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by gnipgnip 10y ago
There was also some grumbling about cracking down on household gold savings (now that the "Gold bond" has fallen flat on its face).
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
You missed, - Using employees salary accounts to rapidly deposit and withdraw money. - Bribing officers in Banks. I was downvoted earlier on HN when expressed skepticism, since this policy is definitely not intended on curbing this so-calle
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
Indians have far too much trust on the state (well Modi, to be precise) - that's precisely why old-notes are quickly falling off of circulation. There appears to be plenty more possibly draconian measures in the pipeline. See, https:&
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
Baidu's Autonomous Driving division is in California.
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
Erm. Isolationism = not helping ISIS (which is in hold of Aleppo) ?
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
Considering the biased source, it'd be nice to hear first hand experience from HNers. Let me start. India: Generally free. Sometimes random people are arrested because they happened to curse a politician, and some moron complained to t
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
... and whose fault is that ?
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
> I'm just googling shit here and I already appear to know more than you do. Perhaps Google can teach you reading comprehension too.
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
+1 Taxation by a state which has very little legitimacy is more akin to thievery. This shows all the signs of a new Indira Gandhi-esque regime in the making (with about the same amount of fanfare). - The currency replacement is likely going
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
Trouble is, this entails studying entirely in a foreign language for 16 years. See: http://koenraadelst.blogspot.in/2015/11/propagating-english-... Many at this point jut in by saying "English is ours, you He
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
Indeed. It's rather hilarious when you hear these arbitrage traders speak about "innovation, research & creativity". http://scroll.in/article/741723/full-text-narayana-murthy-qu... http:/&
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
How are the immigration processes in various countries ? US is awful visa-wise, considering that much of the cap is filled up in a day by Indian body shops; ensuring thus that one can at best start in October, and set out on this magical jo
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
I don't know; don't think there is a ethnic post-vote poll out. It's also not clear how accurate the pre-poll figures were. What follows is a long-winded take on why I think Trump would've enjoyed support, and generally
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
> Grew up in the US. I'm a minority. I think this is the only time in my life I've ever felt like I didn't belong in America. It's not that simple. There was a large section of the Indian-American community that vote
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
Is it just me who is cursing themselves for not shorting USDJPY at the right moment ? Damn. Whoever thought being obsessed with the election coverage would be useful.
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
Let me throw some Zerohedge-like news into the mix. i) Indian Banks are being setup for a collapse. ii) India is being setup as a prototype cashless big-brother-esque society (what with UIDAI and all). Paranoia, yes, but well-worth it to ke
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
> All of these ideas could be part of both software engineering and computer science, but I fear—as far as I can tell—that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. Pages and pages
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
The trouble for Indian startups is that, USD is quite cheap compared to INR, and these companies can manage to sustain that massive burn rate, and also out-compete technically. Flipkart, Ola, not sure what else. I wonder how Didi pulled it
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
This sounds spookishly similar to the strategy adopted by Ola and Uber in India.
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
Actually, I think other than the obviously ethical issues surrounding anthropocene, Humanity can easily survive, as long as there is access to petroleum reserves to keep the logistical chain running - high CO2 levels though will probably ma
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
Good point; farming definitely is not profitable these days (without the large holdings/mechanization ...).
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
Eh ? Care to explain what you mean ?
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
Farming and/or studying philosophy.
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
> 4. To feed the world, we need better distribution and smarter farming practices, not the sort of "solutions" that Monsanto et all have peddled (see what's happened in India where adoption of GMO seeds was widespread). I
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
Considering that Delhi's smog is due to crop-fires and not due to cars, Kejri's plan was little more than a PR stunt (there were no studies to support his policies).
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
India's pollution is not from manufacturing.
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
Not true. Lakes and Rivers all over the US (and Japan) were badly polluted and frothing in the 60s.
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
That's not surprising considering that India has always been de-centralized "anarchy"; which folk like Marx and his modern re-incarnations would dub "primitive".
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
This ties well with my experience as well.
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
Not true. India's average education attainment is worse than that of Libya and even contemporary Iraq; unlike most countries there exist no path for prosperity via education for the majority of Indians, since it is a de-facto linguisti

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