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by hiyer 8y ago
Pakistan has denied this, though India - and a few Pakistanis [1] - claim that Pakistan is lying to save its F16 contract with USA. 1. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/abhinandan-downed-...
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by hiyer 8y ago
Terrorist groups like JeM and LeT are trained, funded and equipped by the Pakistan army. The Pakistani army provides covering fire to them when they try to infiltrate into India. Heck, the very fact that Pakistan tried to retaliate for an a
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by hiyer 8y ago
It is only one state - the army. The government is just a figurehead. As Imam Tawhidi said, other countries have armies. In Pakistan, the army has a country.
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by hiyer 8y ago
Humanity already knows how to abuse fusion energy.
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by hiyer 8y ago
Pakistan - a nearly bankrupt, terrorism-infested, Islamic country - has had nuclear tech for decades. I'm pretty sure if Saudi Arabia wanted to buy nuclear tech from them it would only be a phone call and a few billion $ away.
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by hiyer 8y ago
There's a "stronger" version of Thums Up called "Charged" which is fizzier and even less sweet than the regular one.
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by hiyer 8y ago
The drugs manufactured by Indian cos are licensed, not stolen. The US itself imports several billions worth of pharmas from India every year, and the USFDA inspects pharma plants in India for this reason.
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by hiyer 8y ago
In terms of greasing palms, the USA is no different, except that it's legal there. For example, in India it's illegal for a company to pay a political party for favours; so they pay bribes. In USA this is just called lobbying and
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by hiyer 8y ago
If you're referring to the new retail rules, the govt left enough loopholes so it didn't really affect Amazon and Flipkart for too long - https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/services/retai...
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by hiyer 8y ago
Liu Yiqian paid $170 million on his credit card once [1]. Presumably the transaction was instantaneous. As an added bonus he also got free first class travel for self and family for life because of the points accrued. For those who can affo
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by hiyer 8y ago
Facebook uses btrfs extensively [1]. I was tempted to try it out again (burnt my fingers on it a couple of years back) but from the experiences mentioned here it looks like it's not really production-ready yet. 1. https://co
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by hiyer 8y ago
Quite interesting. Any performance/feature comparison with nailgun [1]? We have found that useful for Hadoop hdfs commands, though haven't tried it for spark,tez etc. 1. https://github.com/facebook/nailgun
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by hiyer 8y ago
Compared to AWS, the title would be true of Azure too :-)
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by hiyer 8y ago
Why do you feel the US is better in this respect? The US has several other obvious advantages compared to India, but equality of wealth distribution and lack of crony capitalism don't seem to be among them.
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by hiyer 8y ago
The new redesigned gmail is another site that loads a lot slower on FF than in Chrome.
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by hiyer 8y ago
Dowry is not so common among the (upper) middle class these days - with the exception of certain communities especially in Andhra/Telangana. Gifts are certainly given when the bride's side can afford it, but seldom extravagant and
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by hiyer 8y ago
Residential property is overpriced and supply exceeds demand. It's unlikely prices will fall - in India people would rather hold on to property than sell at even a slightly lower price - but you would have to be in for the really long
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by hiyer 8y ago
That's only if you buy land. Not if you buy an apartment or fully constructed house.
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by hiyer 8y ago
Thanks for this. I used to do yt> (for html, for example) but that would yank one extra character. This is very useful!
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by hiyer 8y ago
India is nowhere near this much of a ripoff. Even in a reputed private hospital like Narayana or Manipal the "treatment" that this child underwent would cost Rs.350-500 for consultation and probably another Rs.500 or so for regist
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by hiyer 8y ago
vim 8 and neovim have pretty functional in-built terminals (:term). You can try that if you're using one of these.
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by hiyer 8y ago
Time for the US to move to a single VAT/GST model?
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by hiyer 8y ago
JSON doesn't have comments. If I want to know why a config has a particular value, I can write a comment to explain it in YAML or xml, just like I would do in code. Lack of comments is the primary reason I would not use json for anythi
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by hiyer 8y ago
That's pretty much the norm in India.
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by hiyer 9y ago
> Is a Wi-Fi enabled plant waterer really worth $30 million in VC funding? When a VC-funded startup fails, the impact is minimal on the man on the street. That's not the case when every dude with a computer and his uncle starts inve
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by hiyer 9y ago
You can try Qubole [0]. The pricing is a small percentage of what you pay to the cloud provider, so it's predictable to an extent. [0]: https://www.qubole.com/ Disclosure: I work here.
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by hiyer 9y ago
In India itself, Hyderabad is like @dragonwriter described Indonesia - the traffic keeps flowing and pedestrians walk across anywhere - the vehicles will just weave around you. Bangalore is like Malaysia is described - if a driver sees you
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by hiyer 9y ago
From the benchmark it looks like the JIT causes the lion's share of the improvement, since trunk (which will presumably become 2.6.0 going by the title) without JIT is 5.7x slower than with.
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by hiyer 9y ago
Clearcase. I used to think Perforce was a bad VCS until I had the misfortune of having to use Clearcase. Perforce is no spring chicken, but it's a breath of fresh air compared to CC. And of course open source VCS'es like git and s
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by hiyer 9y ago
The UI is horrible, but the UX is quite functional. And given the millions of people with various degrees of tech-savviness who use it, it's probably a good thing they haven't done a major revamp in years.

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