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This article is a masterpiece of click bait titles.
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This is GRRM's favorite writing App.
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Did French destroyed cultural monuments in England. Did they enforced religious conversions in England.
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> If someone invents a way to bottle spare internet, that's the next unicorn for sure Internet's architecture is already like this (See Alan Kay). You can create your own local networks, Problem is the centralized applications
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> Kashmir wasn't independent enough to be able to make state-wide preparations for a conflict with India This is like saying Maine is not independent enough to be able to make state-wide preparations for a conflict with USA.
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Storms and Teacups(acko.net)
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> massage therapists and barbers
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Honestly after this last reply I discredit everything you say in future as well.
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Yes these "improvements" in Chrome are meant to make google the defacto interface for using the web. Imagine a world where 99% of users do not have any concept of URLs or any other fundamental WWW concepts. Instead, they open Chro
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> The owner can reassign any names they want. Then maybe they should include that in ToS, See how many signup.
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It is a misconception that cigars are better than cigarettes. One cigar contains as much tobacco as 15-20 cigarettes and although you are not using lungs to breakdown and absorb smoke, you are using your mouth lining which can lead to all s
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawa_Mahal Hawa Mahal in India uses venturi effect for cooling.
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I have never understood hand dryers. I mean how lazy one can be that they need a machine to blow hot air instead of wiping their hands.
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The 12-50 statistics happens to be fact, I do not know how pointing that out is racist. Also ESR seems to be making the point that violent crime is result of low IQ instead of skin color. A lot of people including Christopher Hitchens, Sam
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> And he's made his career by trying to destroy RMS's life's work What are you referring to ?
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I find Promises to be nothing but fancy looking syntax sugar over the callbacks. Infact, using the Async library one can write more cleaner and easy to understand code using callbacks as compared to Promises.
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This looks like Thought Policing, are people not allowed to express their views on private FB groups ? What exactly is the crime here except may be Thought Crime.
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Rabbit hole goes much more deeper than that. All programs eventually turn into LISP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule
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See Ted Nelson's Xanadu Project - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu#Original_17_rul... Point 4 allows a user to search and retrieve documents on the network.
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A reminder of how Freedom is often a very flimsy thing in even in First world democratic countries.
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> That's a low grade racism. The original comment did not say that China is distrustful because they are of a different race or that their race makes them inherently distrustful. I think shutting down any argument with "that&#x
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So you are saying that America should give it's #1 position in the world and let china takeover.
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> Working in the fields in sweltering heat for less than minimum wage means you're not trying hard enough It means that although you are working hard but not working smart.
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I think you are unnecessarily censoring yourself. Low-level software in computer circles means that it is closer to the metal and no computer engineer in their right mind will consider low-level software to mean software that require less s
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The book and the movie are very different but share the same philosophical underpinnings. > pushed her hard against a wall when she apparently wanted to leave. Such an action and attitude wouldn't be acceptable these days. I am tire
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PKD used the Ubik line of typewriters. They are well suited for writing and publishing content after death.
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There is certainly a strain of leftist totalitarianism prevalent on HN, which suppresses any news not in sync with their "we good, they bad" world view.
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It seems like Russia is USA's boogeyman. Every time, the establishment want people to believe some narrative they use Russia. Conservatives used Russia and communism throughout the cold war. Surprisingly, so called leftists are doing t
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Jaina philosophers have 7 valued logic - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaina_seven-valued_logic
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> I work at a FANG and am very good at my job, so don't need the validation. You whole post is about seeking validation.

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