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by vkrm 9y ago
In recent months I've been researching and deciding on what my "next gen" stack is going to be. What would your stack consist of if you were starting a new project today?
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by vkrm 9y ago
There are other connotations to Samsara - in contemporary Telugu and Tamil it is colloquially used for 'universe' and 'family' as well.
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by vkrm 9y ago
Site is inaccessible for me, Google cache link: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Ylgqkr...
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by vkrm 9y ago
I'm not suggesting anything, the Constitution of India specifically allows for "reasonable restrictions". The right to life does have restrictions - the death penalty is still legal in India.
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by vkrm 9y ago
IANAL and I could be wrong here, but I think thats only partially right. Although article 21 itself doesn't say anything about food, shelter etc, the courts have established precedent by including those in their interpretation of artic
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by vkrm 9y ago
https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/how-india-reg... AFAIK, the government has not attempted to prosecute anyone for using stronger encryption, and other government departments/organizations have m
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by vkrm 9y ago
"Reasonable restrictions" are not very well defined in the Indian constitution. They are quite broad and open to interpretation on a case-by-case basis. "... the State can impose reasonable restrictions in the interests
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by vkrm 9y ago
This is currently a grey area. All ISPs in India have to abide by their licensing terms with the Department of Telecommunication which restricts encryption to 40 bit RSA or equivalent. Any higher grade encryption can only be used with speci
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by vkrm 9y ago
Full text of the judgement is available[0] Fair warning: its pretty long (547 pages!) [0] http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/pdf/LU/ALL%20WP(C)%20No.49...
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by vkrm 9y ago
IMO, this is a specious argument, especially in the Indian context. Access to food, clothing, and shelter are NOT fundamental rights[0]. On the other hand, the Aadhaar program (which is the context the above argument was made for) can be vi
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by vkrm 9y ago
I'll wait for the full text of the judgements before celebrating. The ruling apparently consists of 6 judgements and should be available shortly. Hope this reins in the Aadhaar monster without leaving any wiggle room for the government
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by vkrm 9y ago
There's a part of it here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/13/technology/do...
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by vkrm 9y ago
Not at all, although there are some similarities at a lower level (First class notion of time). Datomic has a much tighter focus on immutability, auditability, and database-as-a-value. Datomic isn't a good fit for use as a general purp
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by vkrm 9y ago
Yup, pretty pointless article IMO. Doesn't even provide any actually good reasons why "Gnome is teh best". I'm sure there are probably a few reasons why Gnome is better than <something> for some set of users, this
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by vkrm 9y ago
Of course it has. As I said, this is subjective, but I provide support for a few non technical users (scientists/medical professionals) using the latest Ubuntu with Gnome 3 and I find it slow and unintuitive in comparison to my preferr
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by vkrm 9y ago
This is pretty subjective, but I've switched away from Gnome since Gnome 3. I find it slow and unintuitive even on modern hardware. I could use at least 4 out of the 6 points the author makes in this article to describe any modern linu
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by vkrm 9y ago
Pandas and Koalas have extremely poor diets in terms of nutrition. It's likely there are other examples as well.
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by vkrm 9y ago
Datomic [0] uses SQUUIDs [1] (Semi sequential UUIDs) to work around this: Many UUID generators produce data that is particularly difficult to index, which can cause performance issues creating indexes. To address this, Datomi
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by vkrm 9y ago
You could look at Democracy 3 [0] for inspiration, its a game that tries to model a democratic country from the point of view of a candidate. [0] http://positech.co.uk/democracy3/
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by vkrm 10y ago
Screenshot of an anonymous post on 4chan, so approximately zero credibility. Intel ME is well known however: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Active_Management_Tech...
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by vkrm 13y ago
Untrusted Connection, SSL Cert is for squarespace.com