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skruban··on What happened to Evernote? Where to go next?
Yup, I use Standard Notes for its privacy features. Got the 5 year plan some time ago, looks like they discontinued it.
skruban··on Ask HN: Share your personal site
https://www.skruban.com/

A simple site, just written in HTML/CSS last month :)

skruban··on Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes
Test!!
skruban··on A Soroban Beats an Electric Calculator (1946)
Reminds me of Feynman's interaction with an Abacus Salesman in "Surely, You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!".

https://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/abacus/feynman.html

skruban··on Caste discrimination in some of Silicon Valley's richest tech companies
As a Singaporean Indian (Tamil) I've always found caste identity talk in the US/India very intriguing. I've never heard caste mentioned here in SG; in fact I don't even know what caste I'm from. How would one identify your caste? Can't those from a lower caste just claim that they are brahmins?
skruban··on How Apple Is Organized for Innovation
> only "alternatives" are Facebook and (barely usable) SMS.

Why don't Americans use Telegram?

skruban··on People try to do right by each other, no matter the motivation, study finds
why would a biased insight be better than no insight? Depends on the amount of biasness, doesn't it?
skruban··on White nationalist group posing as antifa called for violence on Twitter
People aren’t against anti fascism as an ideology, they are against people using “anti fa” as a moniker to legitimize their violence.

It’s as daft as saying you’re against democracy because you dislike the democratic people’s Republic of Korea.