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dgaaaaaaaaaa··on The changing face of post-pandemic New York City
Why do you think the decrease in population is attributed to crime/lack of safety?
dgaaaaaaaaaa··on The new Bing will happily give you citations for a pile of nonsense
You would think HN would refrain from posting every single mistake for these things...
dgaaaaaaaaaa··on Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
Also small enough to make preheating near instant.
dgaaaaaaaaaa··on Uber pays millions resolving DOJ lawsuit for overcharging disabled people
Might be a stupid question. What was the reason for ditching?
dgaaaaaaaaaa··on How Urban Legend Destroyed the Ball Pit
An almost hour long Dashcon video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPwgSXZJcok
dgaaaaaaaaaa··on A university pays $400K to professor who refused to use a student's pronouns
Must be the first time courts have made the wrong decision then
dgaaaaaaaaaa··on A university pays $400K to professor who refused to use a student's pronouns
What if your boss had a Nazi flag pin on at work?
dgaaaaaaaaaa··on A university pays $400K to professor who refused to use a student's pronouns
The same reason most of us can't address customers and colleagues as idiots.

Employers fire employees who speak offensively even outside of work. Free speech doesn't mean speech without consequences.

dgaaaaaaaaaa··on A university pays $400K to professor who refused to use a student's pronouns
Sure they do. But not the right to say whatever you want at your job.
dgaaaaaaaaaa··on Europe's Software Problem
True. But I think the problems are more nuanced. It is just harder to scale across EU than US. You'll need localization, marketing, customer support separately set up for different languages/countries.
dgaaaaaaaaaa··on French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’
^ This is right. It happened because of Peter the Great's westward alignment of the royal machinery and continued till the last Tsar.
dgaaaaaaaaaa··on How To Be An Anti-Casteist
"felt like" Of course, you'll never know for sure if they meant to find out your caste. That's the point. If they wanted to be explicit about their objective, they could've asked for their caste.
dgaaaaaaaaaa··on A Tarahumara woman won a Mexican ultramarathon in sandals (2017)
I just finished reading 'Born to Run' that talks about Tarahumara and ultrarunning. I would recommend it for anyone looking for more info on this.
dgaaaaaaaaaa··on Apple rejects Valve’s Steam Link game streaming app over ‘business conflicts’
Apple has 60% of market-share in high-end phone market (worldwide, it's higher in US). Oh, it is a major player
dgaaaaaaaaaa··on Google is always listening: Live Test
This was refuted in reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/8bx9m7/google_is_al...
dgaaaaaaaaaa··on Apple CEO backs China’s ‘open’ Internet vision as censorship reaches new heights
> As long as India periphery is culturally diverse from Hindi core, India is not going to get anywhere.

Could you elaborate on why that might be?

dgaaaaaaaaaa··on Broadcom Explores Deal to Acquire Chipmaker Qualcomm
Commies Inc?
dgaaaaaaaaaa··on TransferWise announces $280M investment
Doesn't ICICI quote at least 2 rupees higher than the market rate? I have only sent money from INR to $
dgaaaaaaaaaa··on Google signs agreement with HTC
Or whatsapp. But then those were complete acquisitions
dgaaaaaaaaaa··on Facebook and Microsoft introduce ecosystem for interchangeable AI frameworks
pretty much
dgaaaaaaaaaa··on Google is paying Apple billions per year to remain on the iPhone
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dgaaaaaaaaaa··on That’s What She Said: Double Entendre Identification (2011) [pdf]
I think he didn't
dgaaaaaaaaaa··on India is set to launch a scale model of a reusable spacecraft on Monday
It could be just ignorance. I would bet that the journalist thought that space shuttle is a fancy word for rocket.
dgaaaaaaaaaa··on Why European Children Are Quieter
This is hilarious
dgaaaaaaaaaa··on Educated Germans avoid social media
Good for you! Is there any reason for this?
dgaaaaaaaaaa··on Poll: What is your primary programming language?
VHDL
dgaaaaaaaaaa··on Poll: What is your primary operating system
dual boot windows and linux