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by sidkhanooja 5mo ago
on reflection, i would appreciate average slop more than the occasional heinous slop people say when they are opinionated..
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by sidkhanooja 3y ago
Comics! I recently finished Wanted (which made for a shitty movie, but a decent comic) and Watchmen (I despair I hadn't gotten around to it sooner). Now I'm planning to read V for Vendetta, The Killing Joke, Batman: Year One, and
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Ask HN: What is your current setup for the Web?
1 points by sidkhanooja 3y ago|2 comments
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by sidkhanooja 3y ago
If this article interested you then I'd highly recommend checking out TVTropes ( https://tvtropes.org/ ) (trope roughly means any convention of fiction), if you've not already!
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by sidkhanooja 3y ago
https://archive.is/PzN0p
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by sidkhanooja 4y ago
For this year, mine was Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. TL;DR - the book explains how humans are predictably irrational and how seeming cognitive ease in decisioning is simply laziness in action since the brain will substitute
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by sidkhanooja 4y ago
Writing is one field that I think won't be able to achieve the 'human' touch anytime soon. Art? Sure, as we have already seen with DALL-E and the like. Music? Doubtful (look up Kandrake-Z for an example), but not sure if it w
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by sidkhanooja 7y ago
There's no need of putting this as a separate post - you can paste the same text in your profile, your Keybase and HN accounts will get linked perfectly fine.
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by sidkhanooja 7y ago
Most ads on Spotify are not even intrusive - they are (in)famously bad for advertising Spotify's own premium service (try premium for free!). This is just ridiculous. If you're annoyed by the ads, get a subscription then.
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by sidkhanooja 7y ago
Tangential, but I've recently noticed that due to huge fragmentation in the streaming industry (Netflix, PrimeVideo, Hulu, Disney+ et al.), I'm only using two - Netflix and PrimeVideo, and a third torrent streaming service (Popcor
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We Should Stop Fetishizing Privacy(nytimes.com)
4 points by sidkhanooja 7y ago|3 comments
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by sidkhanooja 7y ago
Was thinking on the same lines, thanks for the confirmation.
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Tell HN: Reddit Is Down
3 points by sidkhanooja 7y ago|3 comments
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by sidkhanooja 8y ago
Goodreads is the most flagrant violator of most, if not all, of these rules. Searching for a book, author or a user is a PITA, and has been that way for a long, long time. The best autocompletion I've seen is on Wikipedia - no frills,
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by sidkhanooja 8y ago
Personal anecdote, but it's nice to see the growing maturity of the Indian audience - no one in my circle of friends and family is complaining that big names such as Linkin Park, Ed Sheeran, Coldplay et al. and rock/metal biggies
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by sidkhanooja 8y ago
For those not clicking on the link (like me), it's Andrew Wakefield - who published a blatantly false paper in The Lancet in 1998 [1], linking MMR vaccines to autism [2] - triggering the anti-vaccination movement, leading to a resurg
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by sidkhanooja 8y ago
I've been an avid reader since I was seven years old - I stopped in college (almost completely), but it was during my internship and job that I started reading vociferously again. Nowadays after I finish the book, I try to review the b
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by sidkhanooja 8y ago
Contrary to popular opinion, I find that Andrew Ng's Intro to ML (on Coursera/Stanford) focuses too much on basic math and theory - which doesn't detract from the course's quality, but makes the course a drudgery to go t
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Ask HN: How to combat social media addiction?
3 points by sidkhanooja 8y ago|3 comments
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by sidkhanooja 8y ago
I use a OnePlus phone (don't know if HN users have heard of it), and OP users rarely use the fingerprint unlock. Although the user is definitely compromising on security, the speed of face unlock is such that it is near-instantaneous.
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by sidkhanooja 8y ago
Malwarebytes Anti Malware (MBAM). It is exceptional for a free tool. Windows Defender is too simplistic for my liking, with a very small filter list. That being said, I run ComboFix + ADWCleaner + RKill + JunkwareRemovalTool every few weeks
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by sidkhanooja 8y ago
The stigma is real, because Tor is actually extremely slow (at least in India) for everyday use. Even when I want to visit sites that are blocked by Indian ISPs, and which do have an easily found .onion address, I don't bother with it
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by sidkhanooja 8y ago
Quora used to be good before 2012-13(?), what with its credit system and all. You had a fixed pool of points to ask questions. Potential people who wanted people to ask them questions could arbitrarily set their points, and these points wer
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by sidkhanooja 8y ago
r/bitcoin comes to mind whenever I think of the words "Bitcoin" and "cult" in the same sentence.
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by sidkhanooja 8y ago
Google Plus has become the new Voat then, eh?
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Google says that Substratum was broken by design in Android P(androidpolice.com)
1 points by sidkhanooja 8y ago|0 comments
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Facebook is reportedly considering its own cryptocurrency(engadget.com)
1 points by sidkhanooja 8y ago|0 comments
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by sidkhanooja 8y ago
Disheartening to see that Facebook is unabashedly aping the cornerstones of various sites (reddit) and apps (Snap). That said, a downvote, or a "dislike" button, is almost always a double-edged sword - although it can be used to t
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Smartphone addiction is worth talking about, but probably isn't a social crisis(androidpolice.com)
2 points by sidkhanooja 8y ago|0 comments
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by sidkhanooja 8y ago
Reddit w/o RES is like McDonalds without the Big Mac. Been using it for years. Shame that most of its features are broken with the pathetic new redesign though[1]. [1] - https://www.reddit.com/r/Enhancement/co

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