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7 years ago
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on: Donna Strickland won her Nobel prize in Physics before she got a wikipedia page
Wikipedia has arbitrary rules for a lot of people, some youtubers have pages but others with bigger reach don't. Some blogs are considered proper critics but youtube critics aren't.
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7 years ago
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on: Wikimedia warns EU copyright reform threatens the ‘vibrant free web’
EU builds a good reputation after setting a good standard with GDPR, some politicians started talking about copying it which made me happy. Now I'm scared again wondering what would happen if they go through with this and politicians everywhere start copying it.
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7 years ago
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on: Modi’s Cash Crackdown Failed, Indian Bank Data Shows
People received text messages claiming their bank accounts will be frozen if they don't connect them with Aadhaar, anecdotally this has also increased distrust in banks.
suckerburg
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7 years ago
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on: YC’s 2018 Summer Reading List
Ready Player One seems to be the weakest thing on the list, read it recently and I was very disappointed.
suckerburg
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7 years ago
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on: Andy Rubin Puts Essential Up for Sale, Cancels Next Phone
OnePlus wasn't an individual company working from scratch, they have immense support from Oppo for R&D.
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8 years ago
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on: I built a progressive web app and published it in three app stores
In the comments below the post he said they came from the Play Store.
suckerburg
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8 years ago
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on: TunnelBear Joins McAfee
Yeah I'm sure they'll mention this in the upcoming WAN show, they've been pretty upfront about income, the titles and thumbnails, etc
suckerburg
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8 years ago
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on: The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)
Yep low bitrate x265 movies, I saw some recent animated movies for about 250mb in 720p. Most live action TV show episodes are that size too.
suckerburg
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8 years ago
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on: Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator
Didn't the iphone 4 antenna issue happen under Jobs? With him claiming you're holding the phone wrong or something like that.
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8 years ago
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on: Al Gore’s New Movie Exposes the Big Flaw in Online Movie Ratings
I would like to point out that there are times when critics pay more attention to the hype surrounding the movie when it fits their agenda, "XX" the horror anthology film directed by women directors for example was hated by the audience because it's bad. Check out the "I Hate Everything" review for the film.
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8 years ago
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on: 6 charts to help Americans understand the upcoming German elections
Is this not applicable to non-Americans then? Cause they exist too.
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8 years ago
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on: Android Oreo
Thanks, that puts me at ease. I haven't read Pynchon but I watched Inherent Vice and had a similar experience with stuff happening without context or anyone understanding what's going on.
I've only read Roger Federer as Religious Experience and that was pretty fun even though I don't watch tennis or care enough to know the rules, it was pretty fun to read the actual thing with extended footnotes open in a different tab.
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8 years ago
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on: Android Oreo
I like to read but I don't challenge myself all that much so I'm afraid I'll be in over my head, would you recommend checking something out to sort of "prepare" myself?
Like watching Tarkovsky straight from Michael Bay is not something I'd recommend, I'd tell them to watch some Nolan for contemporary, then Kubrick and stuff before going for Solaris. Is there an equivalent?
suckerburg
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8 years ago
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on: Android Oreo
So, it was announced during the eclipse (dark and bright). It's called Oreo which is the same but they still didn't bother with a dark mode?
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8 years ago
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on: Android Oreo
Really OT but since you brought it up, I legit just started reading the book yesterday and this is my first DFW book. Looks kinda daunting, any advice?
