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by wtmt 1y ago
Late reply: yes, if someone wishes to challenge a High Court order, they’d typically appeal in the Supreme Court. There are avenues for “review petitions”, but those don’t work well. The backlog of cases across all the courts is really huge
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by wtmt 1y ago
Add to this the APAAR ID — which is linked to the biometric based Aadhaar number — which is being coerced by colleges and schools to obtain and share with them. Centralized surveillance combined with poor (or close to no) security measures
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by wtmt 1y ago
Wanted to do a TL;DR of this order: * Some company’s employees receive some inappropriate emails from a ProtonMail address. * They file complaints and approach the court to identify who sent the emails. * ProtonMail does not respond to quer
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by wtmt 1y ago
That’s not how the law works in India. Any ruling by an Indian court on matters applicable to the entire country will apply to the entire country. There’s only one Supreme Court in India, and it cannot (and in many cases will not) handle al
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by wtmt 1y ago
I’ve heard good things about Kagi a lot on HN. I already pay for some services (like email [1], web hosting, etc.) instead of using free/ad supported services. But I find Kagi to be quite expensive for multiple people (in a family sett
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by wtmt 2y ago
In such cases in the U.S., where judicial orders are not heeded, what are the consequences for the executive (and the agencies it controls) and what are the remedies practically available (something that can be put into action) for the judi
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by wtmt 2y ago
Same with registry.in in India (for .in domains), where WHOIS privacy is not allowed as per the terms and conditions. [1] [1]: https://www.registry.in/system/files/Terms_and_Conditions_fo...
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by wtmt 2y ago
I like such moves by companies. It seems fair and stands out compared to most others who’d just take money even if the service is unused. I’m not a Kagi subscriber though. The USD 150 and USD 216 a year prices for family duo and family are
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by wtmt 2y ago
This is true. Craig Federighi and others have said in the past that they’ve added machine learning based features for a long time in the OS (with examples). It’s just that generative AI took off very quickly and now some people are imaginin
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by wtmt 2y ago
> One of the few examples I can think of however is Apple Maps. And it did get better; a lot better, some say better than Google Maps nowadays. This depends on where (which country) you live. For all the ways Apple has been vocal about t
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by wtmt 2y ago
> Refrigeration can be costly if you are on a budget, and can be a non marginal factor in the total expenditures. > Other ways to save are: > - buy large bags of rice, flour, lentils, which last for a long time. If you’re living in
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by wtmt 2y ago
> Addresses are a mess (I won’t even try describing it), and I suspect that Google Maps has valid street addresses for a fairly small fraction of the total population, probably even under half the population in big cities. Yet quite a fe
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by wtmt 2y ago
In India, I’ve been using eSIM for a few years now (on iPhone, not Android). It’s been working quite well. Transferring eSIM from one iPhone to another works fine. Activation of an eSIM takes a few hours, at the most. Due to regulations, th
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by wtmt 2y ago
> I have a conspiracy, that our economy is so utterly shit that our govt uses such lynchings as a release valve. Hey, inflation biting you? Go kill someone and set them on fire, let that pent up stress out. It’s not a conspiracy theory.
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by wtmt 2y ago
> People in the Indian state of Mizoram don't have last names. Imagine what Southwest and the TSA would do with that. For reference, Mizoram is in the northeast of India. People in some other Indian states, including in the south (w
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by wtmt 3y ago
> In India, chai specifically means tea with milk. Citation needed with the part of India referred to here.
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by wtmt 3y ago
The news reports here in India say that there’s a lot of red tape and delays in India. Ease of doing business is lower compared to Vietnam. The policies are protectionist and restrictive. The labor laws are, to some extent, protective of em
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by wtmt 3y ago
Here in India the plans do include free SMS, but there was a government imposed limit of 200 SMSes per day from a single SIM (this applied to retail consumers, not institutions that may want to send transactional or marketing messages).
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by wtmt 3y ago
Here in India, cashless payments through various proprietary and privacy harming platforms, such as PhonePe, Google Pay, Paytm are popular among the city crowds and has become more common due to these elites pushing for it with street vendo
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by wtmt 3y ago
That may be true only in the U.S. and a few other countries. I recall Apple said several years ago (maybe around 2017?) that it would improve maps in India. It’s 2023 and it still can’t find common addresses in major cities. Considering tha
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by wtmt 3y ago
That’s old news (from 2021). There are no laws on banning them yet (though the RBI, which is the central bank, has been in favor of a complete ban).
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by wtmt 3y ago
> No garlic, no onions, etc. The no garlic and no onion are part of a much broader practice to avoid root vegetables. Anything that grows below the ground is not consumed. Jains (the people who follow Jainism) mostly follow this (I say “
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by wtmt 3y ago
> Some countries like India make owning monero illegal so it's not an option for everyone. Owning cryptocurrency is not illegal in India. There is no ban on any cryptocurrencies in India. There is a hefty tax deduction at source on
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by wtmt 3y ago
Could you list any points that stood out to you in this context and on the topic of this thread?
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by wtmt 3y ago
The story and the connection to bank accounts don't sound logical at all. It's not like the husbands wouldn't know that the money is there somewhere . If a random person can do to another person a "classical robbery hel
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by wtmt 3y ago
> This entire process of opening an NRO account can be done at a bank branch physically or online via your mobile phone. Online method is not possible since banks and other providers insist on providing Aadhaar number and completing OTP
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by wtmt 3y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37371646
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by wtmt 3y ago
I’ll avoid repeating my previous comment [1], which has details on this. Unlike the mistaken belief of several people on this post, UPI does share the phone number even if a person uses an alphanumeric UPI ID instead of the initial or commo
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by wtmt 3y ago
Next time, tell them that the Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT has said that people shouldn’t give their phone numbers at retailers if there’s no justifiable reason. [1] If they refuse to give an invoice, tell them you’ll repo
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by wtmt 3y ago
Nope. An alphanumeric UPI handle won’t hide your phone number [1] UPI payments also ~~leak~~ share the person’s full legal name on transactions…and the phone number. [1]: https://scroll.in/article/1045536/are-your-

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