nebula

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by nebula 9y ago
need conditioner and aggressive rubbing it in/scalp self-massage to avoid dandruff. Curious: Does conditioner help you avoid dandruff? Any explanation as to how it does?
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by nebula 9y ago
I checked the character, it is anything but weird. It is a valid character in a language used by millions of people. For those curious: It is a Telugu character; Telugu is one of several widely spoken languages in India.
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by nebula 9y ago
I used to browse with lynx till few years ago. I am not sure if it is practical to do that anymore. Most of the web is no longer friendly for text browsing.
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Windows face recognition fooled by printed photo(techrepublic.com)
2 points by nebula 9y ago|0 comments
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American Equity(blog.samaltman.com)
509 points by nebula 9y ago|535 comments
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Twitter Censored Hashtags Critical of Hillary During US Presidential Election(swarajyamag.com)
16 points by nebula 9y ago|1 comments
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by nebula 9y ago
Did Nazis persecute Christians? My knowledge of German history is very limited, but I remember reading that church supported Hitler.
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by nebula 9y ago
The real answer is more sinister. Throughout the 19th century, South American slave raids took away as much as half of the native population. By 1877, the Rapanui numbered just 111. Introduced disease, destruction of property and enforced
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A global food crisis may be less than a decade away(ted.com)
2 points by nebula 9y ago|0 comments
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by nebula 9y ago
Very interesting. Can you please provide more details on your setup. I would love to know more as I am interested in doing something similar.
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by nebula 9y ago
>Even in the Bay Area, a Home is still 5-6X annual income of a typical software engineer. Is this true? I am ignorant of actual prices in Bay Area, but people are always complaining of high housing prices there.
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by nebula 9y ago
A good analysis of the plan and what it takes to implement it successfully: https://swarajyamag.com/infrastructure/before-those-bulbs-ar...
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by nebula 9y ago
American mathematical society has a featured column related to use of zero in India: http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-india-zero...
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Chinese Citizens Evade Internet Censors to Remember Liu Xiaobo(nytimes.com)
3 points by nebula 9y ago|0 comments
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Cloudyn acquired by Microsoft(cloudyn.com)
2 points by nebula 9y ago|0 comments
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by nebula 9y ago
OP said the following about AI SaaS providers: You are using a “ready” product and so everyone gets the updates to model but your own modifications for the model are impossible with current providers. I think this may not be true about Az
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Neural pattern transmission across brains[video](ted.com)
1 points by nebula 9y ago|0 comments
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by nebula 9y ago
I know that there are some stories about bad experiences in the fulfillment centers, but keep in mind that those positions are temporary seasonal work by unskilled labor. The tone of your writing suggests that you are OK with treating the
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by nebula 9y ago
Yeah, I read about Morris worm a year later in my networking textbook. It was a good feeling to realize what I have done was similar in nature. Of course, Morris worm was a real technical exploit (buffer overflow was involved IIRC) Mine was
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by nebula 9y ago
Good thought :) When I put out the first version, I haven't really understood the consequences or its effectiveness; In fact it had my code name in the greeting :( When it first appeared, people found it amusing; but it quickly went ou
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by nebula 9y ago
Reminds me of a tricky situation I got myself into : When I was in college, I wrote a simple worm to display a new year greeting on all computers it infects. Once it infects a computer, it did the following: 1. it replicated itself to as m
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by nebula 9y ago
The point when it became clear to me that Microsoft had lost their way was when they decided to get into the search business. [This was PG's view in the article] In retrospect, this seems to be a wrong conclusion. I know Bing is far
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by nebula 9y ago
Thanks for the response. I should have been more explicit, but when I said BTC n/w I meant a consensus sort of thing from users/miners. Thanks for your explanation regarding the need of a fork to achieve this even with consensus.
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by nebula 9y ago
I am trying to understand impact of crypto currency. Sorry for my ignorance, and or impertinence. 1. Is it possible to run such large scale ransom demands without cryptocurrency? 2. Do we know if the attacker is using a single BTC wallet,
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by nebula 9y ago
I wonder why MySpace couldn't copy some of these features from FB.
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CNN accidentally broadcast 30 minutes of hardcore porn last night(thenextweb.com)
88 points by nebula 10y ago|36 comments
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by nebula 10y ago
Thanks a lot for the pointers. Many here have already pointed that I am buying too much into the "free market" propaganda; may be I was indeed brainwashed into buying that, but I am trying to open my eyes and learn. AFAICT, there
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by nebula 10y ago
I could be completely off the mark here, but is it wrong in my part to assume that China may not necessarily have the right environment for basic research to flourish? The way you mentioned the "China being excited" translates to
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by nebula 10y ago
I can understand what he meant: Heavy use of antibiotics in diary and poultry industry is a significant factor contributing to drug resistant bacteria. In other words, these industries are actively providing the selection pressure you refer
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by nebula 10y ago
This is probably a risky question to ask here, but let me ask it anyway: looks like most/all YC partners are rallying behind a particular candidate. Would this VotePlz effort try to help their favorite candidate in an indirect way? On

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