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by prashantsengar 4y ago
These are IT and manufacturing hubs and the respective State governments and the Centre gives them special attention because they want industries and jobs. Maybe if the elites start taking their lives more seriously and threaten to move a
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by prashantsengar 4y ago
But many cities from these states also face high pollution. Noida, Ghaziabad (UP), Gurugram (Haryana) are a few examples which are highly populated. Noida is slowly growing as UP's manufactoring hub, already being its IT hub. Gurugram
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by prashantsengar 4y ago
Nobody is willing to do it because: 1. Lack of political willpower. It is still not considered to be a very high priority thing by those in power, and even the people who live in the region. 2. Again, due to politicians, bureaucracy, and th
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by prashantsengar 4y ago
> Also, outside of the USA if they piss off Mark Zuckerberg enough they can lose the rest of the world If a few companies piss-off each other enough, we might start seeing open protocols for communication
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by prashantsengar 4y ago
The power of TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) is also proposed to be curtailed in the same bill [0]. [0] https://www.outlookindia.com/business/proposal-to-curtail-tr...
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by prashantsengar 4y ago
Personally, I know very few people who don't have a digit at the end of their email address.
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by prashantsengar 4y ago
I will also add "Andhadhun" to the list of bollywood movies. One of the best movies I have ever seen.
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by prashantsengar 4y ago
Genuinely curious: so why is XMPP not so popular outside of the hacker community?
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by prashantsengar 4y ago
A list of things that can go wrong - the wind patterns on Earth change, resulting in climate change. Seasons will alter. Rains will be affected. Widespread famines and floods. - Point 1 rendering a lot of solar and wind energy farms unusabl
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by prashantsengar 4y ago
Yeah same lol. I saw that my SaaS services were not working and I got stressed thinking why all my EC2 instances went down at the same time. I checked down detector for EC2 and it reported that Cloudflare is down. I breathed a sigh of relie
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by prashantsengar 4y ago
Signal is better than Telegram in terms of security and privacy. But people use Telegram for its plethora of features, the UX, and its attention to even the smallest of details.
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Life after Guantanamo: 'We are still in jail'(bbc.com)
73 points by prashantsengar 4y ago|103 comments
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How to Beat Stress and Anxiety(prashants.in)
1 points by prashantsengar 4y ago|0 comments
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by prashantsengar 4y ago
When I was a kid and new to FB, someone told me to check the comments on the meme pages. They used to be funny and I thought that I had been missing out. So I made a habit of checking comments of all the posts. Now it is a cesspool of troll
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by prashantsengar 4y ago
Same here in my country. It feels so weird that the service provider has the ability to just charge a card in the US if you enter the three things printed on the card. That would cause a lot of frauds if it happened here. Fortunately, the
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My (Balanced) Experience with a Mac(prashants.in)
1 points by prashantsengar 4y ago|0 comments
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by prashantsengar 5y ago
They are still in beta currently, focusing on small teams right now so there is hope for comments.
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by prashantsengar 5y ago
Have you tried Athens Research? [0] It is open source and everything is stored locally but not in markdown files. You can self-host the desktop app to share notes. [0]: https://github.com/athensresearch/athens
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by prashantsengar 5y ago
Interestingly, current PM said in one of his election speeches in 2014 (when he was the CM of Gujarat) what you mentioned in point 1 (not exactly the same). I don't think there has been any progress there. Otherwise, a lot of focus has
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by prashantsengar 5y ago
I believe most of their users are academicians - students writing their thesis. And I don't think a lot of them pay for its license themselves. It's their institute which purchases the license.
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by prashantsengar 5y ago
I use chatbots to search for pages on websites where search is otherwise broken, like one of my bank's. I have never found a good use for them. They were once advertised to help your granny use the website but I haven't met a chat
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by prashantsengar 5y ago
+1 for Zoho. Simple, inexpensive but very effective.
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by prashantsengar 5y ago
There's a difference in Second Life and the whole "metaverse" just as there is a difference between the time and tech then and now. Not every tech is going to be successful at every time. The same solution can fail once and s
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by prashantsengar 5y ago
And sometimes you don't know the answer to the question before you start writing, but in the process you learn something new.
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by prashantsengar 5y ago
> I unsubscribed from Quora emails because I was troubled by all of the engagement manipulation in what they sent me and how well it worked Exactly the same with me. Each time I received a Quora digest mail, I thought that I cannot get m
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How to Read Effectively – Creating a Reading Workflow(prashants.in)
2 points by prashantsengar 5y ago|0 comments
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by prashantsengar 5y ago
My list contains: Lesswrong.com - thinking rationally The Economist's World this week (and other content related to my liking) - news and current affairs PG's essays I also subscribe to a few newsletters like Farnam Streets, James
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by prashantsengar 5y ago
Thank you for mentioning. I was surprised to not find this article after a quick search on my client
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McAfee to be taken private by Advent-led group in $14B deal(reuters.com)
1 points by prashantsengar 5y ago|2 comments
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by prashantsengar 5y ago
There are multiple different applications now, trying to be an alternative to TikTok. But none of them has consolidated the market. Most used: IG Reels, MX Takatak (from MX player), Gaana shots. When TikTok was banned, there were dozens of

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