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Can confirm this. Can't access reddit from both the web and through API powered indie app on Android.

Most likely a fastly issue as other commenters mentioned.

I'd argue the opposite -- why not order from Amazon?

Lots of folks have come to trust Amazon's reliability and customer service over the years, so it does make sense for customers to order expensive things from Amazon or any other online store, especially with a pandemic going around.

This incident in particular does seem to be an outlier, and we'll have to see how Amazon resolves it.

Yes. Judicial overreach is as common as bribery in India.

> On 7 June 1981, a flight of Israeli Air Force F-16A fighter aircraft, with an escort of F-15As, bombed the Osirak reactor deep inside Iraq.

Well, the fighter jets and weapons system platform (a pair of Mark-84 unguided bombs fitted to each aircraft) they used in those airstrikes were made by aerospace companies in the United States (General Dynamics and McDonnel Douglas), so I think American companies did have a role to play, however indirectly.

There's no denying Israel wouldn't exist today (at least not the form it presently exists) if not for the timely and generous support and assistance (militarily, monetarily and in spirit) from the United States of America -- just an observation!

Among the few good movies that captured the essence of the Cold War.

"There are some games where the best move is to not play."

Absolutely. Came here to say this.

Remember back in 2014 when Mark Zuckerberg promised that WhatsApp will function as a standalone app, completely sandboxed from the rest of the Facebook ecosystem?

That didn't happen, did it?

That thread was a good chuckle though -- a bunch of mostly software devs brainstorming on freeing one of the biggest containers ships from their comfy armchairs. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26585282

Ah ActiveX -- a gold mine for malicious actors.

I found out about screen-sharing through browser when I started using Discord app on the web. Was a very revealing moment for me when it came to insane advances in web technology.

Absolutely blown away by the number of things you can do from a web browser these days. All of this would've been unimaginable a mere 10 years ago, right around the time when Google Chrome was in its infancy (or just out of it, to be precise) and the web browser market was still dominated by Internet Explorer, with Opera, Firefox and Safari (back when there was a Windows version of Safari) taking up small slices of the market share.

Another cool site to check out: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org -- a great tool to see how unique your browser's 'fingerprint' is and how well it protects you from trackers and other annoyances online.

A WIRED article from 2015 talking about the benefits of browsing the web without JavaScript: https://www.wired.com/2015/11/i-turned-off-javascript-for-a-...

Banning crypto is just the tip of the iceberg. The administration in power currently has massively damaged the confidence of international investors as well as the citizens in India by taking extremely heavy-handed top-down and often ill-planned decisions. See 2016 demonetization, 2020 national lockdown and the 2021 farm protests.

Also the country is veering towards authoritarianism rapidly, and this bitcoin ban is just a mere symptom of a much much larger problem that lies ahead for India.

I was talking about the 'brain drain' in that context.

Didn't this exact same story get posted earlier today that later got flagged as a [dupe]?!

Here's the link to the post made earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26460907

That said, this move -- if enacted into law -- will be an incredibly foolish act on the Indian government's part and will act as a catalyst in driving away the next generation of bright young Indian innovators and engineers from the country.

Just give it some time. Once the user base swells up I'm sure the site will witness a general decline in quality, unless the moderation tools catch up.

This is something I've seen with countless forums and message boards over the years, i.e. Quora, Yahoo Answers, etc.

Thank you. This was really insightful.

It's always easy to overvalue products/services that are based on number of users than on actual improvements in a narrow but highly technical field with a super-high barrier of entry.

The number of active users is one of the most enticing metric a VC firm can lay its eyes on.

Edit: For context, the parent comment is talking about Salesforces' acquisition of Slack [0]

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/01/salesforce-buys-slack

Posted this last time and posting this again as a PSA:

A bit of a side-note, but this needs to be said: articles like these should be a good wake-up call for crypto users that are still using web-based wallets (and their accompanying apps for mobile platforms) especially for storing LARGE amounts of cryptocurrency -- you're essentially trusting a third-party exchange (with many of them using opaque ToS and PP) with your private keys and as a result your funds (especially those platforms that don't use multi-sig architecture). And crypto exchanges' data breaches/hacks is getting more common by the day. [0] Even Bitcoin.org has stopped recommending web-based wallets, like they were doing just a couple of years ago.

The best alternative is hardware wallets, but a good middle-ground is using self-managed, 'semi-cold' software wallets like Electrum, Armory, etc. [1][2]

[0] https://selfkey.org/list-of-cryptocurrency-exchange-hacks/

[1] https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/wallets/online/

[2] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1741339.0

A bit of a side-note, but this needs to be said: articles like these should be a good wake-up call for crypto users that are still using web-based wallets (and their accompanying apps for mobile platforms) especially for storing LARGE amounts of cryptocurrency -- you're essentially trusting a third-party exchange (with many of them using opaque ToS and PP) with your private keys and as a result your funds (especially those platforms that don't use multi-sig architecture). And crypto exchanges' data breaches/hacks is getting more common by the day. [0]

Even Bitcoin.org has stopped recommending web-based wallets, like they were doing just a couple of years ago.

