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by pavanred 7y ago
Sean Caroll has a great podcast, mindscape [0]. One of the recent episode featured Kip Thorne as a guest and had some great discussions about Gravitational Waves, Time Travel, and Interstellar [1]. It's a very informative and entertain
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by pavanred 8y ago
I am surprised that on opting out of ad tracking in Android, they found that the opt-out flag was set to true, but the size of the tracking payload shot up i.e. more attributes being tracked. Not sure what to make of it? Is it possible its
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by pavanred 8y ago
I have been using Pass [0] with passff [1] and been pretty happy about it. Simple and offline password management where passwords live in gpg encrypted files. Additional features I like are tracking changes with git, bash completion and cop
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by pavanred 8y ago
Fun fact: Air India is a state owned airline that has been bailed out with tax payer money multiple times. Attempts to sell/privatize the airline has failed too so far.
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by pavanred 8y ago
The problem with this argument - I care about issue X, company C is known to disregard/exploit users with X and so I assume all employees of company C are complicit while I give a free pass to the users who remain ignorant and simply d
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by pavanred 8y ago
I have been using OsmAnd~ [0] lately and have been pretty happy with it as an alternative. Uses open street maps, works offline, pretty good and configurable app. [0] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.osmand.plus
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by pavanred 8y ago
Edit: ...2GW in 2015 and is about 20GW in 2018... Typo, and HN doesn't allow me to update it now. Anyway, my point was that in the past 4 years we achieved 20GW and we expect to achieve 80GW in the next 4 years.
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by pavanred 8y ago
> I don't buy the fact that in the Internet age, you have to be some reporter to write against the government policies. We don't need reporters anymore because we have the internet? :) I won't engage further. You're f
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by pavanred 8y ago
How about freedom of press as an example (World Press Freedom Index) 2018: 138 2017: 136 2016: 133 A good rule to follow, formulate an opinion after you gain enough facts to argue the other side, else you'll keep seeing only what you w
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by pavanred 8y ago
Care to also publish rankings of the country over the years in freedom of press, law and order, mob violence, transparency, economic growth, journalists/writers murdered, appointments/shortages of RTI commissioners, RTI rejection
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by pavanred 8y ago
Ghost in the wires by Kevin Mitnick.
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by pavanred 8y ago
OK, let's consider your view point. Perhaps England had lions a few thousand years ago, they went extinct and perhaps some other predator took its place or may be it didn't, maybe the predator that was above it (if there was one)
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by pavanred 8y ago
We don't owe anyone anything. I agree. But, no one owes anything to us either. If you think about it, we really aren't doing it for other species, are we? A few among us are being cautious to foresee something that could affect us
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by pavanred 8y ago
That is a very reductionist view. You can ignore lots of factors and make up a simple equation with the only ones that help your case. Europe has better quality of life now. Europe has fewer endangered species and didn't care about the
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by pavanred 8y ago
The answer is simple, the rate of change is too rapid for any species to evolve soon enough or cope. For e.g. lets consider hunting or poaching, if a species has a population of a few thousands, and even if we kill a handful a day, we will
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by pavanred 8y ago
Its about 10PM here. I got back from work 3-4 hours ago and my phone just beeped and I could read the email with simply a flick of a finger and saw that it was a work related email though I was having dinner at that time. Now, though I am a
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by pavanred 8y ago
Doesn't have to be knocked out. India developed Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) because access to GPS is not guaranteed in hostile situations when its controlled by one country, as it happened to the Indian military
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by pavanred 8y ago
> Freedom of speech, like all freedoms, requires discipline and comes with costs. Sometimes those costs are tragically high, but freedom is worth it ... I suppose its a good way to test one's position for consistency for such subjec
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by pavanred 8y ago
A few years ago, I had this idea of paying a small amount to charity every time I hit snooze on my alarm clock. I forked into an android alarm app, started working on it (but never completed it). My rationale then was that if I feel lazy an
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by pavanred 8y ago
I suppose its perhaps how they marketed the feature. We have parking assist feature in many cars, there's a reason its not auto-park instead. If it really was a feature to help attentive drivers avoid accidents, it probably would have
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by pavanred 9y ago
> The medical clinic I was volunteering at... This is off topic. How can one get into that line of work/volunteering? Any particular organizations? Any particular skills ? How can one get started with this kind of work/voluntee
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by pavanred 9y ago
I agree taxes are not hidden charges, but it does sound a little deceitful to me that doordash bundles taxes with their service fee as one line item on their checkout page. And, I don't share the same sympathy for the doordash drivers.
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by pavanred 9y ago
The problem I have with doordash is that though they say the delivery fee is $x, there are a lot of hidden charges. You are actually paying a lot more than that, a markup on food items + a delivery fee + 8% service fee + taxes + 15% tip (op
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by pavanred 9y ago
> I've seen Indian IT workers with CVs 3 times the size of mine and glowing recommendations from past employers, and most of them failed fucking fizzbuzz. After you deal with a dozen people like that, you just start to subconsciousl
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by pavanred 9y ago
Indian IT Outsourcing Industry ⊆ Indian IT Industry India is a huge country with a huge population and a rapidly growing economy and a domestic market. Even if it was true a decade or two ago, should we still keep assuming that anything tha
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by pavanred 9y ago
Why do you think people will live cheaply if they join the community now? They pay the same taxes as you, and people engage in the community just as much as you for how ever long they choose to live there (perhaps 15 years to come and make
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by pavanred 9y ago
Isn't "intelligent life" just a function of time of "life"? I am reading the book "Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness" currently and the book makes the case that inte
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by pavanred 9y ago
On a slightly related topic, India has a vast and rich set of languages and millions of people that speak/read/write these languages. With daily newspapers, tabloids, literature etc, I presume there is a (potential) huge corpus of
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by pavanred 9y ago
I would guess manufacturing
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by pavanred 9y ago
What does being "in charge of the world" mean anyway?

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