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by _jgdh 8y ago
He meant, it could have been worse. They could have changed your details. The phone number associated with your account, for example. Or they could have added transactions.
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by _jgdh 8y ago
My understanding was that most of this tech is built and maintained on contract by Infosys or some other company. Is that not the case?
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by _jgdh 8y ago
Hi. I'm an Indian saddled with an Aadhaar account. Am I allowed to be a critic?
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by _jgdh 8y ago
This is wrong. Your argument is incoherent so it's not clear if you're arguing for a common language other than English or no common language at all. If it's the first one, that's a road that will lead to certain disaste
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by _jgdh 8y ago
Having lived in India at the time, I know that it was a disaster waiting to happen. It's hard to measure the impact of such a change because there's no A/B testing (launch campaign in A city, but not in B city), but I don&#x2
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by _jgdh 8y ago
I can't speak to the rest of your comment, but tax overhaul is certainly a high priority for the Party right now. https://www.economist.com/china/2018/12/01/why-only-2-of-chi...
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by _jgdh 8y ago
If you agree with decision taken by the majority then it's "democratic". If you disagree, it's "populist". I'm from India where we have a similar term in the political lexicon - "vote-bank politics&qu
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by _jgdh 8y ago
41. You share a surname with your father. This is not true of many people from South India. My last name is my father's first name. So my sibling, mother and I share a last name, but my father has a different one (his father's fir
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by _jgdh 8y ago
I’m from India in India. Could you give some examples of incorrect reporting by Reuters?
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by _jgdh 8y ago
Good to know.
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by _jgdh 8y ago
I love Daniel and the amazing work he’s done over the last several years ... but that blog reads like a parody. He’s complaining about filling forms like it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened to him. Meanwhile, for folks who aren’t Amer
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by _jgdh 8y ago
I don’t know that the Indian govt throws money at anything, so I’m not sure about that part.
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by _jgdh 8y ago
> China is not a democracy but they don't kidnap They do kidnap people. They've kidnapped people from Hong Kong, Vietnam, Myanmar, Australia and Canada. Some of these people confess to a series of crimes and in exchange pay fin
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by _jgdh 8y ago
> there are a billion Indians That is true... but only 10% of Indians can speak English. It might appear higher because visitors are likely to remain in urban or tourist-y areas, where the percentage of English speakers is much higher.
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by _jgdh 8y ago
As a (gamer) Indian, I always find it nothing short of hilarious, unless Gandhi is in my game. In which case, annex India before the nuclear era.
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by _jgdh 8y ago
Re: truck stopping. That's no longer the case. While it has teething issues, in 2017 a single tax replaced all domestic taxes except income tax. Trucks can travel the length and breadth of the country without being stopped. I do agree
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by _jgdh 8y ago
₹499 = $7.23. Not bad for a year of Prime.
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by _jgdh 8y ago
Other examples of Amazon self-censoring despite the govt saying they are not considering censoring online content. * Pixelated nudity in shows like Californication and The Man In The High Castle and films like Watchmen and The Godfather * T
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by _jgdh 8y ago
I think it’s interesting because even when a person outside of China is exposed to them, they might not realise the influence. Close to a million people a day play Dota 2 but I doubt they know that the Monkey King ( https://youtub
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by _jgdh 8y ago
But if by “great” you mean a lot of fun to read, then I’m skeptical. I grew up with these stories since my mother and grandmother told them as bedtime stories. As I learned to read I picked up the comic book versions (known as Amar Chitra K
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by _jgdh 9y ago
> $15/month for 10GB plus unlimited text/calls I just don't understand why mobile plans are so expensive in Israel. In India you can get 1.5GB per day plus unlimited text/calls for $6 a month. If I had to speculate, I
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by _jgdh 9y ago
Reading HN comments about the Indian IT industry triggers the Gell-Mann effect for me. Few people know what they're talking about and those that do are usually at the bottom of the thread. Of course then I open all the other comment th
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by _jgdh 9y ago
> Would people in Indonesia and India join Facebook if it were mostly old people and people from their own countries Shockingly, people join networks that are used by people they know and their circle of friends is in their own country,
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by _jgdh 9y ago
You appear to be quite wedded to the idea that "there were no bad guys, only a bad situation". Well, even among the Crusaders there were men who kept their word and men who didn't. For example, following the fall of Jerusalem
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by _jgdh 9y ago
Thanks for the explanation, but the book I mentioned explains that in detail, over several hundred pages. I was trying to make 2 points - By the standards of their time, the Crusaders were particularly barbaric. I'm not judging them by
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by _jgdh 9y ago
No. William grew up at a time when the Kingdom of Jerusalem was strong and was Archbishop between 1127-1135. At no point was William ever in danger from Saladin. Saladin actually captured very little territory from the Crusader states until
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by _jgdh 9y ago
I'm glad you did your 5 seconds of googling - but the distinction I was drawing was the difference in treatment meted out to combatants and non-combatants. Saladin sold soldiers into slavery. He spared civilians. The Crusaders made no
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by _jgdh 9y ago
A quick note on exactly what God willed, according to the Crusaders. A scene from the Siege of Antioch in 1098 > The calm night air was shattered as the Franks screamed out their battle cry "God wills it! God wills it!" With re
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by _jgdh 9y ago
I get your point - if the swastika is used in a western country, its almost certainly a Neo-Nazi using it, not a middle-aged Indian woman, even though millions of Indians use the swastika in a religious context every day. However, by the sa
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by _jgdh 9y ago
> You're delusional. I'm sorry you think so. I agree that I could have made my case better, and normally I'd take a stab at it now that I have a full keyboard in front of me. But your ad hominem attack makes it not worth m

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