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New ‘Borderless’ Accounts from TransferWise Make It Easier to Bank Overseas(fortune.com)
1 points by trextrex 9y ago|0 comments
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by trextrex 10y ago
I wonder why reviewsignal doesn't have nearlyfreespeech.net listed among the hosts. Is it not considered a hosting provider? It would also be nice to have some data about which company the hosting belongs too, since as a general rule I
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Colibri: Modern browser without tabs(colibri.opqr.co)
2 points by trextrex 10y ago|0 comments
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Why the Internet is broken(medium.com)
1 points by trextrex 10y ago|0 comments
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by trextrex 10y ago
Well, the new Opera already had an option to load tabs on demand when you switch to it after starting up. I guess now they're adding an option to load them in the background. In terms of performance the load tab on demand works reasona
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by trextrex 10y ago
NPR has a very nice article [1] on how Rwanda ended up having such a large number of women in their parliament, and the limited influence it has had on women's empowerment there. [1] http://www.npr.org/sections/goa
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Cliqz – the browser innovation with integrated quick search and anti-tracking(cliqz.com)
1 points by trextrex 10y ago|0 comments
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by trextrex 10y ago
With a brief look at the alternatives, Tresorit [1] looks quite nice with their encryption features. [1] https://tresorit.com
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World's Largest Solar Plant Goes Online(ecowatch.com)
3 points by trextrex 10y ago|0 comments
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by trextrex 10y ago
I haven't heard of bpython before, but I believe Jupyter/IPython is quite popular, and now supports syntax highlighting too [1]. [1] http://blog.jupyter.org/2016/07/08/ipython-5-0-released/
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by trextrex 10y ago
I spent nearly 15 minutes on the parse website but still can't figure out what it does. All I see is that it's an open source version of the Parse API. But what is the Parse API? Since you've used it before, would you care to
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Vim 8 pre changelog(raw.githubusercontent.com)
3 points by trextrex 10y ago|0 comments
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I probably invented the first GPS augmented reality game(arstechnica.co.uk)
3 points by trextrex 10y ago|0 comments
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by trextrex 10y ago
Fascinating! This has been a month of big archaeological discoveries. There was also a similar recent discovery [1] in India of a large urban settlement that existed around the same time as the Indus Valley Civilization [1] http:/&#x2
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by trextrex 10y ago
In terms of architecture, it's entirely different. Rather than being a centralized service (like mattermost), Matrix is a decentralized protocol that can be federated across servers. And vector.im is just one (web) interface for using
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‘Employment crisis’ for new Ph.D.s is an illusion(science.sciencemag.org)
2 points by trextrex 10y ago|3 comments
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by trextrex 10y ago
I really like the privacy features of TheOldReader.com -- especially their commitment so far to have no tracking (with cookies etc.) or user data harvesting to serve ads. They do have some select sponsored ads for the free-tier, but done w
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by trextrex 11y ago
Just to be clear, when you say "Asian", do you mean east asian, south asian or both? I'm inclined to assume you mean east asian because of your body odour comment.
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Why Women Aren’t Buying Smartwatches(racked.com)
3 points by trextrex 11y ago|4 comments
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by trextrex 11y ago
Nepal has also been slowly transitioning to a democracy since 2006 (with a little help from India), albeit from a monarchy and not from a dictatorship. They recently adopted a new constitution [1] with some controversies surrounding it. But
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Japanese Company Makes Low-Calorie Noodles Out of Wood(bloomberg.com)
47 points by trextrex 11y ago|53 comments
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by trextrex 11y ago
I think the OP means the single main difference is "Python 3 makes it easier to develop high quality software." and gives three examples of this.
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by trextrex 11y ago
There is also a SpiNNaker computer platform [1] [1] http://apt.cs.manchester.ac.uk/projects/SpiNNaker/
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by trextrex 11y ago
One of the books that I personally found easy to read with good exercises is Probability and Statistics by Morris H. DeGroot, Mark J. Schervish http://www.amazon.com/Probability-Statistics-Edition-Morris-...
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Tizen Surpasses BlackBerry OS to Become Fourth Largest Smartphone Platform(gadgets.ndtv.com)
1 points by trextrex 11y ago|0 comments
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Tizen Surpassed BlackBerry Being the Fourth Largest Smartphone OS in Q3 2015(strategyanalytics.com)
1 points by trextrex 11y ago|0 comments
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Why I've stopped doing interviews for Yale(mathwithbaddrawings.com)
1 points by trextrex 11y ago|0 comments
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by trextrex 11y ago
One hypothesis that I have to explain why India is doing reasonably well in terms of economic growth in spite of the pervasive corruption is that the civil services, full of really really smart and driven people, are getting things done, an
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Interactive map of people killed by the police in the US(theguardian.com)
8 points by trextrex 11y ago|2 comments
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by trextrex 11y ago
I'm not sure if you're implying that the population growth rate of India is very high, but if you are that's not true anymore. It's actually very close to replacement levels with parts of India where it's actually b

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