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Eh? Persians gave the name "Hindus" to the people living in that area. But they had their own religion, Zoroastrianism. They didn't bring Hinduism because they didn't have Hinduism.
Re:Brave Origin on Friday June 05, 2026 @01:32AM (#48408361)
There are people for whom that would be a value proposition. If that’s not you, well, you still get to keep the features you want for free.
Not quite randomuser.me, but 1Password integrates with Fastmail to generate masked emails on the fly.

https://1password.com/fastmail/

Re:The crash of Air France flight 447 (2021) on Friday August 11, 2023 @04:28PM (#37093619)
On a slightly different note, this sort of thing is what makes me question whether we can have an orderly progression from the current Level 2 self-driving in cars to Level 5. When a plane does most of its flying by itself, if it can cause this much chaos by handing control back to a trained pilot without much warning, how much worse would it be when a car hands control back to a inexperienced, distracted driver in tricky driving conditions... especially considering that reaction times need to be much faster on the road?

Show HN: BotMaD – an inetd-like bot manager for Slack

https://github.com/venkytv/botmand

BotMadD is an unopinionated bot engine for Slack. It really has only one opinion... that a bot should be written to handle one conversation, and the bot manager (BotManD itself here) should manage the lifecycle of these bots, starting up instances for new conversations and shutting them down once the conversations are complete.BotManD bots are simple standalone executables which read input on...

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Yeah, agree, for a lot of people, social status will be always the primary driver. But if ever achieve a society where everybody has all necessities taken care of without needing to work for them, and people (the ones who choose to) only struggle for social status, that, for all practical purposes, is utopia.
Re:Nobody wants touch-screen glove box latches on Sunday October 30, 2022 @02:48AM (#33391853)
Leaving aside the question of whether touchscreens make sense inside a car at all, I’m not sure how a control to open the glove box which is not situated on the actual glove box help? I mean, you probably opened the glove box to put something in or take something out. Once it is open, you would almost certainly physically reach inside it.
Re:Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as Facebook COO on Thursday June 02, 2022 @04:24AM (#31592658)
Pretty much every comment is relating this to Meta and it's pivot to the metaverse, but isn't this far more likely to be fallout from her attempts to pressure Daily Mail into not reporting on her then-boyfriend, Bobby Kotick? https://www.wsj.com/articles/sandberg-facebook-kotick-activi...
Re:Cname cloaking, a disguise of third-party trackers on Saturday November 23, 2019 @07:17PM (#21617485)
You could argue that display ads in general are a positive. (I personally disagree, but that I can see how reasonable people might see it differently.) But tracking is not close to being ethical. The difference is between someone handing out pamphlets for a new baby care product because you are walking into a baby clothing store, and one handing you the same pamphlet because he has gone through your trash and found your pregnancy test results.
Re:Yahoo, still an awful company on Monday May 26, 2014 @01:09AM (#7798775)
That's what I did when the same happened to me. Enable iCloud Keychain on the iPad and the Mac, wait for the passwords to sync (might take a few minutes) and then open Keychain Access on the Mac and find the password on it.