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naruvimama
5y ago
A lot of business around the world are built around this silent charges and people being forgetful or not active in checking their expenses.
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A society that allows that will collapse when too many people are bad players. It it also true with societies where men aspire to have 4 wives each. These are societies with too many single men, and a tendency to be violent.
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5y ago
I do not think the OP meant that, OP could have meant that there is a motivated group speaking with a forked tongue.
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The cost of living in India is going to be pretty low compared to colder countries, so it shouldn't cost a lot to provide a decent lifestyle. With accelerating automation, most people are going to have to depend on a much smaller set o
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5y ago
A complex system like F22 is one step away from loosing global dominance. Our technology is accelerating exponentially, I wouldn't be surprised if manned fighters become obsolete in a decade. Germany produced some of the most sophistic
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What you mentioned may or may not be true, however China is exactly where Germany was before WW2. Not that we are going to war anytime soon, but we are definitely in a war on economic and technology dominance.
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China has surpassed the US economically, it has made it clear it wants to dominate the technology space. While we are in denial, it is clear even to naive Chinese that they are at war with the US when it comes to technology. The only upper
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It must be remembered that Huawei broke into the Ericsson-Nokia-Alcatel standards cartel by threatening to go with their own 3G standard if it is not incorporated into the global standards. India is one country where bureaucrats, academic a
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You need to check your facts. East-India company had nothing to sell and was spending its gold. It was precisely because of the concentration of wealth (from Europe) and the hemorrhaging of gold that it desired conquest and taxing the local
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The value of time spent by the people is called productivity. We should be more concerned with the productivity. This is especially true with developing countries where people are mostly employed in backbreaking manual labor. Sometimes it i
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Currencies need to be backed by an asset or an entity. Bitcoin is meaningful only as long as it is a temporary token for transaction like an IOU note. The day it became a "store of value" or asset to be speculated on it is meaning
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I understand that bitcoin is decentralised, but decentralised what? Currencies need to have an underlying useful asset or guarantee. Yes governments used to have gold backed currencies but our economic growth is exponential, so it is now th
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Speaking from a historical perspective. The East India company/ies pretty much won much of the world for Britain & Europe. Europe was neither wealthy nor technologically more advanced than India. But the Church with its christianis
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My biggest fear is that institutions & governments jumping into this pyramid scheme, throwing our hard earned money to make billionaires out of snake oil men. Bitcoin was fine as long as it was a small geeky fun currency with actual sma
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Weak states use terrorism. Strong states respond with military force.
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They are essentially SQL transformation at the reporting stage. Python is just the glue code, a lot of attention has gone into the connectors but no so much into the complexity within the SQL. The problem I would like to address is complex
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Considering how often Pakistan calls for nuclear war or it addresses Osama as a martyr, I would put it along side North Korea in terms of a global threat.
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I have been trying to migrate our legacy ETLs to DBT, which is mostly strings peppered around in python code. I like the macros, templates, the visualisation tool ..... and would like to make our code as DBT compatible as possible. However,
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Could be a piece of cake disabling mini sats with laser or microwave weapons, which I understand is rapidly seeing the light of the day.
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A bit of an outdated idea. Uber is illegal in many progressive EU countries. While it is free to operate in India. Developed countries play the free market game as long as they are the mercantilist in the room.
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4 out of 6 habitable continents are dominated by western Europeans. Western Europe is just about the size of India. And had historically low populations because of the harsh winters.
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Among the G20 India is the only country to exceed it's commitments. Having already exceed it's renewable energy targets and setting new ambitious targets.
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Even affluent Indians drink boiled/filtered water drawn from wells. It was a surprise to me that in many European countries one could drink straight from the tap. A even bigger shocker was to know that the same water is used for flushi
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The word does not exist in any Indian language. To justify the "pre-date", proponents combine highly distorted theory of jatti and varna to artificially synthesize Indian caste system. The connection of caste with Europe is much m
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The word "caste" is derived from the Portuguese castas. The European class system is essentially what transformed into the Indian caste system. Not to mean there was no social hierarchy in India, but the rigid birth based system w
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https://youtu.be/5dn5vxpbEFk
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"India that is Bharat" is prominent in our constitution. The name Bharat comes from the name Bharata. I do not see a reason why I need to justify why Cholas who are very much Indian with Indian roots being my hero. Whereas Mughals
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"This often involves the settlers dispossessing indigenous inhabitants, or instituting legal and other structures which systematically disadvantage them" The Cholas did not do any of these. They only wanted to stop piracy and exto
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Pakistani army and Islamic radicals in Bangladesh targeted two groups Hindus and the Intelectual class. In total there were an estimated 2-3 million killed and at least 400000 Hindu women raped or taken as sex slaves. Clearly the number of
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First I am not talking about an average Indian muslim. I am talking about Indian muslims as a group. The same community which has been carrying out ethnic cleansing in Pakistan and Bangladesh. The British brought in the common civil laws th
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