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by pkd 5y ago
India Post offers savings accounts services through its post offices. Non-profit public enterprise and a post office is available in every PIN code. There is probably one within walking distance of your relatives in your native village. Cro
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by pkd 5y ago
Have recently discovered the Honkaku novels from Japan, which were part of a revival of golden age, "fair play" detective fiction. I recommend starting with The Honjin Murders. Have really enjoyed them as it's the first time
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by pkd 5y ago
Not that I would switch away from Emacs itself, but I can see myself using Emacs just for Magit even if I was not using it for anything else. Magit is just that good. (Consider sponsoring Jonas on Github if you use and love Magit so that he
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by pkd 5y ago
Tarsnap is not expensive at all for its target audience: folks with highly compressible data. For any data that's not very compressible, it's super costly. Example, if you are into photography it's not uncommon to generate hu
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by pkd 5y ago
Claims about Tipu Sultan's "cruelty" come primarily from English "scholars" who were actually fighting against him. It was a well-known policy of the British to portray their enemies as tyrants to gather legitimacy
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by pkd 5y ago
This one: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... I haven't personally managed (or even tried) to convince anybody because people feel personally attacked when their preferences a
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by pkd 5y ago
It's not always that random (not saying it couldn't be). GiveWell, the best known research outfit, publishes their process: https://www.givewell.org/how-we-work/process Peter Singer (who also runs The Life Yo
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by pkd 5y ago
I have known people who believe that "moderate drinking" is actually beneficial to health - something that has been shown to be untrue when controlling for socio-economic factors. I believe people should be free to chose to drink
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If anything, Edison was USA's Hisashige, given the chronology.
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Lovely stuff, but halftone prints are just one type of prints. Before digital printing was a thing, photos were created using enlargers throwing light through a negative on photosensitive paper. Since the negative was also created using pho
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by pkd 5y ago
Providing a defined, non-violent outlet for grievances is good, otherwise they come out as violence, like with Yugoslavia in your example. My view might be biased because I'm from the subcontinent, but basically the whole of the Indian
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by pkd 5y ago
Montreal. You'll be cutting it close but it's completely possible. The city is has great culture, there's always something to do and has decent public transit (with good bike infrastructure for NA).
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by pkd 5y ago
If past is an indicator, it might take upto 30 years for it to be operational.
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No link but our internal API for mobile apps returns a 418 if the installed version is too old.
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by pkd 5y ago
Transferwise (and others like it) have no such issues. When I make a cross border transfer, the funds are immediately available (if I elect to debit my account immediately). This varies by jurisdiction but it proves that cryptocurrencies a
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by pkd 5y ago
In Canada, Overdrive integrates with Kobo e-readers instead.
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by pkd 5y ago
This phenomenon is found across other Indian cultures too, although it doesn't have a name as such. There's even a pretty good Hindi/Urdu podcast called Puliyabazi, whose name pays homage to this practice.
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by pkd 5y ago
The Residential School Program continued well into the 20th century, when Canada was very much a modern nation state with resources. It's not just that these children died. These were indigenous children that died without the knowledge
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by pkd 5y ago
If you are into books, I will recommend Clojure for the Brave and True which is free to read online [1], and Living Clojure [2], in that order. If you're into interactive kata-style problems, there's 4Clojure [3]. Also join the Cl
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by pkd 5y ago
I read it recently. Four star book for me. Will recommend.
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by pkd 5y ago
I think it's fine for Apple to demand more as long as the end users know that they are paying more everywhere because of it.
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by pkd 5y ago
Oof, that sounds really bad. Would really like to see the response from Retool.
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Tether: The Story So Far (2019)(kalzumeus.com)
29 points by pkd 5y ago|9 comments
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Yes loans exist. Teams generally loan players who they have on contract but don't see them making the first team to other teams to either foster their development or save money on their wages. The team getting the player on loan genera
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by pkd 6y ago
Interesting. I agree on the ineffable quality of bay leaves, but asafoetida is exactly on the opposite end of the spectrum. It has a very strong pungent smell and taste. But it does come diluted with gluten (wheat) so maybe your particular
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by pkd 6y ago
If you want to get into the internals of Ruby then I'll recommend Ruby Under a Microscope.
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I love that Omega dial.
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Fountain pens are hardly a trend. They will never rival ballpoints for the versatility but they have distinct advantages that will ensure that they have a loyal following.
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Most people on the waiting list for that long are not going to be buying to flip it. It's not like sneaker flash sales which are copped by bots.
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by pkd 6y ago
Yes, all kinds of heritable wealth are problematic. But when it comes with heritable political power, doubly so.

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