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by rudiv 6y ago
AFAIK there is a significant (>=5%) chance that the election night totals will show a conclusive win for the incumbent, but the eventual complete tally will show the opposite. This has the potential to cause a lot of confusion in the imm
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by rudiv 6y ago
Yes, we named the diplomatic enclave after Chanakya, following his advice of giving foreign missions palatial estates in exchange for tiny apartments.
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by rudiv 6y ago
Is that incredibly uncommon in your experience? In my country people still buy Mac computers for the cachet, but many Android brands are considered just as fancy/desirable, so there is a not insignificant number of people who do have M
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by rudiv 6y ago
Is Chandigarh really a massive failure? From where I stand it's the most livable city in North India. (Of course, that's not a particularly mighty accolade.)
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by rudiv 6y ago
Star Trek has had quite a few real-life despots make cameos. The King of Jordan was in there IIRC.
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by rudiv 6y ago
> The Indian government's elite corps (IAS) as a contrasting example are also composed of similarly brilliant people, but only restricted to the people at the very top of the hierarchy and is not true for bulk of the government, nor
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by rudiv 6y ago
The article didn't mention it, but it's relevant that after the news of this broke in India, the lady in question filed multiple police complaints alleging online harassment. These complaints were targeted at anonymous Twitter acc
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by rudiv 6y ago
I crossed the border at San Ysidro on foot a couple times when living in San Diego. I found it entirely predictable that the CBP 'cops' were generally rude and off-putting. I was pleasantly surprised to find the Mexican military o
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by rudiv 6y ago
Apple WebKit itself is descended from KDE's WebKit IIRC.
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by rudiv 6y ago
There was a recent BBC video[1] where Stacey Dooley visited South Korea and engaged with police experts there who search for hidden cameras as part of a huge 'peeping-tom'-type problem they have with surveillance (primarily of wom
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by rudiv 6y ago
Maintain your ignorant beliefs, it'll take you very far
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by rudiv 6y ago
As per TFA, they sell their books online. Personally, having seen how Amazon achieves next-day delivery in markets with poor labour laws, my desire to receive products quickly has receded greatly.
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by rudiv 6y ago
You're right, since the intent was the same, the effect is irrelevant. After all, most bakeries tend to stock up half a million in their cash registers. And that's not even in the nice neighbourhoods. $150k is about a lifetime of
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by rudiv 6y ago
Ah, so facetious comments are beyond the pale but not low-effort facetious links.
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by rudiv 6y ago
They say everything's bigger in Texas, I didn't know it extended to narcissistic personality disorder.
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by rudiv 6y ago
TikTok was incredibly popular in India. If I recall correctly it was their largest market outside of China. Edit: According to the company themselves, it was their largest overseas market with a userbase of 200 million.
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by rudiv 6y ago
I'd love to see your private correspondence, Mr. Kissinger. Preferably as part of the legal process of discovery. (Sorry, it's off topic but I couldn't resist)
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by rudiv 6y ago
> Fuck em like the intro to Method Man Definitely stealing that line.
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by rudiv 6y ago
So your analysis has been created by neural nets?
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by rudiv 6y ago
Not remotely, unless drug users have become much more trusting since I was last in the US.
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by rudiv 6y ago
Do you know a lot of civil service officers? Because you seem to think that the ranks of the Union public services are mostly filled with highly corrupt officers who were born into poverty. Whereas the truth is that although I know some off
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by rudiv 6y ago
It's strange because if Asians are so successful why are so many people around me in Asia destitute? :sweat_smile: I could have sworn my country still faces poverty on a level unknown in the Western world for almost a century.
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by rudiv 6y ago
Oh, by the truckload. The more the misery, the more the misery porn. A few weeks after the lockdown started, there was a story about a ~13 year old girl pulling her injured father on a cart with her bicycle ~1000km home to their village. Th
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by rudiv 6y ago
I've been reloading https://www.sabrecms.com/en/blog since I read your comment. When's this blog post coming? Have to say, I assumed you were an American, so it was quite disappointing to find you're a D
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by rudiv 6y ago
The blue is weird to me, because the blue of the chakra is almost never kept when using the colors of the flag as a motif.
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by rudiv 6y ago
They're implementing a very basic version of a package manager. There's a whole saga about the creation of that which you might also have seen, was on HN. (Called winget) Edit: Just realized that's probably what you're r
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by rudiv 6y ago
Walmart is specifically famous for having some of the most onerous terms amongst all large retailers. Anecdotally, Walmart has asked for net 270 terms from a supplier I am accquainted with.
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by rudiv 6y ago
Been running a 2010 MBP for the last few months hosting bitwarden, a samba file share, a DNS server, and a ton of other stuff. It's been pretty great so far, so much so that I dug out another old laptop and set it up as a pi-hole for a
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by rudiv 6y ago
The point the gentleman makes is well-reasoned, but I find it strange that he doesn't cite any of the 'facts that don't fit the anti-colonialist mindset', instead settling for general observations that are hard to concre
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by rudiv 6y ago
You lost me when you went on a diatribe about socialism, as if the modern democratic socialist movement in the US, for e.g., has a lot in common with Stalin's USSR, which was a totalitarian, authoritarian state.

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