abhiminator

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by abhiminator 5y ago
> On 7 June 1981, a flight of Israeli Air Force F-16A fighter aircraft, with an escort of F-15As, bombed the Osirak reactor deep inside Iraq. Well, the fighter jets and weapons system platform (a pair of Mark-84 unguided bombs fitted to
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The Pandemic’s Terrible Toll on Kids(wsj.com)
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Electric trucks may soon challenge diesel if charging hurdle cleared(reuters.com)
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by abhiminator 6y ago
Among the few good movies that captured the essence of the Cold War. "There are some games where the best move is to not play."
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by abhiminator 6y ago
Absolutely. Came here to say this. Remember back in 2014 when Mark Zuckerberg promised that WhatsApp will function as a standalone app, completely sandboxed from the rest of the Facebook ecosystem? That didn't happen, did it?
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Will China *Really* Replace the U.S. as World Superpower?(pairagraph.com)
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by abhiminator 6y ago
That thread was a good chuckle though -- a bunch of mostly software devs brainstorming on freeing one of the biggest containers ships from their comfy armchairs. [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26585282
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by abhiminator 6y ago
Ah ActiveX -- a gold mine for malicious actors.
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by abhiminator 6y ago
I found out about screen-sharing through browser when I started using Discord app on the web. Was a very revealing moment for me when it came to insane advances in web technology.
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by abhiminator 6y ago
Absolutely blown away by the number of things you can do from a web browser these days. All of this would've been unimaginable a mere 10 years ago, right around the time when Google Chrome was in its infancy (or just out of it, to be p
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What are NFTs and why are some worth millions?(bbc.com)
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by abhiminator 6y ago
A WIRED article from 2015 talking about the benefits of browsing the web without JavaScript: https://www.wired.com/2015/11/i-turned-off-javascript-for-a-...
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by abhiminator 6y ago
Banning crypto is just the tip of the iceberg. The administration in power currently has massively damaged the confidence of international investors as well as the citizens in India by taking extremely heavy-handed top-down and often ill-pl
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by abhiminator 6y ago
Didn't this exact same story get posted earlier today that later got flagged as a [dupe]?! Here's the link to the post made earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26460907 That said, this move -- if enacte
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by abhiminator 6y ago
Just give it some time. Once the user base swells up I'm sure the site will witness a general decline in quality, unless the moderation tools catch up. This is something I've seen with countless forums and message boards over the
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by abhiminator 6y ago
Thank you. This was really insightful.
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Ask HN: What's one simple yet POWERFUL quote that you keep going back to?
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Innovation Starvation (2011)(worldpolicy.org)
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by abhiminator 6y ago
>Who is still buying VHS tapes? Patrick Bateman probably. Jokes aside that was a really good read. This article raises an important point about the fragmentation of content across different services (with many movie production houses sta
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by abhiminator 6y ago
It's always easy to overvalue products/services that are based on number of users than on actual improvements in a narrow but highly technical field with a super-high barrier of entry. The number of active users is one of the mo
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by abhiminator 6y ago
Posted this last time and posting this again as a PSA: A bit of a side-note, but this needs to be said: articles like these should be a good wake-up call for crypto users that are still using web-based wallets (and their accompanying apps f
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JustGetMyData, direct links to you obtain your data from websites(justgetmydata.com)
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by abhiminator 6y ago
A bit of a side-note, but this needs to be said: articles like these should be a good wake-up call for crypto users that are still using web-based wallets (and their accompanying apps for mobile platforms) especially for storing LARGE amoun
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Civilization Broke Our Brains(theatlantic.com)
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by abhiminator 6y ago
Happy birthday in advance. As a 24 y/o who struggled with forming meaningful friendships in my teen years, your comment as someone in their 40s was soothing. I'd like to reach that stage of life where I internalize the fact that o
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Reddit to buy TikTok rival Dubsmash(in.reuters.com)
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The Wealthy Are Jumping into Bitcoin as Stigma Around Crypto Fades(bloomberg.com)
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by abhiminator 6y ago
I agree that it's better than the new mobile web, but its design still feels super clunky and dated. I remember a certain version of mobile web in 2017/2018 that worked GREAT. But then reddit decided to mess it all up by forcing m
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by abhiminator 6y ago
On a side note, really hope reddit's engineering team doesn't kill off their 'old.reddit.com' domain though. That's probably the only thing keeping me from dumping reddit altogether (aside from their API-powered cus
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Qualcomm Execs Say Apple M1 Further Validates Windows on Arm, and They’re Right(hothardware.com)
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