FactolSarin

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by FactolSarin 3y ago
On my corporate laptop, I only have Edge and Chrome installed, and I run Edge by choice. I like the horizontal (I meant vertical!) tabs. At home it's Firefox. I guess I mostly just don't want to use Chrome :D
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by FactolSarin 3y ago
They can already see that on Android. Let's be honest, no one cares.
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Musk fired top engineer for explaining why his tweet views are down(arstechnica.com)
17 points by FactolSarin 4y ago|2 comments
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by FactolSarin 4y ago
It's the volts that jolt, but the mills that kill
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by FactolSarin 4y ago
44 billion was around 25% of his net worth. That's a lot of money, even for Musk. If his current actions cause Tesla to be viewed less favorably and sales to decline, it could cost him a lot more than that
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by FactolSarin 4y ago
He's demonstrated he's generally in favor of speech he likes. I don't think there's any obvious connection between those accounts getting banned/unbanned under his leadership other than "does Elon like this acc
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Tell HN: My child's first program
417 points by FactolSarin 4y ago|136 comments
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by FactolSarin 4y ago
There's a tension between allowing more things and being a welcoming platform that people enjoy participating in. I don't think anyone really knows how things at Twitter will land yet.
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by FactolSarin 4y ago
I rarely take mine to the park for the reason you mentioned.... It's boring. I just tell my kids to go play outside. They're 7 and 8 and are each other's best friend. Just find something you and your kids enjoy and do that
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by FactolSarin 4y ago
Out of curiosity, for Indians working in America, how hard is it to hide your caste or pretend to be of another caste altogether? Is this something that comes up in conversation among Indians? Do names tend to correlate to you caste? And if
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by FactolSarin 4y ago
When does a person die? When the last synapse fires? When the heart stops? When your brain is too far gone for you to be responsive? The truth is there is no bright line. Dying is a process, not an event. So is coming into being. Personally
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by FactolSarin 4y ago
I would argue horses are different than dogs. Dogs a are bred to attach to and love humans. Horses.... tolerate us. They'll fall in line if you demonstrate you're the leader, but they don't bond like dogs do.
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by FactolSarin 4y ago
How could both be compatible? US plugs are meant operate at 120 volts, EU at 240. I don't see how both could be supported safely.
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by FactolSarin 4y ago
Isn't the fact that it got shut down by higher caste Indians proof that the talk is important in some way?
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by FactolSarin 4y ago
We use a cell service called Tello for my kids phones. For $5/mo you can get a plan with 100 minutes of voice calls, sms, and no data whatsoever. It's perfect for my kids, since I don't really want them to have mobile data an
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by FactolSarin 5y ago
Gas stoves get hot faster and respond quickly when you turn the dial, that's their big advantage. But electric is hotter. Even plain resistance coil electric elements put out much more heat than gas. Try to boil a pot of water on gas v
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by FactolSarin 5y ago
As someone who is self-taught as a programmer, I came into the field with a serious case of imposter syndrome. There was so much theoretical stuff I didn't know. Then I got into my job and it turned out it didn't really matter and
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by FactolSarin 5y ago
I don't know what the textbook definition is, but I think libertarianism (in the US, in my experience) is more about being against government regulation. Even if regulation would increase freedom (for, say, a minority group) libertaria
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by FactolSarin 5y ago
Just because it was done by design doesn't mean it's a non-issue. The Senate is an extremely undemocratic organization. The population discrepancy between States is much higher now than when the country was founded. Nor do the rea
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by FactolSarin 5y ago
Pizza is like sez: even when it's bad, it's still pretty good.
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by FactolSarin 5y ago
I often wonder why Netflix is willing to pay so much for the Office and Friends but isn't trying to make a new show like that. Every new show is an 8 episode season of "prestige" TV.
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by FactolSarin 5y ago
Plus everyone, even dogs, can have a bad day. I feel I'm a pretty judge of dogs, having grown up around them all my life. I know when a dog is barking to alert an owner vs when a dog is barking and is about to bite. But even with that
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by FactolSarin 5y ago
I don't know, do we really need a whole department devoted to Classics (ie, Greco-Roman literature)? I feel like it can comfortably be out inside another department.
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by FactolSarin 5y ago
I don't see why two people experiencing red differently causes a problem for consciousness. Can't we both be conscious even with very different qualia?
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by FactolSarin 5y ago
Firefox on Android here, the badges flash on the screen for an instant and then disappear
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by FactolSarin 5y ago
Holding police accountable for unreasonable killings is not being anti-police.
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by FactolSarin 5y ago
If the level of lead is higher in black communities, that certainly falls under the umbrella of "systemic problems." I also think a lot of this is interrelated. Without any sort of trust in a law enforcement system, of course ther
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by FactolSarin 5y ago
That doesn't make the epoch weird, just different. The Unix Epoch is itself weird. I personally like it mostly for being a neat little historical artifact, but it's not interesting in any sense. What epoch would your hypothetical
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by FactolSarin 5y ago
She wasn't retired, so I'd guess in her early 60s and didn't have any other major health issues from what I understand. But I'm glad you laid your cards on the table about not caring. I mean, it was already pretty clear.
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by FactolSarin 5y ago
To be clear, there's nothing wrong with thinking of children (or the immunocompromised or handicapped or any other group). "Think of the children" is an argument where you use children to justify an absurd, overblown, or bad

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