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by astatine 6y ago
A neat side-effect (unintended?) is when I hit ^d to exit the shell (almost by reflex), the bookmark add got triggered on Chrome
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by astatine 6y ago
I thought I was cynical about the city, but your comment leaves my dull-grey feeling positively bright and sunny. Most people in the city, and indeed across the country or the world for that matter, want a decent life for themselves. At lea
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Interactively steer a vessel on the Suez canal(edition.cnn.com)
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by astatine 6y ago
This is what the world needs, now more than ever - the eccentric inventor tilting at windmills. And the criteria for a good pasta looks perfect! Who can argue with toothsinkability?
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by astatine 6y ago
There are questionable things the government has done. My point was really about the criteria itself. How would a criteria of "Is an external territory still under occupation?" do? Or perhaps "Is there freedom for women to ge
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by astatine 6y ago
India did decline by 4%. But, the headline 20% considers only the population of countries that are "Free". India gets excluded from that list, as far as I can see, because of its new "partly free" status. Hence the entir
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by astatine 6y ago
"India, the world’s most populous democracy, dropped from Free to Partly Free status in Freedom in the World 2021. " - that's basically a 14% drop right there. I live in India and while there are definitely questionable thing
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by astatine 6y ago
If a area that has not had a shop for a decade can now have 80 or 90% of the population served with this method, then I believe not looking for the mythical 100% coverage is a perfectly good thing to do.
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by astatine 6y ago
I suspect its as much due to the speed as anything else. The internet has moved from early adopter/enthusiast to ubiquity in less than a lifetime. In fact, in less than a working career time span. I imagine that rate of change is not g
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Wipro under the spotlight for Citibank's $900M mess(moneycontrol.com)
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by astatine 6y ago
Disclaimer: Sharing links to my own content I hear you. I tried recreating the CPI for India and couldn't get the data needed. (see https://arun.tanksali.com/topic/rpi/ ). I eventually thought I can come with
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by astatine 6y ago
This manner of disclosure seems rather callous and reaching out on twitter to communicate a discovered vuln smacks of attention seeking. The Indian Government sites are a very wide mix with some where there is active consideration of such c
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BBC News: Facebook blocks Australian users from viewing or sharing news(bbc.co.uk)
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Google to pay Murdoch's News Corporation for stories(bbc.co.uk)
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by astatine 6y ago
I tried to learn guitar a couple of years ago. I wanted to learn something which required me to use my fingers differently than on a keyboard. But, as someone in their 50s with a lifetime of working on software I found it practically imposs
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Facial Hair Is Biologically Useless. So Why Do Humans Have It?(wired.com)
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Boeing 737 Max: Brazilian airline to resume passenger flights(bbc.com)
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by astatine 6y ago
IANASecurityExpert. Claiming that an adversary is a state actor seems as much about magnifying the threat as a genuine finding. A high school kid exploiting their weaknesses will obviously leave them red faced. Seems like an natural positio
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by astatine 6y ago
The International Space Station, started 1998 and continuing, is a great milestone. Continued habitation of space by man is an achievement as big as the others ...
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by astatine 6y ago
I use nanoid (1) and the length control it gives makes it easy to generate appropriate visible ids. Simple, fast, small and works well. (1) https://github.com/ai/nanoid
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Soho Mission Celebrates a Quarter-Century in Space(nasa.gov)
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by astatine 6y ago
If someone has two (or more) houses that are declared as self-occupied (maybe empty or in use, but not let out) then that person can treat one as where the person stays and the other(s) is treated as rented. This applies across India as th
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by astatine 6y ago
India has a "deemed rent" model where an empty house is assumed to be rented out at an average for the area. This deemed income is then included in calculating income tax (rather than property tax). Compliance is poor but the mode
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by astatine 6y ago
> Largely, successful people have little idea what they did to succeed at something Well said. However, most don't seem to realize. There are people who are perfectly willing to pontificate using literally any situation and relating
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by astatine 6y ago
I do the same. In fact, when replying to very important emails I compose the response in a new compose email window and finally paste it back into the reply.
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by astatine 6y ago
The way ahead should be an independent entity who audits systems and has responsibility to certify that the dashboard represents a true and accurate view of the actual status. Like is done so effectively with company financials. Oh, wait! E
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by astatine 6y ago
It's a perfectly cromulent phrase!
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by astatine 6y ago
Thanks for sharing this. This has the kind of details that I would have loved to see and almost never gets shared in so public a manner. I respect the soul searching that you went through and the decision that you took. Thanks again. Wish y
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The Literal Translation of Every Country’s Name (2019)(visualcapitalist.com)
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by astatine 6y ago
I did the first payment on WhatsApp during their early beta period, in Feb 2018 to be precise. It has taken a while to get to general availability. Even now, for some strange reason they are permitted to serve only 20m users. Their beta was

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