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by sinyug 5y ago
"There's Nona Gaprindashvili, but she's the female world champion and has never faced men." Is this a factual statement or did Netflix broadcast lies in order to boost their fictional female heroine? > this doesn&#x27
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> It's a shame that India hasn't jumped on the Thorium train. I have been hearing about this all my life. And I don't think we will see any progress in our lifetimes. We have a cultural problem with over-promising and unde
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> Netflix said that it greatly respected Ms. Gaprindashvili but that it believed her claim was without merit. “Netflix has only the utmost respect for Ms. Gaprindashvili and her illustrious career, but we believe this claim has no merit
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> yet he has never been taken to task and likely never will. They are not comparable at all. Diagnostics is a life-or-death issue. Any "faking" employed there should automatically lead to a capital sentence for everyone involve
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> Will the Internet Archive avoid this fate? No. The borg will come for IA eventually once the old guard retires. Kahle might be left/progressive but he is not insane. You can't say that for whoever replaces him in the future.
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This is a good thing. No matter what the lunatic fringe on the left might believe, sexual dimorphism among humans is real and is visible in our physical characteristics. Guns help narrow that physical gap between men and women. The sanest v
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I am all for competition. But only till companies reach a certain size. It is ridiculous to let private companies like Mastercard and Visa collect a percentage of every single electronic transaction. We have had a government-run payments ne
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> But America's history is uniquely relevant to the problems in America. Where Facebook is based and the tech industry is centered. Sure it is. But if Facebook, Google and other American companies want to indulge their Americentric
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> phone rules have been tightened I don't think there have been any material changes in the rules. The problem is the scale at which these companies operate and the question of responsibility. While the regulators occasionally impos
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This is a story out of India. Here, you cannot do any of those things without providing government-issued IDs and address proofs.
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> Within two days, they exchanged phone numbers and a video call was made by the woman. The real story is: while common people cannot get a mobile phone number or open a bank account without providing personal details going back seven
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> structural inequity despite it being pervasive in America since its founding America is not unique in this. And African-Americans are not the only people in the world who were enslaved. What is unique is that America and Americans ar
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> There is apparently a large contingent of people on this site holding the belief that if your private platform is large then the government should step in to force you to host things you don't want to host. I am part of that group
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> maybe the station fired her for ignorance of current events. That would be a valid reason, but I suspect a more culturally appropriate one: loss of reputation. We are sensitive to that. My point was this isn't something that only
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> Facebook, like a lot of tech companies, has long had problems with diversity in engineering. If that is the case, why is it that Google voice nav routinely butchers the names of places and roads in India in spite of having thousands of
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> This only happens in white people's brain. 'Eleven Jinping': Indian TV fires anchor over blooper.[1] [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-29274792
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The situation in India is far, far better than the one in the US. The Income Tax Department has provided free filing software since the mid-to-late 2000s. Earlier it was Excel-based. Then they introduced Java-based tooling. Finally, they ad
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> What Sonia did to Narasimha Rao was enough for me, to judge what her character or lack of it is. Rao is one of the greatest prime ministers India has produced. He provided political cover to the liberalization policies that ended the L
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> Journalists, professors (Kappan, Teltumbde) languishing in jail without trial on trumped up charges Can you please tell the HN audience whether Teltumbde was able to approach the Supreme Court of India for relief and what the SC told h
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> I way prefer XML over something like YAML. So do I. XML is sane and has a lot of tooling readily available. YAML, with its significant white space, is one of the shittiest formats that I have ever encountered.
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> If government uses its powers to suppress the opposition In what way is the opposition being suppressed? Other than the Congress which is suffering from a self-inflicted, mortal wound, the smaller parties are doing quite well in their
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If the Radia tapes[1] didn't affect the Congress/UPA government, why would this affect Modi? > Sounds like complete abuse of power with no checks and balances. There are checks and balances. They are called elections. The India
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You can come up with any number of scifi-ish explanations: aliens, humans from the future, lost/forgotten civilizations. But it could also be someone testing an uncommon craft. Frankly, we don't know, and one of the reasons is, I
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> but aren't the observations itself part of the standard narrative Only in a technical sense. When people talk about UFOs, they are not referring to known things like weather balloons, planes or fighter jets, but, instead, to somet
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> The plausibility of a conspiracy theory diminishes as the number of people necessary to keep the secret increases. Not if you can discredit those who dare to speak out by labeling them "conspiracy theorists," thereby discoura
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> Again, a side-effect of the flawed vaccine policy of the government. Was very predictable. Center was acquiring vaccines and distributing it among states who were then vaccinating vulnerable sections of the population. Politicians star
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> Nobody in India would have grudged if the government gave them some public money to do so! Well, somebody would have. People are complaining about states being charged $4-5/dose while foreign vaccines are being sold for up to $30&
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> As an indian, this Pandemic is an eye opener to me on the devastating impact that flawed government policies have on its citizen. We have to eliminate our socialistic approach to planning. If you lock the private sector out and expect
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> When 8 phases of elections were allowed and the opposition asked for shorter elections, the BJP was the one who objected. The 2011 elections were held in 6 phases.[1] The 2016 elections were held in 6-7 phases.[2] Why should it be any
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> but Maharashtra has been overflowing since early March when other states where there were no gatherings, didn't have cases. And none these vultures in the media will talk about it because it does not fit their agenda. I noticed a

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