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by dhruvrrp 7y ago
It says license plate images from a single point of entry so it probably represents majority Mexican or Canadian people.
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by dhruvrrp 7y ago
iOS has screen recording built in which stores the video in your photos. It's the circle on the bottom right in the first frame of the video.
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by dhruvrrp 7y ago
I remember reading a few months (?) ago that China was looking to consolidate the electric vehicle industry because the government incentives led to 500+ manufacturers who like to "move-fast and break things" and caused problems l
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by dhruvrrp 7y ago
Only around 50% of the people in this forum are from the US. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16633521
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This Essay Breaks the Law (2006)(michaelcrichton.com)
2 points by dhruvrrp 7y ago|0 comments
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by dhruvrrp 8y ago
>excludes the poor This isn’t how it works though. I was in India recently and i found that NYT or WSJ didn’t have the 10 article limit that I’m usually accustomed to seeing. >the internet was fine before paywalls That is because peop
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by dhruvrrp 8y ago
If you talk to H1B people in the bay a lot of them are in the planning stage to go back to their home country/countries with better immigration laws (Canada, some European countries). But in the end giving up that valley $$$ is not eas
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by dhruvrrp 8y ago
> Variable APRs range from 13.24% to 24.24% based on creditworthiness. Rates as of March 2019. > Late or missed payments will result in additional interest accumulating toward your balance. From the footnotes in the apple card announc
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by dhruvrrp 8y ago
A subscription service for iOS games. Is the market for polished phone games big enough to support a service like this? Most people I know who still play phone games usually play either really basic puzzle games or the auto-play esque gacha
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by dhruvrrp 8y ago
Sad to see no improvement to audio quality. It is the only gripe i have with the current AirPods. Siri and wireless charging are small qol changes that i would rather see with a major upgrade. Currently I see no reason for anyone to upgrade
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by dhruvrrp 8y ago
Getting into, lets say Stanford, on the basis of donations alone would be a few million dollars. Now if an Athletic Director takes a bribe of $50,000 (according to the articles) to get people in on sports scholarships and what not, then yes
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by dhruvrrp 8y ago
Unfortunately reality doesn't work that way, unless you don't mind destroying the local economy and you'd rather force rich countries to subsidize economically backward countries. To put the money into perspective, $50/d
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by dhruvrrp 8y ago
Sharing a family account doesn’t mean you give your password away. The way it works is one person pays and that person can add 5 other accounts to his ‘family’ to give them access to premium.
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by dhruvrrp 8y ago
The technology and infrastructure to do surveillance of this scale is already in place/available in the western world (see cameras at every corner in London, Amazon Rekogition?). So is this already happening in the west? And what can w
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by dhruvrrp 8y ago
In the first image with the telegram id the other id is for discord. I don't recall discord being e2e encrypted so that is an interesting choice to offer. Especially since discord is known to have access to all data since they regularl
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by dhruvrrp 8y ago
Hi Peter, I have an family member with GC who visits the US for short periods of time every 6 months to maintain it. They currently have no intention of moving to the US. Recently, they seem to be getting more scrutiny at the airport due to
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by dhruvrrp 8y ago
> You can do a lot just by engaging those parents But what if those parents don't want to be engaged with. A lot of children who would be "left behind" in the old school would have been from a worse social-economic backgro
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by dhruvrrp 8y ago
It’s wierd how everyone seems to be so against to this change. hasn’t safari been doing this since forever?
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by dhruvrrp 8y ago
Underaged labor is legal in the USA as long as they are employed by their parents and the work isn't in manufacturing, mining or occupations declared hazardous. https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/chi
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by dhruvrrp 8y ago
The issues the author has about line cutting and openly gawking seemed kinda interesting. In my view line cutting happens because people have this view that their time is more valuable than anyone else's, and so they don't see it
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by dhruvrrp 8y ago
That is how you get stabbed/shot. There is a reason most police departments advise to give up property and not confront robbers
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by dhruvrrp 8y ago
That is because the switch is not compliant with the usb-c specification. There have been lots of reports of people bricking their switch using usb-c cables which otherwise work fine with other usb-c devices. Discussion on hn: https:/
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by dhruvrrp 8y ago
Coinbase used to give $10 in bitcoin for new signups a few years ago.
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by dhruvrrp 8y ago
The crash attenuators are usually good enough to save people's lives. There are small grooves in the sides on some of the freeways in CA but they aren’t everywhere. The problem with the attenuators are that they don’t get replaced fast
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by dhruvrrp 8y ago
PayPal didn't have a decent mobile app and it charged for all card transactions (credit or debit). If i'm sitting in a restaurant with friends, I'm not going to ask each of them for their email/paypal IDs so I can charge
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by dhruvrrp 8y ago
So what is the Youtube Music app that has been on my iPhone for months? And what happens to Google Play Music, google's other music streaming service?
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by dhruvrrp 9y ago
The surface hub actually ended up being close to a billion dollar business for Microsoft, which I would say is pretty good for something that costs 5k+ and is out of reach for most consumers.
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by dhruvrrp 9y ago
The DMV might not give any allowance but enforcement is no where as harsh in California. The i-5 in Southern California is filled with people cruising at 80 (even the highway patrol!), 15 miles above the limit and no one gets a ticket. The
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by dhruvrrp 9y ago
The problem with The World is that it was designed during Dubai’s ‘throw money and solve the problem’ phase. They knew the islands were/would erode and had a very expensive rebuilding process in the works. Also iirc utilities were very
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by dhruvrrp 9y ago
FDIC covers $250,000 for all of a persons accounts in one bank. So you just need to have accounts in separate banks to 'increase' your coverage. https://www.fdic.gov/deposit/covered/categories.html

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