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by sn41 6y ago
What a strange person and what a peculiar email. What does any of the listed software have to do with curl? You might as well attack GET and POST. And in the middle of a violent rant, he also gives a backhanded compliment - "Formula 1
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by sn41 6y ago
It is sad how 2021 looks in comparison to 2000. The future looked a lot better then. I hope no one writes a "Vision 2030" pamphlet.
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by sn41 6y ago
Great point. Luckily my bank interface writes out the amount in words before asking me to commit. Once while entering the amount on a mobile, I had an extra 0 by mistake. Caught it just because I had to read the amount in words before confi
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by sn41 6y ago
It was not a 1B transaction. It was supposed to be a 7.8M transaction. Not trivial, I admit. But from what is written in the article, it seems that even if they had transacted just 1$, they might have ended up in the same situation of losin
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by sn41 6y ago
The article is historically wrong. The oldest known cave murals etc. are 44000 years old [1], while cuneiform, heiroglyphics, Sumerian, Mesopotamian etc. are only about 3000-4000 years old [2]. A strange beautiful example of complex inform
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by sn41 6y ago
I agree with this. One more point is that journalistic summaries of scientific findings are flat out wrong. Journals like Quanta may represent a middle ground, which are readable yet sober.
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by sn41 6y ago
This is great, it will be great if tech companies can also start working with the government systems which recognize the legal heirs as well. In the case of GitHub it may not be so pertinent, but with email ids etc. where bank account detai
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by sn41 6y ago
This is somewhat true. I review only when am highly impressed or thoroughly disgusted with a product. So-so products where I got more or less what I hoped for, and which is not too highly differentiated from alternatives, I don't bothe
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by sn41 6y ago
The Therac-25 incident, and Bhopal Gas Tragedy were definitely routine lessons in courses on industrial safety and reliability. (Another reason not to turn your nose up against academic coursework - they do impart useful knowledge.) I feel
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by sn41 6y ago
Also, in a saner timeline, Turing might have well received the Fields medal. His contributions to probability theory, and morphogenesis are amazing in addition to being the father of computer science, and codebreaker. All of the work was do
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by sn41 6y ago
I think the picture you paint is too idealistic. Not many can read a scientific paper and understand exactly what it is trying to say, since we are trained to avoid adjectives, adverbs, and half-formed speculations when writing papers. What
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by sn41 6y ago
If you are scared to death in Thiruvananthapuram, then a grand world awaits you in the rest of the country! Some trucks with very dim lights think that it is a bright idea to drive in the opposite direction at night. It is not entirely fair
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by sn41 6y ago
Honking is encouraged during driving lessons. Many drivers rely on the fact that overtaking vehicles honk as they pass by - the mirrors of many Indian vehicles have too many blind spots, so noise is more reliable. This is also encouraged wh
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by sn41 6y ago
I don't know what is true and what is not, and am not criticizing any country. But it would be unwise for international missions to criticize any host country when its members are vulnerable - though not exactly the same, similar stanc
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by sn41 6y ago
I don't think that these are equivalent. This issue is similar to saying that every conversation will be recorded by default, unless you opt out of a recording beforehand.
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by sn41 6y ago
Isn't this the work by Max Weber? The main idea here is that predestination of Calvin believed that certain people were predestined for salvation, and others were not. But the implication is that material wealth is an indication of whe
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by sn41 6y ago
"Trust in God, but keep your powder dry" - Oliver Cromwell (attributed) [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_in_God_and_keep_your_pow...
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by sn41 6y ago
Moby Dick is one of the greatest English works. Herman Melville, did not, in fact, get any second chance during his lifetime. My understanding is that except for "Bartleby the Scrivener", the reception for Moby Dick embittered him
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by sn41 6y ago
A true visionary, accurate as always.
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by sn41 6y ago
Oh sorry, did not know that. Thanks for replying. I will try sway out in my next install.
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by sn41 6y ago
At this point, Wayland looks like GNU HURD. Probably it is better, but the milestones keep shifting. I will stick to Xorg, since it supports tiling window managers better.
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by sn41 6y ago
"Easily" is a subjective claim. You can read the congressional testimony of Harry Markopolos from the Madoff scandal, where he explicitly says that SEC is hobbled because regulators do not have the werewithal to attend these hob-
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by sn41 6y ago
Why "sticking to the man" resonates with me, and why I took pleasure in this incident is because students from the mid-2000s realize that hedge fund managers for the most part are not as smart as they think they are. Their bunglin
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by sn41 6y ago
Windows 2000 was much more stable being based on a different NT-based kernel. Which meant you couldn't play many Windows games on Win2K - I remember that Quake 3 was the only game which would run without issues. Other games either requ
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by sn41 6y ago
I went back to selecting text in order to be able to read it. Then it hit me that I haven't done that in a long time!
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by sn41 6y ago
I can't switch from Whatsapp because my close relatives are on Whatsapp. I can't persuade them to switch because they are quite elderly and their close friends are on Whatsapp. Moreover, the video chat, and the ability to send doc
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by sn41 6y ago
I sympathise with her as a person. She went through a lot of trials and difficulties during her life. But to deny that other people matter in our lives is a strange stance. I decided that I don't want to go there. My work is to benefit
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by sn41 6y ago
I was just saying that a short squeeze is a known risk for short positions. As a small-scale investor, I also knew that Covid and stay-at-home means that a lot more small time investors will be involved in 2020-21, skewing market valuations
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by sn41 6y ago
No, compassionate society is weak and prevents John Galt from achieving his true potential. Wasted 2 of my crucial formative years reading those books when I should have been studying for university entrance exams. There are some interestin
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by sn41 6y ago
Never understood bailouts of hedge funds, whether by government dole, or by corporate collusion as Robinhood is now doing. On a fine day, these buffoons are all Ayn Randish free marketeers. They should be willing to live by their principles

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