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Be ready to be shocked and offended at university, UK regulator tells students(bbc.com)
3 points by xkr 1y ago|1 comments
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by xkr 2y ago
Projector allows you not to have a giant black rectangle in the living room
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Will Rishi Sunak's plan to ban smoking in UK work?(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by xkr 3y ago|0 comments
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Jelly Star – The Smallest Android 13 Smartphone(unihertz.com)
4 points by xkr 3y ago|2 comments
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by xkr 3y ago
Sure. I have neither proper data nor a solution that would satisfy everyone. I left my comment only to show a dissenting voice in the HN engineering crowd. Someone reading HN might be under the impression WFH is universal choice of engineer
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by xkr 3y ago
I can’t speak for YC or FAANG management but as a regular software engineer I totally get where they’re coming from. I worked at a FAANG company through and after covid, the difference in teams productivity was noticeable. Not in the remote
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Crowd Control: How We Avoid Mass Panic (2010)(scientificamerican.com)
2 points by xkr 3y ago|0 comments
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by xkr 3y ago
https://archive.is/VDZwu
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Tourists are back. Is it time to tell them to stay away?(ft.com)
8 points by xkr 3y ago|8 comments
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by xkr 4y ago
https://archive.ph/dj67B
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Putin’s technocrats saved the economy to fight a war they opposed(ft.com)
4 points by xkr 4y ago|1 comments
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Barbican Living(barbicanliving.co.uk)
1 points by xkr 4y ago|0 comments
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by xkr 4y ago
> Monarchies are inherently undemocratic UK is in top-20 countries by democracy index.[1] It is classified as 'full democracy' (as opposed to 'flawed democracy', for example in the US). [1] https://www.eiu.
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Map of London Gangs(kulturevulturez.com)
24 points by xkr 5y ago|4 comments
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by xkr 5y ago
As iOS and macOS user, I always subscribe directly through the app developer if they allow this. I stopped trusting Apple subscriptions when I called them asking to reimburse the subscription I forgot to cancel (just a few days later) and t
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by xkr 5y ago
For the people living in London: https://www.shl.uk/ . Home delivery and completely free.
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by xkr 5y ago
17+, which is quite ridiculous of course—Safari is pre-installed and allows you to see the same websites as Chrome or Firefox
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by xkr 6y ago
My approach is to take their weekly magazines (paper or digital) instead of browsing through the home page. Weekly editions still include an article or two on US politics, but in general are significantly more diverse.
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by xkr 6y ago
Reminded me of https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
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by xkr 6y ago
They have a separate article on it: https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2020/12/14/navalny-fsb-... . There is a huge black market of private data in Russia.
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I Didn’t Want to Love Zooming on My Facebook Portal–But I Do(wired.com)
1 points by xkr 6y ago|0 comments
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Is police use of face recognition now illegal in the UK?(newscientist.com)
1 points by xkr 6y ago|0 comments
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by xkr 6y ago
There is an amazing course on happiness from Yale: https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-science-of-well-being
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by xkr 7y ago
Is there a chance you know an article that covers timing aspects of the novel?
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Compact Python dictionary implementation (2012)(mail.python.org)
1 points by xkr 7y ago|0 comments
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by xkr 8y ago
> exceptions are used as routine flow-control Unfortunately, this approach is encouraged by some popular frameworks, for example a ResponseStatusException in Spring 5
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The men fighting Florida’s python epidemic(1843magazine.com)
70 points by xkr 8y ago|88 comments
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Apocalypse Dau: the most insane film shoot of all time(telegraph.co.uk)
2 points by xkr 8y ago|0 comments
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by xkr 8y ago
It might be a dummy question, but what does FDA clearance mean exactly? Does it make the watch a medical-grade device and I can do ECG using the watch instead of going to the hospital?
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[video] Who Is America? – Sacha Baron Cohen SHOWTIME Series(youtube.com)
1 points by xkr 8y ago|0 comments

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