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by reactspa 5y ago
In this pic, it looks very similar to India's "Cheeku" (remove the crown and it's an exact match): https://ychef.files.bbci.co.uk/1600x900/p09bty8x.webp
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by reactspa 5y ago
Nice to see there's a portable version. I recommend and use XYPlorer because they have a portable version.
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by reactspa 5y ago
I actually find it quite funny that humans have planned their own obsolescence. What's funnier is that whatever "safe" substitute humans will devise will prove to be more harmful a couple of generations hence.
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by reactspa 5y ago
As a Taleb follower, this concept seems similar to Survivorship Bias or Selection Bias.
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by reactspa 6y ago
YouTube is the world's fair.
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by reactspa 6y ago
What a terrible thing the Indian govt is doing! Demanding that accounts be banned from Twitter for making inflammatory posts! Only Jack Dorsey should have that power! And only Trump supporters should be banned (with whole-hearted support fr
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by reactspa 6y ago
> If you have a company, incorporated or not, you can write off lots of things as business expenses like transportation, buying new equipment or rent for co-working spaces. Is this accurate? From what I've learned, unless you make s
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Academic journal editor allegedly steals paper for himself(twitter.com)
2 points by reactspa 6y ago|1 comments
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by reactspa 6y ago
I just searched and couldn't find a plugin for Atom called Yestercode. If there was one, I'd definitely use it.
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by reactspa 6y ago
Am honestly not trolling here although it will sound like it: Can someone please explain to me why it's a OK to reconnect Iranians to Signal, but not Trump supporters to Twitter (the ones censored and banned by Twitter)?
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by reactspa 6y ago
Currently: - farmers may grow certain crops... - ...that india doesn't need or want (it has surplus in storage)... - ...and the government is obliged to pay the farmers higher than market rates (MSP = minimum support price) for doing s
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by reactspa 6y ago
I have created portable (for Windows) versions of R and R-Studio that work fine for the most part. However I was unable to make Bookdown work on them. An official portable version of R-Studio: one that lives off a folder in the computer, an
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by reactspa 6y ago
Re: No fault divorce: The concept of marriage in a tradition-based society like India has a completely different meaning than "let's voluntarily have a contract, and we can break it off any time we feel like it." In order to
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by reactspa 6y ago
Your comment is going to be an underrated comment. However, there's also the notion of "tracking corruption". China apparently is a cashless society (according to a Chinese person I interacted with recently). I'd imagine
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by reactspa 6y ago
Good to have this in PHP. It's called "spread" in JavaScript.
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by reactspa 6y ago
a Docker-Compose recipe would be very welcome.
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by reactspa 6y ago
Interesting story. Question: was there any possibility of escrow here? What if the phone never showed up?
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by reactspa 6y ago
> losing out hugely Would like to learn more about this. Thanks.
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by reactspa 6y ago
"As it turns out, the x is y..." Apparently Apple Store "Geniuses" have a manual that instructs them to use this phrasing when discussing the problem with hardware a customer has brought in for repair. Not sure why it wo
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I've never seen MicroStrategy software in the wild
6 points by reactspa 6y ago|1 comments
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by reactspa 6y ago
The coolest thing about Telegram? Its Windows Desktop app is portable. Por-ta-ble. Fucking portable. Nothing to install, it can run off a USB stick or a folder in the PC.
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by reactspa 6y ago
While we're on the topic, let's take a moment to remind ourselves that New York Times journalists are directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians (mostly women and children) in Iraq, Syria, Libya. Jud
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by reactspa 6y ago
Why is this setup better than using React Native? I believe RN spits out not just Android/iOS but also desktop Windows/Mac app code.
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by reactspa 6y ago
If you want a good (bad) laugh, search for mentions of "Libya" by this NY Times author (Nicholas Kristof). He wrote a series of articles promoting military intervention in Libya. And after the Obama-Hillary administration did, and
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by reactspa 6y ago
I'm very interested in the "shadow" concept, am always curious what people really mean when they mention it. If you could elaborate on your mention of "shadow", (perhaps "Explain Like I'm Five"-style)
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by reactspa 6y ago
Someone do a piece on Microsoft Netmeeting please. I remember doing video chat on it in the mid-nineties. And then Microsoft killed it. And then Microsoft bought Skype for $8 billion. And basically killed that too. (I've never done a S
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by reactspa 6y ago
If anyone who's reading this has PM Modi's ear, please forward this to him. He loves promoting news such as this.
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by reactspa 6y ago
But if someone asked for a theme or period that wasn't pre-coded, it wouldn't work.
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by reactspa 6y ago
The NYT recently had a piece on the NRC issue in Assam, India. In the lede they claimed that NRC was anti-Muslim because Muslims were caught up in it, and it was being done by Modi because he's anti-Muslim. Elsewhere in the article the
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by reactspa 6y ago
"She refused to accept the scientific theory until she learned that a proponent of the scientific theory was a Muslim like herself." RIP Science.

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