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by wtmt 4y ago
I don’t know what kind of problems the person you’re referring to faced in setting up an eSIM in India, but I wanted to point out that eSIM has been available in India for at least four years or so, with the three major carriers (airtel, Ji
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by wtmt 4y ago
> India leads total shutdowns globally. In 2021, the world’s largest democracy shut off its internet 106 times – more than the rest of the world combined. Hardest-hit was the conflict-ridden region of Jammu and Kashmir, which was subject
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by wtmt 4y ago
I’ve seen a lot of systems, including corporate systems for internal use, reject apostrophes in email addresses (and sometimes even in other fields). Apparently the developers are too lazy to deal with strings properly and fear SQL injectio
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by wtmt 4y ago
> Some of these are patently not true: >> Everyone has exactly one email address > You'd be hard pressed to find anyone who's at all component with the internet who thinks that this is true, nevermind a programmer. On
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by wtmt 4y ago
Do you mean transistors per cubic millimeter? Cubic centimeter (cc) may be a better choice since it’s already a more common measure of volume at smaller scales for most of the world.
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by wtmt 4y ago
Unfortunately, the data part won’t work very well because of the strict data localization laws that require financial data to be stored in India. Related to this, Amex and MasterCard were banned from issuing new cards in India. The ban on M
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by wtmt 4y ago
The police made a different statement and claimed that they had only requested RazorPay donor information of any foreign donors to AltNews (which claimed that it had restricted payments only from Indian citizens in India), and that they had
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by wtmt 4y ago
Paraphrasing a bit: [1] > He was charged with Section 120B (criminal conspiracy), section 153(A) (promoting enmity between two communities), 295(A) (injuring or defiling place of worship with intent to insult the religion of any class),
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by wtmt 4y ago
The base sales tax, which is GST in India, is also a lot higher (18%) than the average in the US (guessing it would be around 8%). A decent chunk of the population would be able to afford iPhones only if Apple reduces prices drastically and
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by wtmt 4y ago
> Phones aren't making big leaps anymore, it's not worth keeping up with. Couldn’t be farther from the truth. Apple has never been about revolutionary change after revolutionary change every year, but the iterative improvements
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by wtmt 5y ago
I’m probably not the target user for your platform, but it does look interesting. Do you plan to offer other domain names? Mataroa may or may not be easy to communicate orally, depending on the user’s location. Do you have any plans for mul
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by wtmt 5y ago
I have a couple of blogs for social/community purposes on wordpress.com. They’re not really high traffic (hopefully not as much as 10,000 visits a month) and posts are probably less than a handful each month. There’s no way I’m paying
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by wtmt 5y ago
India and a few ocean side countries in that region are at UTC+5:30. Nepal (which is not near any ocean but is adjacent to India) is at UTC+5:45. There is no end to time zone related oddities, including the way DST and standard time switchi
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by wtmt 5y ago
That site, shows the prices (in Thailand and elsewhere) by default with tax refunds. I presume that to be the tax refunds for short term travelers in that country who buy things there, and not applicable to ordering online from there and ge
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by wtmt 5y ago
I find the comparison with a car a bit amusing, though I get your point. Usually, a car spends more than 95% of the time parked somewhere, whereas a smartphone or a computer are usually used for at least a few hours everyday. I’m not saying
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by wtmt 5y ago
A few comments on this from an Indian perspective. Apple products are quite expensive here too, when compared against U.S. prices (plus sales tax). It may seem as if this is because of customs duties, but that’s not the entire story. Many c
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by wtmt 5y ago
This kind of behavior shouldn’t be surprising in places and situations where freedoms and rights either don’t exist or aren’t respected by the authorities. Just a few months ago, the police in the city of Hyderabad, India (where companies l
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by wtmt 5y ago
Some context to note: * The RBI (Reserve Bank of India) Governor and Deputy Governor have, more than once, publicly expressed the view that all cryptocurrencies should be banned for all purposes. A few years ago the RBI even instructed bank
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by wtmt 5y ago
> Conference delegates from around the world were concerned about the world's increasing light pollution and its proven negative effects on human health… Could someone point out what proven negative health effects this article is re
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by wtmt 5y ago
GP here. No, you don’t necessarily have to share your cell phone number as the sender or as the receiver. But take note of the details below. UPI assigns/allows one or more Virtual Payment Address (VPAs) for each account, which looks k
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by wtmt 5y ago
If anyone assumes this is specific to the US and that companies (from the US operating) in developing countries would provide inflation matching raises due to lower cost of labor, let me put that to rest. The multinational companies operati
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by wtmt 5y ago
I just tell all of them that I don’t have or use WhatsApp, and that’s true. They wouldn’t be able to send anything over WhatsApp since my number was never registered with that platform. Those who want my business will have to abide by my pr
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by wtmt 5y ago
Just to clear things up since some of the other comments seem unsure or have partial information, UPI requires a cell phone, a cell phone number and the bank account linked with the cell phone number. It cannot be used from a computer (IMPS
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by wtmt 5y ago
I’m sure a somewhat large team manages or has access to that account, and it’s possible that one of them fell for some social engineering attack. It’s still a bit shameful that country and state representatives cannot use better security pr
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by wtmt 5y ago
> building out a similar technological and political infrastructure, using similar the justifications of countering terrorism, misinformation, sedition, and subjective “social harms.” FWIW, this seems to be a common thread in many countr
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by wtmt 5y ago
I wondered why I was able to read the article, and then I realized that I have this extension installed on Firefox called Bypass Paywalls. I'd recommend trying that.
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by wtmt 5y ago
The speed of doing this is astonishing for sure, though the article also states that many people were excluded because they didn't have (or refused to have) the newer voter ID cards (issued after 2018) and also because they had to phys
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by wtmt 5y ago
This is considerate in some ways. Some publishers, at least in tech, have long been selling content as one purchase that provides DRM free ePub, PDF and mobi. But they don’t include audiobooks within this scope, which this model includes. I
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by wtmt 5y ago
I can confirm and share additional details. Located in India, I automatically see a message that says I can choose a purchasing power parity discount if I wish to. The discount is 70%, but it applies only to the most expensive package (brin
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by wtmt 5y ago
> use things like Intl.NumberFormat in the browser, rather than home-grown 'group 3 digits and insert a comma then join again'. That home grown solution wouldn’t work in many western countries either, where comma is a decimal s

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