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by statguy 10y ago
Yes, a large fraction of the Indian population >50% does not have a credit/debit card, and a significant percentage don't have a bank account. In fact, in large swathes of rural India, the nearest bank could be a few hours away
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by statguy 10y ago
26% of the Indian population is illiterate, a much higher proportion is functionally illiterate.
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by statguy 10y ago
This is a pipe dream. Urban India, let alone rural India, dosen't have the infrastructure to support a cashless economy.
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by statguy 10y ago
Mostly because they didn't think it through. It is very likely that the move was taken almost unilaterally by the Prime Minister on the advice of a maverick, without really taking into confidence the cabinet or the Reserve Bank as the
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by statguy 10y ago
I am guessing that you are extremely well to do by Indian standards and probably among the top 10% of the country by wealth. You paint a very optimistic picture, I would be surprised if more than 10% of the Indian population regularly uses
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by statguy 10y ago
Virtually no economist of note has supported the move. The ones who did like Kenneth Rogoff, said that it was poorly implemented and India doesn't have the infrastructure to support a cashless economy. The above article that you linked
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by statguy 10y ago
In fact I would not be surprised if the growth cut is significantly higher. The previous Prime Minister of India, a renowned economist and the architect of India's economic liberalization in 1991, asserted in the Indian Parliament that
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by statguy 10y ago
What about folks who have taken no online courses, but instead have MS/PhD degrees with a specialization in related areas (Machine Learning) and want to use this course to get into the self driving space? Also, what will the workload b
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by statguy 12y ago
The good old hawala ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala ) :)
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by statguy 12y ago
Until the late 90s it was about 35 per IIT for CS, so about 140 for the top 4 IITs. After that it was about 50 per IIT, so 200 in all. Double these numbers if you want to include EE as well.
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by statguy 12y ago
and the table doesn't include Kharagpur (and Roorkee, Guwahati) because their percentages are smaller. It is conceivable that if they were all added up, they might even surpass MIT. But as you said, its not fair.
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by statguy 13y ago
He has published a book http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HY351S2 that might have more of the details.
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by statguy 13y ago
and there has been work going in this area even earlier than that: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~zickler/papers/Autotag_IVW2008.... Andrew Gallagher has a number of publications in this domain: http://ch
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by statguy 13y ago
> Indeed, let's not allow anyone to sanitise history. It's a fact that Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and PW Botha all called him a terrorist. That says more about them than it says about Mandela.
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by statguy 13y ago
They were essentially the same language also known as "Hindustani" with the distinction being that Hindi was written in the Devanagari script and Urdu written in the Nastaliq script. However, starting a few years before independen