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30k usd maps to 2.2million inr. Which is the kind of pay a quality junior employee with 3-4 years of experience can get in a quality firm. There has been an explosion in tech salaries in the last 4-5 years and these days most companies are
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Maybe it is time to get a new job. These days there is a big shortage of tech talent and deserving candidates can get very good pay in India. The typical trick is to apply for and interview to as many companies as you can. Get a good offer
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These days, equavalent salaries in india are between 1/4th to 1/2 of equavalent american or uk salary for the same job. Adjusting for cost of living is a bit tricky as there are many things which are cheaper in India, but many thi
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I guess the only reason youtube ads exist is to get people to pay youtube to get rid of ads. My parents have a smart TV and the youtube app w/o the paid youtube premium makes it a really bad experience. On iOS devices, I have yet to fi
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5y ago
So you have replaced one over the top megalomaniac with another?
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no1lives4ever
5y ago
You may want to try out services like this one: https://www.thepodswap.com/products/airpods-battery-replacem...
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5y ago
Now this is very likely not what you are really looking for, but the airpods pro in noise cancellation mode can allow you to play music at much higher aparent loudness thanks to the noise cancellation. You may want to try that out.
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If you compare the way traffic behaves in India vs the US, you would agree that if you tried to drive like in the us you would end up with way more accidents than the ~9x figure would suggest.
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Frankly, these are not easy to specify rules. Now if you were on the passenger seat when i was driving and kept on asking questions, then maybe we could unearth a bunch of these rules. Things like you know when another car will not cut acro
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In 2010 Delhi University sold a not in use Gammacell 220 research irradiator to a scrap dealer that was in the local news for a few days https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayapuri#2010_Mayapuri_radiolo...
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I suppose OP is specifying USD. Currency in India would be INR for India.
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> agreed, back in days at least in New Delhi you could see those "war nests" (military points) made of sandbags with heavy machine guns at some locations like Red Fort as if there was actual war going This is still a thing in D
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Most of the guns carried by such security are very old design lee-enfield rifles, some version of the AK-47 or sten guns. The police in India traditionally had 6 shot revolvers as standard issue for the officers. These work well as a visibl
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Well.. it is more of a class thing outside of residential complexes. You can see a lot of Indian males shirtless or wearing a inner vest inside their homes, but visible from outside (e.g. on balconies, etc). But out in public, the only men
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You can sit on the grass at a university or even sit in most places where you can physically sit. But it is not a very common thing to do. I would say the main reasons why most people dont do that is because it would get books and clothes d
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And yet there are a shit ton of unwritten rules that help us indians navigate our crazy traffic with very few accidents ;-)
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I think what the OP was trying to refer to here is the granulated sugar that is more popular in India. Mostly the sugar has crystals that are .5-1mm thick while in the us it is closer to the consistency of powdered table salt.
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5y ago
Stationery store as mentioned by the op here is a shop that sells stationery items. Things like books, pencils, pens, crayons, printer paper, etc. These are typically stores that will not sell you food items. Kirana stores are mostly those
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The kirana stores of India are essentially small grocery shops owned by a individual that sells a variety of grocery and daily use items. Mostly they are limited to dry and packaged items. Things like rice, lentils, breakfast cereals, choco
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Nothing like that. There are a large number of wealthy people in India who are into exercise and keeping fit. But there are also a a huge number who are overweight because they can afford to stuff themselves with a lot of food. Poorer peopl
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420 == marijuana, blazeit - self explainatory.. not everyone is fine with it..
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I still dont understand why people call chrome a memory hog and safari efficient. Try loading Outlook on the web or confluence and you will see that both Safari and Chrome eat up tons of RAM and cpu.
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With the advent of CDNs, edge routing and global hosting, things have actually gotten way better for those of us who use US based websites from the other side of the world. I am from India and back in 1990s the latency used to be huge becau
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Back in 1980s and 90s I had MS Quick C 1.0 and Borland Turbo Pascal 3.0-5.5. On my 386 system back in early 90s, these used to be super fast with most of the small hobby programs I wrote then. Type program name on MS dos command prompt, pre
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Well my MBP 16 and before that my original 13" rMBP both did unscheduled wake ups and ending up super hot when being transported in my backpack. With the MBP 16, it took me a few days to detect the unscheduled wake ups, setup logging t