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by bharath28 10y ago
Ah, I see now.
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by bharath28 10y ago
I concur. Of the maps proposed, other than maybe the Peter's projection version, i don't see any practical value for wide option of any of the other maps. Peter's projection is interesting because it correctly depicts the rel
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by bharath28 10y ago
That would still hold true in an east-up map.. We are projecting out of the plane of the map when we stand up/walk.. Separate note - while i get that north-up is just a convention and a mental construct, the south-up map really threw m
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by bharath28 10y ago
Why was that offensive? As far as i can see, the feedback was devoid of any vitriol. I'd gladly take any of that kind.
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by bharath28 10y ago
Theoretically, you can also keep allowing Push Notification permission every time you install and then delete. This will cause the number of push tokens (unique per device per install) they see to increase. There are ways to overcome this
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by bharath28 10y ago
iOS has no documented event for apps to be notified when an app is deleted. I assume it is the same in Android.
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by bharath28 10y ago
First time I am encountering his writing. I am hooked now. What delightful writing about an esoteric topic.
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by bharath28 10y ago
> a scientific study backing this up? As opposed to the "impression" you got that this was a convenient political talking point? I've bought real estate in India and visibly saw the effects in the last decade - inflation w
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by bharath28 10y ago
>actually not that significant or deleterious, but a convenient political talking point. This is not true. This is a problem that significantly impacts the economy and visibly changes the equation for the middle class. Real estate, cars,
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by bharath28 10y ago
That is true. Or until the camera's get small enough and numerous enough that your environment drowns them. It was still an interesting experience.
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by bharath28 10y ago
That was an interesting demo. I read on another comment in this thread, that the backgrounds were fake. Let's assume for a moment that they were not. Imagine all of this happening from the perspective of the dog. The dog (replace human
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by bharath28 10y ago
Yes, agreed. Distractions don't have be television, email, Facebook... We spend a lot of time thinking about hypothetical situations that may occur in the future & how we'll react to them. Or reliving our versions of past even
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by bharath28 10y ago
I'd be hesitant to call meditation a game in the same sense that other brain training exercise seem to be. Those games tend to have distinct end points (or multiple)/goals or something you are ambling towards. Meditation on the ot
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by bharath28 10y ago
That article was incredibly hard to read and poorly written. The message was so confusing, i didn't know what to make of it - i came away with the same conclusion as you did.
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by bharath28 10y ago
Completely agree on Asimov. I spent a quite a bit of my childhood reading anything that was written by Asimov that i could lay my hands on. I always felt so much in awe at the kinds of things he'd make me think about. I'll have to
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by bharath28 10y ago
Where would you put Richard Dawkins? His science books? I've always found them to be methodical and instructive.
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by bharath28 10y ago
These are not simple accidents, these are people getting high, driving and killing people, and its happening a LOT more frequently. Out of curiosity, do you have data to back this up or point to some source?
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by bharath28 10y ago
lol. He did. It bounced.
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by bharath28 10y ago
> - Extremely good rock and roll This. Whatever happened to the pure magic they produced for several decades.
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by bharath28 11y ago
I know exactly what you mean.
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by bharath28 11y ago
>To put this into context, if a young mother dedicates 99% of her life The difference, of course, as you note is that she is either "dedicating" or has "dedicated" 99% of her life while Zuckerberg's claim is for
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by bharath28 11y ago
Wow. Terrific post- it is finding these kind of Gems that keeps me coming back to HN.
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by bharath28 11y ago
I wish the article shed more light on actual practices within the company and measures they took to make employees happy. Without the details, the claim seems to be somewhat unsubstantiated.
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Amazon axes Fire Phone for now(techrepublic.com)
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by bharath28 11y ago
Interesting thought: "By the year 3000 there is a great chance we'll all have gotten over our fear, our conflict with government, and ourselves." By gotten over, did you mean we'll have given in to the fact that there wi
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Palmyra's Baalshamin temple blown up(bbc.com)
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by bharath28 11y ago
Anyone else think of the Encyclopedia Galactica? Less is known of "The Mule" than of any character of comparable signifigance to Galactic history. His real name is unknown; his early life mere conjecture. Even the period of his g
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by bharath28 11y ago
Thanks! And alarming indeed.
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by bharath28 11y ago
I didn't read the whole paper (where that graph came from), so my apologies if i am misstating anything. It appears that the paper is focused mostly on the forests in Eastern Canada. At first glance, I'd find the slope on that gra
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by bharath28 11y ago
Economic optimality, in this case, is merely one of any number of quantifiable measures you can use to define what is decent vs terrible. How does the place of birth of people working jobs (that they are good at) change what you call decen

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