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Interesting - how does this work? Do you use some kind of search API to search news sites and validate whether the condition has been satisfied?

The one topic that you left out was the online ads business!

I'm sure there are many Indians on HN, but they probably reside somewhere in the US.

Exactly, I was surprised by the lack of outrage at this.

hahaha, sneaky :)

Really cool. A potential use I can see for this is to help people go from raw data to visuals really quickly. I'm guessing that's the intended use. I wonder how your extension will…

Any system will have people who aren't performing well, and some fraction of those people will be tempted to cheat. Cheating in this case doesn't provide any indication that the sy…

Now you're not

I think their investment in DARPA has a positive externality for society. If we account for this externality, perhaps taxpayers enjoy a positive ROI?

This is a broad generalisation without supporting evidence - not sure if this helps improve the quality of the discussion. Can you substantiate your statement further?

The idea of a lab leak could either mean that legitimate research was happening on this virus and it got accidentally leaked, or that the virus was being prepared as a bio-weapon a…

The two actions people can take are: 1. Delete Facebook apps, Whatsapp and IG. This can have low to high utility loss for you, but has negligible effect on Facebook. It would have …

The modern Indian state takes a lot of its iconography from the Mauryan empire, most prominently the Lion Capital of Sarnath (image is in the article). It's super interesting to he…

You're right. Macs have excellent build quality and are durable as hell. Planned obsolescence with Apple is seen more with iPhones. There was the recent story about Apple slowing d…

I had the same impression, it's not like there are a limited number of rungs of wealth. Furthermore, I doubt that rich people believe that supporting higher taxes will have an imme…

I liked the picturisation of the different planets and of course, the time dilation effects. I think they're great for a general audience, who may not be exposed to the latest deve…

I'm wondering about how this impacts criticising the school. If the school does X, can the school punish students for discussing this action and criticising it? Feels like this all…

I see this as an attempt to implement a programming paradigm (i.e storytelling) that's radically different from existing paradigms. How are others interpreting this project? What's…

Is your concern about the vagueness of the proposed plans or the outrage at tax bills?

What do you mean by another 10 Mw? Out of the loop here.

Really interesting. I was wondering if there is evidence for this found in eastern Indo European societies like India or Iran.

I'm curious - what do you mean by million dollar memes?

> Energies are better used to build a prosperous and well-governed country rather than dwelling on who took what from whom in the past (everyone took whatever they could from every…

The problem is that there still linger rose-tinted visions of the British Raj in the minds of the British public and ruling class, which blinds many from the abject cruelty that wa…

Yes, it's a weird use of notorious. The commenter could have said 'famously generous' instead.