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by gnipgnip 10y ago
India: Maybe inside the alt.right's religious fever dream. BTCINR volumes are negligible; USDINR has barely moved. Demonetization remains quite popular, and supermarkets remain as full as before.
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
I see - so basically, this is a way for reducing the existing state apparatus into a symbol, and become a sort of client state. I'm assuming this means that Banks basically need to operate with 100% reserve ratio, which makes it really
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
Perhaps they should worry about "goods" the "terrorists" are allegedly exchanging it for.
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
That'd be rather unlikely. I mean even Ecuador has adopted USD. Adopting another country's seems completely illogical IMO; I mean, do banks in such countries answer to the Fed. Reserve ?
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
The bubble thing is very real. Isn't it interesting then that all our intelligensia is engaged in the whole apochryphal "caste-system" narrative [1] [2], while essentially being the gate keepers of a state/violence sanct
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
> If anything, the roman alphabet is simpler than the syllable based Devanagari. Actually, you're just arguing that the input methods for Latin are simpler (and I agree). Devanagari is superior in almost every respect to Latin alpha
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
> This might still become 500 million is a decade but still half the country is being denied of internet. Perhaps, but to paraphrase a comment in the attached thread, I'd be more worried about feeding the cow before milking it. I me
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
See, http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2014/11/06/the-problem-... The "socialist" state runs a systematic unwritten discrimination regime where every thing from higher education to stat
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
(Vernacular - "Language of the slave"). It's far more complicated that "need its own vernacular internet". The internet is an emergent thing, and what one sees are just the symptoms. This is also the reason India&#x
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
What would living on a dollar a day entail in the US ?
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
Alan Kay in his famous OOPSLA talk mentions how the architecture itself leads to these language choices. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY He mentions how Xerox PARC machines with tagged architectures from the 80s
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
I just spent my morning installing Sailfish; I can't recommend it enough for Linux users! The effort put into localization far surpasses what Android has (for Indian languages). Comes with systemctl and all familiar text-file configs
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
Sweet ! I didn't realize Intex was making phones with Sailfish. This looks like a cheap alternative to the much loved Nokia N9. ( https://www.flipkart.com/intex-aqua-fish-orange-16-gb/p/itme... )
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
It looks like the process of building apps is far simpler on Sailfish, and linux-like. https://sailfishos.org/develop/tutorials/creating-applicatio... I tried fiddling with Android, but the soft lock-in to Java, I
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
Do they have the tech though (the Pudong one is built by Germans I think) ? Chuo Shinkansen in neighboring Japan is likely not be completed until 2045 (!).
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More of world's poor live in India than in all sub-Saharan Africa(theguardian.com)
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
Here's an archive of the post that led to the crackdown, http://archive.is/MrsGu The pizza-man is the 49 most influential person in D.C ? More children disappear in the US than people dying from cancer ? This is very s
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
This is very similar to what Soros has said in the past. It's not a very Black & White issue, to be honest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8Ux5b6YM9A
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
Is there any information on how things are handled by Weibo and such ?
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
Moreover Poisson equation, being a Linear PDE, is essentially solved using convolutions. The crux of the problem seems to be in the handling of boundaries - once FEM-ized the nice grid like structure gets replaced by an irregular graph (wit
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
Can someone please spell-out for us muggles what sets these frameworks (Theano, Tensorflow, Torch, CNTK, Mxnet) apart ? They all seem to be essentially doing the same thing underneath.
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
It's really strange, considering that gold-smuggling has historically been the source of funding for assorted terrorist orgs. Demonetization may turn out in hindsight to be a master stroke, but there are too many variables that are hid
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
You folk moved from Sweden ?
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
This is a terrible move, considering how abusive Govt. officials tend to be; bribe giving often stems from helplessness rather than for illegitimate gain.
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
> Demonetization is far from an 'experiment'. It's a fairly common practice: India did it in the 20s & the 40s, Nixon did it in the late 60s, the European Central Bank also did it recently. Context: - India 20's 4
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
Considering that India's state is essentially a rent-seeking colonial state, I don't believe it has much legitimacy. Then again, considering the large number of Govt. employees suckling at its teat, it's likely never going to
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
> access to quality education Indeed. http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2014/11/06/the-problem-...
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
The trouble (and advantage when seen as a commodity) with Cryptocurrencies is that they can't be "created out of thin air". Yes I know FRB is seen very skeptically, but there are deep issues with the distribution of these, th
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
> Artificially inflated real-estate prices will come down as there is reduced black money in circulation. So a regular family will be able to afford purchase of land/house. Before this, for example, if someone is selling a property
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
That's true. However, what's also not mentioned is that there isn't much preventing the counterfeiting of the current notes. See, http://greatgameindia.com/de-la-rue-blacklisted-company-paki... http:/&#

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