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by yumraj 4y ago
Another one, 3.6 , few minutes ago
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by yumraj 4y ago
The quake was on Calaveras fault, near SE San Jose. So, I guess it traveled along the East Bay fault lines all the way to Alameda and Berkeley. I am just surprised it was felt so far for a 5.1
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by yumraj 4y ago
A lot of Earthquake insurance companies are probably also getting requests for a lot of quotes. It'll die down once people see the quotes, coverage and deductibles ..
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by yumraj 4y ago
tried installing it on iPhone and set the HomeBase - keeps on crashing.. :(
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You felt it in Berkeley?
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Sometimes I wonder if such blogs are written just because the author needs/wants to publish a blog at some frequency for whatever reason. I fail to take a blog that talks about how their "next" Mac "might" be the la
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by yumraj 4y ago
On a similar note, I wish OS updates came not just with supported hardware list, but also how well an OS works on older hardware. I have a late 2013 15” MBP with 16GB RAM as my daily driver, and it was great till it had Mojave on it. In a m
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by yumraj 4y ago
> As a non-Chinese citizen, what exactly can the MSS do to you with all of that data? - Use compromising info about you to provide China IP from your employer, and/or betray your country - Use compromising info about a family member
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by yumraj 4y ago
Two questions, if anyone has analyzed these laws: 1) is there any limit or audit of the ranges? In other words does it prevent an employer from posting a broad range, with a lower limit covering current employees, and is there going to be a
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by yumraj 4y ago
> One of them climbed the elevator to remove a hidden GoPro that was recording the whole thing. Someone should have stopped the kid from taking the GoPro - it's like stealing since no one knows whose GoPro is it. That may have tau
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by yumraj 4y ago
If we use Nobel price as a proxy since we're talking of PhDs here, then only Harvard, amongst Ivys, is higher than UC Berkeley [0] Harvard : 161, Berkeley: 110, Columbia: 96, Stanford: 84, Princeton: 69, Yale: 65 and so on [0]
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Great, we have the usual anti-privacy companies there as well as ByteDance .. what can go wrong.
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Honestly I would have preferred if they’d offered a 15”-16” version instead of this. Oh well, looks like Apple’s gonna get my money..
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Wow, never knew about that. I have manually disabled most services on the TV manually, so not sure what extra it buys, since I do use some in-built apps for streaming as opposed to using the Nvidia shield, but it's good to know it exis
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by yumraj 4y ago
Go to Apps, “See all apps”, scroll down, find “Chromecast built-in” and then click Disable on the app’s settings. At least that is how it’s on my Sony TV.
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What do they mean by near real-time ? Is it microsecond, millisecond, seconds, minutes, hours ... ?
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Shouldn't Apple be here too, given their public stance on privacy?
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by yumraj 4y ago
I feel that games like Factorio, Dyson, Kerbal... are perfect games for when I retire. No time pressure, nothing to do, really, just this, the whole day. Till then, I must look at these games, marvel at them, but resist the temptation to pl
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by yumraj 4y ago
the blog says: 10 lakh crore rupees per month not INR 10 cr 10 lakh crore rupees per month = INR 10,000,000,000,000 which at the current rate of ~INR 79 to $1 comes to $126,582,278,481.00 per month as in $4,219,409,282.00 (over $4 Billi
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by yumraj 4y ago
If this is bothering you too much, the best thing you can do is move to a local employer where the salary range is more to your liking. You have to think from the employer’s standpoint: if they pay you US or EU salary, why should they not j
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by yumraj 4y ago
Depends on the use case. What’s the use case/features is the friend looking for?
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Between "consenting" adults that doesn't involve anyone else, absolutely.. Could you give an example when it shouldn't be allowed. It's certainly possible I'm not considering everything.
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But, isn’t it their choice? If they are adults, and have lived at least a few decades.. I’ve never figured out why we as a society want to impose our morality on others.
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> making it available widely with no counter measure is a very dangerous proposition. Why? And, dangerous to whom?
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by yumraj 4y ago
> but it becomes a matter of principal mixed with amusement. I'll say it's more likely to be amusement or entertainment value, something to distract us from our mundane lives, and perhaps some PR value as well. If I were a lawy
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Why does it have to be either? My comment was merely about leak of data to China. Whether it is non-existent or not is something I'd rather not find out. It is after all a personal decision and to each their own.
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But the former is acquiring information that may lead to them blackmailing you and/or your loved ones into spying against your nation, which may lead to more than just an arrest.
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by yumraj 4y ago
> LPs fire them by no longer investing more money. That I understand. I was curious if any VCs been fired by the firm for repeatedly making bad bets. But I guess since in general >1 partner signs up on a deal they share collective res
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by yumraj 4y ago
Genuine question: do VCs ever get fired by their firms, or forced to be fired by the LPs? There are a lot of VCs just play the sheep and don’t seem to know shit. I’m just curious what happens to bad VCs..
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by yumraj 4y ago
Cacao powder is the powder of raw beans, before any processing. Cocoa is post processing, in the way to make chocolate. It might be best for you to purchase both and taste. Cocoa tastes like chocolate, Cacao is kinda earthy and bitter. They

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