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by selmnoo 13y ago
Being of Pakistani background, I could relate to it a lot. I'm actually just stunned by how well done the ad is in every aspect. I find it a little strange that a big Internet company did this, one wouldn't have expected such a th
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by selmnoo 13y ago
This is the ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHGDN9-oFJE - be sure to have subtitles on (unless you understand Hindi). One interesting observation about the ad: the search results that the girl deems to be good and inform
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This Google ad has moved people to tears across India and Pakistan(pri.org)
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Sure, I totally get that. But grand-parent post made it sound like a corporation has zero responsibility to give one shit for anyone it employs. I just think that's terrible, that's a terrible and dispiriting culture that permits
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by selmnoo 13y ago
> To see why, simply ask yourself: is WalMart obligated to employ every person at a certain wage for a certain number of hours? And pay all of their bills? And make sure they have a good holiday? Well... yes. An honorable, noble employer
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Emissions of CO2 driving rapid oceans 'acid trip'(bbc.co.uk)
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by selmnoo 13y ago
> I didn't even know they still had these things. I figured they went away in the 1980's or 1990's. I thought it was common knowledge. You could use the Hanlon's razor right about now: Never attribute to malice that w
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The value of art for the 99%(alternet.org)
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by selmnoo 13y ago
I'm sorry, what does 'cos' mean there?
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by selmnoo 13y ago
I remember reading a comment on Reddit a few months ago that talked about how some of the very ridiculous things we see on fashion runways like clothes that almost literally look like garbage bags, things that really make you say "wait
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by selmnoo 13y ago
> They're trying hard to play up the amateur hour part, and that bit with the doctor's "I don't recommend it" where she lists the social aspects of food after she was holding an existing commercial meal replaceme
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Airbnb launches hospitality-focused apps for its 350,000 hosts(news.cnet.com)
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by selmnoo 13y ago
> Nobody asked you, or anybody else. Huh? And nobody asked you to reply to his comment. My goodness tptacek, this is a discussion board. Open-ended conversations take place here that drift off to all places. Sometimes they lead to intere
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Not to mention, the content is the center of all that is RapGenius. It is educational/critical analysis of lyrics, written by people. Would we expect annotated versions of books to be free? No. Would we expect critiques of movies..
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by selmnoo 13y ago
I guess it's not really about that. It's that artists (besides mainstream ones) need all they can get from any source they can get it -- they really do, just to get by. The two sides are: artists just can't make it through wi
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by selmnoo 13y ago
> Neither does Nike, Samsung, Coke, BMW etc. Apple is a product company. Apple is more in line with Microsoft (what with the operating systems and all) than your other examples. Apple should be duly faulted for their closed nature ways i
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Because it's a strategy that works. So, it's working for the tech-savvy using these little hacks, right? That means a certain article is going to gain traction, get people talking on social networking sites, and in turn seduce mor
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Search "Elite Grads In Business Flock To Tech" on Google. The first hit will work.
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by selmnoo 13y ago
I really think designating torrenting as the primary method of downloading big binaries or really anything big is the way to go for OSS projects. I guarantee you more than a handful of people will offer seeding without asking anything in re
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Oh, you have no idea how badly Zuckerburg wants to be successful in China. Zuck has been learning Mandarin for a long time, I really think a primary motivation for that has to do with plans of really getting going in China. When he visite
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by selmnoo 13y ago
The guy is a grade-a warmonger, with a stated mission of shaping public opinion to reach specific political ends: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF9HpuZm6-g . There is absolutely no reason to support him or NewsCorp. They&#x
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by selmnoo 13y ago
I want to reiterate one line of thought that's been seen here before but bears repeating: you should not give your data to Google, Facebook, or any other commercial entity just as much as you don't want NSA to have it. While NSA m
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It’s not just girls asking “Am I pretty or ugly?” on the Internet(arstechnica.com)
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Zhou Tong was 17, when his Bitcoin project was hacked (this is the thread where he announced the project, and was astutely pointed out (concernedly, not mockingly) that he was destined for spectacular failure: https://news.ycombi
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Apple iPhone factory workers imprisoned in virtual slavery – report(theregister.co.uk)
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Maybe he meant healthier than other types of oils. E.g., olive oil is healthier than corn oil.
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by selmnoo 13y ago
But it's pretty sweet though, that pg went to the lengths of himself cooking stuff up. I'd love it if pg cooked something for me.
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by selmnoo 13y ago
After having thought a great deal about it, it's worth it for two reasons in my mind: 1) the recognition, the prestige, the 'YC' name that gets you really good deals, which entails VCs (the good ones) coming to you, press tak
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by selmnoo 13y ago
> [ http://www.lorenburton.com/ ] > [...] I posted the site to HN and dropped a "share on twitter" button on > the bottom of the page, racking up tens of thousands of hits and hundreds
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by selmnoo 13y ago
It's a regular Hamming number. The 363th. Yeah, not sure what's the significance either.

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