that. I take the man.
Sloth bears are aggressive, nimble and amazing tree climbers. They would probably rush me and kill me before I get anything off the ground. Only about 1-2% of bear are sloth bears, but that still more than serial killers. So there are 2 bad outcomes, and an aggressive sloth bear is far likelier than a psychopathic killer who is also stronger than me.
fartVader
7d ago
All 3 of the killers have steretypical sikh first and last names. I'm guessing news media avoids calling them Sikh since that makes it look like Sikh infighting.
fartVader
10d ago
I'm letting someone close to me crash for the summer between grad-school semesters. :)
fartVader
1mo ago
It helps that the leader of Singapore is a literal genius. He was the senior wrangler = top math student at Cambridge.
The Senior Wrangler is the top mathematics undergraduate at the University of Cambridge in England, a position which has been described as "the greatest intellectual achievement attainable in Britain".
Not urgent. We want to find the right person.
With 2 founders moonlighting (I + friend) and 1 free full-stack intern, we are covered on the essentials.
We have 2 distinct dates - July or October.
- October to join the W25 YC application and be paid a human wage from Day 1.
- July if you want to start moonlighting with us.
On stacks:
Prefer stable+popular+easy (React, JS/TS, Python) if no strong opinions.
Very open to other frontend frameworks (Svelte?, this is your domain, you pick your poison)
Early on, simple is better, so pick what gets you off the ground fastest.
No premature backend optimization. So avoid C++/Java/Rust early. Special exceptions if you are uniquely productive in a specific language.
What we've used before: Containerized ( GPU -> Torch -> Python -> FastAPI ) -> TS -> React
fartVader
13d ago
"Trans people are oppressed because girl bosses who gatekep what it means to be woman and then gaslight them by claiming to be allies?"
That's my best guess
fartVader
1mo ago
Oh they do, and they care a LOT.
Here are the countries that explicitly avoided signing up for any Belt-and-road deals. That list of QUAD countries (US-Aus-Japan-India) and Israel.
Israel and Israel-Saudi relations are the center of how the next generation of trade routes to the west pan out. On one hand you have the West-Israel-Saudi-India corridor. West friendly nations with a poor endpoint in India, but all of Israelis, Saudis & Indians are economically ascendant. On the other hand, you have the Belt-and-road initiative that goes China-Pakistan-Iran-Iraq-Turkey-West.
The Iran-Iraq-Turkey corridor looks comically unrealistic, but if Israel becomes a no-go zone and Saudis pull out then the competitor wins by default. If the Houthis can keep the Suez Canal unstable, then China suddenly finds itself in control of how the next generation of trade routes pan out. If Hamas loses, then Saudi-Israel relations normalize, Houthis become irrelevant and now China is left holding the worst option with B&R.
fartVader
16d ago
Experts without specific takes are the worst bunch. If Modi hating is your full-time job, then have your attacks honed to perfection. These 'everything is horrible' articles are exhausting and teach you nothing.
"India's is doing badly because Modi......" Come on, keep going. Modi how ? What specific policies did Modi enact that ruined the economy ? What alternatives does the opposition propose that will fix the economy ?".
IMO, This article correctly points out the main challenges to economic development in India.
(quotes from the article)
In private many businesses still complain about India’s complex tax regulation, difficulties in acquiring land, rigid labour laws, weak intellectual property enforcement and clogged courts. It takes almost four years to enforce contracts in business disputes, among the slowest globally, according to the World Bank.
Simplifying tax laws means consolidating the tax code at the national level. States see this as a powergrab and Modi gets termed a fascist.
Judicial reform requires parlimentary inference in the indepdendent judiciary. Democracy watchers view this as a powergrab and Modi gets termed a fascist.
Non-BJP states have among the strongest labor protections in the nation (Delhi, WB, Kerala, Bihar, ex-UP, ). When BJP regains control, it tries to weaken them. Ofc, he gets called a corporate sell out.
Modi is public about his desire for India to have a market-based, private sector-driven economy,” he said. “But this view is not shared by much of the opposition and even the nativist wing of his own party
Modi has many failings. I would be sympathetic towards the opposition if they agreed with informed economists on Modi being too-left wing. Instead, critics of Modi call every pro-market move fascist and his political opposition encourages dragging India back to Nehruvian-era socialist isolationism.
To avoid being hypocritical, here are his specific failings from my perspective.
Lack of eggs (protien) in school diets
India is at the bottom of the Global Hunger Index, below North Korea and above Afghanistan.
