Arun Singh

Building the next stage of human/computer interactions. Current #Meta Ex #Alexa #APL #Windows10 #WindowsPhone #SQLServer #SalesforceMarketingCloud

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Check out my latest article: Chintu: https://t.co/tgLWWzSrLn for Fun and Personal Productivity https://t.co/hxiU17kouo via @LinkedIn

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@Guesty is there an ongoing outage? Guesty app just started telling me I have no Airbnb account connected (I do!). I tried to log out and log in. It’s been spinning for over 2 minutes after I entered my username and password. I really need to update my calendar 😔

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7. If you’re a host and have instant book on I strongly recommend you reconsider your choice!

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@AirbnbHelp @bchesky just had an incredibly poor experience with the app and support that convinced me to turn off instant book ok my property and keep it off. Here’s what happened:

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6. So, lesson learned, do not trust instant book on Airbnb. I had support cancel and apologized to the guest with a message.

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Is it time to relabel the Central Processing Unit (CPU) the Compute Processing Unit? With computers like Nvidia’s Digits project serialized compute provided by general cpu cores is fast losing its centrality.

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Adversity, real crushing adversity, is a harsh teacher. I stared it in the face once before decades ago and thought I had learned all I had to learn. I was wrong. Class is open again. I am open and ready to learn. Teach me. Make me a better creature.

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This moved me

[Madni Aghadi @hey_madni]

Steve Jobs emails himself a year before he died

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Very disappointed in @airtelindia @Airtel_Presence Internet to our place in Delhi has been out 2 days straight. Promised callbacks that never happen, field agent numbers are never answered, and getting the runaround from everyone on phone. Where’s customer care? #Airtel

[Joshua Claybourn @JoshuaClaybourn]

British Prime Minister Margret Thatcher famously once said, “Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.” Nearly all European nations trace their beginning to a common ethnic kinship or a cultural characteristic, but America was created by exiles united in voluntary assent to shared political beliefs. That’s why British writer G. K. Chesterton visited the United States for the first time and remarked that America was “a nation with the soul of a church,” not because of its religiosity, but because of a common creed enshrined in “sacred texts” of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution.

In 1776, a near-miraculous stew of ideas and leaders came together to form a Declaration of Independence, and 11 years later an equally miraculous gathering formed the Constitution, both centered on a belief in universal human dignity.

Government does not grant you the right to free speech, assembly, religion, press, protest, or redress of grievances. We believe that these rights are inalienable and government’s role is simply to protect those rights and ensure human dignity. Government is just a tool, not a source. That’s really a remarkably profound idea we take for granted and fail to celebrate enough.

Of course, the sad irony is that the very Founders who argued these ideas so frequently fell short of those same principles. Some owned slaves, and nearly all opposed equal rights for women. So it naturally caused upheaval when nineteenth century Americans increasingly adopted a view held that “All men are created equal,” including black Americans, and a few generations later it came to encompass women as well.

Abraham Lincoln believed that the Declaration of Independence did not necessarily proclaim people equal in all respects. Instead, it meant that all people were created with certain equal, inalienable rights—they are ours by right of simply being human—among which are “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” A free society should always strive to achieve these equal rights, even if, as in the case of the Founders, it fell short of that goal in the past. The Declaration’s concept of equality is an aspiration, Lincoln said, “constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and even, though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence and augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people, of all colors, everywhere.”

That is the genius of Lincoln’s argument: that the Constitution is concrete (at least until amended), but the Declaration of Independence is aspirational, and the American project is a move toward the aspiration.

Despite its roots in American independence, the 4th of July is incomplete without understanding and celebrating Lincoln too. His unique view of the Declaration as an aspirational goal helped properly frame American independence for what it was and what it was bound to be.

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@davewolfusa @Arkypatriot @Tesla @SpaceX 5 year old model 3 here. Full range used to be 310 miles the day we bought it. It’s 393 miles now. Less than 3% range loss over 5 years ain’t bad. Also note that gas engines also lose “range” (miles per gallon) over their lifetime and most need serious work after 10ish years.

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@paulg Faster air travel has been on the cards for a long time. We almost had it with the Concorde but it was too expensive and too inconvenient (sonic booms et al). I’m hoping I can go see my folks in Delhi (from Seattle) in under 10 hours in my lifetime. That would be a 2.5x improvmnt

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@s3rioussam You're in the broken bit of Canada. BC == Better Canada :P

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Ugh! Death and taxes right? I think it might be time to consolidate some investments. My list of tax forms gets longer every year :|

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

Love this for her! https://t.co/cIeryVDqwV