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by shrikant 7y ago
[This might sound cynical.] That's because it's a dirty secret. Most people selling you wealth building strategies are loathe to openly talk about how so much of it is based on "who you know" more so than "what you
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by shrikant 7y ago
Most Google apps only just about "work" on Firefox. They're clearly optimised for Chromium and it shows. I use Firefox for all my browsing needs except for Google apps, for which I keep an install of Vivaldi around. I only re
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by shrikant 7y ago
Nazi Germany didn't have the good sense to satisfy consumerist lifestyles with cheap tat.
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by shrikant 7y ago
Yes, this was my read as well, but parent commenter was implying that an emotional argument by itself isn't good enough in face of (presumably) more logical/rational arguments (in this case, against a surveillance state). But pare
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by shrikant 7y ago
You say > Such arguments are usually emotional [...] But start off your comment with > I find it disconcerting that someone's remains would be violated due to being a murder suspect. I guess I'm struggling to see the non-emo
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by shrikant 7y ago
IIRC around that time, there was VRML porn that could only be viewed with Netscape Navigator, and IE often struggled with this. Source: A friend of a friend, of course...
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by shrikant 8y ago
It's basically a reliable, horizontally scalable object store + a collection of data storage and processing engines. So amongst the cloud providers, AWS calls a combination of S3 + Glue + Athena (for example) a "data lake", w
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by shrikant 8y ago
It doesn't actually what the nature of the problem domain itself is, in this case -- you can't solve a problem that you don't want to.
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by shrikant 8y ago
I consume tonnes of BBC content (TV shows, films, radio) while barely touching anything from BBC News.
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by shrikant 8y ago
On the same day that the Stack Overflow Developer Survey indicates that it's the 2nd most dreaded database... https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-mo...
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by shrikant 8y ago
I've got a Nokia 8 (also bought in the UK) with the Evenwell system apps as well, and I haven't noticed any unusual domains in my Pi-hole logs at home. I wonder if it's only specific country builds that display this behaviour
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by shrikant 8y ago
Which OS / package manager are you using? I haven't noticed this behaviour on my Linux (Kubuntu) or macOS installs -- both Firefox Dev Edition though.
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The Internet Arcade: a web-based library of JSMAME-emulated arcade video games(archive.org)
1 points by shrikant 8y ago|0 comments
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“Between 17%-20% of [tweets were] not genuine and made by a political party.”(threadreaderapp.com)
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by shrikant 8y ago
Citymapper has a cool Colossal Cave Adventure game that pops up in DevTools console, and finishing it landed me an interview there.
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by shrikant 8y ago
YC funded a "crapware-bundling as a service" startup named InstallMonetizer. (And briefly had YCers defending this in comment threads on here) They'll do anything that potentially makes them money.
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by shrikant 8y ago
Weirdly enough, the 2000 Dodge Neon was available for sale from early-to-mid 1999, so parent commenter may not be mistaken!
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Why Do Rich People Love Endurance Sports? (2017)(outsideonline.com)
189 points by shrikant 8y ago|356 comments
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Open Guide to Amazon Web Services(github.com)
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by shrikant 8y ago
Not sure if you'd call them "far right" exactly, but the tech-bro super-libertarian (think "taxes are theft") types also tend to complain about the TV licence fee and the NHS...
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by shrikant 8y ago
I get an annual travelcard on it. This works out to marginally cheaper on Tube charges overall, but there's another benefit to it as well. A slightly better draw is that you also get a Network Rail Gold card, which entitles you to a 33
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by shrikant 8y ago
I'd run between Putney and Twickenham for my marathon training solely because the incredible beauty would make the pain and loneliness so much more bearable. Also great as a cycling path - Putney to Hampton Court Palace and back!
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by shrikant 8y ago
I struggled to find it so you don't have to -- here's the download link: https://github.com/IBM/plex/releases Seriously though, what an atrocious site...
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by shrikant 8y ago
I'm in a somewhat similar boat to you -- I find the movie a bit too tedious. I've seen it thrice, and enjoy specific sections of it, but it just doesn't do anything for me. I think it may be because I left it until too late t
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by shrikant 8y ago
The Conservative government's "hostile environment" host of policies and rhetoric can be quite distasteful to immigrants just trying to live and work in the UK.
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by shrikant 8y ago
I'm not parent commenter, but other than the occasional misconfigured internal work LAN webpage, I've had zero to little problems with UBO. Is there an example of a site that is unreadable after a default install of UBO for you? I
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Sennheiser headphone software installing root certificates onto users computers [pdf](secorvo.de)
77 points by shrikant 8y ago|20 comments
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by shrikant 8y ago
I don't understand why browser vendors just don't have a simple "DISABLE AUTOPLAY EVERYWHERE UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES" type setting, that the browser then respects. I don't understand this weird focus on machine-lear
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Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny (2016)(newyorker.com)
46 points by shrikant 8y ago|32 comments
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by shrikant 8y ago
Pluralsight has already IPO'ed -- isn't that considered an exit event?

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