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by galtwho 10y ago
I met a guy in Chennai, India who sold Ultrasound machines some time back. On enquiry I learnt they don't sell any of the big brands cause they cost in millions and can't be afforded by most semi-urban or rural health facilities.
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by galtwho 10y ago
The largest democracy India has e-voting. Works fine for them. Why are other countries not going the same way. There is a move in India to get all voting machines to print out your choice which the voter can drop into a ballot box. Not sure
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by galtwho 10y ago
>> as AAPL literally stole money from both US and EU people Well you have US Govt now arguing on behalf of Apple, which suggests that US people were not going to be the losers. The losers are people of other countries where Apple and
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by galtwho 10y ago
well it is outlawed, which mean illegal.. its illegal because it violates some aspect of freedom, liberalism or human rights.. so it is not hypocritical. It is hypocritical to claim liberalism but outlaw a person right to wear clothing of t
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by galtwho 10y ago
what do you mean by not integrating? part of the colonisers spiel to the colonised is aboyut human rights, freedom and liberty.
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by galtwho 10y ago
>> instead people seemingly are coming to the liberal and liberated countries with a distant goal of making them as backward and oppressive as the countries they left/fled. I see this line in "liberal" countries and fin
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The challenge of convincing white men they're not as meritorious as they think(dailylife.com.au)
8 points by galtwho 10y ago|2 comments
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by galtwho 10y ago
I disagree that the economy lost out in the situation you gave. In the absence of your success, some other games developer generated 600K of benefit for the economy. + or - a few 1000's yeah sure his game would have been crappier than
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by galtwho 10y ago
How does it work when Person A,B & C equally owns Company X which has cash reserves of 10m and liabilities of 10m Person A & B also own Company Y. Company X buys out Company Y for 5m which later leads to bankruptcy of Company X with
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by galtwho 10y ago
it is not. Atleast as per this UK study[1] Which suggest lots of Indian vegetarian food is indeed healthy [1] http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/...
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by galtwho 10y ago
>> the typical indian isn't any more healthier than say the typical american if we're just looking at diet alone. but is eating tasty non-meat food that is lot less destructive to the environment. that cuts to the meat of th
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by galtwho 10y ago
I think the confusion comes from defining what is a "fitter" organism? and if we keep to trend, its quite likely we will bring Idiocracy[1] to fruition [1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
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Our obsession with climbing Everest comes at a price(dailylife.com.au)
2 points by galtwho 10y ago|0 comments
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by galtwho 10y ago
Can something like this be used to tamper with the Blackbox type voting machines used in India? If so, why have there not been much of a hue and cry about it.
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Most Dangerous scientist of all times(all-that-is-interesting.com)
1 points by galtwho 10y ago|0 comments
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by galtwho 10y ago
>> Apple, Google, Microsoft, and the like are holding masses of cash outside the USA. a large part of this cash is from the tax not paid in countries in Europe, Asia, Australia. America was always going to get a hand on this money and
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by galtwho 10y ago
>> if we think the government of a bigger nation which is responsible only to its own citizens can act to protect everyone's interests. In the case of India it does. Even though it is changing and they are unfortunately adopting
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by galtwho 10y ago
I think the equation is whether to srve the interests of 300-400 million indians living in these areas or that of 100+ million in Bangladesh. even then India has acted generally to protect everyone's interest vis a vis other countries
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by galtwho 10y ago
and the problem with unwritten rules is that it is majority who knows best on how to read them. when you don't run within the majority culture you are always making mistakes in their interpretation and then you have law officers who ch
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by galtwho 11y ago
Wife left him in "rural india" means went back to her parents place... very rarely does it mean shacked up with another guy.. Based on how the story is described, I can understand Shanthi's decision and the guys acceptance of
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by galtwho 11y ago
Dan has written on Linkedin a summary of his experience as well. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-comes-age-bias-tech-comp...
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by galtwho 11y ago
my bet is on such looks being banned. What do you have to hide? /s
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by galtwho 11y ago
Some valuable lessons there from a Sales perspective
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by galtwho 11y ago
In some eastern religions The universe is seen as a dream of 'God'. Which means start of a dream is like Big Bang and waking from dream is like extinction of Universe.
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by galtwho 11y ago
Are the characters in our dreams sentient? They surely seem so and many of our dreams are elaborate and seem to obey natural laws. Then there are some dreams where the natural laws seem different. I can fly and fly well in those and observe
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by galtwho 11y ago
One of the best fermented foods to have is the South Indian Breakfast of Idli( Iddly). This batter can be bought in Indian Grocery stores or prepared at home A similar batter is used to make Indian pancakes called Dosa as well. There are al
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by galtwho 11y ago
Sounds like it. Have noticed something similar on another thread as well.
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by galtwho 11y ago
This. We are all played for suckers. This is partly why I wish for Trump to get the top job. The amount of window dressing in society will come down drastically as the clown makes misjudgements at every turn and contradicts himself by the h
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by galtwho 11y ago
this is inspite of it having extremely low rape incidences as a %. People have no clue how large and diverse the place is and are always generalizing. and I have very rarely come across police misbehaving the way I read here or even come ac
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by galtwho 11y ago
Why? do you think USA national security isn't worth more than a billion? How can you have a doubt after all that we have known post-Snowden

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