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by rudiv 7y ago
> John Birks Society LOL. In case anyone missed the reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society
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by rudiv 7y ago
I think you have the direction of that mixed up. The definition of conservative in this article is the political definition of conservatism.
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by rudiv 7y ago
I'm assuming those Mandarin characters comprise the word for that relationship? I was wondering why this existed and I thought maybe they were adding the Hindi words for specific relatives (there's many, I assume the same is true
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by rudiv 7y ago
As always, Gujjus are hardcore.
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by rudiv 7y ago
You're downvoted, but on my mediocre desi internet LTE connection, for the ~2 seconds it took for the article blurb to load I did wonder whether it was about the UK telco or a literal statement of everything everywhere being securities
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by rudiv 7y ago
There was an incident recently where a tech website was unable to send a Huawei phone they were reviewing from their UK office to their US office because FedEx sent it back. I believe this is in reference to that.
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by rudiv 7y ago
I've used terminus and it is quite good, but like most Electron-based terminals, it is too resource-heavy for some people's tastes. Edit: Also, Windows Terminal is open-source too, surprisingly. Or maybe that's just my dated
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by rudiv 7y ago
The companies involved are Taiwanese, not from mainland China. The libre community couldn't avoid Taiwanese chips even if they wanted to, which I don't imagine they do.
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by rudiv 7y ago
Some of those fonts make my head swim. I'm glad the quality of desktop typography has improved so much in the recent past. Also, I will always be scared of the people with strange cursive fonts like CmdrTaco. It's like people who
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by rudiv 7y ago
Use Nord theme and confuse old heads with your aesthete!
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by rudiv 7y ago
Re: IntelliJ looking bad on Windows, I do know that JetBrains IDEs are still stuck on using GDI for drawing fonts rather than the new DirectWrite protocol. The poor quality of GDI (especially on high DPI displays) is very noticeable when yo
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by rudiv 7y ago
Relaxed, or distracted by waging 7 wars in MENA?
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by rudiv 7y ago
Where are these communists you speak of? Are you talking about the state government of Kerala?
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by rudiv 7y ago
Google Fi is not an international carrier, and their mode of operation is significantly different from other carriers. This has its disadvantages and advantages, but not contacting support after waiting for your phone to start working for a
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by rudiv 7y ago
>First, we need to order a SIM. You can order a sim with a new number, which is what I did, but you must also enter a phone number for the delivery address. If you are trying to sign up for Fi, but do not currently have a phone number, I
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by rudiv 7y ago
Are you addressing me? Or is that just for the benefit of other readers?
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by rudiv 7y ago
God forbid he answer questions from the Indian parliament, he might have to explain why WhatsApp has been so slow to invest in stopping the spread of fake news in a country where it has literally led to lynchings.
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by rudiv 7y ago
Do civil servants frequently serve in parliament where you're from? In my country, you're proscribed from running in any significant elections (state legislature/national legislature) if you're a serving civil servant. I
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by rudiv 7y ago
Why only Canada's legislature? The parliamentary committee that summoned Zuckerberg and Sandberg represents more than just the Canadian Parliament. If one were to expand the conditions under which you feel this could be good "gove
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by rudiv 7y ago
If the climate apocalypse comes to pass, as the community in the Global South that I live in disintegrates, I'll take a little solace in the fact that the henchmen billionaires hire will soon tire and dispose of them.
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by rudiv 7y ago
Are all the two-digit postnominal numbers indicative of the persons in question being Harvard graduates?
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by rudiv 7y ago
I think you regard this article as a tidbit to be understood by itself, but it's more of a reflection on the book. You seem to be aggrieved with it, can I ask why? Or is it specifically because the Ottoman colonization of Greece was no
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by rudiv 7y ago
TFA seems to state that it's a new architecture, although how different it is from GCN depends on how much salt you take with marketing material. They did say it has redesigned compute units; that seems to point in the direction of &qu
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by rudiv 7y ago
I mean, she's great and I'm a fan, but I don't get why this is here?
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by rudiv 7y ago
>My issue with this whole WikiLeaks thing is that they are clearly a Russian operation that posed as a "truth seeker" early on and then started to steer their operation 100% at damaging the US. If you're truly a journalist
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by rudiv 7y ago
Maybe for your use case, but there are plenty of basic applications for which it works fine, if a little slow. The WSL2 implementation should make it fully competitive option for lightweight tasks like frontend web dev and introductory prog
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by rudiv 7y ago
Be careful with XCOM2 if you like strategy games... I lost many weekends to that game in college. The expansion pack (War of the Chosen) is well worth the money. Honestly just talking about it now is making me want to reinstall it. I like t
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by rudiv 7y ago
I find Polygon has good content usually, but I've also found many reviews from Polygon that seem to betray a lack of understanding or familiarity with the genre from the reviewer. Also, they have more content that is about gaming (e.g.
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by rudiv 7y ago
XCOM2 is great. And Eurogamer is a good website. And I don't get paid by either.
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by rudiv 7y ago
Maybe in the more tourist-y areas. AFAIK Goa state is 70% Hindu.

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