whowalrus

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by whowalrus 9y ago
I feel your pain. My all-time favorite phone was the Moto E2 (4.5-inch screen), and would still be using it if I hadn't dropped it in water. I don't think I'll ever get a budget or semi-budget phone that is as comfortable to
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by whowalrus 9y ago
Is that a genuine question or a rhetorical one?
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by whowalrus 10y ago
Another oft-cited reason is because vinyls can't have a "brick-walled" dynamic range, as it often happens with new digital music thanks to the loudness war [1]. So audiophiles tend to favor it. From the article: As explained
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by whowalrus 10y ago
> who cares if a VP at Google and VP at Xiami moved to Facebook? Xiaomi's global vice president Hugo Barra is leaving the company [1] - 124 points, 87 comments Hugo Barra is joining Facebook to lead virtual reality [2] - 99 points,
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by whowalrus 10y ago
Touche.
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by whowalrus 10y ago
> Just think - the time you spent writing that snarky response could just as easily have been spent writing... Is it better to feed fish to a person, or teach them to catch one? I admit that I was snarky as a response to the entitlement
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by whowalrus 10y ago
I'm on this site a lot, I know who it is and I understand why it made to the front page. It would help everyone (you included) if you try Google first whenever someone (or something) you don't know is mentioned in a discussion. Ev
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by whowalrus 10y ago
Civil (and informative) comments like yours are why I come to HN.
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by whowalrus 10y ago
Can you help me see how the title is clickbait?
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by whowalrus 10y ago
Extremely fascinating. Seeing the alien-ness of the creatures, I wonder if any fiction writers have written well-researched stories set in this portion of the ocean? Seems like it would make for a fascinating setting.
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by whowalrus 10y ago
Yup, that's what I meant too - I just mangled the sentence badly, sorry.
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by whowalrus 10y ago
Ah. The post is using the correct 'its'. I started doubting my grasp of grammar after I saw your comment, and after reading through Merriam-Webster's article on the usage of 'its versus it's', was ready to punc
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by whowalrus 10y ago
This news item is an eye-opener for me. As a Wodehouse fan I'd always assumed the Nazi broadcast incident was a small blip in his life. Did not realize it had such a major impact on his life.
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by whowalrus 10y ago
FYI a lot of it was staged/planned [1][2]. 'Pumping Iron' was almost like a proto-reality show. Arnold "played" the role of a villain. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumping_Iron [2] http:&#
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by whowalrus 10y ago
Agreed, humanrebar explained it well!
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by whowalrus 10y ago
I stand corrected.
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by whowalrus 10y ago
Doesn't mean it is not marketing.
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by whowalrus 10y ago
I do not agree with the death penalty either, but your logic seems flawed to me. I don't have to share ALL the morals/ethics/worldviews that my heroes have. Now if he came out against death penalty at some point and then reve
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by whowalrus 10y ago
The "dark" part of it is if the dialog doesn't explicitly tell me that it will take me to the App store once I click on one of the buttons. Otherwise I don't mind such dialog boxes.
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by whowalrus 10y ago
While I agree that its an extremely complicated problem to solve, I would be more inclined to believe they are trying to solve it if they took responsibility for (at least some of) them, instead of saying: "We don’t favor specific kind
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by whowalrus 10y ago
> Now to anybody who thinks he can control the internet and what people read/think/discuss I say good luck with that. Well Facebook _is_ doing that as we speak, but they don't consider it controlling what people read - the
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Mark Zuckerberg has great power. But is he responsible?(medium.freecodecamp.com)
3 points by whowalrus 10y ago|0 comments
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by whowalrus 10y ago
I see a lot of commenters bring up privacy viz. tracking transactions and tax avoidance. Now I'm all for respecting people's privacy; but I also don't see why the govt. shouldn't be able to detect and extract what is leg
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by whowalrus 10y ago
>You mean less useful and smaller denominations, not "newer". They are trying to make cash unappealing to use by requiring more bills to carry out a transaction. They removed Rs500 and Rs1000 from circulation, yes. A newer _Rs2
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by whowalrus 10y ago
Thanks. So if I'm not wrong, what you're saying is even with demonetization and a transaction cap, they will barely make a dent in the state of black money in India. Am I correct? From what I've read, I would agree with that.
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by whowalrus 10y ago
> That could have been done gradually without banning notes. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but banning notes is to bring about a few changes like forcing people to declare black money and fighting the counterfeiting industry (just
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Microservices – Edge Server Pattern(blog.ideas2it.com)
1 points by whowalrus 10y ago|0 comments
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by whowalrus 10y ago
> There will be a cap on the maximum transaction that can be done using cash. Thanks, I've been hearing rumors about this too [1]. Would be a welcome step if and when the govt. implements it. [1]: http://economictimes.ind
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by whowalrus 10y ago
Genuine question, any official sources about the changes that are coming soon?
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by whowalrus 10y ago
But what I don't see are measures to ensure that people will continue to deposit money in the banks / pay their taxes. While I appreciate the move to force the turnover of black money now, what stops someone from starting to accum

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