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by redsummer 9y ago
I'm curious - What is the utility of headless browsers? Are there people who earn money by getting it to automatically fill out forms, enter competitions etc?
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by redsummer 9y ago
That's the theory, but not the practice: http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.771725
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by redsummer 9y ago
In plenty of cases, the outsider or convert better understands the religion than the native believer. I saw a documentary about Mount Athos, and all the young Greek monks were admitting that being a monk was just a way to get out of the eve
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by redsummer 9y ago
"In Israel, only Orthodox conversions are recognized" http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/10/10/445343896/i...
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by redsummer 9y ago
In the case of Judaism, Israel makes Orthodox conversion more useful since it doesn't accept you as a real Jew if you are a convert to a more weak tea version of Judaism. People who convert are usually stronger believers, so they would
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by redsummer 9y ago
I didn't mix Z and Parsi. I didn't even mention Parsi. I just can't find anything online which suggests Indian Zoroastrians accept converts. Just (dispassionate) explanations that they don't. And that's fine with me
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by redsummer 9y ago
"Roberts isn't ... trying to speak publicly as a Hindu" I'm not sure this sounds like a reasonable standard to join any religion. "If you're a convert, shut up". Sounds like second class status. This stuff
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by redsummer 9y ago
"the majority would consider them Z" That's not what a few google results tell me. It seems, in India the answer is definitely No, while in Iran the answer is Maybe. The Indian No is presumably to stop the religion dissipatin
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by redsummer 9y ago
I don't know - but being a Hindu seems as much an ethnic thing as a religious thing. So I get the same feeling as reading about Rachel Dolezal.
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by redsummer 9y ago
Are these people really Zoroastrians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Converts_to_Zoroastri... My eyebrows rose when I heard Julia Roberts was a Hindu, and perhaps these people are the same. In love with exotici
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by redsummer 9y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if Zoroastrian Parsis had the highest IQ of any group, even though I have no data to confirm that. Higher than Quakers, Ashkenazim, Episcopalians and even Unitarians.
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by redsummer 9y ago
In Brazil, American ideas of affirmative action have been imported. This leads to unsavoury situations where nose width and skull shape are being measured to determine who gets a job. http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/04&#x
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by redsummer 9y ago
The article addresses this question: "Received wisdom is that the more diverse the teams in terms of age, ethnicity, and gender, the more creative and productive they are likely to be. But having run the execution exercise around the w
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by redsummer 9y ago
"Diversity in everything except thought" is the mantra. The problem with this is that to solve problems you need diversity in thought: https://hbr.org/2017/03/teams-solve-problems-faster-when-the...
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by redsummer 9y ago
It's true the UK gov is not being helpful. But the UK gov supported remain. All major parties did. In the language of the vulgar tabloids, the British worker has been spit-roasted by both the EU and the UK government. One of those is w
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by redsummer 9y ago
This is the crux of the matter. Giant companies hijack the hands-around-the-world narrative of the left for their own monetary purposes. In the US, the narrative is that there will be 'crops rotting in the fields' if cheap labour
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by redsummer 9y ago
It's a miracle that other top 10 countries like Canada, New Zealand, Japan, Australia managed to get anywhere without being part of the EU.
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by redsummer 9y ago
London will fall just like Switzerland, Norway and Iceland have collapsed because they are not in the EU. The UK will become like Somalia. No wait, actually those 3 countries are in the top 5 countries to live in the world. Why do people wi
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by redsummer 9y ago
I learnt on another HN thread that Ryzen is now working on Mac. 10.9 only at the moment, but hopefully that will change: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntJLxbwurK4
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by redsummer 9y ago
Wow - does that mean Ryzen CPUs could be coupled with Nvidia Pascal GPUs?
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by redsummer 9y ago
Yeah, good point. I don't think it was a particularly good design. I read somewhere that the philosophy was 'not to do the obvious thing and put the guts of the computer behind a large screen' - which is what they eventually
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by redsummer 9y ago
What kind of Hackintosh can you get for $1600? Not as good as the Ryzen of course, but it might be nearly as good as the $5200 Mac.
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by redsummer 9y ago
You should pay less for that awful constrictive design. Apple's product history is littered with failures due to design-led development. G4 cube, round mouse, tube-shaped Trashintosh. Any time the object is based on a standard shape li
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by redsummer 10y ago
Will the lights work with Home Assistant on pi - home-assistant.io - without the gateway? With perhaps a zigbee hat or USB dongle?
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by redsummer 10y ago
My google-fu seems to be failing, since I can't find an example of the larger e-ink displays being used with the pi. (excluding kindle and kobo hacks)
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by redsummer 10y ago
Now you understand. You feel defensive. As if you have to apologise. That's how mental illness is operationalised. That's the lever of power.
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by redsummer 10y ago
I'd love a pi with an e-paper display (larger than the lego Mac) which just booted into Raspbian CLI. Has such a thing been done?
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Brazilian race tribunals are measuring skulls and noses to choose who gets jobs(foreignpolicy.com)
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by redsummer 10y ago
"I don't think you have to worry about mentally ill people gaining power from it" The Libreboot story contradicts this. Someone suffering from mental illness ("gender dysphoria") used SJW reasons to take over a proj
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by redsummer 10y ago
'Concise and precise' seems the be the goal of this language. Like assembly language. It doesn't seem useful for mere humans. I would prefer playfulness and ambiguity.

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