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I feel that when one's conveying sarcasm in electronic forms, a wink emoji goes a long way in making it clear. However the sarcasm purists might disagree.

I especially like the concept of topics in zulip. It helps maintain different subjects in a given channel, which is way more readable imo. I'm a big fan.

It is interesting to see that even animation studios outsource critical parts of the process to other parts of the world, albeit the last stage of animation after most of the creative process is complete. I think that really does prove how flat the world has become over the years.

Well, in that case this needs to change, because it is just not correct and offends both "Indian" Indians and native americans.

Not sure why openstack swift never went after apple's swift for using the same name. Swift, the opensource object store platform has been around for so many more years and is very well known in the tech world.

You do know that India is in Asia, right? Also, Sikhs more often than not are Indians. Sikhism just like many of the world's other religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism) was born in India.

If a song is on youtube (or any other website that youtube-dl searches in), this will download it. Language is not a constraint here.

Wait a sec. When you say you paid the realtor $300 to put the listing on MLS, do you mean that you used the realtor only for that service? Or was this in addition to the other services that a typical realtor generally provides?

I am trying to understand how easy it is to go about selling your house on your own using zillow etc, while saving on the sale commission etc that a realtor would have made otherwise.

I am not sure if the consumers really like and demand no pulp OJ or if it's one of those fads that are being pushed onto the consumers by the big brands. I for one prefer high pulp OJ any day, not for the fiber, but because it makes the juice taste so much better and fruitier. Without the pulp, the juice might as well be made from artificial flavors.

A slightly tangential question that I have tried looking for an answer in the FAQs but couldn't: what is the required karma to earn the downvote privilege? Couldn't find this documented anywhere. I apologize if I didn't look hard enough.

I guess that does sound close enough then.

I cannot think of a similar word in Hindi and other Indian languages (spoken by more than 1.2 Billion people). The closest is "Haan" in Hindi which literally means "yes" but is never used to express confusion over what the other person just said like huh is. Unless of course the person is influenced by English use of huh and has come to use it because of the usage in Western media.

If you just record a video with the default video/camera app on your phone, Google photos (assuming you have the app and have it set to auto backup at default quality) will back it up on the cloud.

Sounds about right

Who do you think is the common enemy of Ukraine, the Philippines, Mexico, and India?

I can totally relate to this. We use a slack equivalent app at my workplace and most of my days are spent trying to make sure I didn't miss an important conversation or a critical issue that I could have helped debug, instead of focusing my time and energy on the task at hand.

It does however help make the remote employees feel more in sync with the rest of the team, because now you're not missing out on the important discussions that would have happened in-person in the past, and you also have a chance to get to know your employees a little more personally. I guess it depends on the company culture to some extent but we seem to have moved all our water cooler discussions to this app.

Can we stop with the responses to the nyt article already? Boo hoo amazonians are offended by that piece.

I really don't understand the creep factor that everyone's talking about. To me it just looks like a metallic robotic arm. Am I missing anything?

I can eat spicy food quite fast, so don't agree with this one.

Can someone update the title to convey a little more context?

I really enjoy cooking and think that it lets me unleash my creativity in a way. Cooking from raw ingredients at home is not only easier on the pocket but helps make sure that you eat healthier. I started cooking only in grad school and YouTube and a variety of recipe websites were a blessing to ensure I knew what I was doing.

It's fairly easy to come up with a long list of shady practices that force me to not trust LinkedIn:

1. To start with, they sneaked in the request to access all your email contacts and constantly spam them in your name which can be embarrassing at times to say the least.

2. Their mobile apps do the same with your phone contacts, cleverly hiding the checkmark (in smallest font) to disallow the uploading of contacts. I have unknowingly let them look through my contacts at least two different times prompting me to never install their app again.

3. Letting others know that you viewed their profile. This is fine as long as you know about this feature but I bet that a bunch of us were taken by surprise in the early days to find out that our "online research" on someone was not private unless if you're incognito.

4. Charging you beyond the free trial period without any email or notification about it. I agree that many businesses do this but some of them like Amazon and Netflix are nice enough to allow you to disable the future payments before the trail ends. Also they tend to notify you about the payments.

5. Letting people have access to my email and other contact info even when I haven't accepted their request to connect. This may have been fixed with the recent change but may just have been one of those hidden features that led to their popularity with the recruiter world in the first place.

I am sure I missed out a bunch of other things here but these are the reasons why I can never trust LinkedIn.

Totally agree with this. If groups of 5 or more deserve a mandatory tip, so does a smaller group. Enforcing this will make life easier for the customer and the service giver.