gtyras2mrs

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by gtyras2mrs 3y ago
I've heard similar things said about the new Royal Enfield motorcycles here in India. The redesigned J-series engines on their new motorcycles are smoother and I've heard some people wax nostalgic about the old thumpers and say th
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by gtyras2mrs 3y ago
Your responded to a comment that brought up Japan *in comparision with Europe.*
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by gtyras2mrs 3y ago
You claim that "I said Tokyo has shit air" while ignoring the parent comment you responded to. The comment you responded to was about how this low noise experience is not unique to Europe, and saying Japan has similar experiences.
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by gtyras2mrs 4y ago
>And yet everything they make sells out. Almost like it's worth the price. I dont think, A implies B. With great marketing and lower volume production, you could probably make most overpriced, average quality widgets sell out. Doesn
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by gtyras2mrs 4y ago
> A cardinal rule of choosing restaurants is to avoid the ones with huge, unfocused menus. Take Behrouz Biriyani and Faasos in India. These are operated by the same company - and almost always from the same location. However because they
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by gtyras2mrs 4y ago
> If remote working was a point on the collective organizing table then management would be able to request mitigating actions to compensate for whatever they felt was lost because of WFH. What you are missing is that there does not seem
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by gtyras2mrs 4y ago
> There are certainly better ways to communicate your point than this. Well, do tell. Passing along a petition sounds like a very low impact way of collectively asking for something. It's not like they are starting off with a strike
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by gtyras2mrs 5y ago
> There are lots of things I’m sure you and I might find interesting. But HN doesn’t benefit from the practice of “ooh, let me use this topic as a pretense to post something I wanted to share regardless, and without reading the article”.
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by gtyras2mrs 5y ago
>> Nobody should be rewarded for that. > One strike, you're out? Is that the rule you judge by? That's how law works isn't it? Just because you've done a lot of good things doesn't mean that you shouldn&#x2
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by gtyras2mrs 5y ago
> Codespaces costs money. It's going to be paid by your employer which leads to GP's concern about, > or build a productivity dashboard so managers can fire people for not being productive enough (like Xsolla did) Which is m
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by gtyras2mrs 5y ago
Amazon does operate its own sellers but through joint ventures - but the link isn't openly acknowledged on the site. The largest one is Cloudtail. Another is Appario. Amazon just announced that they are parting ways on the Cloudtail jo
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by gtyras2mrs 5y ago
The problem I find is that when apps are created for the common-denominator, they alienate the power users that usually create the content that the rest consume. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture
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by gtyras2mrs 5y ago
Do you think once you are charged with possessing child porn - will you still have your job, your friends, your family, your life as you know it? Will a court decision - months or years later - restore what you have lost?
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by gtyras2mrs 5y ago
My understanding (outsider perspective, based on what people have told me) is a combination of silly complicated laws pushed by politicians to keep people from abusing the service, lobbying by private healthcare providers (insurance etc) to
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by gtyras2mrs 5y ago
When recipes say "caramelize/cook/brown/soften onions for 5 min", what they almost always mean is soften onions until they're a bit brown not caramelize. The brown bits are the result of the Maillard reaction n
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by gtyras2mrs 5y ago
> "having a robot" is not a problem statement It is if what you want is a robot.
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by gtyras2mrs 5y ago
90% viewers / consumers of content, 9% who contribute a little (comments and occasional posts,) 1% who actively generate majority of content https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)
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by gtyras2mrs 5y ago
Security != Privacy
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by gtyras2mrs 5y ago
The theory (conspiracy or otherwise) that I've heard is that the Russian state looks the other way as long as ransomware makers don't affect Russian systems. So they exclude systems with Russian language keyboard to avoid impactin
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by gtyras2mrs 5y ago
> I have a problem with their quality being crap and making little effort with update and improvement If they are in a monopolistic position, why would they bother with the expense?
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by gtyras2mrs 5y ago
I have Youtube Music (through Premium) and it's still annoying. Especially when it decides some cover version on Youtube is "for Kids" and then refuses to play in the background. Which is one of the few features actually esse
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by gtyras2mrs 5y ago
> To take that and open source the secret sauce of a fragile startup in a competitive market.. i think that's absolute bollocks. Replit is not the first to pioneer running code online nor is the open-source project the secret sauce.
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by gtyras2mrs 5y ago
> criticizing a lack of originality boils down to "this product isn't useful" in general yes, but in this case the criticism is warranted when Replit is claiming that that the open-source toy project somehow stole their id
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by gtyras2mrs 5y ago
Say you interned for Twitter for a while - and you decided to create a small open-source self-hosted microblogging site for you to play around with. Bad taste? Unethical? I think that's going too far. Since the open-source project here
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by gtyras2mrs 5y ago
System -> Languages & input -> Autofill service Not sure if MIUI was organised differently.
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by gtyras2mrs 5y ago
> A human was asked to fulfill a request to block the "tank man" search in China and forgot to add the country restriction. But why would someone be asked to block it today - if it's to be blocked in China, wouldn't i
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by gtyras2mrs 5y ago
Is store-bought communism as good as freshly made communism? Store-bought communism offers better value, but freshly made communism is so much better I think.
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by gtyras2mrs 5y ago
Similarly w.r.t racing - I have no problem with press conferences, but a mandatory press conference isn't really any good. The only time that it's worth watching is when they're all in a good mood and there is some banter. B
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by gtyras2mrs 5y ago
It would have taken me hundreds of hours to understand the mechanisms of derivatives like the sub-prime mortgage backed CDS-es as well. Not a very good way to convince me of cryptocurrencies' greatness by saying 'oh its too compli
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by gtyras2mrs 5y ago
> So if some plurality of rich stakers wanted to do a hostile takeover of a network, the community could create a fork where the oligarch coins are frozen and continue from there. What's the "community" here? What would in

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