IndianAstronaut (u/IndianAstronaut)

IndianAstronaut commented on Saturn moon 'able to support life' bbc.com/news/science-envi... · Posted by u/interconnector

nzonbi · 9 years ago

If life is there, completely disconnected from earth life, it would be dramatic. That would mean that our solar system, has life on at least two, out of nine planets. That would seem to indicate that life is a fairly common things on planets. It would allow to adjust the drake equation, to easily predict millions of planets with life. And that would mean a high probability of many advanced, intelligent civilizations on the universe.

IndianAstronaut · 9 years ago

If life was not there, I would wager that life is exceedingly rare in our universe.

IndianAstronaut commented on Cassini: Mission to Saturn: NASA's Cassini Mission Prepares for Grand Finale saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/... · Posted by u/rbanffy

jessriedel · 9 years ago

Is the idea really that the moons of Saturn might be contaminated by microbial life that has survived attached to Cassini for 20 years? But we're not worrying about the Mars landers? I don't get it.

IndianAstronaut · 9 years ago

Saturn's moons are much more likely to spread any contamination due to the presence of liquids. Liquid water on Enceldus and hydrocarbon lakes on Titan.

IndianAstronaut commented on The tech industry has a problem with “bro culture” nytimes.com/2017/04/01/op... · Posted by u/daegloe

alphonsegaston · 9 years ago

I like how the persistent ills of amoral, toxic businesses are now "Silicon Valley's Special Problem with Bro Culture." It's just Wall St. in t-shirts. If you let sociopaths run everything, you'll always end up with this result.

IndianAstronaut · 9 years ago

Financial companies are also competing for tech talent. Anything that drives away top talent from tech companies is a win for financial ones.

IndianAstronaut commented on Ask HN: Ever met a psychopathic CEO? · Posted by u/da02

IndianAstronaut · 9 years ago

Not a CEO, but I am currently dealing with a very vindictive and petty VP. Absolutely no empathy or thought for others. Brings similar people on board her team and they run amock making the lives of their subordinates or others that deal with them miserable. The lower end managers are blatantly self centered, but the higher up you go, the shit just gets more polish. Capital One has been quite the nightmare.

IndianAstronaut commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2017) · Posted by u/whoishiring

stillcodingkim · 9 years ago

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IndianAstronaut · 9 years ago

Do you have a separate link or confact for HNers?

IndianAstronaut commented on YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas blog.ycombinator.com/us-v... · Posted by u/dwaxe

IndianAstronaut · 9 years ago

Mexico could capitalize on this as well. Guadalajara is a mini tech hub.

IndianAstronaut commented on R Passes SAS, but Python Leaves Them Both Behind r4stats.com/2017/02/28/r-... · Posted by u/sonabinu

IndianAstronaut · 9 years ago

R's data analysis libraries are still far ahead of Python. Dplyr, Shiny, etc. So much stuff is still in built in R.

Places where I still use R is its easy to use statistical functions, handling large amounts of missing data, etc.

IndianAstronaut commented on 12,000 startups are being created every day in China [video] youtube.com/watch?v=QexL6... · Posted by u/da02

aisofteng · 9 years ago

> online marketing optimization articulately convolutes into data analysis stream

Beautiful.

IndianAstronaut · 9 years ago

>commodiously embeds into Business Intelligence which creates an interurban transcendence

Wow.

IndianAstronaut commented on When Factory Jobs Vanish, Men Become Less Desirable Partners theatlantic.com/business/... · Posted by u/hunglee2

77pt77 · 9 years ago

This means that on a societal level we will probably implement some kind of artificial scarcity or even make belief work.

The later is in a way already happening just to keep unemployed people occupied:

Have a look at Potemkin economy:

http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/frances-potemkin-econo...

> Candelia is one of a number of so-called “Potemkin” companies operating in France.

> Everything about these entities is imaginary from the customers, to the supply chain, to the banks, to the “wages” employees receive and while the idea used to be that the creation of a “parallel economic universe” would help to train the jobless and prepare them for real employment sometime in the future, these “occupations” are now serving simply as way for the out-of-work to suspend reality for eight hours a day

Society fears a large unoccupied class. Whether that fear is warranted or not is a different thing.

IndianAstronaut · 9 years ago

A better option would be to employ more people in the sciences. There is still a lot to be discovered and labs I have worked in have a range of work to be done from the low skilled cleaning glassware to high skilled design of experiments.

IndianAstronaut commented on NASA proposes a magnetic shield to protect Mars' atmosphere phys.org/news/2017-03-nas... · Posted by u/cyanbane

IndianAstronaut · 9 years ago

I am curious why we don't focus more efforts on Titan, which already has a thick nitrogen atmosphere.