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acd10j··on Boris Johnson cancels India trip amid rising cases
So after Facebook, Twitter and Indian media, Modi propaganda bots have started bombarding HN as well !
acd10j··on Facebook removed fake accounts in India until it saw BJP politician was involved
I think they know that if they will not tow Ruling party (BJP) line they will lose another billion user market just like China. It is unfortunate that Modi Government is employing fascist/communist techniques of slowly killing democracy and dissent.
acd10j··on SpaceX raises $1.16B in equity financing
*And yeah, things have changed since then* and who enabled those changes ? Progress is not function of time, if left to themselves, ULA , Arian et al, would have never let these launch costs go down. Even now Falcon 9 and Falcon heavy is capable of launching a very high orbits with quite good payload. Which will be further boosted by Star-ship.
acd10j··on Does the Kremlin want Alexei Navalny to die in prison?
People like you are the reason you don't have any choise, World is increasing turning to dictators, same thing is being propogated in India in form of Modi, anyone else is being ridiculed.
acd10j··on Is that ship still stuck?
Some of the news stories like this: https://nypost.com/2021/03/24/giant-container-ship-blocking-... are claiming that ship is partially free, what does it mean ? I am confused ....
acd10j··on Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet
You yourself has stated elsewhere in this thread that Bitcoin is literally just 12 Years old. You might also have stake in bitcoins/cryptocurrency survival. It is necessary for any success of any Ponzi scheme that people become it's fierce backer. But until unless it does deliver any tangible benefit to overall financial system (less overall transaction cost etc.) It is a ponzi scheme. There are long list of soft ponzi scheme (e.g. Amway) that have been running for decades. That does not mean they do not have Ponzi style pump and dump behavior. Bitcoin as it stands (huge waste of energy, Very high transaction cost) is failing in all of it's intended use cases.
acd10j··on Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet
Bitcoin seems like a huge Ponzi scheme, just with any other Ponzi scheme, its adopters fiercely fighting and trying to silence anyone who dares to utter anything opposing it. Bitcoin as it stands today has potential to destroy all the gains we have made in clean energy and bringing zero carbon offsets. Bill gates is right that it is massively inefficient in what is supposed to be doing. That is doing transactions. Just like previous bubble runs this Bitcoin bull run again will die down, with many of same people holding this worthless bag.
acd10j··on Beyond Meat signs global supply deals with McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut
After reading some of the comments, I am increasingly thinking that People who eat beef/meat regularly will still seek Original/Farm grown/actual cattle beef. And Beyond meat style beef will be used for turning vegetarian people to get taste of beef, so that they can graduate to real beef later. Non Vegetarian people will never accept climate impact their eating habits have on environment.
acd10j··on Rocket Lab Unveils Plans for New 8-Ton Class Reusable Rocket
I Just read this press release, Only first stage of Neutron is reusable like Falcon 9. So No it will not be fully reusable like Star-ship.

Relevant paragraph: The medium-lift Neutron rocket will be a two-stage launch vehicle that stands 40 meters (131 feet) tall with a 4.5-meter (14.7 ft) diameter fairing and a lift capacity of up to 8,000 kg (8 metric tons) to low-Earth orbit, 2,000 kg to the Moon (2 metric tons), and 1,500 kg to Mars and Venus (1.5 metric tons). Neutron will feature a reusable first stage designed to land on an ocean platform, enabling a high launch cadence and decreased launch costs for customers. Initially designed for satellite payloads, Neutron will also be capable of International Space Station (ISS) resupply and human spaceflight missions.

acd10j··on Google could have killed Facebook with the flick of a switch
Facebook's real moat is it's massive user base not it's ad revenue, even losing 25% of it's revenue would not have effected or killed Facebook, Only building better viral social network could have killed it. Ad revenue is just a side effect of this massive moat. Just like Google can survive a temporary year or 2 of 25% drop in revenue if their search dominance continues or increases but not opposite.
acd10j··on Shorting and Indian capital markets
But Person A etc after lending no longer own stock, as they have lended it. They no longer have possesion of stock, If they now wants to sell their stock they first would need to get it it back from Person B, Which needs it back from Person C etc. Only one person can actually sell stock which is person E, as he has possession of stock. So if there is actual demand of selling a stock a high enough price, So in case person A wants his stock back he will either demand premature cancellation of his lending/leasing of stock, or wait for his lending period to end.
