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by wtmt 9y ago
Those changes have little to do with Aadhaar. Efficiency in delivery could be achieved despite Aadhaar. If you look at the savings figures and all the analysis put in by many people, you'd understand that the government is publishing b
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by wtmt 10y ago
It's a lot worse in India. One can look up voter information in one's constituent area and find the names, ages and addresses of the hundreds or thousands of people living there. Many government enterprises also put up subsidy rel
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by wtmt 10y ago
I wasn't sure of what this provided until I opened this on a home connection and it showed a subnet where I wouldn't recognize the other people at all (this is with ISP assigned IP addresses). For home use, I'd be thrilled if
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by wtmt 10y ago
Which place are you referring to in your statement that consumers can get 1Gbps to their house? The highest consumer grade speeds available in many cities is around 100Mbps, and that's not available everywhere either. Most connections
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by wtmt 10y ago
> could you name some Indian makers who can create a steam engine, or internal combustion engine, or electrical engine from scratch? Or any that have innovated in that sphere? You seem to be focusing too much on anger and condescension
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by wtmt 10y ago
I'm surprised that users are seeing a big jump in speeds. In my observation, many users in India who use public BitTorrent trackers have a strong tendency to cap their upload speeds heavily and also stop the torrent the moment the down
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by wtmt 10y ago
Personal observations: Indian consumers are highly price sensitive, and will usually go for the cheapest option. Saving money, bargaining and price comparison are almost ingrained in the culture. :) With this in mind, I wonder who buys from
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by wtmt 10y ago
> What's wrong with copying someone else's features ? Nothing wrong at all in getting inspiration, but the copy was a bit too much like an exact replica. The threads I linked to have more details. Global Delight also posted a s
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by wtmt 10y ago
I almost guessed the name of the company by looking at the headline, but I didn't know the background story and the structure of it. I had assumed the article was about Global Delight, an arm of Robosoft. Global Delight seems to have b
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by wtmt 11y ago
[Male here] Some I know of swear by the comfort and convenience of the cup. They all started with a lot of doubt and hesitation about how it would work, leaks, handling and cleaning it, etc. But once they got the knack of putting it, they c
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by wtmt 11y ago
Credit cards are just one way to manage payments. Whether they're addictive or not depends on the person. Some people even move money out of their savings accounts into some other bank account in a deposit they cannot easily access bec
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by wtmt 11y ago
I actually visit Flipkart once in a while to see if the prices have changed and in every visit I provide feedback that the prices are ridiculously high and that I'm buying from Amazon or Paytm. I don't believe anyone in Flipkart w
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by wtmt 11y ago
At least for OITNB, it is listed available on Netflix at netflixable.com (check for your country there). House of Cards is not listed at all.
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by wtmt 11y ago
Can you check if the content served is uncensored or if scenes with any kind of nudity are blurred or cut outright? Check a few episodes of Orange Is The New Black or Dexter or Marco Polo, maybe? I also wonder if the movies are cuts or the
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by wtmt 11y ago
Are you living in an area with bad connectivity and very few providers or just a single provider? Even 8Mbps is a great speed for streaming HD videos. If the high speed data cap is your limitation, then you should consider airtel or ACT. Fo
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by wtmt 11y ago
It's probably far too late in the game. If it has Croma (the electronic store arm of Tata) like prices, which are comparatively higher than other stores, then there's absolutely no hope at all.
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by wtmt 11y ago
Electronic items are India's third largest import (after crude oil and gold). The duties are generally around 30%, and generally electronic products, like smartphones, tablets, computers and others, do cost a lot more in India when com
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by wtmt 11y ago
[Long rant ahead] Amazon India's chat customer service has usually, but not always, been helpful and easily reachable. That's really a great comfort when it's needed. On the other hand, I don't know if Flipkart even has
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by wtmt 11y ago
While a lot of things may be influenced by bribes, the TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) is one of the better entities that also works for the common person and is respected a lot more by the public compared to local arms of the
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by wtmt 11y ago
This limited access to IPOs in the U.S. has always seemed very…limiting and also kind of unfair. In India, IPOs approved by SEBI (the equivalent of SEC in the U.S.) have been available to all retail investors for a very long time and has im
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by wtmt 11y ago
Update: I checked it out again. It's improved a tiny bit, but still isn't good UI design at all. All those tiny icons that expand with a mouse hover - annoying and not accessible. I still can't easily find several things I ca
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by wtmt 12y ago
Seems like it's not tested well. I updated to Signal 2.0 on an iPhone 6 with the latest iOS 8.x. It said that none of my contacts have Signal (that's true) and had a link titled "Invite your friends". Tapping on that too
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by wtmt 12y ago
Nothing apart from shipping costs (which may be equal to the price of the phone) and handling payments (which includes trusting people). There's probably a "Raspberry Pi like" market for such devices. This device does seem de
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