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by unmole 3y ago
> PIX is similar do UPI, predates it in fact PIX was announced in 2019, UPI was launched in 2016.
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by unmole 3y ago
Why would the Dear Leader object to more photographs of him in circulation?
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by unmole 3y ago
> Why was the PM advertising for a 3rd party wallet? He wasn't. This was PayTM making hay when the sun shone. And obviously glorifying the Dear Leader has its benefits.
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by unmole 3y ago
> What really led to the rapid uptake of UPI was Covid and people's reluctance to handle cash as a result of it. That timeline doesn't make sense. UPI was already a spectacular success by 2019.
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by unmole 3y ago
> One guy I met said he privately imported (some of) the goods needed to build his home Someone having their own home built in Singapore would have to be extremely wealthy. And the fact that shipping goods from Europe made any kind of
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by unmole 3y ago
> Mastodon is that I can subscribe to a friend's original posts but unsubscribe to their "boosts," Wait, you can do this?! I guess I wasn't paying attention. Time to give Mastodon another go.
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by unmole 3y ago
> fewer countries it needs to subsidize by maintaining the strength of the dollar. This makes zero sense.
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by unmole 3y ago
Unlike Russia, India and UAE have strong economic ties. Considering the Emirates imported ~30 Billion dollars worth of goods from India last year, it's quite clear what they can use the rupees for. Fun fact: Until 1966, the Indian rupe
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by unmole 3y ago
Can you think of a ethno-religious group, one that has been persecuted for centuries, that is over represented in US academia, media and finance? Is it a big deal that this is the case and does it imply a grand conspiracy? Or are there othe
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by unmole 3y ago
In practice, there is near zero correlation between first names and caste.
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by unmole 3y ago
When a node rejoins after a restart, have all other nodes drop any pending transactions initiated by the node in question. I implemented something similar for a distributed filesystem and it worked pretty well.
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by unmole 3y ago
First names are defined more by fashion than anything else.
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by unmole 3y ago
Why would you imagine that?
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by unmole 3y ago
> does not need me or my friends to create $BIGTECH account. So, who is the OAuth provider?
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by unmole 3y ago
> Dammidi must be தம்படி, and survives mostly as an insult. Ha! It survives as in insult in Telugu too: "He doesn't have an income of even a dammidi."
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by unmole 3y ago
If they needed more funding, they could just charge airlines more?
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by unmole 3y ago
Air traffic control is typically funded by charging airlines operating in their airspace a service fee. I don't know what the situation is in the UK but this isn't usually a public service funded by tax payers. Also, I am very s
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by unmole 3y ago
Right, because it's not like there are FAAG development centres or a home grown startup ecosystem in India. Oh, wait. The fact that you work with WITCH companies says more about your situation than anything else, TBH.
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by unmole 3y ago
What's the VAT rate in Louisiana? /s
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by unmole 3y ago
Tech salaries in Europe are a joke. The median IT salary in Germany is less than what I'm paid in India. That's in absolute dollar terms. Factor in the difference in cost of living and the disparity becomes comical.
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by unmole 3y ago
Higher pay gives you options like being able to take unpaid time off and still coming out ahead. That's more appealing than nebulous benefits . Contract work is a fundamentally different proposition and equating it to employment is fo
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by unmole 3y ago
Did the survey ask if they wanted a pay cut to match European style wages?
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by unmole 3y ago
I used Ubuntu as my daily driver for 14 years. I'm now on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. A stable rolling distro plus automatic Btrfs snapshots out of the box.
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by unmole 3y ago
> So in other words, a CLA. Sure, in the same way that a cantaloupe is a hand grenade.
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by unmole 3y ago
> Because any single contributor can claim at any point in the future that the project is using their code illegally So, you've never heard of a Developer Certificate of Origin? If it's good enough for Linux, it's good eno
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by unmole 3y ago
> That's such an incredible amount of money. For reference, Huawei reported a revenue of $92 billion last year. I might be biased by my time there but I never got the impression that Huawei particularly cared about anything beyond b
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by unmole 3y ago
> do you really get a competitive advantage from one company's switches vs another? I am obviously biased but IMHO, yes. High end switches are not commodity gear. And a lot of the differentiating secret sauce is in software. So, eve
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by unmole 3y ago
I mean you still need CPUs to run your workloads. And AMD makes decent ones. I work for a company that sells data centre network switches. There's nothing AI specific in our boxes but we will sell a lot more if them if people are build
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by unmole 3y ago
So, what's the value of the economic activity enabled per minute?
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by unmole 3y ago
> Apparently, smokers take more sick leave days than non-smokers. Sure. Smokers also probably take more breaks at work when they do show up. But that isn't the same as becoming a burden on society as the OP claimed.

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