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by aparsons 6y ago
Reddit r/CombatFootage sub has quite a few videos (including audio) of modern day artillery barrages. Usually it’s a single (or single-digit) shells fired at a time, but you really get an idea of what it is like to hear/feel the e
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by aparsons 6y ago
Download Adblock and replace the app with a home webpage shortcut. Near identical experience but ad free.
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by aparsons 6y ago
Extremely easy to block those ads on both desktop and mobile
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by aparsons 6y ago
Is there a reason why a lot of people prefer to swing trade options rather than stocks? I understand the upside can be greater, but so is the risk. Is there something I’m missing? Is there a risk level beyond which options make more sense?
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by aparsons 6y ago
The example isn’t a correct URL test regex (far from correct actually - even though there are plenty of edge cases regular regex strings tend to miss also)
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by aparsons 6y ago
Tragic - and far deeper than a denied education. This is a deeply flawed society.
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by aparsons 6y ago
This is an odd hill to die on, OP. Geopolitics is complicated - there are tons of things to iron out before this. I assure you there are other parts of the sanctions hurting Iranian students more than EdX being [incorrectly] blocked. Also w
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by aparsons 6y ago
I use Adblock Plus on iPhone - can be downloaded in App Store and works fantastically with mobile Safari. I even replaced the Youtube app with a home screen bookmark and I haven’t seen an ad since
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by aparsons 6y ago
A lot of that is along linguistic lines, driven by two factors: - South india overall had a Dravidian movement denouncing “Brahmanism” in the mid 1950s - Specific to Tamil Nadu, Indian government’s connivance in Ceylon’s Tamil movement invi
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Ask HN: Tool to Visualize C Project?
3 points by aparsons 6y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How to sell cloud storage for my app?
2 points by aparsons 6y ago|0 comments
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by aparsons 6y ago
It was interesting to see both at the White House to receive the presidential medal of freedom. Both are maniacally competitive and dominated their field for a decade unlike anyone before or since.
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Ask HN: Can I keep using the MIT-licensed version of Handontable for my SaaS?
2 points by aparsons 6y ago|2 comments
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by aparsons 6y ago
Let’s pause all ML research until we have 50% black representation!
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by aparsons 6y ago
Welcome to modern social justice. Calling a non-racist a racist apparently fixes racism.
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by aparsons 6y ago
Thanks for explaining
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by aparsons 6y ago
You must have a fulfilling life with lots of friends
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by aparsons 6y ago
Not sure why an honest question is getting downvoted, but you do you, HN.
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by aparsons 6y ago
Thanks for explaining. Does this mean that each time a “day trader” makes a sale of $N, the minimum cash they hold over the next 3 days must be at least $N? Or does the exchange not make the cash available for 3 days? Also, can the same sto
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by aparsons 6y ago
Is that even legal? I thought you had to hold stocks for 3 days for transactions to settle?
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by aparsons 6y ago
I lived in India in the 80s. Hindu fundamentalists drove home ideas of caste-ism to exploit the populace. The southern states luckily called out “Brahmanism” and their populace didn’t suffer quite as much. Under Modi, it’s like history repe
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by aparsons 6y ago
India is what one calls a paperweight superpower. They like to think they’re a superpower, meddle in regional affairs, yet get bullied by China and Pakistan on the regular.
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by aparsons 6y ago
Unfortunately, it’s far too common to see your words twisted if you do not conform to some groups’ views on social justice. You made a good and valid point, don’t let others bully you into changing your beliefs.
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by aparsons 6y ago
TIL “she” is gender neutral
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by aparsons 6y ago
Terrible idea. Upping the salary requirement for H1-B achieves the goal of using it only for highly-skilled workers. Instead, now employers have to make do with bootcamp grads instead of foreign engineers at lower level positions, hurting b
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by aparsons 6y ago
Microsoft isn’t kicking off ICE. They’ve backed our government at every opportunity, including pentagon contracts. Fixing democracy should be done democratically, it’s not the job of tech companies - and Nadella understands that.
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by aparsons 6y ago
Can’t go one thread about Github without the M$FT FUD
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by aparsons 6y ago
People get angry when the possibility that culture has something to do with black (vs asian, for example) success in America is floated. They will scream racism without even allowing the conversation.
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by aparsons 6y ago
In many low income black areas, the culture among students is that if you’re trying in school, you’re an “uncool nerd” or along those lines.
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by aparsons 6y ago
Is it just me or is 13% of the population getting 9% of bachelors degrees - and then the 9% going on to get 7% of PhDs not such an outrageous stat? I thought the numbers were a lot more worrying.

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