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by wtmt 8y ago
If your solution for corruption at higher levels is to make a billion (or hundreds of million, since we now know that there are ghost entries in the Aadhaar database too) people suffer, not have access to food, die of starvation, not get th
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by wtmt 8y ago
[Note: I'm anti-Aadhaar, as documented in my profile. My comments below may sound harsh because of that. Also please note that Aadhaar is a resident number, and has nothing to do with citizenship.] Fantastic work! One of the authors of
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by wtmt 8y ago
WhatsApp didn't destroy a village. People did, like they have always done when they've believed some random threat to be true, without checking the facts or doing some investigation. All that technology, be it WhatsApp or any othe
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> The real problem here is that these services (twitter, fb, whatsapp, etc.) are designed for use by educated, urban people who know the basics of tech. And they are then marketed to uneducated people in remote areas to reach growth metr
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I'm not a fan of Jio for multiple reasons. Firstly, it used to insist on Aadhaar (the resident ID linked with biometrics) to provide a connection. I'm not sure if that has changed in the recent times and if it accepts other docume
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This is a big deal, though it might seem like nothing has changed on the ground (as one commenter here has put it). It may take longer for society to accept it, depending on the city/town/village, but there is now a strong legal b
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> I want to push back on arranged marriage = forced marriage. That's just false. As someone in India, I responded to a similar comment above explaining why such indignation and generalization would be inappropriate and incorrect. Pl
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> Arranged marriage doesn't mean forced marriage. It's unfortunate people have this perception. Even in arranged marriage, men and women agree for marriage only if they are ok. I don't understand this indignation followed
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Got this error with Firefox 61 (latest release) when I tried it, but it seems as if it can continue. No one else around though. > Messaging: This browser doesn't support the API's required to use the firebase SDK. (messaging&#x
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Demonetization was a disaster in many ways. The government was not at all prepared for the change and kept playing it by ear everyday, changing the policies on cash withdrawals. Those who had a lot of cash used the boon of the government —
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> In my view this is not just an 'India' thing, I'm kinda skeptical of the general anti-tech panic that's been brewing over the last couple years. I think the status quo is pretty good and don't want a bunch of g
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> The metal detectors and bag inspections are everywhere; supermarkets, malls, hotels and every time you enter even if it is the hotel you stay in all the time for months. Most businesses have guards with guns (rifles often) outside the
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> And having the source open and reviewable does not help with that? The problem with depending on is - this might not be apparent in a short term - is that it allows foreign control over the matters here. The Indian government is in no
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> I think the parent comment answers this quite comprehensively - because (it would appear the parent comment believes) Indian companies will work more closely with the Indian government for more oppressive surveillance of its people. &g
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by wtmt 8y ago
It could also switch to React, since the MS Office team has switched over to it for the online platform. [1] [1]: https://react-etc.net/entry/microsoft-office-rewrite-to-reac...
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> "As India sets the new rules of the game, it is seeking inspiration from China. Although India does not want to go as far as China, which has cut off its internet from the global one, officials admire Beijing’s tight control over
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by wtmt 8y ago
Your claim is blatantly false. Exhibit A: The United States of America. Exhibit B: United Kingdom And so on. Please do not get confused with social security numbers (or equivalents) as universal or national identifiers. They are not, althou
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by wtmt 8y ago
Please see my other comment below with a few starter links and search terms. There are many people who have lost a lot of money from their bank accounts (including pension money) because Aadhaar provided a new way to defraud people. UIDAI a
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It’s not the ID that’s the problem, but having one single ID linked to everything else. Look at how almost all adults in the U.S. have been made vulnerable to identity theft because of the Equifax breach and the leak of SSN and related info
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Here are a few things to start looking at (the amount of information could be overwhelming): * https://www.rethinkaadhaar.in * https://twitter.com/no2uid * Search for #AadhaarFail on Twitter * Search for “Aadhaa
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> But the United States doesn't offer any type of universal ID, which means private institutions and even the federal government itself have had to improvise. Oh, please! No! No! No! India bulldozed a national identification number
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I love these programs (or settings) on any platform I use (Windows, Mac, iOS, Linux). They do make a difference to my eyes in the evenings when working with these screens.
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by wtmt 8y ago
This is a well written article with many details. What caught my eye was the following. > “To exploit this, we need to go to hubspot.com, register ourselves as a HubSpot client, place a payload on our HubSpot page, and then finally trick
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by wtmt 8y ago
I just tested this on Google Maps. Dropped a pin, copied the plus code from the details section, pasted it again in the search box and hit Search. No results! Tried it a couple of more times for slightly different locations, but the same is
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by wtmt 8y ago
India is a highly price sensitive market, like some other developing countries. If something is "free", it will win in India. Not that paid services cannot survive, but "free" will trump those by a huge margin. This just
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Indonesia does seem to have more than its fair share of natural calamities, but anyone who looks at a map cannot help but wonder at how much the country is spread across latitudes and longitudes, while not being extremely large in terms of
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by wtmt 8y ago
Due to the long presence of British in India and its influence, English words have seeped into common usage across all Indian languages (except Sanskrit, which is not practically used by a substantial number of people for general conversati
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If you look at any Indian currency bill (Rupee), you'd see the denomination written in words in 22 languages, though in a smaller font. Those are the official languages of India. The official languages of the central government are Hin
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by wtmt 8y ago
WhatsApp is really a multi-faceted platform in India. It's used by schools to send instructions to parents, used by parents in group chats, used by college students to discuss their classes, used for complaints to the authorities in so
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by wtmt 8y ago
I think of this as one last gasp for Flipkart. After Amazon entered the Indian market and provided not only lower prices in many cases but also quick delivery and decent enough customer care. Whenever I compared Flipkart, Amazon and Paytm o

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