acd10j··on What my retraction taught me
After making Dockerfile you can additionally push your built docker image to docker hub or other public facing repo, People can then directly pull your docker image in case any issue with Dockerfile.
acd10j··on Canada to apply GST/HST to short-term rentals booked online
I can see no mention in article of Airbnb asking for a bailout in Canada and in turn Canada slapping a tax.
acd10j··on Taking Over 20K DigitalOcean Domains via a Lax Domain Import System (2016)
Does anyone know whether this issue was fixed by Digital ocean after 4 years ? or you can still add anyone else's Domain name in your account in digital ocean, even after so much outrage back then ?
acd10j··on Firefox 83 introduces HTTPS-Only Mode
Yes this is the same thing that happens with me, all unencrypted websites are redirected to adware. On phone i use 1.1.1.1 app from cloudfare but on other devices this is still issue.
acd10j··on Firefox 83 introduces HTTPS-Only Mode
At least in my case network provided DNS are the worst, Full of spyware, and tracking.
acd10j··on Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, trials show
I am also recovering from Covid, One of the things you need to be aware of your oxygen level, Oximeters are very cheap. Keep track of them if level is below 95 Get Chest X Ray or/and Chest CT Scan done to check lung calcification. If there is significant lung damage then get hospitalized for emergency.
acd10j··on They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)
Still same things is being repeated with Demonisation of Muslims in India, Just that it is more of level of 1933 or even earlier level. So ruling party and their supporters can field not the same defence while slowly boiling frog and killing dissent.
acd10j··on The battle for the soul of digital freedom taking place inside your printer
I find InkTank Printers (where instead of cartridge you can fill Ink directly) good middle ground between exploitative inkjet cartridge vs Laser. Using from Canon Pixma without any issues.
acd10j··on Send Payments in India with WhatsApp
There was very little effect of Demonetization on UPI adoption, Growth rate of UPI was already very good before demonetization , Very little effect of Demonetization on it's adoption, Covid-19 actually gave more boost to UPI adoption of late. Don't any believe lies propagated by ruling parties.
acd10j··on Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in your terminal
I think comparison list with other editors gives good introduction about what to expect from ox, For any terminal text editor comparison with vim, emacs is inevitable. It is good to know authors opinions.
acd10j··on Google users locked out after 15 years' use
How would you do google checkout once they have banned your account with no access ? Even if you have done it majority of people suffering from this fate will not have google checkout data or access to it !
acd10j··on Google users locked out after 15 years' use
More than enough ,Please check average revenue per user figurs of Google at such a large scale. They are one of the most profitable companies. We are paying by our data, actual money using value added services (google one etc.) It is very bad to say that we have no leg to complain.
acd10j··on Google users locked out after 15 years' use
All of the advice after fact would not help a person who actually lost his account. Nor if you are among 99.9 % of population who don’t know how to setup your own mailserver etc. Lots of advice here seems like victim blaming. If you have lost your google account then somehow it’s your fault. For me it seems a nightmare if it does happen to me as well. Can we discuss solutions that can help general public in these situations.
acd10j··on iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro
Iphone uses orignial kinect style lidar which throws IR beam and captures back results (apple bought primesense which was the manufacturer of original kinect) , These lidar don't work that good under direct sunlight, So cannot be used in cars.
acd10j··on Bleeding-edge tech will kill your startup
Sometimes I read comments first before deciding to read article.
acd10j··on India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps
Alibaba and aliexpress are not popular in india, hardly anyone uses them in India. May be that’s why they were spared banning.
acd10j··on Landlord-friendly, self-install solar and battery kit
Can you link invertor/charger/battery, would be interested for some hobby project of mine (not solar powered)
acd10j··on ISS Docking Simulation
Who do you think docks their uncrewed dragon capsule? They definitely have automated docking. This is for emergency manual override.
acd10j··on L.A. Times to Furlough Workers as Ad Revenue ‘Nearly Eliminated’
Then it would be indirectly controlled by Government in power,In effect WORSE than current state.
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