olcor

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by olcor 6y ago
Western Union had, hands-down, the best rates and the least hassle for me sending money to my home country. The old reputation of WU just doesn't hold ground any more.
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A Speculative Frenzy Is Sweeping World Markets(bloomberg.com)
4 points by olcor 6y ago|0 comments
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by olcor 6y ago
Exactly the same for me. I had a bunch of goals; I fulfilled most of them, and the ones I didn't/couldn't I god much better alternatives for. I have not created any new goals; a lot of changes have happened recently, and fulf
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by olcor 6y ago
Apparently Google "can't find" my account. I was so scared for a while, then I found that all of my family members have the same issue. Then checked HN and breathed a sigh of relief :)
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One million Indian doctors strike; protest surgeries by Ayurveda practitioners(in.reuters.com)
2 points by olcor 6y ago|0 comments
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by olcor 6y ago
> There are a lot of jaded people here who refuse to accept the way the world is working. This is HN. Quite a few people here know how the world is working in favor of these things because there's a good chance they built it themsel
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by olcor 6y ago
> Spotify is great, but it’s primarily a single-player experience. Music, on the other hand, is an inherently social experience. NO. For me, music is an intensely private experience. I do not want people around me when I'm listeni
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LinkedIn: The Raisin of Social Media [video](youtube.com)
1 points by olcor 6y ago|1 comments
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Show HN: FBI UCR Expanded Homicide Data Table 6(ucr.fbi.gov)
1 points by olcor 6y ago|0 comments
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by olcor 6y ago
Personally I have a very simple rule. I don't drink alcohol, and I don't need to have a reason for it. I tend not to give any single reason if anyone asks me about it; just any excuse on top of my head. Most of the time it suffice
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by olcor 6y ago
OK thanks. Great idea nonetheless!
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by olcor 6y ago
I don’t know if this would work on iOS (or if it’s already implemented), but any idea if I can make the app pop up directly every time I unlock the phone? This would mean that I don’t need open the app manually myself /keep the app on
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by olcor 6y ago
This is simple and genius at the same time. Great idea, will try it out.
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by olcor 6y ago
I do agree with you on that aspect; in fact the proliferation of cheap smartphones and providers like Jio means that a lot of people are able to get their hands on actually decent hardware and a good internet connection if it is in their re
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by olcor 6y ago
This so much. It felt so weird that this person was talking about poverty and blogging/reading on the internet at the same time . Few poor people in the third world would know what blogging even is, forget about even wasting precious
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by olcor 6y ago
Link to previous HN post which has a list of all ebooks Springer made available for free: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23520545 Has quite a few of the books mentioned in the post and the comments here.
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by olcor 6y ago
All I know about him is that he was the one who created Geoff the Robot in Craig Ferguson's Late Late Show. That robot was AMAZING, it enabled a lot of good sketches! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Peterson T
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by olcor 6y ago
He did a collaboration with Stephan Pastis (Pearls Before Swine) a few years ago: https://stephanpastis.wordpress.com/2014/06/07/ever-wished-t...
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by olcor 6y ago
This is very weird, I notice a lot of apps are doing this. Even Firefox Focus, considered to be a "privacy-focused" browser, has this notification pop up every time you add a character to their address/search bar.
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by olcor 6y ago
Heh, have had some similar conversations myself (how people like me are "supposed to be more X/less Y"). I've had little patience for those, and have let my own opinions be known. Thanks for adding some more colour.
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by olcor 6y ago
Possibly. Wish we had numbers, but I'm not sure if survey respondents would always speak the truth :)
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by olcor 6y ago
Not always. As I mentioned, an American (not of Indian origin, and presumably without thinking about caste) warned me about rennet when he knew I was a vegetarian. Please don't misunderstand my words. I talk about vegetarianism because
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by olcor 6y ago
> It requires nuance to understand how deeply and yet subtly embedded caste is in India And this is the nuance I'm talking about. I understand vegetarianism definitely has positive connotations in India, but it's rarely about c
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by olcor 6y ago
Yes well if we want to go all Veblen, we can see that throughout the world, not just India. But let us be real here, there are a lot of people in poverty following vegetarian diets, especially because meat doesn't always come cheap in
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by olcor 6y ago
As I said, ~not all places~ varies from place to place. Haven't myself had an issue yet, coming from a not-so-desirable caste, and I know plenty who haven't either. > definitely a major part of marriage discussions Again, not a
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by olcor 6y ago
> I'm a very white guy living in California and I often get the impression that caste is something that Indian folks living here are aware of amongst each other, but they don't really discuss it with white people. The level of
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by olcor 6y ago
> eating that tortilla since it contains lard I'm not a Brahmin (and am technically from a much "lower caste") and I wouldn't eat lard (I'm a vegetarian). IMO caste and vegetarianism are different concepts. Whil
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by olcor 6y ago
Resource curse? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse
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by olcor 6y ago
I’m confused. Doesn’t Microsoft 365 include the desktop versions of the product and the ability to update them?
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by olcor 6y ago
I never said to not be optimistic; I said to not be too optimistic. On personal level, immigration decisions and everything that comes after needs to be tied to reality and consider what could happen in the future, including all the nasty

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