India uniquely underperforms on child wasting. The reason goes back to 1970s and the introduction of the wheat, rice & simple carb heavy diets post green-revolution. Under-nourishment is low because because peopel get sufficient calories. However, the lack of protien causes child-wasting.
Indian farm laws massively subsidize wheat, rice and simple carbs, and that's all poor families can afford. Modi tried to fix this by removing grains-specific subsidies in the 2019 farm-bill. This bill recieved massive push-back from opposition and the elite global left for being anti-farmer. Under pressure, Modi's revoked the bill. This was his first mistake.
We need more eggs in school lunches. More protein. Modi hasn't done anything towards this, neither has anyone else.
Demonetization
Demonetization (2017) was a disaster. It is known. That being said, the article primarily focuses on post-covid recovery (or lack there off). India's economy is in a recent (2023-24) rut. I don't have an answer to what recent change has caused this.
Unsufficient progress on ease of doing business
Land acquisition
Modi has failed to pass the land acquisition bill over 2 terms. It has been touted as the biggest impediment to doing business in India. Modi claims he will bring the reforms in during a 3rd term. But he had a big-enough mandate from 2019-2024. The reason for this failure, was due to global and national pressure because the bill was percieved as anti-farmer.
Judicial reform
The slow moving judiciary is the 2nd biggest impediment to doing business in India. India's judiciary is full independent, so the Govt. doesn't have much power here. Afaik, there is massive resistance to any Judicial reform by the Modi govt. So both sides continue to be in an uncomfortable marraige, while cases pile on.
Simpler tax codes
Modi hasn't exactly failed here. It is more so that he hasn't pushed enough. GST was implemented, good. It remains unpopular among the opposition, the left and the global elite. But, he got it through However, other campaign promises remain in 'draft' phase... Overall, I find this to be an insufficient reform. Good start, but taxation remains insanely complex.
Overall, I remain cautiously bullish on India.
From a resource standpoint, it is agriculturally self-sufficient, has an incredible appetite for solar power and has an adequate water supply. Societally, it has strong family structures, a commitment to education and a stable fertility rate. You can't underestimate the long term benefits of this.
Some tax reform, eggs and weaker labor laws should keep India over water for the next decade. If the ease of doing business genuinely improves, then we might just be in for a bumber decade.
If India misses this decade of population-pyramid perfection, then we're FUCKED big time.
fartVader
1mo ago
There is no amount of social welfare that can convince a person to have kids. There are more important things that are aren't in place.
You need
- Labor support (Retired parents and an extra room)
- A stable partner (Time to date through your early 20s, rather than slog it out in your career)
- Your own house (lol, good luck)
All govt. assistance ends up being fed to landlords downstream. Italy tops the list of western-european countries where 25-35 year olds still live with parents. Don't try anything another solution unless you fix housing first. Everything else is downstream.
I know a ton of people in their late-30s who're struggling to have kids / 2nd children becasue they're too old. The urge to be parents exists. Things just take a LOT longer to stabilize.
fartVader
1mo ago
Sunscreen acts as a moisturizer and protects your skin from irritants if your oils have been washed off. It prevents dryness, acne, sub burn and cancer. The good stuff isn't sticky or smelly.
I apply it once a day, but I am also brown and work indoors. Strong recommend.
I want to take this in another direction. - 'The universal empathy for the remaining life of a parent who has lost a child at a young age.' Susan is a billionaire with power, access and status. Everything you wish for, she has. And I am certain that she would give it all away to bring her son back.
Events like this hold up a familiar but often ignored mirror to the face of young people like me. My parents are still around. I will have kids one day. I have the one thing Susan has lost: time and agency.
Or close to 3% of US population at current rates will die by a drug overdose
No matter how much money I earn, it takes 1 not-so unlikely event to unilaterally turn me into a hollow husk of a person. Whether that be a permanent disability due to a car accident, death of child/spouse or slightly misplaced tap on my head.
From a utilitarian perspective, I am better off minimizing the changes chances of a unilaterally disastrous event, than trying to get billions. Because the money only matters if these disastrous events don't happen. I could live an unimpressive life where my kids live tiil a ripe old age, and I bet Susan would trade my life for hers any day. The negative utility of losing a child is THAT high.
Have kids, help them not kill themselves and you're already living a life that's the envy of many billionaires.
After a 24 hrs existential crises resulting from having the mirror held to my face, I shove it into the closet of 'things to think of when I have time.' I wake up, 2 continents away from family, 1 continent away from my partner, and innocently continue grinding it out in hopes of making a couple of millions in silicon valley at the expense of my 20s and 30s. Some people never learn. Hopefully, I won't stay this way for too long.
