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by aravindet 5y ago
Incorrect, the original submission (thewire.in) reproduces several of the tweets. Medianama, which covered this yesterday, chooses to _paraphrase_ the blocked tweets rather than quote them outright, likely in an attempt to avoid censorship
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by aravindet 5y ago
Opindia is a well-known source of right-wing disinformation. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpIndia > OpIndia is an Indian right-wing news portal founded in 2014 by Rahul Raj and Kumar Kamal. The website has pub
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CoronaSafe: Open-source pandemic management tools for governments(coronasafe.network)
1 points by aravindet 5y ago|0 comments
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by aravindet 5y ago
I am considering Materialize for a project, and I'm concerned about the limitation that materialized views should fit into the memory of a single host. My use case is a materialized OLAP "fact" tables, created by joining a 5-
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by aravindet 5y ago
> human invigilators using Zoom etc. don't scale (institution experience) Could you explain further why this did not scale? I'm imagining an invigilator watching video feeds using an interface similar to, say, that used by secu
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by aravindet 5y ago
I encountered this with Adobe Acrobat DC, but managed to get out without paying the cancellation fee. I contacted customer support and asked to upgrade to a more expensive SMB plan for a different but related product (Adobe Sign). I also
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by aravindet 6y ago
> What laws in India let them deny citizenship for minorities because it’s a “foreign” religion? The National Register of Citizens (NRC). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Citizen... The CAA and N
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by aravindet 6y ago
The problems with the judiciary go far beyond backlogs; far too many judges seem to hold extreme personal prejudices and are not shy about basing their judgements on them. An ongoing controversy concerns the Chief Justice of the Supreme Cou
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by aravindet 6y ago
Not usable right now, but the TC39 "Temporal" proposal looks promising, fixing a bunch of issues with Date and introducing a clear API: https://tc39.es/proposal-temporal/docs/ There is a polyfill, but th
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by aravindet 6y ago
If you are interested in lightweight JS engines, you might also want to take a look at these benchmarks: https://bellard.org/quickjs/bench.html
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by aravindet 6y ago
> If they add Google specific services into core Android is it not worse? Not necessarily. Take for example push notifications - the push notification client could be part of the OS, with build configurations to specify a server or disab
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by aravindet 6y ago
For those replying with "XML is bad and therefore Google is right", reading the whole thread presents a more complex picture. Quoting from various comments in that thread, > this is a proposal for querying the HTML DOM with XPa
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by aravindet 6y ago
Ah yes, I missed that. Thanks.
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by aravindet 6y ago
There does not seem to be any text to say this is Coinbase-inspired. The FAQ does refer to Tesla's and Coinbase's corporate mission statements, but there is no claim or indication that this code of conduct is inspired by either. P
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by aravindet 6y ago
Does anyone have insight into why College Humor (referenced in the article) is blocked in India? This seems unusual and I wonder what (if any) reasons were provided.
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by aravindet 6y ago
I don't know about inevitable, but price regulation would not be the best outcome here. My hope for this is to see regulation that recognizes that hardware, operating systems, application distribution and payment processing are four se
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by aravindet 6y ago
The article seems written to to obscure this, but local income taxes on those earning more than $10 million a year contribute 5% of the city's tax base, not 25%. It's 25% of local income tax collections, but the city collects othe
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by aravindet 6y ago
If there are any Mozillians here, I'm curious about how the organization balances its technology development and advocacy functions. Do you think it has been shifting one way or another? Do you think that both roles are represented equ
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by aravindet 6y ago
I think most people can (and do) agree with these ideals stated in the abstract, but still do things that violate them in their jobs / real life because of practical considerations such as pursuing a profit. Not unlike how most people
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by aravindet 6y ago
Correct, here is a well researched article from 2016. https://thewire.in/tech/the-immaculate-conception-of-relianc...
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by aravindet 6y ago
Nektar | Full-time | Node.js / React | Remote We're building digital assistants to help people at work. Our business model is B2B SaaS. On the frontend, we're building delightful mobile apps for iOS and Android using React Na
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by aravindet 6y ago
To put some numbers to this: If you're living in a city with 10,000 new cases a day, with each case publishing 14 keys and each key being 16 bytes, it's a 2.2MB download a day (assuming incremental downloads). When you first insta
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by aravindet 6y ago
You're forgetting time of infection. You only need to download tokens for people who tested positive in the recent past (14 days - assuming you're not infected, any contact before that couldn't have infected you.) While that&
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China’s 'Thought Transformation' Camps(bbc.com)
3 points by aravindet 7y ago|0 comments
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by aravindet 7y ago
This should be required reading in American schools.
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by aravindet 7y ago
There are FAR more than a million bribeable government workers in India. According to the ILO there were 55 million public sector employees in 2014. [1] It isn't clear what percentage of them work in jobs that involve interaction with
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The Absurd Structure of High School(medium.com)
5 points by aravindet 8y ago|0 comments
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by aravindet 8y ago
Is there any standard for the user activation APIs? Changing the signature for postMessage seems like a particularly aggressive change.
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by aravindet 8y ago
IIUC many APIs (e.g. requestFullscreen()) are only callable from JS during a short window of time following a user interaction. The userActivation property allows programs to check whether those APIs are callable, rather than calling them b
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by aravindet 8y ago
That's an incredibly short-sighted attitude. No web developer who remembers IE6 would cheer a new browser monopoly.

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