webmobdev

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by webmobdev 4y ago
The world isn't becoming less religious. It maybe on decline in the west, but is flourishing everywhere else.
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Gandhi was a self-proclaimed seeker of truth (his autobiography is titled, "The Story of My Experiments with Truth" ) and a religious and very spiritual man. Do you believe he was liar too?
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> I don't think there's any evidence of humans ever having actually stood up for any idea in large numbers, other than in religious settings. So to use the articles own insistence against them... What time evidence do they hav
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> But give the sheer scale of the population applying in India assessing each individual is obviously on the surface impractical. I forgot to add there's another aspect - fighting corruption. Since there are so few quality educati
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by webmobdev 4y ago
I'd rather put it this way - it's because our resources are limited that we have so few IITs, IIScs, AIIMSs, NIDs, IIMs etc. As our economy has grown, we have established more of these institutes.
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> It doesn’t measure intelligence or aptitude or ability to conduct research, it measures the ability to take a high stakes test effectively. You are being too harsh and dismissive. These high stake tests often are a good indicator of
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I remember reading about this a long time ago (5+ years ago I think) - it was Ford doing this and it did cause some mild outrage in the internet. Unfortunately I cannot find that particular article - Google has become shitty for finding old
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by webmobdev 4y ago
Your comment is insightful and made me realise something I was quite unaware of in India - that allowing your automobile to track, collect and share data has become so mainstreamed in the US / west that it is considered "normal&qu
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by webmobdev 4y ago
Honestly, this system sounds dysfunctional and unproductive. I know HN rules discourage psychological analysis, so I'll stick with some useful generalities - Avoidance and procrastination generate anxiety. Anxiety has a way of distorti
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by webmobdev 4y ago
Embrace, extend, extinguish - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
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Disney Sued over Hulu and ESPN Deals That “Inflate Prices” of Live Streaming TV(deadline.com)
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Apparently some US states do have filial laws - https://www.thedailybeast.com/are-you-legally-responsible-fo... ... In India, kids do have a legal obligation to care for parents - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/
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by webmobdev 4y ago
Looks like the plan is to get rid of as many costly workers as possible, and than wait and use the looming recession fears and overall layoffs in the industry in their favour by hiring equally competent workers for less pay. Could also be a
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by webmobdev 4y ago
Neat resource - anyone know the default command to set font size on Finder to 16?
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Byjus, Meta, Twitter: India tech workers fight back amid mass layoffs(bbc.com)
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by webmobdev 4y ago
Understanding America’s Labor Shortage - https://www.uschamber.com/workforce/understanding-americas-l... (I do believe that the main reason for labour shortage is mainly because of low pay, especially in restaurants an
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by webmobdev 4y ago
No clouds. No encryption (if needed I just use password protect feature of compression software). Copies in separate internal HDD. One copy in an external HDD. Many CDs and DVDs.
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by webmobdev 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_information_manager
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by webmobdev 4y ago
Hiring freezes and mass lay-offs - who still believes that we aren't facing a recession?
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by webmobdev 4y ago
Sharing the cache is innovative. What architecture do these processors run - powerpc?
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by webmobdev 4y ago
Wouldn't repeated testing (punching etc.) itself weaken the mask?
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Using PDF/a as a Preservation Format(archives.nysed.gov)
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by webmobdev 4y ago
I appreciate your initiative on creating a fork of Firefox and trying to innovate on it. The following criticism of the project is well intentioned, even if harsh: > We have been moving further away from privacy and towards developing&#
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A viral teen app became the center of a sex trafficking hoax(washingtonpost.com)
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No, BigTech are the biggest data-miners in the industry as they have daily regular and "unrestricted" access to our lives through the devices we use everyday. Thanks to our mobile phones, computers and the internet, they even ha
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by webmobdev 4y ago
One way out of this is to not join a gym but learn exercises that you can do anywhere (e.g https://blog.paleohacks.com/how-to-work-out-with-no-equipmen... ). And be forgiving towards yourself too - forgot to exercise for a
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> “May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard” No, it's not a plea but the manual for the tool. All you young coders better start documenting your code - 4000 years later, we still aren't learning (or care enou
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True. Ironically, Vivaldi still integrates many Google services in its browser, instead of using alternates. I also suspect they have a search engine deal with them too.
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Yes, I know I am in the minority but I do admire politicians. When you work with them, you realise the skill-sets you need to become an elected representative. Imagine CEOs who have to manage not thousands or tens of thousands, but millions
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Is there any standard to meet the requirements of being "memory safe" or is it enough for the language to just feature GC and automatic memory management? I thought only Rust and Ada (which is surprisingly not mentioned in the lis

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