Even on this anonymous no-name forum, I feel the urge to say I'd never wish such a tragedy on anyone. I wish she finds the support and space needed to get through this difficult time.
fartVader
1mo ago
2 things can be true at the same time.
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Women's health needs to be studied more because their hormones show large fluctuations every month and over a lifetime. More women take a daily dose of drugs (birth control) than men, and the higher potential for damage requires higher funding for women's health.
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In an equal world, women and men are assumed to have the same expected lifespan. The worse outcomes for men suggests that theyre the ones being discriminated against.
For the longest time, our understanding of medicine came from the outcomes on American college students. They tended to be young, male and white. So it is reasonable to expect every other cohort to be less understood. Women are the largest of that cohort that felt left behind, and raising funding for them makes sense. Ofc, the make up of colleges since the 2000s means that this is more so an act of 'correcting the past', than fixing the present.
fartVader
1mo ago
Japan, South Korea and Taiwan have ZERO work life balance. I don't think the average American can even fathom what 'zero' work life balance looks like. Americans think they work hard when compared to Europe. But East Asia is a whole another beast.
a cringe side story from a few weeks ago.
In feb, 2 close friends were crashing at our shared house for a weekend getaway. My roomate, an amazing cook, spent the entire morning making us his special waffles. He placed the waffles in a plate in front of me.
It was the morning. I was scrolling. I hadn't had my coffee. God, the excuses only make it worse.
But I ate the served waffles. I ate. I ate. I ate. And in my absent mindedness, I thanked my roommate for the amazing meal and went my merry way. Minutes later, it hits me. I went back to the living room. The guests had woken up. They'd heard about the special waffles. The amazing waffles that I knew all to well. But there were none. They found an empty plate, my gluttonous ass and a distinct lack of waffles.
The horror. Find every idiom on embarassment and those would still not be enough. I was red in the face. I was aghast. I could not meet my friends in their eyes. I was ready to cry. The last one wasn't a metaphor. Hell, I mean them all literally.
My bros were forgiving. After some initial confusion, justified leg-pulling, a heart-felt apology and genuine forgiveness, they moved on. But, it has kept me awake ever since. I'm supposed to be socially well adjusted. I'm supposed to be an adult. I don't have any real skeletons in my closet, but I have done worse things than eat an extra waffle. Yet, it's funny how this social faux-pas weighs on me more than any failure, outrage or altercation that I can remember.
I was in Carragher's shoes and I hope the poor lad can find sleep soon enough. Cringe is a powerful insomniac. (Lost some context here. Carragher is a football player turned tv personality. Yesterday, he had a similar faux-pas among his friends/colleagues and you could see the visible discomfort on the poor man's face)
P.S: I have since prepared a 5 course meal for the friend who cooked the waffles, now it weighs lighter on my conscience.
fartVader
10d ago
check out https://dynomight.net/seed-oil/
fartVader
1mo ago
Tiktok is getting pushback because the parent company is controlled by China. That is all you need to know, and that's the only bit that matters. Anti-semitism and Gaza are excuses. 'Think of the kids' is an excuse and so are accusations of 'Tiktok killing attention'.
Don't get me wrong, Tiktok performs badly on all of those accusations. But, it is just the latest in a long line of social media companies that all transformed the youth along similar lines.
The US will go to any length to control the global narrative of 'freedom'. Tiktok is the greatest deepest invasion on American soil since communisms capture of academia, and the US is woefully underequipped to push it back. The US uses Israel to complain about Tiktok, because if they revealed the real reason, then it would correctly show the US for the paper tiger it has now become. The US is still the most powerful country in the world. But Pax-Americana is over.
Strongly believe Lee Quan Yew had general purpose intelligence that matched an average nobel/turing/fields medalist. His son (Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore PM from 2004-2024) was the undisputed top student at Cambridge Math. In another life, he would have been the favorite to win one of those prizes. Assuming an apple doesn't fall that far from the tree, Lee Quan Yew was likely to be in the same ballpark.
Those are some near impossible standards on IQ alone. Take Lee Kuan's GOATed public speaking and it's actually impossible.
The new guy has a standard college education, with a standard beaurocratic career. Reminds me of when cofounders retire and hand their company over to a caretaker MBA. I'm sure he is competent enough to execute. But, I doubt if he is competent+charismatic enough to innovate in the face of inevitable crises.
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