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by wtmt 9y ago
Cloudflare is already a significant enough player in handling Internet traffic. Maybe the company does want to do good for the sake of doing good, but I’m wary of companies taking over in this manner and making the Internet more like a mono
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by wtmt 9y ago
Is OpenDNS even as relevant as it was earlier, before Google DNS appeared (and then OpenDNS was bought by Cisco)?
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by wtmt 9y ago
For what it’s worth, you missed to point out “loosing” vs. “losing” in that comment (where it talks about “loosing trust”). :)
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by wtmt 9y ago
I love the new logo!!! I read most of the free articles whenever they come out, and like some of the insights that Ben has pointed out (the one about Apple's organizational crossroads is a personal favorite). It happens to be one of th
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by wtmt 9y ago
> Expect some drastic policy changes with real estate, corporate taxation and gold. Nope. I don’t expect any changes on real estate or corporate taxation, except to help people who have/control them become richer and have even more
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by wtmt 9y ago
Some would point that a lot of Jan Dhan accounts were flush with much smaller amounts. So any large sums of cash held by someone found a way to get into the system and back out again within a few months.
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by wtmt 9y ago
> Communist 'thewire' is your source that too for when there is official clarifications? The value of your comment dropped with this statement. Calling something or someone as “communist” and using it as a derogatory term in an
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by wtmt 9y ago
If I were to make a statement on this, I’d say that other countries shouldn’t attempt such an exercise, and if they do, they should certainly look at how it was done in India as a classic case study of “how not to do it.” There’s close to n
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by wtmt 9y ago
Your points about usage of TPB, less convenience, lower quality, cost being low enough - all of them seem to be from the U.S. or first world perspective. In many other countries, TPB or equivalent is very common across classes of people (no
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by wtmt 9y ago
What's puzzled me over the years is that the Supreme Court has, in the intervening period, taken suo moto cognizance and action on other issues/topics, but hasn't really come down hard on the government about this. Despite me
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by wtmt 9y ago
With the heavy push for linking it almost everywhere, the government could also use it against individual citizens (dissidents) to cause "civil death" - can't drive, can't use bank accounts, can't study in schools&#
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by wtmt 9y ago
Not sure if you're from or are in India. Aadhaar is for residents in India, not just citizens. Anyone who's been resident in India for 180 days is eligible to get it. Since Aadhaar also has an "introducer system" where o
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by wtmt 9y ago
Can you expand on the systems that are "hard to obtain by someone claiming to be you" and biometrics? In my readings, I've found that biometrics is not unique across a large population, it changes over one's life span (w
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by wtmt 9y ago
Thanks. I'm kinda used to that on HN since many people who read my comments seem to be absolutely pro-Aadhaar/pro-government and don't seem to like any critique of the system and how it's putting people in danger (existe
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by wtmt 9y ago
Living in India, this has always stuck me as very odd with the U.S. that there are no quick ways to transfer money between bank accounts. In India, payments have long been done in hourly batches six days a week (with time limits) in a syste
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by wtmt 9y ago
That consolidation, when combined with biometrics, means you can never get it replaced. Your only recourse to identity theft with your biometrics, or the fact that biometric error rates are very high, is to just live with it.
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by wtmt 9y ago
It's slightly similar, but a lot more dangerous since it has biometrics attached to it (ten fingerprints and two iris scans). There are no data privacy laws in India, and if someone faces misuse or loss or harm caused by this, they can
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by wtmt 9y ago
> Aadhaar is setup as a way of proof of identity and not proof of citizenship. Yet, Aadhaar is officially accepted by the Ministry of External Affairs as proof of identity and proof of address to issue a passport (which is signed by the
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by wtmt 9y ago
When considering the fact it took close to two years to even constitute a bench to hear this case, it doesn't really sound alarmist to me. Plus, many Aadhaar related cases have been pending hearing for years now while the government bl
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by wtmt 9y ago
I've read only a few parts of the judgment, but it reads like poetry while at the same time being crisp and powerful! Even when the hearings were on, there were many references and discussions that showed the broad scope of accepting a
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by wtmt 9y ago
Having a bank account from a non-government entity is not a benefit provided by the government. Yet, the government has issued notifications to link all bank accounts with Aadhaar or have the accounts indefinitely suspended. Having a mobile
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by wtmt 9y ago
I would suggest you study the fallibility of biometrics and the associated problems of incorrect identification before looking at dual or multiple indentities. There's a wealth of information on Rethink Aadhaar as well as Scroll'
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by wtmt 9y ago
The first part of this comment may be off topic for this specific article. The Aadhaar (unique ID) program in India is a bungling mess of hardware and software that has excluded millions of people from their legally entitled welfare benefit
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by wtmt 9y ago
> It can be obtained by "legal" residents, although I don't think legal residents can get passports on the basis of their aadhar number. Aadhar fundamentally solves the problem of illegal residents and nefarious foreign ag
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by wtmt 9y ago
> Remember: India has a unique set of challenges to overcome if it has to survive and prosper as a nation. Every country has unique challenges, and India does too. But throwing technology, and that too unreliable technology with almost n
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by wtmt 9y ago
Firstly, Aadhaar is for residents of India, not just citizens. Anyone who has resided for more than half a year in the country can get it. Many places take the Aadhaar number or just a photocopy/print of the image as proof and provide
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by wtmt 9y ago
Please check the links posted by tryprasannan above and also https://rethinkaadhaar.in/ . All the savings numbers by the government are bogus claims. The poor continue to be affected by quantity and quality fraud when it co
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by wtmt 9y ago
> The pro: There have been significant fiscal benefits - fake personas have been completely eliminated in the welfare schemes that are aadhar linked, saving a lot for the taxpayers. Sorry, you seem to be misinformed. If you look at Reth
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by wtmt 9y ago
> The whole purpose of the project was to provide means of identification of people that didn't have any kind of document – passport, driving license, etc. That was just the guise under which it was launched. Aadhaar has been a poor
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by wtmt 9y ago
Please dispute points with explanations or counterpoints instead of condescending dismissals. It looks like you are the one who does not have enough information to counter GPs stated points.

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