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Unpopular opinion for non Indians: People favor ones from same caste is very unreal. They don't like to see others in same caste being as successful as they are.

shanthon Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome

nah i just need to use tor with chrome to get the same effect as firefox.

shanthon Matrix.org hacked

It's been a while seeing UUoC awards on a random internet discussion.

shanthon Researchers: It takes 1.5 MB of data to store language information

Superposition / quantum mechanical

shanthon Canada grounds Boeing 737 Max 8

If this turns out to be a software bug of dangling pointer... oh imagine that poor developer has to take all the karma of lost lives...

shanthon Twitter Still Can't Keep Up with Its Flood of Junk Accounts, Study Finds

That's Justin sun in action.

shanthon Show HN: Mankatha-da – Tweet SHA256 version of your 2019 goals and prove later

I guess blockchain is needed only as a secure timestamp server to prove that some thing isn't said before / after a specific time. But here Twitter is acting as a trusted timestamp server once you tweet it.

shanthon Ask HN: What are you thankful for?

dear me, thank you for being me.

shanthon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)

  H+2zDGj16c9xddkNG1W7baTRQUKjy7SI5A2wjM9r8FG8fdTqUrEgfLJt4Ops+Zf3o70gJQPtz3hRVd3aBpQGltkDL2ztuTEiCr8OUG0DWsuihBzbt1+ornhO2YpwyMwVhT4SFfk6066uSVz5wD8og8bw6L1w43IfbdhsdQ6/jlBPNhYmI6CWgo9SHYyX5sLCPrQHBpTU6w71lgvj5q5oDRpfV4J2vt4BEjLX/MwnnbpENX/LIE0JnDu/Jxen8vXwHwHH+dqyNx3ZhYsEao8ATv1f8A5m4Ek/Fs+pbZhKiihEepfnSDKxhgdRpgk4jLzYgJFHrfRs1raTFfconU14GA==

shanthon Ask HN: How do you pay remote employees in different countries?

it's called Bitcoin.

shanthon Ask HN: What's your favorite elegant/beautiful algorithm?

sleep sort https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithms/Sleep_sort#U...

shanthon Dark Side of the Mac: Appearance and Materials

i just read it as "NSA ppearance"

shanthon Uber Co-Founder Travis Kalanick Said to Plan Sale of 29% of Stake

He plans to buy XRP & TRX :P

shanthon Genetic Evidence on the Origins of Indian Caste Populations

Why is the article biased more towards Hindi???? Even Telugu is cited more but there isn't any word about Tamil?? Our history from literacy works says different!

shanthon Tamil Bell

_/\_

shanthon Avremu: An AVR Emulator Written in Pure LaTeX

Wut??? O_O

shanthon Why GNU Emacs?

> "doing only one thing and doing it well".

Emacs does only one thing. And does that one thing very well - "Extensibility"