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by erklik 6y ago
> my feed is nothing but wonderfully enriching videos all tailored to my hobbies and interests The ad part I agree quite well with. However, I find that Youtube's recommendation algorithm is quite lacking. I mean this is also the ca
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by erklik 6y ago
That's interesting. I believe smoking is discouraged in Islam, so I wonder why the uptake is higher. Guessing it's a general education issue?
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> until I'm full and I've learnt that it's very hard to know when you're satisfied in terms of hunger, and full in terms of desire. The level of food required to satiate my hunger seems to be quite different from when
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by erklik 6y ago
A case of maintainability? Most games (although its changing these days with loot boxes, and micro-transactions) don't really change ultimately in large ways after the initial development. A website, often these days, is an ever evolvi
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by erklik 6y ago
Honestly, I use vim too, and I have learnt the "language" of vim i.e. the grammar and consider myself an advanced beginner. I have doubts whether the efficiency gains are that useful in every day life. There will some days where I
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by erklik 6y ago
> I have zero interest to optimize deciseconds of my time, or worse, optimize my perceived productivity vs. my actual productivity (e.g. forcing myself away from the mouse by ways of pattern matching that increases both mental overhead a
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by erklik 6y ago
There's quite a few examples of this in the article but it seems mainly things like neighborhood, names, "background", and other things of that nature.
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by erklik 6y ago
Yeah. I wasn't sure there was any legal recourse. Nonetheless, it does seem highly unethical to make a decision in an interview based on caste. Although, the OP's case, the person did quickly realize her mistake, but bias might st
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by erklik 6y ago
In an interview, it seems to me as highly unethical and likely discrimination. Although, not sure if there are legal ramifications to this sort of thing though.
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Because that would mean a very small amount of t-shirts go out. I think people think of DO a little too much. This isn't some altruistic action to better Open Source. It's a marketing gimmick. Less shirts going out == less shirts
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by erklik 6y ago
Interestingly, the common understanding of this is somewhat false. It's not that easy to simply divorce anyone in Islam. There needs to be arbitration by both families beforehand, and a three month waiting period. Only after that, shou
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by erklik 6y ago
For most normal people, using Word and Powerpoint is pretty important. let me know when I can use and do word and powerpoint stuff on Ubuntu. No, the Librestack isn't a replacement.
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Better location filtering aside, I don't think a suggestion to register to vote or to make sure to vote is really setting any bad precedent. More votes should be preferred by everyone in democracy. Although, most other mature democraci
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by erklik 6y ago
Larry Ellison supports Trump and has raised funds in the past for him. Oracle also has hired lobbyists who were classmates of Pompeo or are related to advisors to Trump. That may reduce the head scratching about how Oracle got its hand on T
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by erklik 6y ago
> Why should principles be given to countries that do not reciprocate? I don't think Principles are really given. You have principles and you can abide by them. > All major American tech companies are banished from China Nope. Th
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by erklik 6y ago
Third world vs First world as well. People in America don't want to see the content made by folks in rural India.
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by erklik 6y ago
Its the first tech social app i.e. Facebook, MySpace and the like from China, a country that is not America. That is all there is to it. America realizes that China is catching up, and considering there are a billion Chinese, it is inevitab
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by erklik 6y ago
Really? I feel like I could easily most of the videos I watch and still understand what the video is about. The first few minutes are the intro, a message that the video is sponsored and we will find out about them later, last 3/4 minu
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by erklik 6y ago
Propaganda.
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by erklik 6y ago
I am not OP but similar area. There's quite a few startups. These days is good as there is a fair bit of interest in funding projects. A few that come to mind that have recently raised funding are Airlift (Ride sharing but more mass tr
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by erklik 6y ago
> How safe is it for Indians to visit the Khyber region? I speak Hindi/Urdu with conversational fluency. Can I get by? What’s the best and shortest route to take to get there? As an Indian citizen, it will be basically impossible fo
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by erklik 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yc2L5koWZY Seems rather too loud.
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by erklik 6y ago
> This is because they have found WFH to be so successful. I am honestly somewhat wary of this. It seems like execs saw the dollar signs flashing and are starting this, yet we barely have any data on this affects levels of productivity.
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by erklik 6y ago
Once you are big enough, you do not follow the same rules.
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I am sorry. I am not sure I understand what you mean? Could you clarify a little?
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Why are you focusing on the vulgarity of the comments and not the fact that it would be non-concensual? > I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful—I just start ki
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by erklik 6y ago
I mean this is the same President who falsified a weather map using a sharpie because it violated what he had said earlier in mistake (I am guessing it was a mistake). He was allowed to coordinate a government-wide campaign that was impacti
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by erklik 6y ago
I mean if that's the case, why not simply make laws to limit foreign companies access to the US market. As far as I know, the US hasn't actually passed any laws, right?
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by erklik 6y ago
I think Notion was the first one of the recent bunch, and they created something much better than the standard "Write some text" and since they got traction, others saw that they could do better and have started focusing in that d
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by erklik 6y ago
I am young. I don't hate Google. I honestly don't see what is that horrible thing that I must hate them about? Advertisements? Are we gonna pay for Gmail and Youtube? Is it them treating certain search results as preferable? Yes,

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