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by puranjay 6y ago
Hear hear. We need a massive pro-nuclear public campaign. When people think of "nuclear power", they just think of Chernobyl. In hindsight, Chernobyl might have done more harm to the planet than we thought - it single handedly tur
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by puranjay 6y ago
Internet is dirt cheap in my city in India now. But if you wanted to go up to the mountains or the beach or any part of the country that wasn't an overcrowded city, you'd get spotty internet, certainly nothing to run a business on
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by puranjay 6y ago
I am already fantasizing about a future "workplace" where remote work is common and good satellite internet is everywhere so you can work from whatever corner of the world you wanted to.
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by puranjay 6y ago
Google Play Music was so trash but I stuck with it because I had too many tracks sent by friends/my own on it (which Google Play would randomly delete altogether at times). When they forced the transition to YouTube music, I gave up th
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by puranjay 6y ago
Serious question: if you're a young person with no health issues, should you even get the vaccine?
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by puranjay 6y ago
If seeds and pesticide weren't free, farmers would have to pass on these costs to the consumer. In a country where the poorest state has a per capita income of less than $51/month [0], even a 20% hike in food prices will hurt the
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by puranjay 6y ago
It would surprise you to learn that several Indian states have or had communist parties in power, elected through fair and free elections.
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by puranjay 6y ago
Objectively, it is replacing a bad system. But the proponents of the bill place too much faith in the market. India has never had truly free markets. There is a very legitimate concern that a few big corporations will monopolize the market
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by puranjay 6y ago
My friends from the southern states call it "Northocracy". A handful of northern states - all of which perform abysmally in all development indicators - get to decide the elections and the overall direction of the country. It shou
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by puranjay 6y ago
I've always maintained that if Mike Tyson was born in different circumstances, he'd have a PhD. In his interviews, he always comes across as well-read, though in a very scattered, directionless self-learner sort of way.
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by puranjay 6y ago
A lot of classical music is also temple (or church) music.
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by puranjay 6y ago
The conspiracy theory growth cycle is pretty clear after all these years: something originates on 4chan, is picked up by some independent blog that editoralizes and sanitizes it. The blog post is then spread through Facebook and Twitter bef
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by puranjay 6y ago
Social media has made it wildly easy and incredibly cheap to propagate any misinformation. Head over 4chan and you'll see a factory line of ideas being thrown at the wall to see what sticks - which is then further spread across social
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by puranjay 6y ago
As an Indian, I'm just disappointed that we seem to have wholeheartedly chosen a side - USA - in the upcoming Cold War 2.0 instead of staying a bit more neutral. I don't think we chose well.
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by puranjay 6y ago
> The investigators claimed McDermott disappeared to avoid debts, including US$8,000 owed to his ex-wife for child support That's...a surprisingly small amount to fake your own death over.
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by puranjay 6y ago
I think OP is referring more to the sort of work culture associated with people who use language like that - bureaucratic, brown nosing, inefficient.
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by puranjay 6y ago
What is your social life like? I worry that post 30, starting a social life from scratch might be too much, especially for someone who is admittedly not particularly social.
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by puranjay 6y ago
It's a strangely western phenomenon. People might be callous about safety measures here in India, but absolutely no one in my extended circle of friends and family has ever denied its existence or that it's something people need t
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by puranjay 6y ago
I used to use the YouTube app on my firestick to stream music while working around the house. One of my favorite bands - who I personally know and who don't put any ads on their videos - releases entire albums in a single 30-40 minute
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by puranjay 6y ago
20 second unskippable ads about cat food (I don't have a cat) to watch a 1 minute video. No thanks YouTube!
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by puranjay 6y ago
Fantastic! Unlike a lot of similar apps, this actually generated decent enough outfits. The pairings were good, especially the color combinations. I do believe that the shoe suggestions are uniformly bad - sockless moccasins with camo pants
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by puranjay 6y ago
I was waiting for AMD Zen3 to build a new desktop. But now that these tests are out, I am very, very tempted to go with Apple again. The Mac Mini numbers look comparable enough and it will be cheaper than an equivalent Windows machine (neve
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by puranjay 6y ago
This might get me back into the Apple ecosystem. I'll still wait for the kinks to be ironed out in the first generation though.
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by puranjay 6y ago
You're getting downvoted but these are very legitimate issues. I still chose Windows but I was really, really tempted to ditch it all when they pulled off that forced Edge installation stunt a couple of months ago.
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by puranjay 6y ago
Which Lenovo are you using? I have an older Ideapad (circa 2017) and a new 2020 Thinkpad and the trackpads on the two are uniformly awful
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by puranjay 6y ago
BS like this is exactly why I moved away from Mac altogether. My wife's Macbook Air had a similar black screen after upgrading to Sierra. On my Pro, upgrading to Sierra completely messed up Cubase and a bunch of audio plugins, to the p
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by puranjay 6y ago
Wow. That should lay rest to any questions about the slow progress of Sub-Saharan Africa in history. Crossing an expanse of desert that massive would be next to impossible before mechanized transport
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by puranjay 6y ago
> Make the countries on the globe removable (magnetic? Countries as jigsaw puzzles pieces, made with soft Silicone, should work as well
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by puranjay 6y ago
I wouldn't value this company based on 2020 numbers at all. Almost no chance that pandemic numbers hold post-pandemic
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by puranjay 6y ago
"Always bet on laziness"

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