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by sfifs 9y ago
India. Law and order is State responsibility. There are central agencies but they get involved only at state's request
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by sfifs 9y ago
The article doesn't really seem show any compelling use case of org mode being better than Markdown other than personal preference. Is there something feature wise I'm missing?
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by sfifs 9y ago
Given it's military, they're very likely already sharing NOW.
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by sfifs 9y ago
What makes you think people would NOT have consulted paat experience? Given this is space parts, there simply may not have been enough experience.
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by sfifs 9y ago
Sounds like you might be unsure whether they are foreign contract workers or immigrants. Punjabis would almost certainly be immigrants
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by sfifs 9y ago
Remember that the prime objective of a politician is to retain power. These quotas are responses to demands from electorate to do something to win their votes... not necessarily because they want or don't want them. In fact it's p
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by sfifs 9y ago
> Certain subjects depend on quality, clear illustrations... the diagrams seemed fuzzy. I thought it was just me though. I'm a first edition collector, and have a huge library. This is exactly the kind if situation where digital hi-
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by sfifs 9y ago
At this point, cell phone is a necessity in India to get any services. Mobile subscriber base is about 1.1 billion (1) which means almost all adults have a cell phone connection. So the question is practically moot. (1) https://w
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by sfifs 9y ago
India is switching to biometric verification linked to the national identity card. The last lease agreement I registered and the last phone connection I obtained both went through the biometric verification process These are implemented as
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by sfifs 9y ago
Yup :-)
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by sfifs 9y ago
Running Caddy is literally copying a binary and your site over and setting up the systemd config. LetsEncrypt works automagically out of the box.
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by sfifs 9y ago
“There are only two industries. This has always been true,” said Madame Ping, enfolding a lovely porcelain teacup in her withered fingers, the two-inch fingernails interleaving neatly like the pinions of a raptor folding its wings after a l
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by sfifs 9y ago
You generally can't operate a running business in EU or any other country out of the Caymans. You could have share holding companies registered there but to actually run a physical business, you have to actually have a company register
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by sfifs 9y ago
EU really needs to get into a fiscal and political union like India or the US instead of their current mish mash. That will take care of both tax gaming like this and stuff like refusal to take haircut on bad Greece debt to prop up the bala
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by sfifs 9y ago
Note that none of the reasons you listed for the medallion system was "for getting paying customers efficiently from A to B". They're all secondary objectives that have little to do with serving the customer. If it was not th
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by sfifs 9y ago
This would come under bribery and I'm pretty sure it can be prosecuted if Instagram wants to. They may not want to prosecute due to the negative attention it would attract.
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by sfifs 9y ago
pretty much anywhere in Asia for instance.
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by sfifs 9y ago
except that your mobile provider can probably localize you to within tens if meters. If you use modern tech, there's no real anonymity - just degrees of difficulty.
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by sfifs 9y ago
This "raise prices after crushing competition" piece is something that practically never happens unless you manipulate governments to institute rules that preserve Monopoly. Even then as SpaceX & Uber showed, rent seeking gets
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by sfifs 9y ago
This was India about a couple of decades back at the beginning of economic liberalization. Give it time. Sucks for those in the present but changes rapidly
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by sfifs 9y ago
I used to go through the trouble of etching boards at home working with fairly nasty chemicals long ago. However the ease, speed and low cost of ordering PCBs nowadays means I can no longer justify to myself the time, trouble and danger esp
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by sfifs 9y ago
absolutely this! IMO the energy conservation and carbon cost of electricity philosophy focuses attention on the wrong problem. The right problem to solve is how to generate more energy cheaper and with less harm to climate. When I was grow
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by sfifs 9y ago
In Singapore, every building of a reasonable size has its own zip code
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by sfifs 9y ago
absolutely it should. Media generally has been able to do thing like drive Princess Diana to her death by hounding with paparazzi without consequences. It's good to put fear of law into the more salacious segments of the media.
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by sfifs 9y ago
Interesting that highly successful AI like AlphaGo essentially trained itself the evolutionary way by playing against itself. I wonder if simulations are the right way to efficiently train artificial intelligences
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by sfifs 9y ago
nope they're trying to project or imply that their Brand products bought on Amazon is likely to be fake.
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by sfifs 9y ago
I assume you are talking about Mars? It's not in space in isolation. Solar wind has been blasting away the atmosphere for aeons. So it's probably intermingled with solar wind across the trail of the solar system.
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by sfifs 9y ago
Actually can be built with existing materials I remember reading
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by sfifs 9y ago
Would the vacuum piece make it much easier than landing on a carrier
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by sfifs 9y ago
go short?

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