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timesofindia.indiatimes.com 5y ago

Covid-19 spreads through air, long distance

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www.stuff.co.nz 5y ago

Ever Given vessel is now afloat

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

The Wallet (2021) Official Trailer - Tim Dillon

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

Who makes those scam popups?

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

DC-X Flight 8 – The Swan Dive Test

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

What You See in India Is Less an Undeclared Emergency and More Sultanism

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debugger.medium.com 5y ago

Why Our Brains Love Physical Buttons

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www.scmp.com 5y ago

Clubhouse could be exposing raw data to its Chinese service provider

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www.stuff.co.nz 5y ago

Twitter suspends more Indian accounts amid free speech debate

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instil.live 5y ago

Show HN: Instil – 'Udemy' for Live Classes

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instil.live 5y ago

Show HN: Instil – Platform for creating and monetising live classes

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techcentertoday.com 5y ago

Scientists figured out how to stop time using quantum algorithms

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

A battery made from nuclear waste that can last 28,000 years

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www.cebm.net 5y ago

Covid-19: William Farr’s way out of the Pandemic

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www.newscientist.com 6y ago

Ancient viruses buried in our DNA may reawaken and cause illness

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edition.cnn.com 6y ago

India: The world leader in Internet shutdowns

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www.nzherald.co.nz 6y ago

Crimson Education's global offices empty with disconnected phones

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www.forbes.com 6y ago

$6B United Nations Agency Launches Bitcoin, Ethereum Crypto Fund

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m.youtube.com 7y ago

Undercover in the Most Dystopian Place in the World

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www.forbes.com 7y ago

Huawei OS Is 'Set for 2019 and Will Run Android Apps'

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i.stuff.co.nz 7y ago

Millions of Facebook and Instagram passwords accessible by employees

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www.gizmodo.com.au 7y ago

Google Hangouts Will Start to Phase Out in October

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Metroliner, often jokingly called as "flying sewer pipe" is one hell of a sturdy plane it seems. Glad to see both parties okay, but this makes me think if BRS should be made standard by FAA on GA planes given the lives saved by the technology so far.

Yeah I agree, there's lots of bloat as well, that's why I said that the transition of bubble tinkerers to actual coding with any high level languages and frameworks would be very liberating. Even a beginner could do a heck lot in something like RoR or Django, without even mastering the respective languages.

As someone who writes code, I found bubble.io quite promising, until I hit the usual bottlenecks that comes with any no-code platform.

https://bubble.io/

But I can see the lure for masses, driven by the startup subculture, but the truth is that if you can master something like bubble, the transition to actual coding would be seamless and often very liberating.

What I said is that Bitcoin is a perceived store of value, and like any currency it's valuable only if it's perceived by the masses to be so, no different than fiat. Bitcoin ticks that box and is scarce, as opposed to inflating fiat.

Porn doesn't creates value storages, except dopamine hits.

And am not making a personal judgement, but just making a contrasting argument for someone who says that mining bitcoin is a waste of energy.

The energy in mining is not being wasted, it's being converted into something of perceived value.

The real waste of energy, one could argue is pornography, which hogs around 30% of the internet, with little value output.

Imagine replacing those servers for something more productive for humanity as a whole.

"When accusing western civilization of actively erasing other cultures with its modalities"

- It can't be discounted as a mere "accusation" when it is a "fact" that western civilisation, where-ever it went, systematically and categorically 'erased' the indigenous, and I am not saying metaphorically.

I live in NZ and the history and injustice here have been bloody, like any European occupied colony. The Maoris still suffer from systemic oppression here.

The cultural whitewashing is something that has always been operating at the intellectual echelons of 'European/white supremacy', they usually move into the scene to carry their jobs, after the military/warlords/mercenaries have cleared the scene.

And trust me, I do get the point you are trying to make, but that doesn't apply here. Nor I am saying that ideas from other cultures shouldn't be subjected to valid criticism or that Europeans should bear the brunt for it.

And if you do study history of other colonies a bit, you will find that police in colonies like India was created to instil the fear and British dominance in locals, with guns and batons.

The police there hasn't been reformed even now and is still brutal, following the same standards set by the British.

So there is a degree of truth in that congresswomen's words.

The idea of free markets existed in India, Arabia and China long before this, the 'Silk route/road' gave birth to first truly global and free market with many 'bazaars'. There is a whole book in Sanskrit named as "Arthashastra", which was written in 3rd century BCE.

This is again some kind of whitewashing the history where Europeans seem to have invented everything and nothing ever happened before them.