mayanksinghal

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by mayanksinghal 9y ago
From [4]: > The government is in-principle against allowing import and sale of second-hand phones in India to prevent dumping of hazardous electronic waste, said a person familiar with the matter. But it might take a more favourable view
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by mayanksinghal 11y ago
Faster (at least it's attempting to be) without losing any quality metrics.
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by mayanksinghal 11y ago
What about this? class Function<T> { public apply(T param); }
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by mayanksinghal 11y ago
> Long-term couples tend to take care of each other's health and wellbeing ... because it makes citizens happier, more productive, less likely to need public handouts ... Citation needed. Plus, the benefits have to outweigh the cost
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by mayanksinghal 11y ago
As much as you might loathe it, learnings is now a word (and has been used intermittently for a new centuries [1]) so deal with it. Additionally, Indian students do the best they can given the limited resources (we have). And even when th
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by mayanksinghal 12y ago
> voting members Except 5, other countries don't have a permanent say in the system. The 5 can veto any resolution. The sad reality is that UN has been successful on various issues (while still failing on very many) despite being an
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by mayanksinghal 12y ago
> flat-rate fee per-person for transport That was not the case. I remember paying a different amount than the person I was sitting next to, because we were travelling different distances.
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by mayanksinghal 12y ago
> Is Uber trying to shut down Lyft, through a variety of tactics? But not through cancelled rides, right? I don't understand how Uber trying to recruit drivers is any different from any tech company trying to recruit me.
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by mayanksinghal 12y ago
>Japanese Hackers simply ignoring English speaking part of the internet. Internationalization seems to be something that hackers rarely invest time on. It is not like hackers in Silicon Valley build their products while worrying about su
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by mayanksinghal 12y ago
I cannot be sure, but I think he as arguing about it at societal level. This is my interpretation: Given the technological improvements, privacy is unsustainable. If everyone realizes this and accepts it, we can reap the benefits of transpa
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by mayanksinghal 12y ago
Just because he argues that privacy is unsustainable/sub-optimal doesn't mean that he has to facilitate its erosion. It is similar to how someone who demands privacy doesn't need to be prove his anonymity.
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
+1. I can't take it anymore! ( http://imgur.com/FQEHB7b )
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
> how society maintains is social structure I grew up in India. My schools had no bullying at all. And we still had a (much weaker) social structure, the popular ones, the slightly-dangerous ones (those I would avoid hanging out with) an
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
> And that is the definition of an insult. No it's not. The person who leaked the info should feel some responsibility for his actions. I don't think HTC exec's actions were not to scale in opinion. But this is no way an
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
Reuse of the same username across multiple social networks/forums, I would guess.
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
> What is legit or scientific about it? Nothing. And no one here is claiming that all parts of these texts are to be taken as absolute fact with empirical proof. Most of it, as you mention, is riddled with imaginary stories probably beca
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
I didn't upvote the submission, I didn't downvote you - but if you call people shills when they are not, some of them might. And I find 1M R/s impressive, but you can ignore it if you think it is trivial.
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
Since you are qualifying the statement with "some", a lot of people (including me) will have no qualms about agreeing to it.
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
> the ability to capitalize on reading your opponent is more limited than it could be Shouldn't be a capitalizable entity in chess. I like chess (unfortunately I don't like it enough to practice it often) because of it's n
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
Blink was a awesome episode. I have used it to convert at least 4 civvies into Whovians. However, I think Doctor Who is getting less and less scary and more and more dramatic/epic. Oh the other hand, I started watching DW when I was al
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
I really can't differentiate between Disabled buttons and Rounded buttons. There would also be very little differentiation between the a basic button with no icon (because there isn't a good icon for everything) and the text input
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
I think the scientists involved would be totally fine with skepticism about technical decisions that they have made on such missions. I would argue that they might even appreciate it when it comes from people who actually understand the sub
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
It's incredible and useful because there are some others like me, who would rather reboot to Ubuntu/Fedora/etc just to avoid the hostile developer environment of windows, even for small tasks. There is a severe lack of good
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
> Humans suck at predicting stuff. But surely humans beat randomness at many if not most tasks. This argument is not as much about whether we get sharper teeth or not, as it is about possibly saving a kid about a genetically inherited d
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
Don't proxy it through friends who don't use software audited and compiled by you/people-you-trust then.
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
"New study confirms Oreos are basically the cookie form of cocaine" is misleading (and not the original title "Oreos May Be As Addictive As Cocaine") Anyway, the comparisons performed in the quoted study: preference over
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
I have had little to no issues with quality of playback in Chrome. However, like your sibling comment suggested - it does lack keyboard shortcuts.
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
You should use their HTML5 player instead of the Flash one. The former has speed controls.
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
They didn't have a bounty program set up, like many if not most companies. I don't see a fuck up.
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
> Finally, it is ironic to be lectured by an Arab news organization criticizing our democracy. No it isn't. US media doesn't own an exclusive right to comment on affairs of other nation states. Given the status of US economy in

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