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by _jgdh 9y ago
I agree. Which is why I said its not my place to make judgements about people's choices in this matter.
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> whole FUD I’m sorry you can’t see the privacy implications of Aadhaar. If it’s easy to track every single place you go and every rupee you spend, it affects you in a few ways Citizens start self censoring themselves. They subconsciousl
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by _jgdh 9y ago
It’s not exactly the same. Authentication with SSN is simple - SSN + date of birth/name/mother’s maiden name. All of these are immutable so you’d better hope that any firm that collects this information is careful with it. With Aa
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by _jgdh 9y ago
I'm not from America or Europe or China, but many countries might prefer the status quo of American hegemony to imperialism by any other country because they prefer a known devil. Starting 2030 you could ask what business the Chinese h
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by _jgdh 9y ago
Adding to chimeracoder's comment, the Economist has expressed deep regret for its endorsement of the Iraq War. Not just the current writer of Lexington (the column linked in OP), but from 2006 onward every mention of the decision behin
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by _jgdh 9y ago
The promotion of Hindi as the most important language in India is not limited to this Prime Minister or administration. It has a long history, starting from Independence in 1947, when the writers of the Constitution decided that English wou
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I'd have mentioned it in my 101 post but it just seemed insignificant in comparison to the impact on poor people and the nation as a whole. For the record, I stood in those lines too.
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by _jgdh 9y ago
Demonetization 101 - India is a cash based economy. Most people, apart from the few doctors, lawyers, engineers etcz, are paid in cash and in turn pay for everything in cash. - Since many businesses operate entirely in cash, revenue figures
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by _jgdh 9y ago
I've been predicting this govt would do poorly long before they were elected to power. Having said that, you're completely mistaken about this issue. It's the govt's job to provide infrastructure. If all households are e
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As I explain here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15301468 ), the Indian devs that Booking targets earn comparable salaries at a lower cost of living. If these devs are willing to move abroad, they'd move to the U
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by _jgdh 9y ago
In India there are two kinds of software jobs - the ones at outsourcing firms like Infosys and the ones at firms that make their own products like Google, Flipkart, Amazon, Uber, Ola etc. The former pay the minimum possible, of the order of
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In India Booking is known as the company you want to call when you want to visit Europe. The questions they ask in the phone screen are relatively simple by Indian standards so it's straightforward to get tickets and travel to Amsterda
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by _jgdh 9y ago
Since the 1980s only 2 Politburo members have been purged. The first was Bo Xilai in 2002, Xi Jinping's main rival for the top job. The second was Sun Zhengcai, in July. He was being groomed as a successor to Xi Jinping. This purge pro
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by _jgdh 9y ago
It's been a stable system since Deng stepped down but the word is that Xi Jinping is trying to mess with that. He's purging the Party of people not personally loyal to him so he might be considering staying on for a third term.
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by _jgdh 9y ago
Ah, I think I'm beginning to understand what you're saying. So Spanish might have have evolved from Vulgar Latin after the Romans brought it to the Iberian peninsula in 210BC, but in your eyes, its the same age as Latin itself. So
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by _jgdh 9y ago
No, I don't think so. If people have been speaking Language A for 2 millennia, it's 2 millennia old. If they've been speaking Language B for 15 centuries, it's 15 centuries old. Just because A and B are both spoken today
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by _jgdh 9y ago
I don't know how common this phenomenon is in India, but anecdotally, most of the Tamil people I know who graduated from college can barely read and write Tamil. They have no problems speaking it, but they'd struggle to write an e
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by _jgdh 9y ago
I think there are a couple of ways to prove this. Archeological records of say, inscriptions in one language would help. If an inscription is older than any inscription in another language, it's possibly older. Another way would be lin
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by _jgdh 9y ago
Money Transfer is going to become a feature in India. They're using a payments API that works with all bank existing accounts, so anyone using whatsapp in India could transfer money to and from anyone who's set up their account fo
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You have a link to that? Either way, I'm not sure how that would be implemented, other than outright blocking sites that are HTTPS-only. But I don't think blocking Google, Facebook, Whatsapp and other major websites is going to fl
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by _jgdh 9y ago
Are you confusing the Indian govt/courts with some other country?
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As an American your experience might be different from the thousands of Indian grads that are hired every year. But I wouldn't bet on it, and I'd stay as far away as possible if I could. It's a body shop and the office politi
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by _jgdh 9y ago
> The banks were MADE to do it That's what I said too, read my comment once more. I only pointed out that the banks didn't resist it, because they could see that a compelling payment experience could help them fight PayTM. >
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To clarify, this was not built by the Government of India. This is a common misconception because the entity responsible - the National Payments Corporation of India, sounds like an arm of the government. However, it's actually a priva
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Could you explain both of those in layman terms?
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The Centre already shared its revenues from all Central taxes, including income taxes with the States before this reform. They shared 32% earlier and increased that to 42% just before GST. Centralising all taxation isn't necessarily a
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Very rarely is there any effort in India to collect statistics. We don't know how effective welfare programs were pre-Aadhaar and we won't know post-Aadhaar either. All we'll get from either side of the political divide is rh
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I found Freedom at Midnight illuminating in parts but also dishonest. Their main source, which they did not credit at any time, was Louis Mountbatten, the Viceroy of India. It portrayed him as dashing, capable, diplomatic and a man of actio
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Reading that next!
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Yes, a person who isn't Indian but has an interest in history or the Sub-Continent or both would find it engrossing. That said, it's optional for them, like how a history of the American Civil War would be optional for non-America

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