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Rise of the 10x Class(drorpoleg.com)
5 points by aviraldg 6y ago|0 comments
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by aviraldg 6y ago
> disproportionately harm trans people and be used to emotionally manipulate all of us I see this claim frequently being made in such contexts, but it's never explained. Spotify playing music that matches your mood hurts trans peopl
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by aviraldg 6y ago
One source of health information Facebook might have is the Oculus Move app (which tracks exercise in VR)
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by aviraldg 6y ago
> There is no need to "pass data to the GPU" because data is never on CPU memory, so there is nothing to pass from there. All network and file I/O goes directly to the GPU. This is very interesting - do you have a link tha
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by aviraldg 6y ago
Does this include Yahoo Answers Japan (which I believe is still quite active)?
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I Cooked a Chicken by Slapping It(youtube.com)
2 points by aviraldg 6y ago|0 comments
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by aviraldg 6y ago
(Somewhat) related self-promotion: I've found that converting from HTML(+YAML) to PDF is one of the best ways to create a resume. It's very easy to come up with a good design, you can separate data (YAML) and presentation (HTML an
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by aviraldg 6y ago
Isn't Katakana (for words that would normally be written with Hiragana or Kanji) also used sometimes to indicate emphasis? https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/5314/31389
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by aviraldg 6y ago
Why was this flagged? It's simply the abstract for the article, useful for people to read (to determine if they're actually interested in reading more) before clicking through.
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by aviraldg 6y ago
I vouched for this after I noticed it had already been posted (but was flagged/dead) after I posted it as well ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26652224 ). Not sure why this was flagged (maybe because the poster is
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by aviraldg 6y ago
See my other comment - subsidize it directly, if you can make it work with subscription models; I don't care. It's just that from what I've seen so far, this is harder to do with subscription models and so often not done at a
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by aviraldg 6y ago
> I don’t know what country you are from, but I’m guessing the “free” vastly outweighed the “ad supported”. Furthermore, given the low ad revenue in developing countries, an organization seeking money probably could have gotten just as m
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by aviraldg 6y ago
Thank you for bringing this up. I find HN's obsession with getting rid of ads and replacing them with paid subscriptions disappointing for this reason. While everything is ad supported, it is easier for users in developing nations (lik
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by aviraldg 6y ago
I was answering your question about why this difference exists. I don't know about the reason, but if I had to guess I'd say it's not biology, but culture/upbringing. I think girls are culturally expected to follow rules
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by aviraldg 6y ago
The rules and grading are different. In school, the rules that students are rewarded for following are "softer" and harder to justify directly. eg. You must submit a project with a cover with beautifully handwritten title of thi
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by aviraldg 6y ago
I don't agree with the rest of your comment (my school had a pretty even mix of male and female teachers), but anecdotally the primary difference between boys and girls was exactly what you mentioned: the former were more likely to ski
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by aviraldg 6y ago
Why are we trying to maximize human lives saved as opposed to human life-years saved?
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Deprecate the Authors Field(github.com)
3 points by aviraldg 6y ago|1 comments
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by aviraldg 6y ago
slightly offtopic: I am surprised by how much patience thestinger has on the thread replying to people who clearly have no context about the issue - enough to repeatedly explain the tradeoffs and reasons behind the decisions taken.
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World Faces Covid-19 “Vaccine Apartheid”(theintercept.com)
6 points by aviraldg 6y ago|0 comments
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Shenzhen I/O in Real Life(youtube.com)
3 points by aviraldg 6y ago|0 comments
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by aviraldg 6y ago
It's also used for Firebase security rules: https://firebase.google.com/docs/rules/rules-language
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Archimedean Oath(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by aviraldg 6y ago|0 comments
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by aviraldg 6y ago
Go is the only example I know of (very explicit syntax, almost no "magic")
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Covid-19: Oxford University vaccine shows 70% protection(bbc.com)
4 points by aviraldg 6y ago|0 comments
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by aviraldg 6y ago
> In 2018, a study team including CDC scientists analyzed and published vaccine safety data on adjuvanted pH1N1 vaccines (arenaprix-AS03, Focetria-MF59, and Pandemrix-AS03) from 10 global study sites. Researchers did not detect any assoc
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by aviraldg 6y ago
Is there an example of a vaccine in history that produced no initial side effects but only very long term side effects (ie. several years later)?
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Reddit Reviews(redditreviews.com)
2 points by aviraldg 6y ago|0 comments
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by aviraldg 6y ago
In India, there are quite a few vertically integrated "cloud kitchen" food delivery startups. I wonder if that's a more sustainable model for food delivery. Most of them (box8.in is a great example) have what appears to be a
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by aviraldg 6y ago
Obesity carries no signal about their competence as a doctor, so yes.

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