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by puranjay 6y ago
It's an open secret in the Indian bureaucratic establishment that Reliance will hire retiring bureaucrats and get them to work their networks to find out what's happening in the government before it actually happens. I don't
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> save you money in the long run My two broken Macbooks in 3 years say otherwise. This might have been true 5 years ago, but the countless complaints of keyboard issues with 2017-19 era Macbooks says otherwise.
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Tesla's stock price makes zero sense in any plausible scenario. I understand the narrative, but unless Tesla becomes the only car company on the planet, it can't be worth 10x Ford
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And to think that the sport that actually did Schumacher in was skiing - something millions of people do casually every weekend. My point is that while there has to be a thrust on safety, even the mundane can be unsafe enough; you can'
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But people are still willing to pay for news when it's done right - see NYTimes as an example
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> Grit" is self-reported on the "Short Grit Scale" which asks participants to rate themselves from 1 to 5 on statements like "I am diligent." This is a pretty awful way to measure grit and makes me doubt the resu
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I'm 31 and have never had a job. I started freelancing when I was 18 - more by necessity than by choice - and continued doing that throughout my six years of college. There is something to be said about having "unordinary" ex
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More hardware needs to have handles. I really can't think of any moderately large product that wouldn't be improved by a simple handle
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That's...not as expensive as I had expected. In my country, after taxes, a 16-inch Macbook Pro starts at nearly $3k
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This is about what we charge from clients. Blogging is partly a numbers game. Not every piece of content is successful. But if a blog post does rank well/go viral, it can make up its costs 10-100x.
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Congrats on the launch! Curious about your coding journey. You mentioned that it took you 1.5 years of coding on weekends, but would you also share the courses/tools/communities you used?
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Uniqlo launched here in India last year and has quickly become my favorite brand. I appreciate their no-nonsense marketing. I like that they don't try to sell me an 'identity', but utility - their product descriptions focus o
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by puranjay 6y ago
Ardour is free and open source. You might also want to try LMMS. Pair it up with ZynAddSubFX as the synth and you have a pretty competent studio. Relevant submission: https://midination.com/free-music-production-software&#x2
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Open-Source Music Production Tools(midination.com)
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That would be a great use. It really takes me out of a game when I talk to an NPC and they run out of dialog options. After that, every time you approach them, they repeat the last thing they said.
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I'm extremely bullish on online learning. I owe my livelihood to things I learned online. That said, after trying countless structured courses for a variety of subjects (ranging from design to music production), I've found that my
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I logged into Google Adsense again after years yesterday and good God has that thing changed radically. I remember when you would have to insert ad codes manually into each page or template. Google would discourage having more than 4 ad uni
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The design is nice enough but from a marketing perspective, the copy was really great. No fluff, just a very clear value proposition. I understood immediately what the service does and how it could benefit me. Far more mature than most indi
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And they're not even trying to pretend to be subtle about it anymore. AMP is the best example. Google is acting almost like malware, taking over a site and destroying the experience. It's honestly sad. Google could have gone in su
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Longer content also means you can cram more keywords in there, which means that your page can rank for a broader range of queries. It works from an SEO perspective but as a user, I really wish they'd do away with it.
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If you're not a grumpy person by nature, I doubt an article is going to convince you to start being grumpy. Not that it's even possible to change your innate nature. I'm grumpy by nature and every attempt to be more positive
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> Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is famed for his angry outbursts and insults (such as “I’m sorry, did I take my stupid pills today?”) yet they haven’t stopped him building a $300 billion company. That's how you know the article was wr
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by puranjay 6y ago
Blame Google. A few years ago, it started prioritizing pages that had a high word count. So SEOs had no option but to pad up their pages with filler content. I've personally seen a page go from #20 to #2 just by adding 1000 extra words
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I'm not defending Chinese actions in Pakistan (I am Indian; I have no reasons to). I'm just pointing out that Chinese actions have been consistent and hence, more reliable.
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Considering that they got Obama's account as well, you could very well create a narrative and counter narrative using the POTUS and ex-POTUS accounts. For the sake of fiction, you could have Obama tweet that he is, indeed, taking over,
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Further, these three countries are completely different, culturally and ethnically. Germany invading and occupying Austria might work - there isn't a great deal of difference between their people. But Russia, US and China are poles apa
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The US under Trump is just far too unpredictable and unreliable. China appears more stable and predictable. Case in point: even post pandemic, when the US is withdrawing from the world, China doubled down on its commitment to Pakistan and i
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The jockeying isn't for some square meter of land. It's for influence over the muslim world.
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On Chrome, it won't even load up most of the time. Press play and it shows a "failed to load media" error message. I have to refresh the page to get it to work. I've completely stopped playing any media on Twitter. Twitt
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The stock market is way more regulated and you'd be caught

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