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According to William Dalrymple, India was once responsible for a third of the world's GDP, with the most advanced textile industry in the world before the East India Company dismantled it.

A Sanskrit origin is intriguing.

Thanks! It must have been the r/programming parody thread I was thinking of as I couldn't find the reference here.

That 4chan pretends its Hacker News thread still lives in my head.

I still remember "Show HN: Clitly, my app for finding the Clitoris".

Wait till people discover file(1)!

Any respect I may have had for Jack Black was completely lost when he did this.

When his money was on the line he chose his side and showed his true self.

Gotta pay for those 'jelly beans' somehow!

Pretty much, yes.

How's that gonna pan out with Motorola?

Shamelessly hijacking this story to recommend The Private Eye digital comic [0]. Set in a future where everyone has normalised the wearing of masks in public to preserve their anonymity. The protagonist refuses to get a driving license because he wouldn't want a photo of himself in a database.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Private_Eye

> way less people (including myself) would have never heard about it

I think the never here is a typo.

I wonder if that means 18.7.4 is vulnerable for all the Liquid Glass haters?

He is one of us :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gaasedelen

I had many Xbox 360s with flashed DVD drive firmware back in the day. But as I never owned a slim console I had no idea the drill/Kamikaze hack was a thing until now.

Submarines in 1713?

That's mind blowing to me. I'd imagine they out earn a significant percentage of HN posters!

> highly paid school admin

I would not have expected a school administrator to be highly paid. What kind of salary are we talking about here?

The owners of production paying taxes?! Seems unlikely.

No handsets until at least 2027.

I can't recommend Heretic by Ayaan Hirsi Ali enough.

Faultman.

> It's shocking how few people have seen this show, let along watched it

Huh?

Can confirm. Currently in week 3 of caffeine detox. The first week is brutal but by now I am waking up with energy even if I don't get a full 8hrs of sleep.

I only wish other countries would implement the same policies. It seems wrong to me that someone should be able to influence the politics of a country they can't speak the language of.

How this is not obvious common sense surprises me. Otherwise significant portions of the population of any EU country could get jobs in another one and then start influencing its politics just because they "pay tax". Essentially colonising the country.

Having rewatched that movie recently I found it absurd that all the killer would have had to have done to evade capture was purchase books with cash.

Surely you mean a worker owned factory.

> Uh, the accounting subdirectory in the Gibson is working really hard.

> We got one person online, the workload is enough for like ten users. I think we've got a hacker.

There's another two soundtracks!

https://www.discogs.com/release/1423591-Various-Hackers%C2%B...

https://www.discogs.com/release/131024-Various-Hackers%C2%B3

> You're gonna love New York. It's the city that never sleeps.

The film that is most mined for recordings is 'Fela Kuti - Music is the Weapon'.

There's an English cut and a French cut.

The French cut doesn't hide the cannabis use and you'll see people rolling spliffs and Fela taking his 'Fela Gold' 'medicine' which was something like a cannabis rosin.

It's very good, but in the end I was disappointed with how uncritical it was.

I bought the vinyl reissue of The Best of the Black President.

I think it was a mistake that Fela's cousin's criticisms were only briefly mentioned.

As well as leaving Seun Keuti unchecked after screaming "bitch, get me a pen!".

I also found it funny that they used Barack Obama's name in the marketing release but you only ever hear about ~30 seconds from him!