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xNeil··on Now DuckDuckGo is building its own desktop browser
If you use Chrome, aren't you sending all your data to google directly? Can any number of plugins ensure your privacy?
xNeil··on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Twitter Account Gets Hacked
I doubt Modi's a nobody. Prime Minister of the world's second largest population, fifth largest economy and largest democracy seems like more than a nobody.
xNeil··on Chrome users beware: Manifest v3 is deceitful and threatening
They also accept private donations: https://vivaldi.com/contribute/

Not affiliated in any way, just thought if someone wanted to, they might donate.

xNeil··on Know how the Beatles ended? Peter Jackson may change your mind
Why are you being downvoted? It's a nice joke :)
xNeil··on Finishing my first game while working full-time
Funniest comment I've read in a while :)
xNeil··on Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser
It seems Brave tones down or deals with most of the creepy stuff in Chromium. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-...
xNeil··on A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography
https://www.coursera.org/learn/crypto2 Is this it?
xNeil··on MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
Really? Looks very cool to me. Matter of opinion, I guess :)
xNeil··on Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions
I was planning on switching to Safari - any idea on how private it really is?
xNeil··on Singapore population sees biggest percentage drop since 1950
India's corruption rank was 94 before Modi came, and is currently 85, which is the highest it has been since Modi came. It has reduced quite a bit I'd say.
xNeil··on Stop Waiting for Godot
You can get your game on the PlayStation Store (http://www.lonewolftechnology.com/- I believe it's by one of the founders of Godot), or the Switch, although the company doesn't port to Oculus.
xNeil··on California family dies under mysterious circumstances
Will increasing the concentration matter? Obviously I know nothing on the subject, but drinking 10ml of poison in 100ml of water must be as harmful, and thus toxic, to me as 10ml of poison in 50ml water, right?

Or we're assuming they don't drink all the water, in which case 20ml of the first solution will be less toxic than 20ml of the second.

xNeil··on Creating a DOOM-inspired aesthetic with PlayCanvas
PlayCanvas is MIT-licensed. https://github.com/playcanvas/engine
xNeil··on China bans for-profit school tutoring in sweeping overhaul
Check out NPTEL - it's Khan Academy, but by the government. Don't know about other streams, but for Engineering, it has IIT Professors teaching the lectures.
xNeil··on India bans MasterCard from adding new customers
Demonetization in 2016 turned out to be a horrible move, that backfired a bit, although I supported it when it came out.

GST implementation has been quite successful, FDI has increased since Modi came to power. The pandemic, of course, has been pretty bad, with the GDP contracting 8% in 2020.

xNeil··on India bans MasterCard from adding new customers
FDI in India was $35 Billion when Modi came to power, and is >$50 Billion today. Are you being sarcastic?
xNeil··on Twitter begins hiring to comply with India’s new rules
My question exactly - I'd love to hear someone's take on this. Both are misinformation campaigns, and both result in violence.

I don't see why Trump should be banned but accounts tweeting that the government is planning a genocide should not (be banned). I'd say both bans were fair.

xNeil··on The YouTube revolution in knowledge transfer (2019)
Thank you very much!
xNeil··on Twitter begins hiring to comply with India’s new rules
The hashtags insinuated the government was planning a farmer genocide.

Source: https://m.economictimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/govt-se...

xNeil··on Custom domain names are coming to iCloud mail with iCloud+
Any sources? Happy Zoho customer here.
xNeil··on The YouTube revolution in knowledge transfer (2019)
Any channels you might recommend?
xNeil··on Off the Grid Messenger
That's what the JioPhone does, but only in India :)
xNeil··on MIT and Harvard agree to transfer edX to ed-tech firm 2U
Second this. They're genuinely amazing, with IIT professors teaching their subjects (for engineering).

It's basically Indian OCW.

xNeil··on French search firm Qwant seeks €8M Huawei bailout loan
That's an excellent website, thank you very much for your suggestion!
xNeil··on Stride Game Engine
That is a wonderful channel, I can attest to that. Superb content, and he's focused on one thing - testing, reviewing and recommending game development tools.
xNeil··on Brave, the false sensation of privacy
I trust them personally. Jon von Tetzchner, the founder of Opera, left Opera to start Vivaldi once he felt management wasn't doing things the right way.
xNeil··on French search firm Qwant seeks €8M Huawei bailout loan
> Qwant should be dead, it is said most of its index is served by Bing anyway.

Almost all search engines apart from Google use the Bing Index, including DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Excite, Lycos, and Yahoo! Search. [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines

xNeil··on New Firefox
Hi! Not sponsored or anything, but if you want a separate search bar, Vivaldi (vivaldi.com) has that. Just thought it might help.
xNeil··on An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform (2012)
We should have something like the Wikipedia list of lists of lists, sorted by HN submissions on several topics.
xNeil··on An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform (2012)
Surprisingly for me, it's the other way around! Equations build intuition in my case, although I'm not sure why.
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