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naruvimama
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It might have very much to do with their shoddy 2FA rollout. I have heard of quite a few among my circles who got locked out. They hurriedly pushed out something that did not work in the first place.
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Microsoft used to be in the same place, they started growing once they opened up. Instead of rent seeking. VLSI is hard, but with massive investments in fabs and design across the board, Nvidia will be forced to go the MS way. Nvidia licens
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Unless the people have free and unrestricted level playing field, it would not make sense to have the same conditions across the world.
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I know that you know what I mean, nit-picking language is the last resort of a looser. Let us say post-"independence" (political) Anyway, we from the ex-colonies have a clear understanding of "neo-colonisation"
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I must apologize, I realize that when you are stepping on someone else's feet of course you do not feel the pain.
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》the treasury of the colonies held in British banks went on to pay the pensions of the colonisers. I meant post independence, which is the definition of neo-colonisation.
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I am not talking about reparations. No one is looking for charity or concessions from Europeans anyway. I do not think very many people hold a grudge either. You are just firing all over the place. My statement is simple, Europeans are used
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https://theprint.in/pageturner/excerpt/why-43-of-british-sti... This a far cry from the constant guilt laid on the shoulders of Germans. The Germans paid a heavy price but the treasury of the colonies held in Brit
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I have written in favour of the post. I have written in favour of the people accused in the post, because it is the ecosystem and not their personal character. My post being downvoted proves precisely the point, people get triggered by the
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Your argument sounds like "if the men harass women why can not the women harass the men." To be fair women do harass men, only because the law is written in favour of women. We are talking about power assymetry and continuing hold
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This is sophisticated part of Neo-colonialism and is not just restricted to Africa but to many other former colonies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF0QyfrFqHA
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All news sites are biased to different extents either by design, corruption, ideology or by moles. It is better to support something that you agree with.
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How would you prove it? What if you are a drug dealer or dictator?
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Just waiting for the EU and US to restrict, crackdown or regulate bitcoin and other private crypto. At the minimum ban regulated institutions from dealing in it. Problem is too many people are already heavily invested in the pyramid scheme.
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5y ago
Unlike most developed countries including China with a saturated infrastructure, India has a great potential to be a store of value in the form of road, rail, bridges and ports. Burdening India with unfair co2 restrictions while the develop
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There is some relativity involved, as a child growing up in the 90s even for someone from a comfortably middle class family the safety standards were very poor. Students on cycle sharing roads with industrial trailers, leaky electric poles,
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For women with relatively little education or skills, a job in an apple assembly plant is a god send. The alternatives are manual labour in the farm or construction, as maids or in textile factories where the pay as well as work conditions
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As an Indian I can assure you that there are only a handful of bus stop in any major city which have the bus number written on them. There is a general apathy of service providers to the users. Dormitories for workers is a relatively new co
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Flush toilets use a lot of water, even wealthy people use buckets. Moreover squat toilets, which is how the human anatomy has evolved generally require the use of mugs and buckets, is the preferred and often cleaner method. Soap usage is qu
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The British did not just one day decide to pack up and abandon their biggest milch cow. All bureaucrats, police, military, even the first Prime minister Nehru was an imposition on the country. You are right about the bureaucracy, its cultur
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As far as I know, the princely state of Travancore was not under British rule ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travancore ) and the quality of life, education and health care often rivalled or exceeded many parts of Europ
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My only point is the Christian schools or missions are not deserving of any of the praises you heap on them. Their contribution to the actual school is 0. In fact it legitimizes their continuing hold of land and wealth grabbed from the nati
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I have heard this very often. The queen of England did not send ship loads of gold to do charity work in the colonies. The native tax payers to this day pay the salaries including the priests who work as principals or head masters. The land
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What if this is happening to everyone around you? And it keeps happening again and again. Then it is the norm.
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Noise in a complex analog circuit is generally a problem because it propagates uncorrected. A ReLU for instance acts as a quantiser and so there are local checks.
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* It is a store of nothing, in fact it is drain of enormous amounts of electricity and computational power. * I wish it were cheaper or simpler, it was true in its early days but not anymore once there is speculation & "store of va
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AAdhaar is an unique identity systems, India is among those few countries that lacks a citizens registry. It makes it easy to receive government services and KYC, removes the need to fill in redundant information in every form. India is als
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But IRCTC is a behemoth (though it is publicly listed). We are talking about smaller merchants, would they be able to get away with the same?
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I believe merchants are not allowed to charge extra for visa or mastercard, but there is a hefty commission payed to them. They then use this to attracts customers and/or banks to sign up. Rupay customers end up paying part of the heft
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Credit cards are from an era where magnetic stripes was a novelty. It is just a bunch of numbers and very lax in security. Visa & Mastercard are just global duopolies, they have used their dominance to keep the cards easy to use but ins
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