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Link to Hacker News post when Demonetization was announced - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12900965 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12900965
by rm2889 8y ago
Link to Hacker News post when Demonetization was announced - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12900965 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12900965
- schizoidboy 8y agoI find it interesting that the top three highest voted comments, and their top sibling comments don't mention any potential concerns about unintended consequences or the effects on the average and poorest people (the NYT article cites evidence such negative effects happened, including suicide). The first sibling comment of the third highest voted comment throws out a worry, and it was downvoted. I don't know what this means exactly, but I think it's worth the average HNer to ponder.
- throwaway-hn123 8y agoThere's a brigade of hardcore right wing Modi supporters who downvote anything that's critical of Modi.
- jopsen 8y agoI think it's human nature to desire action NOW. In practice, however, immediate action in complex systems is likely to have negative side-effects. We this desire for action in Trump and Brexit too.. Or when a young naive junior developer sets out to rewrite a system from scratch :)