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by mahathu 5y ago
I found this related HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25076588 I wonder why this didn't blow up more, it sounds like such a privacy nightmare.
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by mahathu 5y ago
Albeit not exactly helpful, I just wanted to thank you for sharing this. Also not American, and I'm too in a pretty dark place right now. I gave up the opportunity of attending a undergrad program I dreamed of at a uni I dreamed of for
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Ask HN: Is Apple really phoning home every time I start an application on macOS?
13 points by mahathu 5y ago|9 comments
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by mahathu 5y ago
Wow, good catch! I'm highly impressed!
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by mahathu 5y ago
Uh, not sure what I did exactly, but this is really cool: https://i.imgur.com/6wDRXMd.png
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by mahathu 5y ago
I would like to place a bet on whether or not that person has a partner he exchanges such messages with.
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by mahathu 5y ago
>Spotify and its fellows allow us to constantly switching [sic] track [sic], always trying to hit the next “high”. Have you ever noticed that after while no music satisfies you? No? The author sounds like such a condescending, self-congr
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by mahathu 5y ago
Like the $7.63 a piece earplugs by 3M that turned out defective: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/jury-finds-3ms-earplugs-cau...
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by mahathu 5y ago
The instant transfer/download start a really good point in favour of wormhole! I'll give it a try.
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by mahathu 5y ago
I use a Telegram (web) chat with myself for sharing files across devices occasionally and it works exceptionally well.
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by mahathu 5y ago
This is a really impressive result and an interesting result to apply ML to. Thank you for sharing, OP. I'm just wondering if there are any real world applications of why you'd want to tell the sex of a person by a retinal photogr
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by mahathu 5y ago
What's a deadname?
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by mahathu 6y ago
This seems like a stretch to me. I agree this feature is unnecessary and invasive. But why would it destroy relationships?
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by mahathu 6y ago
> I can't help but wonder how many lives this feature has ruined I agree with your comment completely, but isn't this a bit a bit of an exaggeration?
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by mahathu 6y ago
Or turn on airplane mode
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Do Brain Implants Change Your Identity? (2021)(newyorker.com)
1 points by mahathu 6y ago|0 comments
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by mahathu 6y ago
This is the first time I heard of the Nashville number system - what's the difference to Roman Numeral Analysis? Is it essentially the same concept, but with Arabic numerals instead?
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by mahathu 6y ago
> why depression has increased so dramatically in the last ~century and address that has it? Were our current guidelines to diagnose depressive episodes with around a century ago?
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by mahathu 6y ago
Coincidentally a quarter of a mile (400m) is also the length of those oval tracks around soccer fields in Europe. we used to run on them a lot in PE back in high school.
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by mahathu 6y ago
Good points, especially the first one. Thanks.
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by mahathu 6y ago
but what would the issue be if some random site knew I was logged into google/amazon/facebook at the time?
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by mahathu 6y ago
am i missing something with this entire subthread? why not for(let i=0; i<n; ++i){something()};?
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by mahathu 6y ago
> preview links before opening them I noticed this feature in the default macOS mail App too but I'm not quite sure I understand correctly. If you click on the little arrow next to a link, it opens the website in a little window --
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by mahathu 6y ago
holy hell.
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by mahathu 6y ago
technically illitare here, pardon the stupid question. I hear so much buzz around k8s/docker/AWS/GCP/Azure and all that but simply don't understand what they actually do . if you go with the extra effort to run you
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by mahathu 6y ago
Turns out one plus one can be one! https://youtu.be/rOOmQEsdaxg
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by mahathu 6y ago
there is such a service already, sort of. it's called pimeyes.com
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by mahathu 6y ago
oh no my queen!
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by mahathu 6y ago
Some people suffer from a state of what we call depression due to their life circumstances, not because their brain is malfunctioning.
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by mahathu 6y ago
As an occasional python developer - I remember you could use `from future import <function>` to use python3 features in python 2.x. perhaps it would be possible to introduce a `past` package to include deprecated language features? of

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