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by wtmt 7y ago
> This is in an environment with constitutionally guaranteed fundamental rights to privacy (that cannot be reversed by the govt) There is no data privacy law in India as yet. The one drafted last year has many issues. Saying that the gov
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You should check the Aadhaar amendments bill (previously pushed as an ordinance). The government is pushing for Aadhaar linkage on different fronts again, and is also making private access available and easy. One of the places where linkage
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Avoid getting it for as long as you can hold out. If you’re not reliant on government subsidies, the only coercion now is to link it with PAN and also quote it in the tax returns. If you can afford the penalty for late filing of tax returns
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by wtmt 7y ago
Not comparing the content library, but the cost here. Netflix is not very expensive compared to Hotstar or Prime. The latter two are targeted at family watching. They don’t have the concept of user profiles on a single account. If you have
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The per day limits get reset at midnight everyday, AFAIK. At least with some providers (or all?) there is no carryover of unused data day by day. It would be 1.5GBx90 only if the user uses 1.5GB every single day.
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by wtmt 7y ago
It’s even cheaper than that. 1GB 4G data per day, with unlimited calls (local and long distance) and 100 SMS per day, can be had on prepaid plans that cost about $2 (₹140) per month on longer duration plans (like 84 days). With additional d
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by wtmt 7y ago
Flagged. This article and his past writings are so poor without any nuances. They sound like rants.
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In this context, let me mention one point. India does not yet have a data privacy law (it relies on some interpretations of the IT Act). So people's data may be better protected by laws in other countries that have such laws (regardles
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India would very much like the USD remittances that these people usually send to folks back home in India. India has been riding on foreign inflow of money for quite sometime. I don't know the share of remittances from the US vs. other
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There are some exaggerations and factual errors in your claims. > Transferring money from one personal account to any new account (adding a beneficiary account) would take more than 4 hours. NEFT, which has been around for a long time
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Debit cards and mobile payments are not low cost in many places. They may seem to be no cost to consumers, but the costs are added in every product or service that's being sold because every player and "middleperson" in the p
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One easy way to communicate to said community that Medium provides a terrible experience for readers is by reducing page visits so that they start wondering about it and look for alternatives.
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The 30% local sourcing rule is just one aspect to encourage local manufacturing, employment and capacity building for companies that want to start their own "single brand" stores. I personally don't think that will help a lot
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How do you “buy” a .edu email (without signing up for a long and expensive course or college)? I’ve seen some hacks online to get one for free, but not sure if they work.
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Production capacity may move out of China, but it would most likely be assembled by the same (Chinese/Taiwanese) companies who are doing it now in China, like Foxconn and others. That’s the only way this can move forward at a quicker p
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by wtmt 7y ago
Import tariffs are a big reason why Apple’s market share in India is abysmally low. The products cost a lot more while affordability and income are also relatively lower (on average) compared to other countries. iPhone assembly in India sta
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Facebook employees are not as happy with Mark Zuckerberg as they used to be(vox.com)
1 points by wtmt 7y ago|0 comments
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As mentioned in another comment, iOS doesn't allow extensions. But Firefox Focus works quite well, and comes with a content (ad) blocker. Any content blocker you enable in Settings.app is used by all browsers.
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If a new "coin" is created every minute, it could be referred to as "There's a Zucker born every minute."
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Google's Login Chief Would Rather You Use Apple's Sign-In Than Using Passwords(theverge.com)
4 points by wtmt 7y ago|1 comments
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How exactly do you become an investor in these? Could you elaborate or provide an email in your profile (temporarily, while I check often for a day or two) for further contact?
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I doubt if Apple would start a VPN service. Even if it did, it’d have restrictions, like not allowing the user to break out of their geography since that could allow users to violate policies of content sellers on Apple’s store and also any
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by wtmt 7y ago
You can consider a VPN service as sitting between you and any server or site you access. The traffic still has to go through your ISP and the public Internet (for this scenario). The VPN service does encrypt the traffic from your device to
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It’s more of a move to control the narrative that the government is tough on “black money” and “terrorism”, since previous actions to bring back such wealth into the tax net and into the books flopped terribly. Everyone except the governmen
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Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20123319 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20124951 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20130976 Nothing is firmly announced yet, and the RBI
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by wtmt 7y ago
> I don’t care to know a user’s true identity, I just want to ensure that the same person can’t use the system to trivially create unlimited new anonymous accounts on my system. People can and have been trivially creating “unlimited new
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by wtmt 7y ago
IMO, it depends on how many mailboxes and aliases you need. Providers like Fastmail charge by the mailbox (with up to 600 aliases for each). Same with Runbox, Mailbox.org, etc. (the number of aliases varies). Migadu provides unlimited doma
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by wtmt 7y ago
How is this any different from Google or Facebook or Twitter cutting off access to any site/application? Do you believe the developers in those cases would have a much better chance of resolving the issue than with Apple?
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by wtmt 7y ago
> On his Twitter bio, Bright states that he is “Poly/pan/pervy.” At least the first two are benign and none of anybody else’s business with people of the right age and consent. But the actions and descriptions in the complaint
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by wtmt 7y ago
Considering that iOS users, on average, pay a lot more for software, games and services, it’d be stupid for Google to ignore a paying customer base. In any case, Google will not ignore iOS, like it hasn’t done so far in a big way. There are

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