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by _jgdh 9y ago
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari. It gave me a good understanding of where we, as a species, came from. What did we do, why did we spread across the planet, how did we replace other hominids? What I really appreciated was his ability to explain
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by _jgdh 10y ago
Saving the credit card charge isn't a win. Turns out that operating cash-on-delivery has significant overhead due to the cost of handling the cash, accounting for it etc. More than that, returns are much higher when the customer hasn&#
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by _jgdh 10y ago
There are a couple of key incidents in India's history that led to the current situation 1. Soon after India become an independent nation in 1947, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru sought to create a single civil code for the entire cou
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by _jgdh 10y ago
In case someone hasn't come across "ABCD" before, it means American Born Confused Desi. Desi means someone of Indian heritage from the word Desh (country).
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by _jgdh 10y ago
> if they don't [deliver on their promise], what will happen Revolution, Tiananmen Square style. > you describe China like some sort of wonderland Do I? China is rich, will continue to grow richer but it is hardly a wonderland. I
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by _jgdh 10y ago
> This looks great but I honestly wonder - if China is under heavy communism oppression and noone can make enough fuzz about their lifestyle before eventually disappearing... why would Chinese government care about spending money and tim
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by _jgdh 10y ago
> Jan Dhan Yojana I hate to break this to you, but most people don't actually have bank accounts, and if they do, they don't know how to use them. Most of those bank accounts that were opened in the Jan Dhan Yojana scheme have
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by _jgdh 10y ago
> Yes it has It would be helpful if you cited your sources for this. From what I've seen and read, most people found a way to launder their black money through brokers. [2] That's not just speculation, most of the 17 trn rupees
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by _jgdh 10y ago
Taiwan isn't China, its a separate country.
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by _jgdh 10y ago
22% of Indian mobile users use WeChat? I'd like a citation for that, since in my experience less than a percentage use anything other than Whatsapp or Facebook Messenger.
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by _jgdh 10y ago
There isn't any incentive sadly. Uber drivers absolutely hate taking long trips for this reason. Considering the extreme traffic issues, it typically takes 13-14 hours of driving to complete 15 rides. If a single user wants to go to th
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by _jgdh 11y ago
Hindus have always been the majority on the Indian subcontinent (around 90%), similar to how the majority of Americans (after the 1700s) have been white. The prime worry of the Hindu population seems to be that gradually they would represen
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by _jgdh 11y ago
Inter bank transfers are also instantaneous and cost $0.08 per transaction
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by _jgdh 11y ago
I appreciate that Brazil has implemented this well. Suppose I told you that it was exactly the same in China - the police provide reasonable justification, judges approve the request and only then is someone's privacy violated. Would y
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by _jgdh 11y ago
Its absurdly simple to make someone an alleged criminal. You simply need to accuse them of a crime. There are many countries where the government does exactly this - they accuse people such as human rights activists of crimes like "fom
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by _jgdh 11y ago
It actually is. I'm living in India at the moment, surrounded by many Koreans and Japanese people and a few people from Europe and America. Getting a permit to work was extremely straightforward for them. I'm sure you didn't
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by _jgdh 11y ago
I agree with most of what you've said, but I think its inaccurate to say that most don't know how to read and write. According to the 2011 Census, the literacy rate is 74% [1] [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by _jgdh 11y ago
Not the person you were replying to, but I have been to rural India. The way you asked that implies you think that what he said is inaccurate and/or naive. Is that correct?
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by _jgdh 11y ago
Are you missing the point of the article? According to the author, Poles and Indians consider their co-workers their friends. Americans in general don't. His other point is that Americans used to think differently, so Americans worki
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by _jgdh 11y ago
In my opinion, residents of J&K already get a number of privileges that other states don't. For example, laws passed by Parliament don't apply there until they're ratified by the State Assembly. Granting them additional a
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by _jgdh 11y ago
Agree with your other points, but the routing of undersea cables means that data centers in Singapore have lower latency to users in the Indian subcontinent. Also, Amazon recently announced that they plan to invest in data centers within In
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by _jgdh 11y ago
> where does Github draw the line Where they did previously - content that doesn't break American laws is allowed, everything else is removed. Words weren't censored because they hurt people's feelings. There was no respec
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by _jgdh 11y ago
I misspoke when I implied that all children brought up by single parents are bastards. In any case, my point stands. Github makes children born out of wedlock feel unwelcome and they should change their name.
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by _jgdh 11y ago
No, they aren't. Git means "bastard", which I find awfully discriminatory towards people brought up by single parents. How will they ever feel comfortable in contributing to open source if all open source development happens
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by _jgdh 11y ago
I do not think it is acceptable behaviour in a professional setting. I would be less likely to hire someone who's Github had such references. That does not mean that censoring them is acceptable. Github's previous policy was to
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by _jgdh 11y ago
I know of one country that operates a web content filter to prevent its citizens from being exposed to offensive and objectionable content. The citizens of this country find it incredibly offensive that there exists instructions on how to c
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by _jgdh 11y ago
Well put. However, you have to question the assumption that a stock market crash affects the economy in a significant way. For example, it would make sense if a lot of savings were lost, because that would affect consumption. However, that&
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by _jgdh 11y ago
I wasn't really defending electronic voting machines. They're notoriously unreliable and as you point out are expensive and need replacement with time. I was thinking something along the lines of voting online. There is significan
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by _jgdh 11y ago
Worth remembering that although Athens was a large city, only 30-50k people had the right to vote (out of a total of 300k). Your other example of Australia has only 24 million people and I'm sure it suits the country's needs well.
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by _jgdh 12y ago
As a fellow Indian, I'd find that frustrating too. Think of the alternative - suppose the government or judiciary finds this practice illegal and outlaws it. Imagine how unlikely this is and even if it does happen, how much bad press w

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