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by arunabha 10mo ago
> There's plenty of legitimate objections such as not trusting a foreign court to appropriately decide international law. So, which country do you think should decide international law?
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by arunabha 10mo ago
Way to go not answering the question. The Romans has a pretty apt saying for cases like this Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses
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by arunabha 10mo ago
I am not sure I follow your reasoning. You're complaining about a request for donation, on a site which provides a language and supporting infrastructure like a package manager for free? Why shouldn't the PSF be allowed to ask for
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by arunabha 10mo ago
Doesn't that only shift the question to what God wants you to do and in turn who interprets God's will? Said another way, how would you conclude with any certainty that you are indeed following God's will with any action
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by arunabha 10mo ago
> heritage Americans I'm curious as to how you'd define a 'heritage' American.
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by arunabha 10mo ago
> and instead demand your passport and other identification, scan it and leave it in their system forever. They also are known to sell this data to other from time to time. Isn't this the problem vs the Supreme court judgement? Why
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by arunabha 10mo ago
> today I am of the opinion that countries like India shouldn't waste money and time on these. I agree that there are undeniable benefits from Aadhar. However, the issue is that the narrative from the govt has been that it's an
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by arunabha 10mo ago
My point wasn't that no id was required before Aadhaar. It's that any id from a range of acceptable ids like passports, ration card, drivers license worked. Post Aadhaar, even though all of those IDs are still legal and acceptable
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by arunabha 10mo ago
My point wasn't that no id was required before Aadhaar. It's that any id from a range of acceptable ids like passports, ration card, drivers license worked. Post Aadhaar, even though all of those IDs are still legal and accepta
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by arunabha 10mo ago
You just demonstrated first hand the point made by GP. When the supreme court ordered the Govt to cease making Aadhaar mandatory, they just responded by adding so much friction to daily life without Aadhaar that most people, including priva
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by arunabha 10mo ago
Exactly! Politics as usual in India.
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by arunabha 11mo ago
> A government minister has clarified that the app is not mandatory but "optional" and can be deleted by the user In India it doesn't really mean anything. As an example the biometric based id 'Aadhaar' is '
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by arunabha 11mo ago
You know, unsurprisingly these claims are almost always heavy on rhetoric but offer no references or data to back up the assertion beyond a had wavy 'everyone knows'.
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by arunabha 11mo ago
>> Or maybe he was as arrogant as he seemed and believed he knew better than everyone else. Do you have any references for this? Our understanding of Covid evolved pretty rapidly during the pandemic and as usual hindsight is 20/
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by arunabha 11mo ago
I'm not from Brazil, so I'm curious if you're saying the court broke some law by imposing house arrest on Bolsonaro? This part of the article makes it seem like it was done pretty legally. > In a statement, Federal Poli
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by arunabha 11mo ago
Clearly, a lot of people here disagree with you. Doesn't mean you cannot be right, but in general, the HN crowd is a pretty good predictor of the trends in the tech industry.
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by arunabha 1y ago
> That's the scientific community being parochial and self-interested, though. Their priority is writing more papers, and if that means holding the rest of us back, they're fine with it. Is it? To me, this sounds awfully simila
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by arunabha 1y ago
> The Biden administration decided that the best way to fight inflation was to invent a giant pile og money and hand it out Can you provide some references for your claim? IIRC, under Biden, inflation was stoked by the Covid stimulus(arg
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by arunabha 1y ago
It's mind blowing to witness the speed and rapidity with which we have * Completely alienated key allies via an erratic and unpredictable tariff policy * Significantly undermined faith in US economic data and fiscal policy via overt po
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by arunabha 1y ago
Getting better sleep has been a bit of a personal quest for me. Having said that, much as I would love to get the device, having been bitten by a bunch of subscription locked devices by startups, I have (reluctantly) settled on a policy o
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by arunabha 1y ago
> But it's a war, so innocents are getting hurt as well I'm wondering if you'd apply the same standard on the flip side? Per Hamas, they are engaged in a war with Israel, so by your standard they are justified in their roc
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by arunabha 1y ago
Yeah, that was pretty surprising. Usually political stories are flagged and buried pretty quickly.
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by arunabha 1y ago
> And when given the right to vote, they placed Hamas into power Are you sure you want to hold voters directly accountable for an election that happened over a decade ago? If yes, then it's a pretty slippery slope to be on, esp if t
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by arunabha 1y ago
The issue is, the current administration seems to be hell bent on speed running the course to a similar destination. The overt attempts to politicize the Fed and key govt institutions has sown the seeds to distrust in US govt data and monet
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by arunabha 1y ago
A lot of countries have learnt from this and maintain a govt mandated /supported standard for digital payments. In India, the universal payments interface (UPI) has been hugely successful in providing instant, commission less payments
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by arunabha 1y ago
Undoubtedly, but the corollary 'statistics is not reality' doesn't really hold. I'm sure people here would know many Americans who moved to Spain. Statistics might not be ideal, but making policy decisions based on anecd
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by arunabha 1y ago
In the Aadhaar issue, the supreme court has at least clarified that aadhaar cannot be mandatory for most things. However, it upheld the requirement for linking PAN numbers to aadhaar. PAN card is required for pretty much any major financi
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by arunabha 1y ago
> Some of these have been flagged and my comments are almost always downvoted to oblivion but I don't care, I will continue speaking out because these are my honest opinions on the subject. If only you spent a fraction of that energ
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by arunabha 1y ago
> The implication was that, going forwards, the numbers would be more accurately calculated in order to reflect REALITY of US employment, which is far bleaker than any of us really wishes to accept, myself included! Ok, would that imply
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by arunabha 1y ago
Agreed. I think the point was that Woz was definitely less rich than Jobs(not poor though) and seems to have had a far happier life than Jobs. In some sense, Woz had what Jobs never had. Woz was blessed with having enough .

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