An Americanโs experience in Luxor made me write this. The story is long and vivid, but the core theme is how she and many other foreigners were duped into buying and then selling properties losing money in the process.
When Sonyโs Walkman was expensive, we used them with cheap earphones. Once the music players were cheap, we shifted to more expensive headphones as a status symbol.
The ultimate guide to using Poetry inside Docker
Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world, is located in the remote Tierra Del Fuego region of Argentina. Despite its remoteness, unlike Alaska, the city is gorgeous and prosperous. The whole city is mostly oriented around one single street (Ave. San Martรญn). And I would recommend staying close to it. Day 1 - Penguins Ushuaia is a natural home to Penguins. What else could be a better way to start this trip? There are three varieties of penguins - Gentoo, King, and Magellanic. There are only a few King penguins in Ushuaia. Magellanic penguins migrate to Brazil during winter (April onwards). While Gentoo stays in Isla Martillo in Ushuaia year-round. ...
English has a very commonly used vowel that doesnโt exist in Indic languages natively. It is ษ- Open-mid front unrounded vowel. Consider the word bet, its vowel sound is halfway between bat/เคฌเฅเคคเคผ and bait/เคฌเฅเคคเคผ. This vowel is fairly common in English, for example, tech whose vowel sound is halfway between tack and take. Or met which is half-way between mat and mate. Now, this sound is not natively written in Hindi. However, this does show up in various spoken words like เคฐเคนเคจเคพ, เคเคนเคจเคพ, and เคธเคนเคจ. And the native speakers intuitively know that the pronunciations deviate from the written spelling in these cases. ...
Some notable quotes from " How to Live" by Derek Sivers. It consists of 27 stories independent of each other. Some contradict ideas from others. And thatโs what makes this short read even more provocative.
I recently added adb-enhanced to the Homebrew package manager. Here are some of my learnings and future tips to smoothen up the process.
There isnโt a single city in Latin America thatโs as gorgeous as Buenos Aires. The city is aptly termed Paris of Latin America. The city has relatively good public transport. There is a single SUBE card that one needs to use in the expansive bus and metro system of the city. There are two major airports EZE and AEP. EZE is used primarily for flights in the South American region and AEP for international flights outside this region. ...
Overnight bus and train journeys are a great way to save time during long-distance (6 hours+) travel. I still have vivid memories of my overnight bus journeys from Guatemala, Kenya, Egypt, and Peru. Here are some tips to make them easier.
Two cryptocurrency exchanges came out early on from Y Combinator. One is 2012. One in 2013. One returned 1500X to early investors. The other one ceased to exist after 2 years. What happened?