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Things to remember when you create a new account: 1. an alias for profile name rather than real name 2. don't put your picture in your profile

This way, you can add people you want to, and you'll not get requests from people you're hiding from.

"people's app store didn't always have what I need."

This gave me a chuckle.

With respect to pronunciation, I think it’s a trait different than language learning(grammar, vocabulary) itself. For example, I learnt Japanese(not fluent) when I was 25, and people in class were surprised at how good my pronunciation was. Same with when I learnt German(limited proficiency) 3 yrs ago. Recently. I taught myself to sing a few French songs. When people listen to me sing, they get surprised that I don’t speak french.

Perhaps I have an advantage in this area, as I grew up speaking three different unrelated languages, introducing me to wider range of phonetic sounds very early in life.

China did make Hongkong Bookstore owners disappear(some of them disappeared while visiting China), because they were selling books(banned in mainland china) in Hongkong.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/03/magazine/the-case-of-hong...

Use firefox, and while the page text loads click on the "Reader View" before the pop-up loads.

https://prod-cdn.sumo.mozilla.net/uploads/gallery/images/201...

Brian Krebs wrote two posts on the Phishing part.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/02/iphone-robbers-try-to-ip...

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/03/if-your-iphone-is-stolen...

Personally, i lost my iPhone 3 yrs ago, since then I have got many phishing emails, which leads to an Apple-like website. I always type something like, "betterlucknexttime" for password, just for fun.

Even for Pixel 3, the free unlimited storage with original resolution is till Jan 31, 2022. I wonder what happens to photos stored after that. Downgraded and resized?

https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6220791?co=GENIE.Pl...

I stopped refrigerating eggs, when i found out I can make better fried eggs if they're at room temperature. :)

"if you keep your eggs in the fridge, then you should let them come to room temperature before cooking – if you start with a cold egg, then you're more likely to end up overcooking the yolk trying to get the white to set."

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2012/no...

"organised Abhrahamic religion"

Non-abrahamic religions like Hinduism,Jainism, Buddhism, believes in existence of world systems other than current one.

Buddhism is especially is accommodative in terms of acceptance, of evidences that refutes Buddhist world view[0].

[0]http://www.openculture.com/2016/09/carl-sagan-the-dalai-lama...

A more nuanced dissection of whose fault it was or could be[0].

"Huang was apparently fooled many times by Autopilot. In fact, he reportedly experienced the exact same system failure that led to his fatal crash at the same location on at least seven occasions." ...........

"Huang knew that Autopilot could not be relied on in the circumstances where he was commuting along the 101 freeway in Mountainview, California. Yet he persisted in both using the system and ignoring the alerts that the system apparently gave him to put his hands on the wheel and take full control." ..........

"Elon Musk and Tesla should be held to account for the way they have rolled out and promoted Autopilot. But users like Walter Huang are probably not the poster children for this accountability."

[0]https://www.forbes.com/sites/samabuelsamid/2019/05/01/the-pr...

The guy was an Apple engineer, so most probably he was also technologically literate enough to know the difference(despite whatever Tesla's marketing material claims).

Somewhat related.

Farmer Suicide occurring from unmanageable debt, is also a well-known phenomenon in India,

The worst is, even if you deny Linkedin access to your contacts. Your contacts will still show up in suggestions, because others have givein LinkedIn access to their contacts. And LinkedIn maps it with your Linkedin signup email address.

"Indians thinks that UAE gold is more pure than what they can get in USA or India."

Gold is cheaper in UAE than in India. That's why there are smuggler rings that give people(migrant workers) free tickets in exchange for carrying gold(that is within legally permissible limit), as human mule[0]. In some instances, they dupe migrant workers into carrying them[1].

[0] https://www.theblaze.com/news/2013/12/24/the-clever-way-almo...

[1]https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/migrant-w...

"music does cause suffering (according to the teachings)"

A mind attached to music causes suffering.

"The problem is not enjoyment; the problem is attachment." ~Tilopa

As far as India is concerned, Amazon is definitely giving a strong competition to Flipkart(the Indian counterpart). For most people I know, Amazon is the first go-to store for any online purchase.

It's interesting to see, how Amazon will fare in near future, due to recent change to e-commerce law by Indian govt.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/05/amazon-how-india-ecommerce-l...

"Chinese student who studies abroad must become a member of the Communist Party." . The chinese international students in US, have to become member of the Chinese Students Association. The association is a front for the Chinese govt via their Embassy to monitor the students.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/02/14/exclusive-chinese-gover...

Similar to how "Winnie the Pooh" is censored in Chinese social media. Because, a meme became popular comparing Xi Jinping to the character. https://www.businessinsider.in/Pictures-of-Winnie-the-Pooh-a...

In case of Linkedin, they do ask for consent. But, even if you didn't allow it to export your contacts, other people may have allowed it, linking their linkedin profile with your email address. LinkedIn then shows them to you as suggested connections. This personally bothered me for a while then.

On the experience part, this happened to me few times, when the project manager asked me for an estimation, i give it from my perspective and experience, and then he gives the work to someone else with no experience, and obviously takes more than estimated.

Now, i always give two estimates: An estimation if the work is done by me, and an estimation if the work is done by someone else.

There are public facebook groups, where sellers buy Amazon reviews. https://outline.com/qTE2TY

A recent example. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/world/asia/china-maoists-...

I wanted to say the same thing. Learning to cook your own food, gives you so much control. That is necessary, if one wants to control their weight.

I'm bit worried about the person(or the group) manning the 996.ICU github. The page states,"This is not a political movement".

But, the Chinese govt won't ignore for long, any kind of movement which maligns the reputation of China.

This happened with some of my friends, and locked them out of their gmail accounts(2FA disabled accounts). Google won't let them login to their accounts after providing correct password & SMS OTP.

Remaining options include: 1. give date(month year) of email sign-up, which most don't remember

2. pasword reset over alternate email address, which wasn't set during signup.

The only way for free gmail users to get help is support forum ran by gmail user volunteers, which didn't solve the problem. To me this approach to security, just seem super paranoic.

" Just think how lazy they were being when not actively being told to be more careful, and how lazy they might go back to being if this all blows over before significant internal change is made." -->Chabuduo, the chinese word for it. https://aeon.co/essays/what-chinese-corner-cutting-reveals-a...

Just today, I saw a a bunch of comments on an Insta page about selling blue ticks. I reported all of them as scam. Would be interesting to see, if Instagram responds with the de-facto "Doesn't violate community guidelines".

This has also been my experience. For most of posts/comments I report(which I think shouldn't be on Facebook), I get the default reply "not against communist standards".

Or a group of 3-4 people occupying the whole sidewalk coming towards(infront) of you, they see you coming, and still won't give space to let you pass. Most times, I just stand and stare at them. This even happens at work, when I am walking up the stairs.

"So they viewed it as people getting what they deserved." . As a Buddhist, quite baffling to read about this "friendly, intelligent, and perfectly reasonable" buddhist family.

In Mahayana Buddhism, which I follow and practice, special stress is given upon practice of compassion which requires seeing all sentient beings as your mother. So having a view similar to the family you referenced would be considered so un-buddhist.