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by rudiv 7y ago
Most of those are not named after someone who lived on the 21st century. The point I was making was not that it is unusual for a country to be named after an individual. Rather, it was that a country named after an individual that is still
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by rudiv 7y ago
IIRC that is no longer considered to be a likely hypothesis.
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by rudiv 7y ago
Venezuela is also technically named after Simon Bolivar.
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by rudiv 7y ago
That's only for products being sold in India, to avoid import taxes. And of course, it's only products from more than a couple generations ago, e.g. the iPhone SE, the 6S. I think the newest phone they're planning to manufact
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by rudiv 7y ago
This is inbuilt in fish-shell, which I highly recommend. (I understand the functionality is inbuilt in readline, what I mean is fish exposes it in this manner by default)
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by rudiv 7y ago
Saudi Arabia has money and oil. America likes oil and money. It's been as simple as that since the bitter Lake conference. Why else would a country that claims to have gone to war to create a representative democracy and destroy an unr
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by rudiv 7y ago
I'm guessing you mean MEK, which is the mujahedin el khalq IIRC, but please, don't call them Marxist just because they may have professed Marxist beliefs decades ago. They've been a run of the mill personality cult for much l
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by rudiv 7y ago
Somewhat fitting that he was killed by his own invention (not tetraethyllead or freon). I remember hearing about him from Stephen Fry on QI.
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by rudiv 7y ago
I tweaked to it not being apolitical with the casual mention of Saul Alinsky, who is only a figure of any note in American right-wing circles (as a boogeyman).
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by rudiv 7y ago
Someone from a non-American perspective might think of how many murders of union organizers they've gone along with before the obesity epidemic.
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by rudiv 7y ago
Americans wonder why other countries don't always have a positive opinion of the USG. Many countries meddle with the internal affairs of others. Very few have the gumption to declare to the world that it is for the meddle-ees benefit.
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by rudiv 7y ago
Yes, HCL is one of the oldest Indian IT companies, the name stands for Hindustan Computers Limited. It would be very unlikely that they were contracting for janitorial services.
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by rudiv 7y ago
IIRC Mozilla said recently (last week or two) that they had managed to patch the bug responsible for the majority of battery issues on macOS.
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by rudiv 7y ago
ITT: post facto justifications for why an open source developer should be forced to materially contribute to actions they find morally abhorrent. Along with many meaningless digressions about the validity of the developer's moral code
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by rudiv 7y ago
I read your response. I'm curious, would you consider yourself to be a member of the class of young people that you mention? Because a lot of your insights presuppose a relatively close understanding of what it means to be a 'youn
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by rudiv 7y ago
How is this borderline? Central HVAC in homes is extremely uncommon in developing countries. Standalone AC units for rooms other than bedrooms are also quite uncommon (depends on the economic class of the householder). To say that there is
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by rudiv 7y ago
Perhaps he felt it was the right thing to do. Maybe it's hard to understand because his cultural context is so very different. Being that he's from Canada.
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by rudiv 7y ago
Was hoping for more usage of `curl`.
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by rudiv 7y ago
Isn't that a matter of custom, given that there is no judicial outcome that specifies complete innocence.
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by rudiv 7y ago
>“With the rise of the internet,” Soule says, “modern movements can mobilize constituents through their websites and social media. If your end goal is to get 500,000 people to turn up on the Mall in Washington, D.C., Twitter is great at
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by rudiv 7y ago
The hamburger menu opens automatically on mobile, which is a little jarring as it blocks all content.
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by rudiv 7y ago
I believe Jaguar will convert an E-type for you (completely reversible) if you happen to own an original. It's only a pipe dream for me, but it's nice to know that as we stop using ICE we don't have to throw away all the beau
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by rudiv 7y ago
You heard it here first, friends. Or maybe you heard it earlier from Huxley or Orwell.
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by rudiv 7y ago
I have solved this by cunningly being born outside of the anglosphere. I own my first name domain in my native language's script (.com) as well as in Latin (.dev, my people are too plentiful for me to have got the . com).
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by rudiv 7y ago
Same, I'm a big fan.
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by rudiv 7y ago
Are you sure this is the case for everyone? On my two android devices, tapping on the address bar still opens the keyboard for direct editing of the URL. I've never seen the behavior you're describing on Chrome for Android, althou
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by rudiv 7y ago
I like the headline from Rock, Paper, Shotgun better; it's "Rockstar North operate within capitalism, says report". But they have free reign to be a lot more cynical than the Guardian.
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by rudiv 7y ago
Steam actaully offers 'cash on delivery' for games through their Indian payment partner. The payment provider will send someone to your house who will collect the cash payment and log it in their dashboard, which will trigger it b
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by rudiv 7y ago
Someone had posted a link to a Verge article that had a lot more details than this link, which is little more than a stub. It seems to have been removed, strangely, but I'd still recommend googling it. I haven't put the link here
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by rudiv 7y ago
This is Hacker News, despite the misleading name, the establishment (in a general sense) is very much in vogue. Personally, I take The New York Times with a grain of salt given the number of times they've been shown to be parroting tal

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