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by puranjay 6y ago
What kind of heat would the person or party that started this hack get? What could be the expected consequences? Going after political figures, including the former President of the US, should, I think, trigger a digital man hunt.
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Considering that Twitter has taken a decade and not managed to create a functional web media player, something like a circuit breaker is probably low on their priority list.
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Right, total about $55k received so far. Big numbers, sure, but probably not worth the heat you'd receive with going after such prominent accounts.
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There are a bunch of TikTok clones floating around and they've racked up some users. But I'm not sure if these clones would have the tech to serve the kind of recommendations TikTok did. Some, like "Mitron", are basicall
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by puranjay 6y ago
Here in India, TikTok was massively popular in smaller towns and villages. The content was so different than Instagram. I really thought it was invaluable (TikTok is banned now). For us city dwelling upper middle class people, it gave a rar
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by puranjay 6y ago
Well, Facebook has cash to lose. Further, VR, at least as Facebook and Zuckerberg see it, would be less about games and more about social interactions in virtual worlds. The monetization model would be different than directly selling softwa
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by puranjay 6y ago
I'm not particularly bearish on VR but it's clear that the technology is far, far more mature than anything in the 90s. Hardware sales are anyhow not quite as important as the software that runs on the hardware. The console market
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by puranjay 6y ago
That's more to do with the unviability of VR than Oculus itself. If (rather, when) VR becomes viable, Oculus will be front and center - it has cornered mindshare in the space
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And they have a long trail of abandonedware to show for it.
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As much as I resist futile internet arguments, I find that I can't help myself when I read someone being blatantly wrong about something I know. I feel some nearly irresistible urge to "correct" them, knowing fully well that
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by puranjay 6y ago
One of the worst apps I use regularly has to be Google Play Music. The UI is horrible enough, but it also randomly deletes tracks from my library - including my own tracks that I recorded under my own name. And sometimes the tracks will s
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by puranjay 6y ago
As critical as I have been of the current political regime in India, calling it "Putinesque democracy" is a gross exaggeration. My state is a prime example - it's governed by a party that came into being barely half a decade
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by puranjay 6y ago
Agreed. China's wages have risen steadily to the point that they are substantially higher than the competition (Vietnam, India, etc.). Yet during the same time, their share of global manufacturing has also increased. Low wages are only
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by puranjay 6y ago
One of the key reasons for manufacturers to move to India is the massive domestic market. Apple's devices have to be imported into India which attracts an import duty. Minus this tax, Apple's products would be substantially cheape
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I fail to see any situation where MBS would be an international pariah while still controlling Saudi Arabia
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If your target audience is other startups, then it is absolutely worth it. But if its not, you shouldn't bother at all. Focus on creating content that solves core pain points for your target customers. (And if you don't know these
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by puranjay 6y ago
For complex queries, my results are distinctly different than Google
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by puranjay 6y ago
Man this is really, really good stuff! In a few test searches, you beat Google. I tried this search on Runnaroo and Google: "black muscular guy in 99" (I meant to search for Terry Crews from Brooklyn 99). Google just showed me som
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by puranjay 6y ago
Why would an organization like Google ever even drop a domain? A 10 year domain registration is what - $150?
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by puranjay 6y ago
Regulatory and security nightmare. Having thousands of drones zipping around a city at the same time is going to open up the doors for some bad actors. It will take one lunatic with a homemade bomb and everything will be grounded.
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by puranjay 6y ago
For that to happen, we have to first: - Create robots capable of handling pickup and delivery automatically - a very hard technical problem that were far from solving - Manufacture these robots at scale - Purchase and deploy these robots at
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by puranjay 6y ago
A small surprise for me was learning that you can buy a fully functional tank in America for relatively little cash. Where I come from, even the thought of anybody but the army owning a tank is absurd.
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by puranjay 6y ago
Most adult websites have been banned for quite a while now. Some random websites often get caught in the ban periodically. The Internet Archive was banned for a while. Iirc, Libgen was also banned once.
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by puranjay 6y ago
I'm constantly amazed at the number of people who still refuse to believe that this pandemic even exists or that we are living through it. There is collective denial and disbelief. Even though we've had pandemics throughout human
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by puranjay 6y ago
I like this forum to not be filled with propaganda and conspiracy theories, especially those that completely absolve the actual culprits of their crimes. Another poster defended the original post and claimed that Marxists are the reason for
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by puranjay 6y ago
The decline of the US was not triggered by "marxists". It was triggered by a disastrous, two decade long war in Afghanistan and Iraq, followed by an economic catastrophe where the culprits went completely unpunished. Unironically,
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Private property implies ownership. The moment you assume ownership, you have to be ready to defend your claim against a counter claimant. How you defend this claim depends on where (and when) you live, but almost uniformly requires force -
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I have seen practically this same post on /Pol/ and I really appreciate NOT having it on HN.
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If we're going to talk about countries using their proxies to control and suppress native populations, then we can have an entire discussion about America's role in South America. I'm not condoning China's past at all -
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Remind me when they drop bombs on an African country's capital and hang its leader, all on a false charge of possessing WMDs. I see absolutely no way that any American can ethically justify the invasion of Iraq.

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