RealGeek

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by RealGeek 9y ago
I usually buy a $900 iPhone, sell it for $600 after a year, and buy the new iPhone for $900. So I spend around $300 to upgrade my iPhone every year. I used to upgrade my phone after 3 years, at that point the phone becomes very outdated and
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by RealGeek 9y ago
There is no likes and views count on Whatsapp, but the fake news problem is much worse on Whatsapp than Facebook and YouTube.
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by RealGeek 9y ago
Useful chart for drinking limits: http://www.tabc.state.tx.us/publications/brochures/BACCharts...
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by RealGeek 9y ago
> I live in NYC, and they have the opposite is here, most PR or fashion firms are more female dominated... In NYC the tech companies are also diverse. They solve problems of other industries with tech and hire for many different roles be
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by RealGeek 9y ago
I was shocked to learn that most of the women I know have faced sexual assault (unwanted grabbing or groping), but none of them ever reported to the police. Similarly, most men I know have suffered some sort of physical assault but none re
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by RealGeek 9y ago
This terrorist was a law abiding citizen until yesterday. If your law abiding neighbor is building bombs in his garage, is that a problem?
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by RealGeek 9y ago
Does his motivations make it any less terrorizing for the victims?
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by RealGeek 9y ago
I always see gun promoters trying to divert the discussion from the real issue (read: mass shootings and terrorism) towards the technicality of the term "assault weapon". Would calling these guns "weapons of mass murder&quo
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by RealGeek 9y ago
I had my home address set since couple years without turning history on. This week I wanted to change address, but Google wouldn't let me unless I give access to all location, web and app activity.
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by RealGeek 9y ago
Google requires you to turn on all web, search, app and location history just to set your home address in maps. Then it continues to siphon all your private data 24x7 out of every device that Google touches.
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by RealGeek 10y ago
Tipping is an incentive for employers to squeeze the workers even more. Employers need to pay the workers a decent wage rather than them relying on tips.
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by RealGeek 10y ago
> Well a big part of the campaign was delegitimizing the establishment as "fake news" that is in bed with Hillary. Trump administration continue to delegitimize mainstream news, and call it "fake news".
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by RealGeek 10y ago
How about if we reset and delete everything from the phone before crossing any international borders?
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by RealGeek 10y ago
Federal Government is defying court orders.
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by RealGeek 10y ago
> I'm not an Obama supporter, but I gotta wonder why he wasn't even more aggressive than he was with the orders. Republicons constantly accused Obama of signing too many "unconstitutional" executive orders.
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by RealGeek 10y ago
If there are any political activities or policies that affect tech community or companies, does that fit in here on HN? Example: Many employees of tech companies are affected by Trump's immigration ban, and tech companies are recalling
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I do not accept him as my leader – Uber CTO’s explosive anti-Trump email to team(businessinsider.com)
4 points by RealGeek 10y ago|0 comments
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WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy(github.com)
188 points by RealGeek 10y ago|65 comments
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What Intelligence Agencies Concluded About Russian Attack on the U.S. Election(nytimes.com)
14 points by RealGeek 10y ago|4 comments
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by RealGeek 10y ago
How much does BJP pay to spread their lies and propaganda?
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by RealGeek 10y ago
So now anyone who doesn't worship Modi is anti-national hoarder? Anyone who have cash for emergency purpose is a hoarder? Is cash illegal? 99% of my money is in bank, less than 1% of it is cash; out of which only a small fraction is IN
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by RealGeek 10y ago
> You shouldn't have kept so much INR with you in the first place. It's my hard earned tax paid money, and its my choice in what form I want to keep it. The currency note says "I promise to pay the bearer the sum of one th
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by RealGeek 10y ago
> This is a blatant lie. RBI allows you (a.k.a NRIs only) to deposit this money till 31st of March 2017 in it's branches. Previously, we could simply exchange Indian currency to any other currency abroad. But now there is no way for
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by RealGeek 10y ago
> So you have 6 months time to deposit your old 500 and 1000 notes which even resident Indians don't enjoy as a privilege. Previously, we could simply exchange Indian currency to any other currency abroad. But now there is no way f
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by RealGeek 10y ago
> picking political points like blood of citizens Over 100 people have died due to demonetization scam[1]. It is not an opinion, they are not even just facts and statistics, 100 real people have died and their families have been destroye
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by RealGeek 10y ago
> What kind of business is your family in that caused "personally suffered significant monetary loss on our 100% tax paid cash"? I'm curious to know and understand. I am a NRI, me and my family have significant amount of I
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by RealGeek 10y ago
They have been able to convert their cash to new Rs. 2,000 notes through the underhand deals with corrupt Government and Banking officials.
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by RealGeek 10y ago
> 70% of those polled (average of all polls conducted by media and independent media houses) disagree with you. We measure success or failure of such economic policies with statistics, not by political opinion polling. > You fail to m
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by RealGeek 10y ago
> a possibility of large-scale riots, but ended with only 100 deaths. I don't see how it cannot be termed a success. What is the upside we got with demonetization that we can call success? Did it end black money? No. Will it end cou
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by RealGeek 10y ago
> Do you own a personal car right now? If so, why? Yes. There isn't a reliable taxi service or public transportation in most suburbs. Even if you have Uber in your town, it's much more expensive than owning/leasing a perso

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