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I've heard similar things said about the new Royal Enfield motorcycles here in India. The redesigned J-series engines on their new motorcycles are smoother and I've heard some peop…

Your responded to a comment that brought up Japan *in comparision with Europe.*

You claim that "I said Tokyo has shit air" while ignoring the parent comment you responded to. The comment you responded to was about how this low noise experience is not unique to…

>And yet everything they make sells out. Almost like it's worth the price. I dont think, A implies B. With great marketing and lower volume production, you could probably make most…

> A cardinal rule of choosing restaurants is to avoid the ones with huge, unfocused menus. Take Behrouz Biriyani and Faasos in India. These are operated by the same company - and a…

> If remote working was a point on the collective organizing table then management would be able to request mitigating actions to compensate for whatever they felt was lost because…

> There are certainly better ways to communicate your point than this. Well, do tell. Passing along a petition sounds like a very low impact way of collectively asking for somethin…

> There are lots of things I’m sure you and I might find interesting. But HN doesn’t benefit from the practice of “ooh, let me use this topic as a pretense to post something I want…

>> Nobody should be rewarded for that. > One strike, you're out? Is that the rule you judge by? That's how law works isn't it? Just because you've done a lot of good things doesn't…

> Codespaces costs money. It's going to be paid by your employer which leads to GP's concern about, > or build a productivity dashboard so managers can fire people for not being pr…

Amazon does operate its own sellers but through joint ventures - but the link isn't openly acknowledged on the site. The largest one is Cloudtail. Another is Appario. Amazon just a…

The problem I find is that when apps are created for the common-denominator, they alienate the power users that usually create the content that the rest consume. https://en.wikiped…

Do you think once you are charged with possessing child porn - will you still have your job, your friends, your family, your life as you know it? Will a court decision - months or …

My understanding (outsider perspective, based on what people have told me) is a combination of silly complicated laws pushed by politicians to keep people from abusing the service,…

When recipes say "caramelize/cook/brown/soften onions for 5 min", what they almost always mean is soften onions until they're a bit brown not caramelize. The brown bits are the res…

> "having a robot" is not a problem statement It is if what you want is a robot.

90% viewers / consumers of content, 9% who contribute a little (comments and occasional posts,) 1% who actively generate majority of content https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule…

Security != Privacy

The theory (conspiracy or otherwise) that I've heard is that the Russian state looks the other way as long as ransomware makers don't affect Russian systems. So they exclude system…

> I have a problem with their quality being crap and making little effort with update and improvement If they are in a monopolistic position, why would they bother with the expense…

I have Youtube Music (through Premium) and it's still annoying. Especially when it decides some cover version on Youtube is "for Kids" and then refuses to play in the background. W…

> To take that and open source the secret sauce of a fragile startup in a competitive market.. i think that's absolute bollocks. Replit is not the first to pioneer running code onl…

> criticizing a lack of originality boils down to "this product isn't useful" in general yes, but in this case the criticism is warranted when Replit is claiming that that the open…

Say you interned for Twitter for a while - and you decided to create a small open-source self-hosted microblogging site for you to play around with. Bad taste? Unethical? I think t…