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by pkphilip 6y ago
Well said
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by pkphilip 6y ago
Except that in India even if you had wealth but if you happened to be in the wrong caste, you couldn't buy a house next to the priest class or royalty.
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by pkphilip 6y ago
If you use Whatsapp you could have two different whatsapp accounts - one for your business with Whatsapp Business and another regular account. For this you need two SIMs
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by pkphilip 6y ago
Free Pascal and Lazarus - the open source alternative to Delphi, is also extremely fast. A demo that I put up sometime ago of developing a very simple GUI Hello World app from starting a fresh project to running it in less than 42 seconds.
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by pkphilip 6y ago
Whether a company is "Indian" or not is not defined by where they developed their apps - it is defined by the ownership structure. The truth is most of these companies that you have pointed out have significant percentage of their
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by pkphilip 6y ago
You made some good points and then started making the same points that the extreme Hindutva trolls make - that the students are supporters of muslim fundamentals merely because they ask questions. What is the "long standing tradition&q
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by pkphilip 6y ago
I am glad that this will force a hard stop on Google's and Apple's monopoly on App stores and force them to be more competitive. India is too big a market for Google to walk away from - especially after they had to walk away from
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by pkphilip 6y ago
Julia is a good language - has excellent performance and it has a pretty decent web development framework as well. https://genieframework.com/
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by pkphilip 6y ago
We have 100s of farmers that we personally work with - some of them with less than 2 hectares of land, who are using livestock to help in their agriculture. Without livestock they will be paying through their nose for biofertilizer and othe
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by pkphilip 6y ago
Can you not do your own research?
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by pkphilip 6y ago
The fact that you are so willing to believe all the propaganda put out by the government without refusing to look at the facts is the issue. Even about the so called drug-nexus, you seem to have not noticed the following: 1. That we are soo
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by pkphilip 6y ago
All sorts of livestock is used - not just cattle. Goat manure, for instance, is very good in some circumstances and is quite expensive. As with everything, all things have to be done in moderation. A certain acreage of land can only support
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by pkphilip 6y ago
Also the economy which is slowing down at the fastest. About the rights of minorities etc, less said the better. Every single democratic institution has been compromised - including the parliament and the SC.
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by pkphilip 6y ago
You are talking about a very minuscule population of the country benefiting from Reliance share prices. That is really the issue when monopolies such as Reliance arise. Reliance's monetary success and growth does not imply that India i
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by pkphilip 6y ago
Well said. Reliance is the bane of India. It is going to drag India down to the pits and make India into a banana republic of sorts
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by pkphilip 6y ago
$2 trillion? I thought the latest figure was $35 Trillion - and thats just from the Pentagon https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pentagon-35-trillion-accounti...
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by pkphilip 6y ago
Overgrazing can and does cause problems but controlled grazing can actually fight desertification and has been used: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-livestock-gra... The organic and natural farming metho
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by pkphilip 6y ago
Talk to someone in Africa who works with repairing mobile phones, laptops etc. They will have enough skills to assemble such a device. Recruit one of them or work with of them to make the devices in bulk.
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by pkphilip 6y ago
For sustainable farming, livestock plays a very crucial role. This is particularly true for organic and natural farming. https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/agriculture/organic-live... So looking at a single metri
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by pkphilip 6y ago
Stocks and Shares: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/difference-between-...
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by pkphilip 6y ago
As someone who comes from a Christian background in India I would like to add here that while the caste system (unfortunately) exists even among the Christians and Muslims in India it is nowhere near as strong as among the Hindus. There are
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by pkphilip 6y ago
In TN they even demanded wrist bands for students to identify their caste...in 2019 at the school level. This was abolished after a lot of opposition. https://www.edexlive.com/news/2019/aug/18/caste-in-st
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by pkphilip 6y ago
As someone who has worked in the US and in other parts of the world, I have witnessed first hand the regressive attitude of many upper caste Indians towards others from lower castes - even their colleagues in the US and Europe. It is shamef
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by pkphilip 6y ago
This article by Yashica Dutt is very relevant in this conversation: Does upper caste society acknowledge the private reservations it has had for years? https://scroll.in/article/951818/does-upper-caste-society-ac..
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by pkphilip 6y ago
I don't have a problem with bulls/bullocks being used for labour and neither do I have a problem with monkeys being used. We use animals for a range of functions - donkeys, horses, goats, dogs, cows, camels, chickens, ducks, geese
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by pkphilip 6y ago
He was also the guy who invented Javascript
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by pkphilip 6y ago
Here is some data from 2019. Some of these salaries are eye watering: https://www.causeiq.com/insights/highest-paid-nonprofit-ceos...
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by pkphilip 6y ago
It is interesting to note that Brendan Eich's severance pay when he was forced out of Mozilla was just $113,000. https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeanders/2015/11/30/mozilla... Also interesting
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by pkphilip 6y ago
WinForms is just a wrapper around Win32 API - which is closed, and so won't run on other platforms. So in many ways very similar to Apple's position on Swift and SwiftUI
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by pkphilip 6y ago
Why would you have an issue with monkey labour when bulls et are routinely used for farming and transportation in India?

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