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by flak48 6y ago
> Or does it essentially never come up because a typical Indian would use lakh/crore instead? Exactly. USD is almost always implied when million/billion is used
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by flak48 6y ago
An intern once thought it was a good idea to torrent a couple of Game of Thrones episodes using my startup's Digital Ocean box. We found out after Digital Ocean forwarded us an email from HBO (who presumably tracked Digital Ocean down
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by flak48 6y ago
That might have to do something with the massive amount of light pollution in the foreground?
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by flak48 6y ago
But the GP comment is saying that drivers that can set rates for themselves still shouldn't be called contractors. Hence my question
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by flak48 6y ago
What should the distinction be between an employee and contractor then?
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by flak48 6y ago
Something like this was my first programming project when I was 12... I had built a web service where you could get a unique URL for a .jpg and use it as your signature in forums. On the other end you had a Winamp plugin that you had to ins
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by flak48 6y ago
What if they donated to a charity of your choice instead of paying you.
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by flak48 6y ago
It's twice as thick compared to even a mid range Lenovo or Dell laptop, to start with? Optical drivers still seem to be a thing... And I don't think I've ever seen a circular touchpad before!
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by flak48 6y ago
Generic versions of Remdesivir are already available in India for $70 (under license from Gilead). I hope other countries ramp up production too. https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/india-s-hetero-pri...
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by flak48 6y ago
Indian companies have already started manufacturing Remdesivir (under license from Gilead) and selling them at a price of ~$70. I wonder how other countries are going to respond since the US seems to have bought up the entire global stockpi
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by flak48 6y ago
It's 2020 and phabricator still requires users to use an amazingly buggy seperate CLI (arcanist) to create pull requests ('diffs'). Because it is not that widely used, good luck on finding solutions to the many issues you mig
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by flak48 6y ago
When I took my driving test in India, 3 other candidates ('coincidentally' all female) were made to sit on the backseat, with me at the wheel and the examiner next to me. After the test (in which only I drove), all 4 of us were gr
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by flak48 6y ago
For sure. I just wanted to shed a light on some unfortunate external pressures faced by a subset of engineers, which contributes to this problem. Didn't meant to come across as cynical.
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by flak48 6y ago
>> engineers go extreme in designing things/code for future cases which are not yet known >They're afraid. In many companies (think FAANG), engineers, especially senior engineers are incentivized/forced to show fancy
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by flak48 6y ago
Completely understand why we shouldn't have editing enabled for too long
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by flak48 6y ago
As for Uber, the AI researchers that were laid off were not from the self driving division. Google's freeze as far as I know is for all engineers ( only backfilling attrition is permitted), not limited to ML. I personally feel this slu
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by flak48 6y ago
I always assumed one could run a script or something to edit their comments to blank comments since deletion is not possible - the way many users on Reddit prefer to do. Just found out the edit option disappear after a few minutes/hour
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by flak48 6y ago
Created https://cancelnyt.net in case someone not aware of the Paypal trick (or not on HN/this thread) is still trying to figure this out
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by flak48 6y ago
The Quest. The 64 GB option is enough for 99.99% of people.
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by flak48 6y ago
You can attach a USB C cable to a Quest to play PC games on it via Oculus Link: https://support.oculus.com/444256562873335/
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by flak48 6y ago
Other comments on this thread are suggesting switching the mode of payment to PayPal which let's you cancel instantly. Or credit card chargebacks if you can document that you exhausted reasonable efforts to ask NYT to cancel the subscr
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by flak48 6y ago
> She basically thought she was somehow represented in that part of the world by wearing the goggles. Not really
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by flak48 6y ago
TL;DR I feel most folks aren't bothered about understanding these things (I'm not judging, but just the way it is) I believe most actually take such kind of advanced tech for granted. e.g I remember just 10 years ago the tech behi
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by flak48 6y ago
Many companies have been reimbursing home internet and electricity bills since March. Mine even paid for an chair, desk, monitor and lamp of my choosing for my home office. I hope this becomes the norm if remote becomes mainstream
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by flak48 6y ago
Traipsing through Street view in VR is even more surreal. I got my grandma to try it on Oculus and she couldn't get enough. At one point she asked if she could call up my aunt to come at the door when I showed her my aunt's house
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by flak48 6y ago
Employees working in the India/UK/EU office for an American company already make much less than their US colleagues for the same work. If one were to measure the cost of living in real terms in a place like India beyond lower rent
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by flak48 6y ago
TL;DR Two filmakers paid $25,488 to buy all seats for 5 screenings of their $0 production budget movie at a local movie theater on June 10th. Which turned out to be more money 'earned' than any other movie in the US that day, allo
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by flak48 6y ago
The Mumbai video has a map
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by flak48 6y ago
The general thought process is to make you sign away as much as they can, and later worry about if it was required or something they even want to consider enforcing.
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by flak48 6y ago
Maybe lodash or just could be the std lib. Just doesn't have any further dependencies. https://github.com/angus-c/just

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