avinashv

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by avinashv 3y ago
> I want it everywhere badly in west as well as east and middle(-east). It's already there. With the exception of the US, almost every country I've traveled to in the Middle East, Asia, and Europe has tap-pay enabled. The Middl
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by avinashv 4y ago
This is possible because of a concept called a flash loan. Using a smart contract, you can borrow (without collateral) and the smart contract would reverse the transaction if the money is not repaid. There is a cost to borrowing, but in thi
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by avinashv 5y ago
Not the OP, but it claims to be ~2x faster than CPython. I haven’t done extensive benchmarking, but for my small projects that seems about right.
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by avinashv 5y ago
I really don't like FG either. I use Roll20[1], but if you are completely home-brew, Owlbear Rodeo[2] is very simple and great. Character sheets on D&D Beyond[3] and the Beyond20 Chrome extension to link DDB and Roll20. [1] https:
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by avinashv 10y ago
Your snark is unnecessary. Had you Googled a bit more, you would have seen that they also share towers with Airtel, among others. Airtel is also a retail telecom competitor.
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by avinashv 10y ago
There is no hatchet burying relevant to this: Mukesh and Anil's Reliances are separate. Reliance Communications direct competes with Reliance Jio.
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by avinashv 10y ago
Completely false. Across three factories in two states, I don't get "guaranteed" power. In fact, the only place I see basically uninterrupted power is in the nice parts of residential Bombay.
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by avinashv 11y ago
> Potential for misuse is near infinite though Fully agree, though I see the potential for good to be more.
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by avinashv 11y ago
While the author is pretty clear that "only a passing knowledge of modern microbiology" is necessary, I think that understates some of the technical language in here. I really laughed at the line, "Silencing a gene with CRISP
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by avinashv 11y ago
Whether I agree with the number or not is irrelevant, but the implication I get from the article is that the judge is more upset that after TWC was sued, they still made 74 calls. I assume that the per-call fine was upped because of that.
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by avinashv 11y ago
No need for a laptop if you have an iPad. Synthesia has an app. My iPad sits on my music stand connects to my digital piano via USB-MIDI.
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by avinashv 11y ago
Not at all. The fabric can be woven to specifically avoid this problem.
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by avinashv 11y ago
Are you trying to say that Indian credit cards that are 3D-secure enabled don't work for IAP? This is absolutely untrue. I have both AMEX and Visa cards issued in India, and simultaneously use them for domestic and international online
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by avinashv 11y ago
I killed those animations in settings the day I installed iOS 7. You should too!
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by avinashv 12y ago
I had the Desire, and that was less a trackball and more an optical sensor. A much poorer experience than a trackball.
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by avinashv 12y ago
But what value does the overhead of having the foundation and all its associated risks (such as those highlighted in the article) have over the current scenario, when many marks are happily going along day-to-day?
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by avinashv 12y ago
I guess the site should have been indicative, but I'd love to have had more details about the study. Even little things: he posts a photo of his food tray. How does he eat something like spaghetti and meatballs(?) (or whatever that was
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by avinashv 12y ago
> I can see and agree with all sorts of flaws in the games, but they'll remain special simply because at the time, they were. I don't really have much to add to that, except that this is a really succinct way of describing, I t
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by avinashv 12y ago
I don't own a Wii U and I don't unfortunately have any plans to get one. That sale is popping up all over the Internet though, so I guess this is the first time it's been offered on the Wii U as a bundle?
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by avinashv 12y ago
I've long suspected that Super Metroid is my favorite--and I think this logic applies for many other video game series--because it's not only the first one that I played, but the first one that I beat. I find myself nodding along
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by avinashv 12y ago
This is a beautiful piece about a wonderful, wonderful game. As much as I love Super Metroid (which, despite her criticisms, I think is superior in gameplay and puzzle-platforming), she is spot-on about the ham-fisting of the story. We shou
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by avinashv 12y ago
http://blog.monumentvalleygame.com/blog/2015/1/15/monument-v...
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by avinashv 12y ago
Have you tried Zepto[1]? It's ~9kb gzipped, and is compatible with a lot of jQuery's API. I've found that for a lot of the stuff I used jQuery for, it's mostly a drop-in replacement. [1]: http://zeptojs.com&#x
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by avinashv 12y ago
I don't see why that's such a surprise. I thought the same for a split-second.
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by avinashv 12y ago
Crotch bursting (which is the hilarious technical term for it) is more common than you'd expect. Major reasons are over-washing, but a bad fit, stretch fabric, too-thin fabric, and poor stitching are the major reasons for failure. If y
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by avinashv 12y ago
The emphasis of the scope was the word "comment" and not "Hacker News"; i.e., it's a lot to cram into a comment. Here are a handful of thoughts: In a nutshell, I think apparel is too cheap, but raising prices isn&#x
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by avinashv 12y ago
I manufacture jeans, and this is misleading. The strength of any textile (knit or woven) is a first a function of the yarn and then of the structure. Any heavy twill that remains unwashed for long periods of time (as all "selvedge puri
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by avinashv 12y ago
> She's not yet able to comfortably read at the level of Wikipedia May I recommend http://simple.wikipedia.org ? It's obviously not nearly as expansive as the standard English version, but it's a great option fo
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by avinashv 12y ago
> For a brief, wonderful time, I thought all academic papers were of a similar caliber I had the exact same thought in college when I started reading a handful of well-written papers like this myself. This really set a standard that for
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by avinashv 12y ago
Very cool! Shannon's paper was, to be honest, a little out of my comfort zone when I first read it (this isn't really my field academically), and I got a little lost on the first read of this, but someone below posted your full th

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