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How does India, a country of 1.3B, have around 1k coronavirus deaths?(cnn.com)
1 points by wobbly_bush 6y ago|0 comments
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by wobbly_bush 6y ago
> This is just “security theater”, to put it in blunt terms The security theater argument would make sense if there is an audience for the theater - but that is not the case. For example, there are no criticism of the government that it
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by wobbly_bush 6y ago
Coming from a country which haggles all the time (India), and seeing the in general no-haggle culture of US, I was always surprised car purchase is one of the areas where haggling is culturally acceptable.
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by wobbly_bush 7y ago
The current government's 2019 election manifesto was to spend $1.4 trillion on infrastructure by 2024. Sources - 1. https://www.businesstoday.in/markets/stocks/infra-power-stoc... 2. https://www.a
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by wobbly_bush 7y ago
This works against people who are on a visa. The visa rules prohibit income from multiple sources (except perhaps investment income). IANAL, so some of my phrasing may be wrong.
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by wobbly_bush 7y ago
After the lockdown is lifted, do you think the fast food chains will allow for this to continue? How much of this could potentially eat into their revenues?
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by wobbly_bush 7y ago
This has happened to me when I was a student. I didn't understand EC2 billing cycle well enough and ended up using much more than my student credits. The final bill amount was high as a student (but still less than $1000). Contacted AW
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by wobbly_bush 7y ago
If Yelp really did it, a page on Yelp's website wouldn't be a credible source.
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by wobbly_bush 7y ago
A question to Americans, is there nothing a common citizen can do about it? In India, in a similar situation anyone would be able to file a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) with High Court (highest court at state level) or Supreme Court (hi
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by wobbly_bush 7y ago
Not the person you replied to, but how is that relevant to the discussion?
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by wobbly_bush 7y ago
The recent Indian government has been doing something loosely on these lines - drastically increasing the number of student capacity in public medical colleges [1] [1] https://www.livemint.com/news/india/15-700-mor
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by wobbly_bush 7y ago
Perhaps in US, but in the majority of regions where low end Android phones are popular even used iPhones are way more expensive.
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by wobbly_bush 7y ago
> almost immediately abandoned Source?
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by wobbly_bush 7y ago
As someone not from a NATO country, the discussions on r/worldnews have been pretty disappointing about anything outside of NATO. The news stories upvoted there suffer from similar problems.
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Ask HN: What are some security and privacy tips when creating a website?
2 points by wobbly_bush 7y ago|5 comments
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by wobbly_bush 7y ago
Think of all the poor people who have to struggle without electricity to heat up/cool down, to live a life of moderate amenities. All of that requires energy. Ideally nuclear power would have been able to power, but it is unfortunate w
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by wobbly_bush 7y ago
It's always been Indian government's arguments that India can't do as much as the developed countries when it comes to climate change, specially around energy needs. So this step is hardly surprising.
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by wobbly_bush 7y ago
In 2006 the Indian Supreme Court ordered the central and state governments to implement police reforms [1]. In the 14 years none of the governments, whether left leaning or right leaning implemented the reforms in the way they were intended
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Trump's Surprising Embrace of Industrial Policy to Fight China(mattstoller.substack.com)
3 points by wobbly_bush 7y ago|0 comments
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by wobbly_bush 7y ago
> The Modi administration instead wants plants to install equipment that would cut pollution. Can someone who has more expertise in this area weigh in on how effective are these pollution reducing equipments? The author of the article ju
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by wobbly_bush 7y ago
> The only site I know with a worse UX than Netflix is Amazon Prime Video. I've read this in a lot of places. My personal experience with this has been quite the opposite. Amazon's UX has no parallel, and I don't really me
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by wobbly_bush 7y ago
I don't feel the same about expanse. Maybe it's just me, but I felt the show is progressing just liked in the books.
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by wobbly_bush 7y ago
Interesting, I'm curious what kind of tradeoffs do you have to make and what places worked for you but your peers thought unacceptable?
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by wobbly_bush 7y ago
In those cases you would have the physical possession of the old SIM, so I guess no one can just claim to be you. Example form for others reading till here - https://discover.vodafone.in/documents/pdfs/simreplaceme
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by wobbly_bush 7y ago
You can also try Command (or Alt on windows) + bottom arrow, this would take you to the footer on a lot of websites.
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by wobbly_bush 7y ago
Indian laws require a police report before telecom operators can transfer a line to a new SIM card. I was always surprised how easy it is in US to transfer in comparison.