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by iamsb 7y ago
One of the product idea I had, but no skills or real desire to implement it was - a key chain which holds 1-3 cloth bags. Biggest behavioral change people have to do when moving to reusable bags is - remembering to carry. Most people carry
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by iamsb 7y ago
When I was growing up, there were far more tigers, even in Nashik district[1]. One of my most vivid memories from growing up is when we were driving to a near by place called Bhandardara. My father was in charge of constructing a tunnel to
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by iamsb 7y ago
Thanks. My bad.
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That. And in specifically in India lot of people use false identities by impersonating a person from different socio-economic background. For example - there might be a protest by farmers, but most of the farmers in the protest are not actu
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by iamsb 7y ago
Here is the study. There is PDF with the page which details the study methodology as well. https://www.equalitylabs.org/facebook-india-report https://www.equalitylabs.org/s/Facebook_India_Report_Equalit
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by iamsb 7y ago
India has many problems with media. Fake news media, crypto fake media, deep fake media. Fake media is easy to identify. Crypto media and deep fake is more difficult. Recently google sponsored data journalism award was given to one of the m
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by iamsb 7y ago
yes but he can create better systems where moderation is not controlled by groups of higher privilege. Essentially, from my limited understanding, it is not possible to take away moderation privileges from individuals. Please feel free to c
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by iamsb 7y ago
I agree with Larry about abuse by Facebook and Twitter. I also strongly encourage him to look at state of wikipedia moderations. Specially in a country like India. Lot of pages related to political content is moderated by people who are dee
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by iamsb 7y ago
Main issue with recycling is sorting. Perhaps there are ways to solve this using technology.
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This is an interesting idea. Do you have longer form post which explains how someone can set this up? Also how do you protect your NAS over the internet? I am not extremely concerned about security, but some network layer security will be g
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by iamsb 7y ago
I will check it out.
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See my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20180775 . Not sure yet another web based service is the answer here I am afraid.
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by iamsb 7y ago
It is an interesting idea. Few things I am worried about is - US & China have regressive laws when it comes to internet - patriot act for example. So ideally I dont want my data in someone else's hands who might be bound by laws th
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by iamsb 7y ago
I wonder if now it is good time to start a service which helps you host all important stuff - mail, picture books, contacts - and so on with offline backups which are under your control. Essentially ship me a tape every 6 months or so which