PopeDotNinja

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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
RealLifeLore made an entire video about it, including mentioning that making the video meant he could get busted if he visited Thailand. https://youtu.be/9coptltk27s
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
I’m excited for a future where one could take a Tesla on a tour of the Karakoram Highway. I’m also wondering how well a Tesla handles driving through water in a city like Karachi, where it can flood pretty bad.
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PM Imran Khan to meet with Tesla executives to discuss launching EVs in Pakistan(techjuice.pk)
2 points by PopeDotNinja 6y ago|2 comments
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
I needed this advice in September, hehe :) I lost 7kg in 3 days!
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
I wonder how viable this business model is without a 747, which will be ending it’s production run soon. I’m sure used 747s will be around for a long time, but at maintenance costs go up, parts availability goes down, etc. Eventually the
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
Yup. $12 for 4 days, driving 8 to 14 hours per day. I had to cover his food and lodging, but we just shared a hotel room I was gonna rent anyway and food was cheap. For comparison , I talk to a Kareem driver who nets $10 per day after exp
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
My rear never felt raw. I used almost no TP during my entire trip to Pakistan. Basically I just took a targeted shower many times a day, and didn’t need to rub my bum raw.
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
I googled “rental car Islamabad” and found a rents agency. I called them and worked out a deal to pay cash upfront with any special security deposit or insurance. They put me in touch with the driver. Basically I just went for it.
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
No problems at all.
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
Just go to the Waga gate, walk in backwards, and say you’re leaving. On a more serious note, I was surprised to learn how little travel there is between two countries right next to each other.
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
It’s crazy to me to think that the USA has some gorgeous, tall mountains, and the mountains in Pakistan are twice the height!
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
I call it an ass blaster XD
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
I gave him a really nice tip :)
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
I’m an American, and I visited Pakistan on a whim back in September. I was able to spend a few days in the north. I can only say the north of Pakistan is incredible. There’s nothing that prepares you for seeing 8000+ meter mountains for
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
It’s been said that history is written by the winners. I guess you could also say history is written by the people who pay for it.
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
Not only did I run out of money, I ended up homeless! TL;DR -- don't run out of money.
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
That's ~8 San Franciscos!
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
I learned not to use Dropbox for things like Git repos. I'd have a fresh copy on one computer, and then have an older copy on a different computer. Sometimes I'd accidentally overwrite the newer code w/ autosaving on the ol
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Ask HN: As a YC employee, what is the "equity in YC" benefit?
9 points by PopeDotNinja 6y ago|0 comments
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
It's OK to say "I'm sorry you didn't get your payday" and "your company's exploitation of my data sucks big time" to the same person.
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
One thing to keep in mind is you shouldn’t use your employer-provided computer for coding up your side project :)
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
One day the USA is gonna start getting slapped with sanctions for all the stuff it does. I don’t think they’re prepared for that.
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
The Saturn mission Cassini had 72 pounds of plutonium on it. The Pluto mission New Horizons has 24 pounds of plutonium to power itself.
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
Why is that? Children are not permitted to use WhatsApp?
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
I suppose the upper limit would be becoming the economy itself. Imagine monetary policy being set by https://treasury.amazon.gov .
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
The toughest parts of my software career have been managing relationships with my peers & working on my own attitude. For too long time I thought I could code my way out of any problem and/or win any argument with the technically
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
If you had a 50/50 chance, would you go for it? I guess your answer shows how much you really want it. No shame I’m not wanting it THAT bad.
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
Did you actually try applying? I think they are looking for candidness and some distance between you & the chronic. If you say you used to smoke, but quit two years ago and don’t miss it at all, that’s different than wearing a 420Blaz
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
It would have to cross the event horizon eventually, or the black hole would be this black dot that never grows and is surrounded by the worst traffic jam in galactic history.
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
Hehe. In September, I was in Hunza, northern Pakistan. The mountains are so tall, like 7k to 8k+ meters tall, I couldn’t even get a GPS lock most of the time. Even with a downloaded, offline map, it Google Maps was less than useless for n

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