@bowtiedstocks Only 3 careers work in Aus at scale
Tradies
Salespeople // Real Estate agents
Doctors
Any kind of science other than medicine is a total waste of time.
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boov
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In my opinion Australia doesn’t reward hard working intelligent and educated people enough
Stop go union operatives pulling in more than qualified medical or engineering professionals
Tax the high earners to death so we can pay people to walk dogs for $90 an hour as NDIS carer dog walkers
I can see why we suffer a ‘brain drain’ where our best and brightest leave for greener pastures where their skills are better valued by the marketplace
And those that stay just wanna play leveraged propadee roulette, because let’s face it we’re not that bright
Not a serious country
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Indian immigration to the US is one of the most well-engineered systems in our institutions
ndian-Americans skew heavily toward upper castes — Brahmins, Kayasthas, Banias — with very few Dalits making it through. Among South Asian applicants to Columbia, Brahmins and South Indian Hindus average ~1500 SAT, significantly higher than East Asians.
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You are gifted $100,000,000
List the places you’d live
Congrats now you know what is hype and what isn’t
No one will say Fremont or San Jose
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@IndiaExplained And then your kid has to go through this for a decade or two x.com/hollygrayle/st…
Holly Grayle@HollyGrayle
We're not attracted to you, you smell weird to us, we don't like your culture, and very few of us want our children to be Mystery Meat. Call us whatever you want, but we're not going to sleep with you.
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Bay Area techie NRIs live in suburban Indian ghettos. Spend their lives in office, shabby strip malls, and watching Bollywood junk. Only meet Indians from same caste & region, rarely volunteer for any civic/public initiatives.
Indians in India are far more cosmopolitan
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@pitdesi It's harder for people of e.g. Indian descent than for people of Chinese descent? That's surprising. I thought admissions officers discriminated most against the latter.
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It is harder for Asians to get into top colleges than other races, but it is much harder for South Asians than East Asians.
Werner Zagrebbi🇦🇿@zagrebbi
The famous SFFA case treated Indians and East Asians as a single group. This masked significant heterogeneity: It's way harder to get in if you're Indian! In Columbia's internal admissions database (h/t @cremieuxrecueil), East Asian applicants had a 41% lower odds of admission than equally qualified White applicants, whereas South Asian applicants had 63% lower odds.
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Since this is going viral, worth pointing out that this is not even one of the top tourist spots in NSW. This is 100miles south of Sydney. New South Wales (NSW) is the other California of the world, one with better weather and better beaches!
✶@echoesofworld
Sydney
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@mweinbach Using airpods max while bouncing around in gym is totally bonkers! My theory is mostly a female thing (for aesthetics, status, signal to not to be disturbed) and some guys do this in reciprocation. Which is also why this APM in gym is mostly is a 18-35 phenomenon.
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I genuinely think the status symbol thing is a little bit over blown
I asked one of the guys I knew once and he said “why wouldn’t I? I just am wearing my headphones.”
It’s much simpler than everyone expects
Jason W@jmwilt21
@mweinbach That's insane to wear those at the gym... Has to be mostly status symbol right? Aren't they super heavy for workouts?
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Live Translate is to wearables what “book my trip to Japan” is to desktop. A great demo use case that may only be used by 5% of the population 1% of the time. Cutting down 100gms on the weight would have been far more desirable improvement, but that doesn’t make for a good demo!
Greg Joswiak@gregjoz
Headphones that are so much more than just headphones! The new AirPods Max 2 have even better audio, even better ANC, and even better features like Adaptive Audio and Live Translation.
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Headphones that are so much more than just headphones!
The new AirPods Max 2 have even better audio, even better ANC, and even better features like Adaptive Audio and Live Translation.
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Life in Chrome: I try to drag a tab somewhere, and if I let go of it at the wrong time, it disappears! Where has it gone? It's now part of a split screen with some other tab. Eventually I find and separate them and try again. I've never seen a feature that felt more like a bug.
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@GergelyOrosz “whatever doesn’t make enough money to justify the cost in long run” gets shut down or sold. Just how any reasonable business would!
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Google products which doesn’t help Google sell ads directly or indirectly seems to eventually either be shut down or sold, no matter how good it is.
Google Reader (shut down), Google Domains (sold to Squarespace), Stadia (shut down), and now Google Fiber:
Andrew Carr 🤸@andrew_n_carr
This is the worst news I have ever heard. Prepare for the price hikes and throttling :/
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Did the test drive. Elevate is better than Hyryder for sure.
But it still feels flimsy and substandard when compared to my 10 year old Honda City.
Guess Kushaq and Seltos are next on the trial list.
Ravi Handa@ravihanda
Booked a test drive for Honda Elevate. Tried Toyota Urban Cruiser Hyryder and Mercedes GLA. Didn’t like Hyryder. The breaking was too strong. Also, the steering felt too hard to move. GLA was months ago. I have forgotten what it felt like. Main blocker there is cost.
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@India_Progress No matter where a desi lives in the world, one must always hope for a developed, civic and clean India. There is only one true homeland 🇮🇳
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1 - Anthropic - more importantly the org structure works for the future
2 - OpenAI - + 1.5 months - took in too many B players from Meta and now has org chart issues
3 - Google - + 2 months - team is cranking but it’s not life or death issue so 🤷♀️
4 - Meta/xAI - 6/7 months behind
5 - Chinese firms - 9 months behind, constrained by chip access
Anthropic and OpenAI are clearly nearing recursive self improvement.
Google, Meta, xAI stuck.
- Demis believes in real science, language models are not the path to AGI but if HQ requires language models so be it
- Meta, xAI - trying to catch up desperately but far
Peter Wildeford🇺🇸🚀@peterwildeford
Based on the data I see, I think: - Anthropic🇺🇸/Google🇺🇸/OpenAI🇺🇸 all ~tied - Meta🇺🇸 / xAI🇺🇸 each ~7mo behind - Moonshot🇨🇳/- Deepseek🇨🇳 / zAI 🇨🇳 / Alibaba🇨🇳each ~9mo behind - Mistral🇫🇷 ~1.5 years behind - No other companies competitive
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@clairlemon 30% of those hit are in Aus. Thats the 30% part. The Australian needs work on their math and english skills.
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Speaking with Head of Product at a large company (30+ PMs). They actively ship code and their expectation is that all PMs on their team do this.
Their recommendation for the first 3 things that PMs and designers (and marketing!) should own end to end:
1. Public-facing website
2. Support experience
3. Onboarding / growth flows
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