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by sameerds 6y ago
I don't know about should you be fined, but anecdotally, I believe you will be responsible. At least that's what I see in our RWA (Indian for HOA) in Bangalore: if we hire a contractor, we have to make sure all the right stuff
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by sameerds 6y ago
"every decision to spend that money" sounds pretty specific to me. The decision to split the pile isn't sufficient to escape that requirement.
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by sameerds 6y ago
Not a comment about ETFs, but in general, the word "foolish" applies to someone entering the scheme, not someone running the scheme. And as is the way of humans, there are always enough people willing to be misled into bad decisio
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by sameerds 6y ago
I see what ypu did there! :)
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by sameerds 6y ago
My older child is 11 years old, and since a few years before she was born, everyone we knew in India had been naming their children starting with the sound of "Aa" ... We know quite a few kids named "Aarav" and "Aad
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by sameerds 6y ago
I always allow for the possibility that science is a faith (not religion) simply because there is no way to prove that the universe actually obeys laws that we can discover. Just because an apple fell down in the same way in each of a milli
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by sameerds 6y ago
Strangely, that's entirely the opposite of what I understood from the original comment. To me, "you can just use XXX" sounds like someone just told me that "all you need is XXX; don't worry it's simple". T
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by sameerds 6y ago
Even if you make sure that a credit card can't be wedged in, it is usually possible to put something flexible like an X-Ray film between the door and the frame. It takes longer, but the strike can be pushed eventually if you are persis
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by sameerds 6y ago
Bangalore resident here. I felt kinda embarassed wearing a mask initially. But it took about two weeks to get used, and now I feel vulnerable if I am not wearing one. I also tense up a bit if someone else not wearing a mask is within a mete
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by sameerds 6y ago
In India, student loans have mainly been in demand from people seeking an MS degree in the US. But things are changing, and education is getting more expensive across the board, and I do worry about my kids. My immediate reaction right now
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by sameerds 6y ago
I am not sure what to make of the fact that the article never says "X86", but keeps mentioning "Intel" and occasionally "AMD". Was that tailored to the expected audience, or the author is not confident enough a
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by sameerds 6y ago
Did it work?
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by sameerds 6y ago
But then you have to wait for the stock market prediction to come true. Instead, since you already know your temporal password for the year, the proof would be immediately available.
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by sameerds 6y ago
I stopped reading after the first claim about vim. I wish I had the ability to downvote!
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by sameerds 6y ago
You could move that a notch up and say that only the owner of the bar and their friends get to watch all these conversations and they keep copies. That should really freak out some people.
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by sameerds 6y ago
Ah, that. Thanks, I corrected the use of "libertarian" to "liberal" in my GP comment. I am sure that is not perfect either, but should be good enough to answer the original question ... "left" in India is more
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by sameerds 6y ago
Sure, I'll take your word about US politics. But I don't see a disagreement ... the Indian right still represents the liberal end of the Indian spectrum on economic policy. Whether that is far or near in US terms does not constitu
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by sameerds 6y ago
In India, "the Left" represents socialism, while "the Right" represents liberal economics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_left People with leftist political leanings are generally unhappy with
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by sameerds 6y ago
This has been tried in India many times. The trouble is that it has always been done with the intention to polarize people for political gains. It completely skews the conversation, and most people automatically steer clear of anyone flaunt
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by sameerds 6y ago
There's not much to misunderstand, actually. The caste system is a highly discriminatory and unfair classification of people based on their birth. For a major part of Indian history, it was the upper castes that abused it. But since in
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by sameerds 6y ago
What surprises me is that the discussion here is taking the original article at face value. Sure, the Indian govt is citing national security as the reason for the ban. But take a slightly cynical view, and focus your attention on this sent
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by sameerds 6y ago
A pair of dumbbells, a chin-up bar (the kind that you attach inside a doorframe) and a yoga mat.
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by sameerds 6y ago
TIL that this thing had a name. I used to clench my teeth unconsciously for around two years, until one day I broke a premolar. The reason was mostly anxiety, unhappiness, etc. I was aware of my mental state but completely unaware of the cl
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by sameerds 6y ago
The article gives the impression of UBI as some sort of targetted scheme with the money of putting money in the hands of people who need it. At least in India, it is touted as an alternative to government subsidies. Seen that way, it's
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by sameerds 6y ago
I think the comparison goes somewhat like this: selling one CD puts X dollars in the creator's pocket. How many times need a track be played on Spotify to generate the same number of dollars? The answer is 471, I think.
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by sameerds 6y ago
This looks interesting, but I could not find an RSS feed for the site. Could you please add one, I would definitely prefer that over subscribing to an email newsletter!
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by sameerds 6y ago
That depends on whether each year until [now] had "copyrightable" improvements. For large open source projects, the copyright notice is placed on each file separately, and it is common to see some files not changing (or changing n
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by sameerds 6y ago
I switched windows from Reddit to this, and I had to double-check if Reddit switched styles when I wasn't looking!
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by sameerds 6y ago
I am pretty sure that international travel will stay banned for quite some time more, maybe the end of the year? But the current lockdown is supposed to be "eased" on May 3, and we are already seeing lists of districts with zero n
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by sameerds 6y ago
Heh, families in India have started doing haircuts at home. Some people get it right, and some people don't ... it's not even funny anymore.

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