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by r_singh 8y ago
> Firstly Android doesn't have a monopoly. The EU commission doesn't think so. Their press release* says that 80% of smart mobile devices in Europe, run on Android. * http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP
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by r_singh 8y ago
Android forks in China are not undermined by the lacking open driver support for Android. There's a bunch of SBC manufacturers (pine64, odroid, orangepi, etc) worldwide that have managed to compile AOSP for questionable hardware. Howev
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by r_singh 8y ago
AOSP does not include proprietary apps like the Play Store, etc. In order for device manufacturers to get the Play Store on their phone, they have to give in to Google's demands to add the Google search box on the home screen of the ph
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by r_singh 8y ago
Thanks for this. Anyone who has tried to compile a forked version of AOSP knows that Google makes it extremely hard to do so. Android being an open source OS is nowhere near as easy to install as a regular linux open source OS. I've be
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by r_singh 8y ago
Being able to use github.com right now from India without any troubles. It was down for a few minutes.
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by r_singh 8y ago
I'm being able to use github intermittently here in India. What a Monday for coders in timezones when you expect to start the week with a productive day!!
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by r_singh 8y ago
It was momentarily back up for me. The new message says "We are investigating reports of service unavailability." hence the title change.
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by r_singh 8y ago
Yes, it's down for me (in India). And several of the newest submissions on HN right now claim the same. There's multiple Ask submission too.
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by r_singh 8y ago
Yes, it's down for me (in India). And the six newest submissions on HN right now claim the same. Thanks for asking.
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Github is investigating reports of service unavailability (16 July, 18 10:34AM)(status.github.com)
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by r_singh 8y ago
Yeah, I'm quite aware of that being an Indian and living here all my life. Bill gates has written about this problem as well. Heck we've even got comedy movies surrounding this issue. However, the toilet building programs are isol
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by r_singh 8y ago
You might be surprised to know that the govt. spends around 220$ to build a single toilet in small towns / villages in India under the Swachh Bharat's sanitary division. I even have a friend who found it super lucrative to build t
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by r_singh 8y ago
I get a 502 Bad Gateway error when trying to open this page from India.
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by r_singh 8y ago
I agree with the essence of your comment that the efforts of the state to suppress cryptocurrencies (to prevent themselves from losing control) are a miserable failure. However, the same is not true in the developing world where a number of
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by r_singh 8y ago
That's true. The idea holds up better if looked at from an all cryptocurrencies perspective rather than only Bitcoin. Also because states aren't just trying to control / suppress Bitcoin alone but all cryptocurrencies. For ex
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by r_singh 8y ago
They were the friendly coyotes that managed to invent something that did not threaten the state.
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by r_singh 8y ago
I'd just like to point out that the article connotes multiple ideas using the plot summarised by this comment; hence this is not really a summary of the whole article.
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by r_singh 8y ago
The most relevant take away from this article (for me) is how the coyotes (crypto and currency experts) invented Bitcoins, raccoons over leveraged it out of dumb greed (investors) and the state took notice and acted out of sheer desperation
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Top-level domain name registry service on Google App Engine (registry.Google)(github.com)
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Hillhacks 2018 is happening this May in the foothills of the Himalayas(hillhacks.in)
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by r_singh 8y ago
You're right. I misunderstood a reply that said, "I pay 99USD for Amazon Prime here in Argentina". Didn't think the user was talking about US Amazon Prime purchased from Argentina.
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by r_singh 8y ago
I've read multiple times on HN that Amazon isn't doing very well in other countries (like US, Canada, Argentina, etc.) and that Prime is super expensive as well. In India, Amazon is so good its hard to imagine how it will be susta
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by r_singh 9y ago
Here are my results: https://imgur.com/a/B26XL You will most likely have to zoom-in to be able to read them properly. Sorry about that. Baidu for me returns mostly YC resources, whether on the same domain or not, wiki
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Ask HN: Can you rate the results on searching “y combinator” on GoogleVsBaidu?
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Hillhacks 2018 is happening this May in the foothills of the Himalayas(hillhacks.in)
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Being Mark Zuckerberg is never an easy business(theaustralian.com.au)
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by r_singh 9y ago
Exactly, what's funnier is that CleverTap is an Indian product with a majority of their team being based out of India (including the top management). I reckon they became a US based company post funding or more recently... and because
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by r_singh 9y ago
Here in India it was on the front pages of most of the popular english newspapers. My dad, who is 50+ years old, knew about Cambridge Analytica few months from now because of a documentary related to Donald Trump's win; he deleted his
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EMRs and Physician Time: A Real Problem (2014) [pdf](advisory.com)
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by r_singh 9y ago
There seems to be a slight misunderstanding. What that means is that the particular Rx drug being advertised can only be advertised to consumers of that Rx drug in question. So insulin can only be advertised to people with diabetes. The int

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