Aviral
SWE building Distributed Systems. Ex Pinecone, Twitter, RedHat, Atlan, Wingify.
http://avisri.com
- Xmas/NYE in NYC
- "When I published The Black Swan in 2007, the U.S. accounted for about 20% of the world economy (using PPP), EUR about the same, and China around 6%. Now, the U.S. is 15% and declining, Europe is 14% and dropping faster, while China is north of 20%." substack.com/@nntaleb/p-1...
- "Every Western political party that won office on an anti-immigration platform has ended its term with more immigrants than before. Giorgia Meloni is a recent example."
- natural monopoly via Indigo airlines in India has caused a ruckus throughout this country. #india
- stoked to learn that my therapist, american, has read the book "My Experiments with Truth" by Gandhi
- wrote something about the rising unemployment in india, how it differs from that of the US in statistical analysis, and data is curbed. aviralsrivastava.substack.com/p/understand...
- TIL about Staten Island. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresh_K...
- i have this utmost strong belief that the reason behind unpopularity or lack of enougb popularity for a man like john adams is due to his anti-slavery stand and practice. and same reason is behind the hatred of gandhi by those indians who dont believe in caste equality
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- Love those candles on the staircase
- Happy Diwali everyone! The good and the evil is within ourselves. may the good wins.
- ran a half yesterday. 2 hours and 40 minutes.
- the best work is done, with best typing and focus, on 14 inch screen laptop. at least on mac.
- Long but a really good read www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
- to my indian friends, on this gandhi jayanti, find out which of your friends are individualist, independent thinkers, v/s who piggyback on their daddy's opinions.
- a friend is looking for a small oss model. 1-3 b range with great tool calling for classification. what are you guys using ? #ai
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- hes building something for podcast listeners.
- My parents were visiting me in nyc for 5-6 weeks and they left for India this past Thursday. No one prepared me for how lonely I’d feel after their departure. Video calls just don’t cut it.
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- Even if it’s the national mall tourism? Even if we carry passports and visas with us?
- Is it safe to travel to DC for tourism, this weekend? My parents are visiting from India and I’m taking them to DC from NYC
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- We are young
- happy srk finally won the national award for the best actor but I wish he had won for swades.
- waiting for a day tech people here build together and bluesky officially replaces tech twitter
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- i dont get your comment. is the person speaking voting for the bill to fund billionares?
- Wearing a blue sky merch t shirt “world without Caesars” when a mom of two randomly spotted it and said, “I have the same t shirt”. 14th street red subway. Only in nyc haha
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- you were so true!
- LLM agents are making me dumb.
- Between the two types of comedy - (i) simply sharing memes or movie dialogues in person, and (ii) playfully teasing each other, the latter requires wit, while the former is just an overdose of copy-pasted Instagram reels.
- TRUMP: "We have an interesting deal with Japan, that we have to protect them, but they don't have to protect us.... who makes these deals?" The United States! After we literally wrote in a pacifist clause into the Japanese Constitution and neutered their military! x.com/KareemRifai/...
- Basic history, bitch. Basic history.
- Why don't they build a pedestrian bridge on Hudson b/w Jersey City and Manhattan?
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- what? isnt he the only one other than pete buttigieg, aoc, etc, to stand up to trump?
- Anyone who works at Atlassian? Looking for a referral for my partner.
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- Can we do anything at all? If not WaPo, then what? What else can be used to advertise? especially in red states?
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- Whats going on?
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- WHy don't you reply to him over there? People like you can really expose him.
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- Trademark your screen name and release the merch!
- Getting conscious like a teenager, while carrying a rose for my valentine
- And of course, the express subway has stopped because of a scene created in the next compartment.
- @anthropic.com can you please add a functionality that generates new prompt for a new chat? That would help when chat gets longer and you start imposing restrictions/limitations. Thanks! Awesome product!
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- Stablecoins will lead the way for the most efficient overseas payment systems. We just need regulations to filter legal/illegal. And for that, we should be bottom up instead of piggybacking some uninformed right wingers.
- Dear @Doge If there is nothing to hide. Hide nothing
- What are they hiding? I am missing something.
- Nope, it will remain off for me.
- I just subscribed to WIRED. I hope you do too. Its just $6 for the first year. My bet is that their renewal price will be lowered from $30 to something like $10 with enough subscriptions.
- this is crazy. why would people pay for good journalism? I thought what people wanted was breaking news regurgitated with big images and a staff of 300 people that get laid off in two months
- this is so crazy and BS. I also decided to be a crazy and subscribed.
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- Whats the reality? I am assuming Mexico was anyways helping with soldiers or is it due to the pressure Trump applied?
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- I agree with both points. I have myself mostly posted about politics. But I agree that people who care might want something other than politics. And all I want to prioritize is Bluesky leading the conversation. Not threads.
