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by praveen9920 4y ago
Speculating but when any online companies do this, that usually is because the users IP or Phone Number are marked as “unsafe” by some data providers. As both of them can be recycled, it puts customers in weird situations like this
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by praveen9920 4y ago
I wonder if there is any "natural" language which has the precision of programming language, Perhaps there are efforts to create one? I believe a language like that could be truly globalised without any cultural aspects
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by praveen9920 4y ago
Probably true to some extent. but Im sure there are "agencies" out there which provide "Aadhaar card" services which does some shady sh*t if you need duplicate aadhar.
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by praveen9920 4y ago
> While incorrect data being used for beneficiary fraud happens, census is india is limited in scope by law, and is not used for targeted benefits delivery - there is very little reason to lie here, since the data isn't correlated b
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by praveen9920 4y ago
India is a vast country with different cultures and states with varied benefits, so it is hard to say which way the bias is. The only thing I can say is they are not accurate.
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by praveen9920 4y ago
Here's the ground reality of "Surveys" and "Census" in India, The numbers are different from actual by a huge factor. There are multiple cultural and economical reasons for this, especially in villages. My mom used
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by praveen9920 4y ago
I would have missed this because of lack of enough upvotes but.. here’s my perspective. You should work hard but on yourselves not for others. I did working hard for others for a decade and ended up in the same place after. I started workin
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by praveen9920 4y ago
I had a huge scare when I moved to a different country and my sim from my home country stopped receiving SMS for OTP. I got locked out of everything, my financials, emails, work etc. I paid a premium amount for international roaming to get
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by praveen9920 4y ago
Bit tangential but imagine there is a forum for bots and humans get to vote the content generated. People training the bots can improve their models based on feedback on the content. I believe it would give raise to better content over a pe
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by praveen9920 4y ago
Good news: We will cure some rich people with cancer Bad news: We will kill some rich people with cancer
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Not all of them have the capabilities of course
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by praveen9920 4y ago
This came as a surprise to me considering when the Indian court orders to take down particular content of particular site, ISPs still uses dns blocking instead of more granular blocking which resulted in blanket site blockings of popular si
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by praveen9920 4y ago
Watch out for data transfer costs on aws after HN
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by praveen9920 4y ago
Is it me or innovation at apple is going down? The last time they released a "new type" of device is the apple watch or TV and all they are doing these days is "improving" existing devices. Don't get me wrong, I pre
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by praveen9920 4y ago
Ugly/pretty is function of general familiarity. If we are looking more familiar with this kind of planes, we probably would have called Airbus or concord ugly.
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by praveen9920 4y ago
Benefits aside, purely from security stand point, This might become vector for bad actors for stealing medical by social engineering.
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by praveen9920 4y ago
The documentation is one of the cleanest I’ve seen in recent days. Kudos
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Tensorstore Open Sourced by Google(twitter.com)
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by praveen9920 4y ago
Most of the Uber cabs work in urban settings where there are bunch of Wi-Fi enabled. Could they use the Wi-Fi to pinpoint the location instead of relying on GPS? Probably they can setup some relay nodes on their own for coverage.
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by praveen9920 4y ago
TLDR for people who didn’t read the article Who controls the internet? 1. Authoritarian govts with laws that are either agenda driven or arbitrary 2. Big Companies with kangaroo courts
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by praveen9920 4y ago
Technically cloud flare and aws provides tools for internet. I don’t know much about cloud flare but at least aws has a solid way to contact them in case of issues, except when Amazon thinks you are fraud, in which case you are banned forev
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by praveen9920 4y ago
We are talking area, we didn’t consider depth. We should change the idiom to “searching 777 in pacific”
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by praveen9920 4y ago
I still wonder at the fact that reaching or flying a drone on a place on earth is still an "almost impossible" feat when humans are going out to space or even other planets to explore. I understand the science, I still can't
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by praveen9920 4y ago
India has done a phenomenal job of getting rid of the mastercard/visa duopoly in India by introducing Rupay. Some people may say it is just another monopoly but being owned by govt has its own perks for both consumers and merchants AND
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by praveen9920 4y ago
I am most excited about any research on dark matter that comes out of Webb’s data. That is one big puzzle to this day
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by praveen9920 4y ago
Bit tangential and perhaps meta but, did you lose faith in humanity reading your own comment? You did mention all those things in single paragraph. Just kidding.
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by praveen9920 4y ago
Or just be a kid.
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by praveen9920 4y ago
First thing I noticed is how his hair style changed over period of time.
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by praveen9920 5y ago
It is very much possible that they are "going easy" on Ukraine. Unlike the western media reports, they are clearly targeting strategic locations to bomb( with some civilian casualties ) and they are not advancing faster than they
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by praveen9920 5y ago
Wondering if they have insurance providers for satellites in orbit. Even with the limited lifetime, low earth satellites provide lot of value to company. With high risk that entails, it may not make sense now even with high premium but it m

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