The best alternative is hardware wallets, but a good middle-ground is using self-managed, 'semi-cold' software wallets like Electrum, Armory, etc. [1][2]

[0] https://selfkey.org/list-of-cryptocurrency-exchange-hacks/

[1] https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/wallets/online/

[2] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1741339.0

Happy birthday in advance.

As a 24 y/o who struggled with forming meaningful friendships in my teen years, your comment as someone in their 40s was soothing.

I'd like to reach that stage of life where I internalize the fact that other's validation doesn't matter as much as I think it does.

I completely and wholly understand -- intellectually -- that other folks opinion and/or attention toward me shouldn't have an impact on my self-esteem and well-being (and just like many others, I've even read whole books on this very topic), but putting it into practice has been a struggle and I find it super hard to fight against the in-built and well-oiled 'validation seeking' neural circuitry up in my head.

I agree that it's better than the new mobile web, but its design still feels super clunky and dated.

I remember a certain version of mobile web in 2017/2018 that worked GREAT. But then reddit decided to mess it all up by forcing mobile web users to use their (bloated and ad-filled) app and making it hard to access certain communities and read more than 2 layers of child comments.

I guess that's what relentless pursuit of advertising money/monetization targets over actually listening to the community (that made the product what it is now in the first place) does to a company.

On a side note, really hope reddit's engineering team doesn't kill off their 'old.reddit.com' domain though. That's probably the only thing keeping me from dumping reddit altogether (aside from their API-powered custom reddit apps made by indie devs for Android).

I'm absolutely for it. The more competition in the space, the better.

I hope recent software advances in ARM by Apple pushes Microsoft to focus more of their efforts in building a competent translation software layer for x86-64 apps (in contrast to their current garbage-ish emulation layer that makes their ARM devices running legacy x86-64 apps nearly unusable, in some cases) like Rosetta 2.

And also hoping those advances by MSFT in turn push Apple to make an even better version of Rosetta 2 (because mainstream x86-64 apps will probably be around at least for the next couple of decades, imo), leading to a 'golden age' of sorts for translation/emulation software.

>but poorer nations may hold out for future vaccines that remain stable at higher temperatures and only require a single dose.

Valid point, but I feel there's never been a better time for massively pushing this vaccine (after proper testing and regulatory approval, of course) to medium/low income countries.

Winter should make it much easier in managing the temperature range stability required for storing/shipping the vaccine, especially in countries around the equatorial region.

Doing it in late spring/summer will not be a good idea (assuming a better vaccine doesn't come out by then).

>Across the iPhone family, we’re removing the power adapter and EarPods that often go unused, but including the fast-charging USB‑C to Lightning cable that most people need. That shrinks packaging, and more boxes per shipment means fewer shipments overall. We’re also transitioning our manufacturing partners to renewable energy. Altogether, this eliminates over 2 million metric tons of carbon emissions annually.

Looks like Apple will start a trend by manufacturers of not including power bricks with their devices.

Great idea and decent implementation. The concept sounds great and I hope the site grows.

Also I'll put in a little plug here for /r/BuyItForLife/ -- great subreddit for talking/sharing about products that aren't engineered with planned obsolescence in mind.

+1 for nitter.

Also see invidio.us (alternative YouTube frontend) and Bibliogram (alternative Instagram frontend).

[0] https://invidio.us

[1] https://bibliogram.art

Thank you. Tried that as well, still throws up a string of letters and numbers. But the frequency this time seemed a bit more consistent, so the trick is to apply some sort of frequency analysis, I guess. Still on it.

BTW, are there any more of such 'puzzle hunt' websites where you could play around and sharpen your decoding skills? Thanks!

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Amusingly, I learned about Minitel just a few hours ago when I stumbled upon this video from John Stossel's show (obligatory thanks to YouTube algorithm) where he mentions Minitel as an exhibit of government/public sector's failure to innovate and a way for the French government to 'control the growth' of this new technology before private players. Here's the video (with the exact time stamp) where Mr. Stossel talks about Minitel -- https://youtu.be/rOkkqoDJl-s?t=208

I then searched the web (through Google) for information on Minitel and this IEEE article showed up.

Other commenters have pretty much mentioned all of the interesting channels that I consume out there, so I'll add a couple more educational channels I find interesting:

* What I've Learned (science behind health and fitness) --https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqYPhGiB9tkShZorfgcL2lA

* Lemmino (general stuff) -- https://www.youtube.com/lemmino

* Wendover Productions (aviation/transportation/logistics) -- https://www.youtube.com/user/Wendoverproductions

* Second Thought (general trivia) -- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJm2TgUqtK1_NLBrjNQ1P-w

Thank you, just landed safely. Glad that this flight of mine won't be part of Boeing's fat book of hull loss statistics.