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by wav-part 10y ago
My initial gut reaction is/was, a costly political stunt to fullfill an election promise. But I will wait when we have figures about cost to economy vs additional tax revenue. It also should be taken into account that Rupee now is even
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by wav-part 10y ago
There is a difference between a law 99% consent on and a law 33%.
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And this is a low margin business to begin with. People clamouring for union should take the red pill first.
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by wav-part 10y ago
Too much chaos for nothing. New Rs 500 and Rs 2000 will be introduced. Off the book transcations will resume as usual. I find Modi giving terrorism as one of excuses, very disingenuous.
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In this discussion, you can replace black money with "local untaxed money". Most of the money transcations are actually money changing hands and thus been very difficult to tax. Now the people cannot change too much notes without
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by wav-part 10y ago
> We need to introduce more Indians to the ideas of individual liberty and conservatism as it exists in the United States. I would not describe USG as such. No government exploit small businesses like USG. Its the government that first a
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by wav-part 10y ago
Let me be more direct. Do you think For small business & middle class, the government-provided benefits in terms of money[1] - the tax paid > 0 ? [1] Dont believe/spread the lie that what government provides are inva
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by wav-part 10y ago
> However, on the economic front, India is really moving in the right direction - Focusing on Startups and business friendly policy changes, making brand India attractive to the world (FDI), The red tapes that should not have exist in fi
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by wav-part 10y ago
> You really think that the Low/Middle class is the target here? Are the people hoarding crores in cash low/middle class? Earning Rs 21,000/mo even in 2nd-tier cities are not uncommon. Your local small nookad shop (mom &am
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by wav-part 10y ago
I dont want to pay for what I am not getting. Is that so hard to comprehend ? > Don't justify your skirting the laws. Breaking laws ? That would be playing right in their hands. I would not give them the satisfication to confiscate
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by wav-part 10y ago
> Actually dumping into real estate, gold etc. is not bad because your govt will get taxes out of the transaction at the least. No. Most likely money on paper << money changed hands.
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Which can be classified under "fix your government" but had we done that, we would not even be here. Up until now governments have been in the background in exploiting its people. But today this has changed. I hope/expect thi
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by wav-part 10y ago
> I too do not think this move alone would solve "Black Money" problem in long term, but it certainly will go a long way in setting a better trend. Only if the problem is inadequate tax revenue, which is not the problem IMHO. I
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by wav-part 10y ago
So ? Are you saying we should pay taxes even if governement is wasting most of it ? You know what would motivate me to pay taxes ? Crystal clear development plans with additional gurantees that It would not be used to support bloated bureau
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by wav-part 10y ago
> The current method is a way to fight black money. For corruption there are other ways, and maybe some will be taken. "Black money" term is so misplaced, it should be untaxed ruppes. It wont affect untaxed assets (overeseas an
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by wav-part 10y ago
> Don't forget it's a chicken and egg issue as well - without funding you don't get services, which makes you blame the govt and not want to give them more funding. Tell me how the taxes government already has, doing ? &
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by wav-part 10y ago
Why does anyone (minority/majority) have to control anyone ? Do you any problem with live and let live. > Politicians are bought and sold, and we see an undemocratic group of very powerful individuals influencing legislation and pus
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by wav-part 10y ago
Undefined: A worker controlled economy.
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by wav-part 10y ago
Can you not type so much. Just define "democratic economy" in 1-2 sentences without using more undefined words (buzzwords).
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by wav-part 10y ago
Still that does not stop me from solving 90% of the problem using seperations. For example I would like to have greater say in where my taxes are spent. If we can all agree on this, this would be great. But likely technology (as always) wil
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by wav-part 10y ago
> Disagreement is valuable in that it provides the world an opportunity to learn something. Please stop. I dont want to have disagreement. I dont want to have this endless debate. I want to be left alone. I dont want people to make desci
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by wav-part 10y ago
If 51% and 49% cant come to agreement they should live separately. I am not advocating full secession but something like Hong Kong (HK handles everything except Defence and External Affairs). (I think) In democracy, voters are less likely t
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by wav-part 10y ago
I was already aware what you have posted which ofcourse did not answered my question. What I came to know now is, from GPL-3.0/5.c > This License gives no permission to license the work in any other way, but it does not invalidate
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by wav-part 10y ago
True but libW also has custom licence relieving closed_binary from make-it-gpl requirement. Unless GPL forbids libW to be anything but GPL'd.
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by wav-part 10y ago
How about linking to your own wrapper library which would be custom licensed in addition to GPL ? closed_binary (closed) --> libW (GPL+custom) --> Wordpress (GPL)
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by wav-part 10y ago
I have an opposite question. Why does anyone even need to run their own non-cache nameserver ? My current understanding of dns infra is, We have root nameservers which takes record change request, apply to itself and send it to other listen
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by wav-part 10y ago
Why is there even a concept of managed DNS ? Arnt we already paying >$1M/yr so that we can get 32 bit integer from a string ? This does not make sense.
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by wav-part 10y ago
https://google.com/amp/hackme.com redirects to hackme.com. The attacker here used tiny.cc to be more elusive. IIRC we had a popular discussion here about this. How google can still allow this is beyond me.
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by wav-part 10y ago
Paper : http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/advances/2/9/e1601240... Previous Discussion : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12429779 (39 days ago, 42 comments)
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by wav-part 10y ago
Related Suggestion: Start with experiments, then read theories. This is very true for QM (or any other modern science). Start with older texts. Read the thought process of past giants. Avoid all "textbooks". Especially the one wit

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