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by krn 6y ago
> For anybody living outside of the UK, going there isn't all that different from going to the US. The tuition is only somewhat cheaper too I think. As opposed to most "best" schools in mainland Europe being essentially fr
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Bela: An Embedded Platform for Low-Latency Interactive Audio(bela.io)
2 points by krn 6y ago|0 comments
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by krn 6y ago
The Science of Breath (1903)[1] by William Walker Atkinson[2] is a fundamental read on the subject. [1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/1603864180 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Walker_Atkinso
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by krn 6y ago
Then, I guess, the only choice is Github Sponsors. And it doesn't seem to be a bad one[1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23613719
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The deadly secret of China's invisible armada(nbcnews.com)
13 points by krn 6y ago|1 comments
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by krn 6y ago
> A lot of companies like Basecamp and Spotify executed this idea with their company blogs. > They started with a Medium publication, and when they gained traction on their content, they moved to their own hosted blogs. This is false.
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by krn 6y ago
> Unless you go with Electron or pay thousands per year for a Qt license, options are quite limited. I might be wrong, but it seems that Bitwig Studio, probably the most popular cross-platform DAW, uses JavaFX for the UI.
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Idiomatic Clojure: Code Smells(bsless.github.io)
1 points by krn 6y ago|0 comments
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William Barr’s Father Wrote a Science Fiction Book About Sexual Slavery (2019)(mavenroundtable.io)
1 points by krn 6y ago|0 comments
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by krn 6y ago
> Revolut doesn't have a proper web client I believe Revolut Business is primarily web based, unlike Revolut Personal: https://www.revolut.com/business/business-account There is also Paysera, which offers insta
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by krn 6y ago
Yes, that part about not being able to back up his claims wasn't there, when I first read that comment yesterday. And I also don't like that he mixes the technical critique with the moral critique of TikTok, which makes him look b
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by krn 6y ago
> I find this unconvincing and reddit comments are not trustworthy at all. You should probably read the original comment on reddit, not just my summary of it. I found it to be extremely detailed and technically convincing, even though it
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by krn 6y ago
A reddit user, who claims to have reverse-engineered the TikTok app[1], concluded: > TikTok is a data collection service that is thinly-veiled as a social network. If there is an API to get information on you, your contacts, or your devi
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by krn 6y ago
From the technical point of view, Mullvad was one of the first VPN services to adopt and support the development of Wireguard; it was also one of the first to open-source all of its client-side code. From the privacy point of view, Mullvad
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by krn 6y ago
Thank you, I wasn't aware of that. I consider Mullvad to be both, a technologically superior product, and a much more trustworthy company than ProtonVPN.
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by krn 6y ago
They clearly put a lot of effort in cleaning the mess, as I later discovered myself by being from the same city: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18611863 It seems very likely now, that ProtonMail just decided to use No
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by krn 6y ago
There are many VPN services that begin just by reselling white-label VPN solutions, such as provided by NordVPN[1], because it's much cheaper and easier than building your own globally distributed high-capacity and low-latency network.
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by krn 6y ago
https://vpnscam.com/tesonet-data-mining-company-owns-nordvpn...
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by krn 6y ago
> But that would basically make it an awkward Linux distribution that doesn't have much benefits over the existing ones. The main benefits of Chrome OS are immutability and zero-maintenance. If Chrome OS added a native support for f
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by krn 6y ago
I believe Linux (Beta) for ChromeOS[1] should eliminate most of these limitations. There is also Fedora Silverblue[2], which is an immutable desktop OS. [1] https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/9145439?hl=e
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Over 10 agonizing days, this migrant worker walked 1,250 miles home(cnn.com)
4 points by krn 6y ago|2 comments
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by krn 6y ago
In other words, the only reasons for Twitter not ban such a user are 1) business (that he might be driving a substantial amount of traffic); and 2) PR (that banning him would bring much more negative than positive coverage for the company)?
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by krn 6y ago
I wonder, at point is Twitter supposed to block the user for constant spread of disinformation on its platform? Or would that violate the user's right to "free speech"? Could the user protect himself by claiming, that he is s
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by krn 6y ago
> I thought that opt-out was the way to get critical mass But what about following every dark pattern in the book to prevent people from actually opting out[1][2]? There was not even an option to opt-out indefinitely. It seemed like an e
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by krn 6y ago
> Datomic is pretty close to what I have in mind, but it’s far too Clojure specific to gain traction outside of that language, IMHO. I believe that Crux[1] might be the solution, especially with its open nature. [1] https://op
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by krn 6y ago
I completely agree. Software engineering is about being a master of problem solving, not just being a master of some tool or technique.
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by krn 6y ago
> As far as I have noticed, only time Google makes something 'more private for everyone' historically, has been when they themselves have found a superior way to get around it. In theory, DNS-over-HTTPS in Chrome allows Google
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Czech media name Russian diplomat in 'poison plot' row(bbc.com)
2 points by krn 6y ago|0 comments
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by krn 6y ago
In theory, yes. In practice, it would often cost more in time to actually obtain anything from a low-cost airline in Europe than the compensation was worth. I strongly believe that if one wants the level of customer service of a traditional
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by krn 6y ago
Ryanair is like McDonald's of air travel. I have taken well over 50 flights with them over the last decade, and never had a bad experience, because I always knew what to expect. In general, it's not worth paying more than 50-60 EU

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