mayanksinghal

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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
Yes and they may use other avenues when required. As much as I sing songs about incompetence and ineptitude of most government offices (of my country), they do have a knack to survive (or competing forces are just as inadequate, take your p
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
Please do not comment when you don't have anything constructive to offer. You embarrass the whole bunch of us as it is going to just feed stereotypes and we know how hard it is to get rid of them.
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
I have no information of the case at hand, but that could the reason why the prosecutor went for hacking charges instead of harassment.
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
If you are from US, then you might as well because present UK at least seems less imperialistic. However, this could be simply because it wields less power than it did in past centuries.
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
I guess we can pick the alternative energy source of our liking and evangelize for it. We can also technologically, monetarily, electorally and emotionally support the people who are looking for and deploying these alternatives. At least te
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
I don't know of any email clients that execute JS inside mails. I don't think we will see such clients anytime soon.
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
There is no way this can be called 'negative competition'. This could be considered grey if you count every single interaction between competitors as such. If this is petty than Mac-Windows ads must be categorized disgustingly so.
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
Try this: javascript:{v=document.createElement('style');v.innerHTML='blockquote{font-size:14px;width:500px}blockquote div{padding-bottom:8px}';document.body.appendChild(v)};void(0);
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
That describes why Brazil could have been a threat, if it were not so friendly, not why it should be described not-so-friendly now. Unless you want to say that any government with even the remotest socialistic roots, that trades with China
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
That quite a narrow definition of what it means to be civilized and what it means to understand other cultures. The tribes in mountains of Pakistan value their way of living, their religion, their ideologies, their decentralized governance,
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
Yes, I think it is quite appropriate to discuss what these drone strikes prevented as much as it is important to discuss what they caused. Elsewhere in the this thread, it is argued that drone strikes also create enough anguish that they en
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
Both studies were done by the same scientist who seems to have other stakes in the process than just academic curiosity.
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
Lasted ~2.5years. Got open sourced and now powers 2-3 startups.
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
Reader lasted 9 years!
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
> the standard definition of the term outside of obvious casual adaptations of the term like "office politics." From my limited reading about the topic, that is not the case. According to wikipedia, politics is the practice and
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
> I don't consider other attempts to influence governments to be inherently political acts, like civil disobedience, participating in black markets, and other forms of counter-economics. Then your definition of politics satisfies yo
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
May be I am ignorant, but anarchism doesn't appear to be very different from tribal societies. No large concentrations of power, no permanent authority, minimal rules and localized politics. It is definitely a political choice about ch
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
But shouldn't it be the case that if police is given a search warrant, we (as people, in general) want them to notice anything and everything there is to notice? This is also something I would reply to your sibling comment as well, I t
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
CoffeeScript is JS. And to be more honest and judgemental, CoffeeScript is the sweeter-but-poorly-documented Javascript. The reason people are attempting to put javascript everywhere is because they can and because others enjoy it. And thos
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
Nobody is denying anyone's legal right to privacy. Eric Schmidt was setting expectations about it, when he made that statement. You would have known if gawker didn't (1) Made their own value judgement. (private => filth) and
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
> Does it taste like despair? Synthetic meat doesn't, at least, taste like screams.
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
How did Google kill Webkit now? Google was among the top contributors to the project till not too long ago. It then forked its branch to Blink and Opera went with it. It is an open source project, that has contributors from many organizatio
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
> Is it okay to collect anonymous XYZ data? Anonymity is not binary. - What lower level of anonymity is acceptable? Is 1 in 30 acceptable? - What about edge cases where it becomes much lower? Say only one person in a small county has an
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
> The people working at Fort Meade are not evil. They truly believe they're doing a great service ... That isn't really a strong argument. Firstly, their actions is supposed to reflect the ideology of the US citizens in general
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
Given the level of adjectives and expletives that I have seen being used for anyone who has made even the slightest of remarks that don't aligned perfectly with the popular stand here, I can understand uhno's stance of saying stuf
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
Some of us actually do cook dinner at home. I come in to work quite late, stick around till 8PM but skip the dinner at Google. I have a few teammates who leave at 5PM, some others who leave at 6PM and the rest who leave around the same time
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
It seems like http://golang.org/pkg/os/#pkg-constants has O_APPEND and searching for 'Append file Golang' gives http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13513375/how-to-append-te...
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NASA Van Allen Probes Discover Particle Accelerator in Earth's Radiation Belts(scienceworldreport.com)
2 points by mayanksinghal 13y ago|1 comments
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
Well, if by few hundred years you mean at least ~2.2 millenia then yes, because Buddhism's dont-take-life preaching is at least that old. And since when did the ethics and normalities of past become the standards by which our present s
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
For me, it is the ability to control the TV from my cellphone, tab or mac without dealing with the terrible keyboards on the smart TV remotes (PS3 input is only slightly better).

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