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by guidovranken 5y ago
> On several occasions between late March and early May 2020, before Twilio’s public earnings announcement, Sure, Lagudu and Chotu Pulagam used internal chat channels to discuss in Telugu whether Twilio might exceed market expectations i
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by guidovranken 5y ago
Read the books they want to ban. Thanks for the heads up.
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by guidovranken 5y ago
>HTTrack for any wiki I found useful. On the Internet Archive you can also find many .warc files which are website backups that can be used for offline viewing.
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by guidovranken 5y ago
I agree and I don't care if it's RT or ISIS or China or the Westboro Baptist Church. But the past two years have made it clear that all those lofty, lapidary ideals upon which our so-called free societies are supposedly grounded c
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Newly published 9/11 footage [video](youtube.com)
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by guidovranken 5y ago
Awesome, thanks for the heads up.
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by guidovranken 5y ago
HN employs algorithms to automatically downrank sensitive political topics (flamewar detector).
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by guidovranken 5y ago
1000+ or so. I often visit thrift shops where books are extremely cheap and you find things you didn't know you were looking for. The nice thing about (older) books is that they comprise a whole world of information that's not ava
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by guidovranken 5y ago
The bottom line is that when you need to redact text, use black bars covering the whole text. Never use anything else. That actually may not be enough if you're applying the black bar to compressed image data like JPEG because
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by guidovranken 5y ago
The COVID interviews are with highly credentialed professionals, and are quite reasonable, honest and nuanced, far more so than the insane corporate media 24/7 propaganda machine that relies on repetition and histrionics to get everyon
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by guidovranken 5y ago
I'm clueless as to what this is supposed to do.
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by guidovranken 5y ago
These restrictions on speech seem well-intentioned but are of course another step in locking down the narrative. The government said the bill would not prohibit "misinformation" as long as those spreading it were unaware that
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by guidovranken 5y ago
https://boards.4chan.org/t/thread/1047940
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by guidovranken 5y ago
GPT-NeoX-20B will be publicly downloadable from The Eye on the 9th of February. The Eye as in the-eye.eu? That site has been down for a long time.
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by guidovranken 5y ago
Brave is the new Mozilla. Mozilla is a husk. Brave launched a new search engine (which works great. try it!), have built-in Tor support, Wayback Machine support, experiment with new revenue models and unlike Mitchell "we need more than
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by guidovranken 5y ago
Developing a modern feature-rich browser is a gargantuan task and you need many skilled (expensive) developers to work on it; easily millions of USD yearly in salaries alone. Some donations here and there won't cut it, you basically ne
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by guidovranken 5y ago
QR codes.
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by guidovranken 5y ago
In other festive COVID news from Canada: >Canada's Justin Trudeau on the unvaccinated: >“They don’t believe in science/progress and are very often misogynistic and racist....This leads us, as a leader and as a country, to ma
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by guidovranken 5y ago
The trifecta government-media-big business now have optimally aligned incentives to not relinquish this historical golden goose of power and money. Add to that the cultural component of ostracizing anyone who goes against the narrative and
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by guidovranken 5y ago
A lot of comments are optimistic about COVID-related measures relaxing, and I'm confidently predicting that in 2022 they will be proven wrong again.
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by guidovranken 5y ago
Every morning before I open my first beer I read 3 spoopy greentexts of the shapeshifter variety.
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by guidovranken 5y ago
I used to follow Balaji on Twitter, he frequently had original and eloquent perspectives on things, but his incessant web3 evangelism turned me off.
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by guidovranken 5y ago
Soft White Underbelly Interviews with addicts, homeless, prostitutes, pimps, murderers, gang members and other interesting folk on Skid Row, LA. I've heard some really mesmerizing, tragic and bizarre things on that channel. https:&#x2
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by guidovranken 5y ago
The real conspiracy theory is believing that a company demanding that you will indefinitely have experimental medication injected into your veins as a scheme to ward off people who might be thinking the wrong thoughts privately in their own
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by guidovranken 5y ago
FAANG flourish because 1. lockdowns boost tech use 2. runaway money printing to fund the pandemic devalues money and forces people to invest. Both are at the direct expense of ordinary people whose businesses and savings are being destroyed
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by guidovranken 5y ago
This is astrology-tier. Look into the Illuminati card game for some baffling predictions.
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by guidovranken 5y ago
I understand why a lot of creators need to use Youtube (revenue, discoverability) but I suggest that anyone who doesn't strictly depend on them to upload their content to random other video websites. Video streaming is a solved problem
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by guidovranken 5y ago
The internet is infinitely interesting and I'm still as spellbound by it like I was 25 years ago. You just have to look beyond the FAANG websites. Most recently I have been having a lot of fun using AI image generators like https:&#x2
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by guidovranken 5y ago
BitTorrent is amazing. It just works. Anyone anywhere can create a torrent of their files, dump the magnet link somewhere, and everyone else can reliably retrieve it. It is self-reinforcing; the more people using a torrent, the better the r
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by guidovranken 5y ago
They also published this related Tweet: https://twitter.com/pfizer/status/1458184495530758146 It is the wet dream of megacorps like Pfizer, who would sell you the air you breathe if they could, to make it acceptab

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