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by geekam 12y ago
> I believe there is legal precedent that you can't be prosecuted for downloading something from a site like TPB, only from uploading to others I did not know that's the case. Do you have a source to confirm this?
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by geekam 12y ago
I have become so cynical and scared that I usually do not even click on such websites and links. Can the US police arrest you to visit just the web page and search on it? I wonder how it is back? Aren't Sunde et. al. in jail for this?
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Comcast apologizes for changing customer's billing name to profanity – CBS News(cbsnews.com)
2 points by geekam 12y ago|0 comments
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#11 Did Errol Morris’ Brother Invent Email? – Reply All – Gimlet Media(gimletmedia.com)
1 points by geekam 12y ago|0 comments
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Python testing style guidelines(jrsmith3.github.io)
2 points by geekam 12y ago|0 comments
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by geekam 12y ago
Vaccines build herd-immunity which is very important.
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The Most Unscientific Thoughts from the India Science Congress(indiatimes.com)
2 points by geekam 12y ago|0 comments
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by geekam 12y ago
I think the government Internet providers (MTNL etc.) have already blocked it. I cannot access github without VPN.
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by geekam 12y ago
I am not sure if I get the reference or the story. Are you saying that Google leaked those emails somehow?
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by geekam 12y ago
Edit: Do you pay for headspace or just use their 10 minute? I just signed up. Thanks for the book suggestion, I just bought this book.
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by geekam 12y ago
Is it worth paying headspace 8 bucks a month?
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by geekam 12y ago
>> Also, the shit your brain will make up and entertain you with once the chatter dies down is absolutely fascinating all in itself. I had thought that the absence of chatter only helps in calmness and lessening the anxiety. What kind
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by geekam 12y ago
Thanks. Is there a specific time of the day that this should be done? This seems really simple for what meditation has been advertised by some camps and "gurus". I can give five such minutes for the betterment.
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by geekam 12y ago
Can people who meditate point to good resources on how and where to start? Books, videos, blogs etc.
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by geekam 12y ago
>> What Can We Learn From windows? >>> After a lengthy development process, Windows Vista was released on November 30, 2006 for volume licensing and January 30, 2007 for consumers. ... >>> Many types of aquatic anima
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by geekam 12y ago
I have a pet peeve. I have setup OSX to show the hidden and dotfiles. So, everywhere I go using finder (say mounted drives), I get that .DS_Store file. Is there a way to avoid seeing that in the list?
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Video Games: 14 in the Collection, for Starters(moma.org)
1 points by geekam 12y ago|0 comments
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by geekam 12y ago
look-at-later is amazing. I use Instapaper for exactly that. Now I have made a habit of shoving everything there and going through it at a specified time in the day.
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Aral Balkan – The Camera Panopticon(aralbalkan.com)
3 points by geekam 12y ago|0 comments
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by geekam 12y ago
I have said this before here and I will do that again. What hurts the market is L1 visa. H1 visa holders are almost in the same boat as local talent. Why? Because there is a government dictated minimum prevailaing wage that companies have t
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by geekam 12y ago
>> Do not unnecessarily use braces where a single statement will do. Shouldn't this be changed to always use braces? Given the Apple bug?
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by geekam 12y ago
Very interesting. How did you go about reverse engineering it? Would you mind sharing?
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by geekam 12y ago
Actually, FastMail is an Australian company and subject to Au laws. Although, I think they do have operations in NY (or maybe NJ). "FastMail is an Australian company and as such is subject to Australian law."[1] [1] https:/&
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by geekam 12y ago
How does Runbox compare to FastMail?
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by geekam 12y ago
This is a tough one. I have seen Etherpad [ http://etherpad.org/ ] being used a lot. The there is Zoho suite of apps [ https://www.zoho.com/ ] but I am not sure if they really match your requirements completely
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by geekam 12y ago
FastMail seems very transparent. They provide aost of the stuff that I needed from an Email hosting company, even independent audits.
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by geekam 12y ago
I remember I started moving out of Google's claws when they started pushing Google+ everywhere. Today my primary browser is Firefox, Search engine is DDG (with occassional Google search), Email is FastMail. The dependency on Google had
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by geekam 12y ago
This fails to show up on my iPhone 5S Safari and I thought it supported Unicode.
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by geekam 12y ago
Thanks! This, along with the other replies, was very helpful. So, basically the whole concept of North Vs South India divide with Southern Indians holding on to this information is incorrect since Indian subcontinent is pretty uniform for a
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by geekam 12y ago
It has not been discredited, yet. It has been challenged. You should see the latest paper on this subject that used gneetics - Characterizing the genetic differences between two distinct migrant groups from Indo-European and Dravidian speak

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