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by adityab 10y ago
More and more, I find the current generation of far-left and far-right almost indistinguishable in their methods. IMO, claiming that someone suffers from "internalized opression" is simply this new left's version of the &quot
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by adityab 10y ago
Agreed. These days, Identity politics is absolutely dominated by the idea that everything is just a point-of-view and ideas/arguments are inseparable from the identity of the person putting them forth. I often say that a "scient
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by adityab 11y ago
the clause of being under age has been misused by organized crime as the least punishment was applicable And should we change our morals and flush away decades of cultivated ethics about juvenile justice because organized crime groups rec
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by adityab 11y ago
Many people wanted the juvenile to be retried retroactively as an adult, "because this case is special". India should: 1. Not pass knee-jerk laws, it takes a long time to undo the damage. 2. Do away with the death penalty. Mobs of
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by adityab 11y ago
I'm not sure of the proportion of the Patel community within/outside that, but the creamy layer is a bit of a joke. :/ 1. It applies only to OBC (not even SC/ST) 2. You need to declare your family's total gross inco
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by adityab 11y ago
I'm from Ahmedabad. Background information: What is happening is not a religious issue or in any way related to the communal riots 15 years ago. From Wikipedia: In India, the Other Backward Castes (OBC) status invokes affirmative acti
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by adityab 11y ago
I downvoted you because while what you say has some truth in it, your point is almost entirely unrelated to the issue at hand.
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by adityab 11y ago
This is incorrect: Deploying the RAF to control a situation is not the same as declaring Martial Law. That would require declaring an Emergency AFAIK.
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by adityab 11y ago
> Why is the Indian government banning Google from providing free Internet, yet not providing such themselves? The Indian government is not "banning" Google from doing anything. > You are saying that he world's poor sh
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by adityab 11y ago
You are conflating ISP monopolies with software service monopolies.
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by adityab 11y ago
For the larger HN crowd, it is worth calling out Facebook's hypocritical stance. They've launched a vaguely worded and misleading campaign, abusing their reach to get people's support for Internet.org, phrased in such a way t
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Only one day to go for giving feedback on India's Net Neutrality plans(mygov.in)
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Nobel Laureate Tim Hunt was fired due to false reporting(unfashionista.com)
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by adityab 11y ago
The project can take donations and we did work supported by grants from the NLNet Foundation ( http://nlnet.nl/ ) for a while. It is commercially controlled in the sense that KO GmbH has a CLA that contributors sign. But the
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by adityab 11y ago
WebODF. http://webodf.org/ https://github.com/kogmbh/WebODF https://adityabhatt.wordpress.com/2013/12/16/bringing-opendo... A js library that renders OpenDocument Format
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by adityab 12y ago
Link to talk video: http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2014/31c3_-_6450_-_de_-_...
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by adityab 12y ago
> Except for some banking authentication I only keep in my head, I have no privacy concerns anyway, so all these nutsos holding back cloud from the masses are actually a big detractor to the platform for me. There are people who care abo
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by adityab 12y ago
Unlike American or Korean companies, Chinese ones are understandably viewed with extra suspicion because India does not exactly have very friendly relations with China (although this seems to be changing). Also, a couple of months ago, Xiao
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by adityab 12y ago
Nope. The agency that deals with missiles and such is the DRDO [1]. ISRO is a totally non-commercial, purely research-oriented organization. [1]: www.drdo.gov.in/
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by adityab 12y ago
And it's already getting friendly with the Curiosity Rover. ;-) https://twitter.com/MarsOrbiter/status/514618412417302528
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by adityab 12y ago
My Mom is an engineer working at ISRO designing satellite components and this line totally fits! She's vacationing so I just called and gave her the good news. :-D
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Netflix launches in Germany(thelocal.de)
3 points by adityab 12y ago|0 comments
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“1984”: Anti-surveillance clothing kickstarter(kickstarter.com)
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by adityab 12y ago
Location: Germany Remote: Good to have Willing to relocate: In/around Berlin, yes. Otherwise, depends on the offer. Technologies: Javascript (frontend and serverside), C++, Qt, browser APIs, MongoDB (more in the CV) Resum
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by adityab 12y ago
Two key 'new' things from this article, that were previously unknown: 1. The NSA exploited the firmware of a Syrian core internet router, and bricked it by mistake. This was an "oh shit" moment (sic). So in it's eag
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by adityab 12y ago
Yes, the taxes could be problematic. @Joepie: Consider contacting organizations such as NLnet ( http://nlnet.nl/ ) for advice or support in these matters if you are in need of it. They support free software makers - the Unhos
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by adityab 12y ago
Did you read the kickstarter page?
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by adityab 12y ago
I have a bunch of admiration for this guy, especially because of his attitude towards software and services as being tools that do a certain job - and not enforcers of political constraints. For example, PDFy does not require an account o
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by adityab 12y ago
Ok. Instead of simply spouting vitriol, suggest an alternative service, solving the same problems, that you think genuinely cares about a fair internet. Or do you dismiss anyone who strives to make things better as "false utopian"
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by adityab 12y ago
> strongly implies that he considers people using Github to be incapable of using git without it. This is true for most people on Github, unfortunately. There's even an oft-repeated name for this phenomenon: "github monoculture

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