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by flak48 8y ago
Silverpush, an Indian company, was already doing this 3 years ago: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2016/03/21/silve...
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by flak48 8y ago
*Microsoft and Google
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by flak48 8y ago
They do in India (Cash on delivery). And there's a small but growing counterfeit listings problem here too.
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by flak48 8y ago
Thanks for the link and the excerpt. The stat about 3x officers casualty rate is surprising, I would have imagined the enlisted would generally become cannon-fodder (for lack of a less demeaning word). I guess that's what makes the Isr
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by flak48 8y ago
> e.g. the Israeli military, which takes junior-officer autonomy to an extreme even by Western standards. Sounds really interesting, any examples?
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by flak48 8y ago
How do you do that? I've noticed Google no longer even fully respects keywords/phrases in quotes which used to force exact matches. EDIT: NVM, found it by uhm.. googling : https://searchenginewatch.com/sew/new
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by flak48 8y ago
This exact argument is used by the Indian Government too when questioned about the very-real surveillance possibilities enabled by Aadhaar.
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by flak48 8y ago
Amen. Common vanilla-git approaches/workflows like feature-branches/sprint branches/hotfix branches are a massive pain due the often undocumented pedantry of Arcanist/Phabricator. For example, if you merge a reviewed com
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by flak48 9y ago
Tax (federal + state) in California is close to 50%
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by flak48 9y ago
Changing bottle printing machines / label designs across the world vs updating an app
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by flak48 9y ago
Maybe by ensuring all data access/decryption happens from the client side perhaps, so that the data never flows(unencrpyted) through corporate servers. Like FB implemented as Signal on steroids, when I add a friend I exchange keys to o
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by flak48 9y ago
Cordoba?
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by flak48 9y ago
Wow, account created 13 minutes ago just to bitch about Obama in a couple of comments already
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by flak48 9y ago
There are states in India governed by Communist Parties where the people/society are not following a communist structure
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by flak48 9y ago
Getting a US Visa is voluntary. Getting an Aadhaar in India is being made compulsory
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by flak48 9y ago
How exactly is a biometric ID going to prevent them demanding bribes?
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by flak48 9y ago
>Not many these so called privacy and human rights activists stood up then. The current PM Modi himself criticized it then : https://twitter.com/narendramodi/status/453543852175925248?l... Coincidence?
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by flak48 9y ago
Why is Aadhar being made compulsory for rail/air travel or for getting cellular connections? What problem is biometrics in these areas going to solve?
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by flak48 9y ago
Yep. PIN enabled smartcards for cash transfers/rural employement schemes were already proven to be useless when officials simply forced villagers to give up their PIN and thus give up part of their entitled income if they wanted to see
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by flak48 9y ago
>The Indian ID drive has ensured that benefits make it to the people who need them without 80% of it being skimmed by corrupt bureaucrats. Before the Aadhar, when the Govt. started distributing PIN enabled smartcards to villagers (for fo
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by flak48 9y ago
~100 billions neurons in a human brain I guess. Not sure what 1.6KB per neuron is too close to
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by flak48 10y ago
The link is just a 3 year old Reddit AMA, partially (badly) copy-pasted to some guy's blog (who is promoting it here). Clickbait at its worst.
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by flak48 10y ago
But will women and non-Asian minorities be given more tries or more error tolerance as a way of affirmative action/lowering the standards?
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by flak48 11y ago
If you had actually read the linked document, you would realize that it suggests that the motives of the French in overthrowing Gaddafi was to prevent him introducing a new currency in Francophone African countries, which would have loosene
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by flak48 11y ago
Hilarious since all CBSE books have been easily available on the NCERT website since several years as PDFs. The new government seems to be taking credit for making an app to download these PDFs.
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by flak48 11y ago
I re-read the article, and combined with your answer, it makes much more sense now. What was originally confusing me, was how the scientists were confirming the presence of tunneling when the laser was off. I was mistakenly assuming that th
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by flak48 11y ago
I'm curious as to how the scientists confirmed that tunneling was taking place when the atoms were not being illuminated. Does anyone know how this is typically done?
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by flak48 11y ago
This entire blogpost has sadly been plagiarized from a post by a different author here : http://www.quora.com/How-could-Googles-new-logo-be-only-305-... Without even a link to or mention of the original source.