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by vee-kay 9mo ago
I will respond to a quote with another famous quote: “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." The only ways to prevent terror attacks is by either going deep undercover into terror organisations, or by doing surveillance and invest
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
Your plus is someone else's minus. Of course, if you or your family are not the victim of a terror attack, you may not care if others are impacted by it. After 9/11, USA did the biggest crackdown on terror, including domestic secu
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
UAE Central Bank has launched its Digital transformation initiatives: AANI and Jaywan. UAE's AEP (Al Etihad Payments) launched AANI (It is actually based on India's phenomally successfully "UPI" - its technology stack wa
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
Same here, I never heard of Suno until now. Looks like it is sone AI based music generation app, by Warner Bros. Interestingly, "Suno" in one of the world languages (Hindi) means "listen".
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
My country is considered to be among the world's most fertile land as it has world's largest rivers, which spew out fresh alluvial soil (very fertile for agriculture). But when drought hits any corner of my nation, the rich and po
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
Someone needs to submit it to this awesome archive/gallery of Doom ports: https://canitrundoom.org/
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
You were the one who mentioned that desalination plants are huge cost and needs lots of electricity. I've merely rebutted those excuses with logical answers. California's GDP is $4.1 trillion. If it were a country, it would be wor
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
Fun trivia: XLSX, DOCX, PPTX are just XML files, you can rename them to ".XML" file extension, and open them in notepad to see their raw contents. But you can use qpdf or PDFEdit to interpret a PDF's raw code. https:/&#
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
Teams is needed if there are going to be lots of participants in the online videoconference (which was the only metric where Zoom trumped all rivals, especially during the pandemic lockdowns (when Zoom was the only videoconf app that worked
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
Meanwhile, Trump's been threatening 500% tariffs on India, because India won't bend the knee to US strongarm tactics to take over India's agriculture and other industries. FYI, e.g., US companies Amazon & Walmart already
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
Wait, the richest state does not price water usage properly?! So rich elites are paying low price for water, even though the region can have droughts? (I mentioned "richest state" because a rich state should tax the wealthy more,
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
Zoom is founded by a Chinese origin guy. Its security issues are already discussed earlier elsewhere, such as in this Reddit thread. https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/18d1bgi/is_zoom_st... [In th
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
>Florida absolutely does not do large scale sea water desalination The point is that California MUST do large-scale sea-water desalination, and it can certainly afford to do so. >we're talking about large scale electricity need A
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
Guess again which nation I'm from. Of course, it is easier to blame some Big Bad Wolf, when one wants to hide the skeletons in the closet. So you do you. California couple Fined $500 for brown lawn.. in a drought: https://m.
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
California is richest state in USA, it's is richer than many countries, it can afford such cost. Florida has more than double the desalination plants than California, and it is poorer than California.
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
Ah, my bad, you are right. LA is not the capital of California. Thanks for the correction, appreciate it! But I guess the relevance of my point still stands. Rich regions need to do better at water management. They cannot simply keep crying
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
If the richest state in the USA cannot do effective seawater desalination project to feed itself, but would rather drain out lakes and rivers from 400+ miles away (thus rendering those places unfit for farming, and forcing the locals there
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
Isn't this the same state where the rich people water their plush lawns even in the peak of summer during drought? And where 90% of the water for its huge capital city-district (Los Angeles) is not even sourced locally (say, by desalin
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
Set a thief to catch a thief.
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
The Roman Dodecahedrons were discussed on HN before. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44565806 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39102069 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24332244
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
Chinese batteries are already running the world. They are in almost every smartphone and battery-powered device.
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
Except for the electronic subsystem, almost everything else in an ICE car can be repaired by a competent non-dealer mechanic shop. I do agree though that modern ICE vehicles are becoming more and more complex, with electronic subsystems rep
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
And which nation do you think controls NATO (forcing other NATO members to its will, even leading them into wars they didn't want)?
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
If 40+ years of mobile phones have not solved such problems through regulations, I am afraid they won't be solved for EVs either. Furthermore, once EVs become mainstream across the world, it will be China controlling the world [since b
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
I hate wars and warmongers. The most powerful man in the world, must have a responsibility to help heal the world, not hurt it willy nilly. The name, gender, skin color, race, religion - all these factors can pale to insignificance under th
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
Anyone with half a logical mind here can see you've lost your illogical arguments. Whether you agree to something or not, is thus immaterial. The facts I've cited are all historic and can be verified online easily. If you are so t
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
Regulation will do nothing because it is not meant to tackle such problems. EV is basically a battery-powered motor on wheels. The smartphone in your hands is a battery-powered communication device with a touchscreen. If your smartphone doe
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
When your ICE vehicle breaks down on the highway, you can get it towed and repaired at any half-decent car mechanic. If you don't like his cost quote or his service/repairs, you can get your car taken elsewhere (usually the mechan
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
Ah, so you finally agree that Obama was a warmonger. Like his predecessor (Bush Ke.). And his successor (Trump Sr.). Good, we can close this thread then.
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
Yeah, true. And those Himalayan mountains are breathtakingly beautiful!

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