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by wtmt 5y ago
Two caveats: > The Indian government represents the will of the Indian people. Not really representative of the will or the real issues that are bothering the people. The current government is more of a “show business” than a government
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by wtmt 5y ago
> "(name) (Roman numeral)" is a much more commong occurence than "(name) (Single letter spelled out)" > So to answer your question, this one. This universe. But this is true in this universe only in some countries
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by wtmt 5y ago
I get it all the time when I don’t use blockers, but what I’ve seen when I choose to customize is a set of toggles where the additional cookies (don’t recall them, but they’re two among a total of three) are turned off. The size of the dial
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by wtmt 5y ago
I should’ve worded my question more comprehensively. Any plans for integrations with other platforms?
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by wtmt 5y ago
GP here. I’m located in India and know about the prevalence of WhatsApp. However, I don’t use it and I know many people who don’t use it. Hence the question related to integrations (and wanting to know if other integrations are planned).
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by wtmt 5y ago
Adding one more question to this list: what about those who don’t use WhatsApp? The website says “share invoices over WhatsApp and email”, which I take as native support or integrations for these modes.
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by wtmt 5y ago
> How the British and other colonizers go unpunished for all what they have done It’s rare for such large scale oppressors to be punished in their times. Do you see parallels with what the majority Sinhalese in Sri Lanka has done to the
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by wtmt 5y ago
Have to disagree with your claims. It’s a gross oversimplification of how laws can be passed or enacted in India. Not all laws require both houses to pass them (the infamous Aadhaar Act was passed as a money bill, a case that’s still pendin
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by wtmt 5y ago
This is an ongoing tussle with the very legality of these rules being questioned. It's too soon to say what "lost liability protection" actually means. Twitter's responses (or lack thereof) have been a pain to deal with
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by wtmt 5y ago
> In other words, granting full-disk access to an app would give it access to everything my user can access. Not "sudo" access to other users' data as well. > Why would an app ever need that level of access? For install
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by wtmt 5y ago
No, she’s not in real trouble this time. What seems to be in trouble is getting new papers on to Sci-Hub and it becoming a little bit less relevant over time. The courts here in India are notoriously slow on many cases. Depending on luck, t
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by wtmt 5y ago
The largest and widely known example of rich, educated as well as influential is the Tata family [1] and Tata Group [2]. HN readers may be familiar with TCS (Tata Consultancy Services), Tata Motors, Tata Steel, and many other companies that
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by wtmt 5y ago
India, with Firefox Focus here, seeing $10 per month/$100 per year. Clear cookies and repeat again a few times, and it’s $5 per month/$50 per year. This has nothing to do with cost of living or purchasing power parity. It’s just r
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by wtmt 5y ago
The title is true for some definition of "near" and some definition of "here". Here in India, the official "second wave" now has been brutal. Just a few months ago, nobody thought there could be any further loc
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by wtmt 5y ago
With the headline I initially thought it may be related, but the actual article makes it clear that it’s only about his email address being used/linked with new phone number purchases.
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by wtmt 5y ago
FWIW, I’ve seen incorrect email addresses in bank accounts and someone else getting all transaction information and statements. The state of “encrypted bank statements” is so poor (a combination of part of the name and part of the date of b
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by wtmt 5y ago
Note that these tweets are only hidden for anyone in India (not removed from Twitter) since these do not violate Twitter’s terms but are being forced off the platform by a government order. I wish Twitter would put up a better fight on this
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by wtmt 5y ago
It’s been quite shocking to see the numbers climb here in India. A year ago, we had an ill planned and devastating lockdown across the country. Like the article briefly mentions, the economy tanked and worse, millions of migrant workers wer
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by wtmt 5y ago
FWIW, India has been doing a lot in generating power from solar and there is a push (or at least frequent public statements by those in power) for electric vehicles and getting rid of fossil fuel powered vehicles. This will take time, espec
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by wtmt 5y ago
It’s also used by receiving parties that don’t want to accept calls but need a signal and/or those with toll free numbers that may receive numerous calls — voting on some competition shows uses this mechanism. Some campaigns have also
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by wtmt 6y ago
That’s an overly broad generalization without any data behind it. And my self respect and stance against such corporations are worth more than other things. Why would I want to pay and encourage extortion and abuse?
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by wtmt 6y ago
You could also consider bitwarden_rs, an open source Rust based implementation of the BitWarden server that supports SQLite and MySQL (Postgres support is also coming). [1] [1]: https://github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarden_
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by wtmt 6y ago
I've seen your site's link in this conversation at least a couple of times, and am curious as to how you manage the costs of running the service. Is it not as well known that the costs are quite low or the cost doesn't matter
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by wtmt 6y ago
For all practical purposes, Signal's backend is also closed source. The public repository for the server code hasn't been updated since April 2020 (nearing a year now) though Signal has, in the meantime, come up with features like
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by wtmt 6y ago
This is from January 2020 in India: [1] > Still, we can joke. So, apparently can Netflix. > Because when a Twitter user in India posted a clearly fake offer--a "free Netflix subscription for six months" if you'd just b
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by wtmt 6y ago
> Basically, low quality food is flooding the market, and getting purchased by the poorer population, that don't feel they have a choice in what they eat, because they eat whatever is necessary to fit in their budget. This has every
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by wtmt 6y ago
Your comment comes with a very big assumption that the trivial amount of money you spend really serves your needs and that all marketing material is true and comprehensive. When you buy something and then realize it’s not really solving you
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by wtmt 6y ago
If every comment has to be suffixed with “for me” or “IMO”, it would be quite tedious to read. In most cases it’s clear. In cases like this, it could also be that the writer isn’t earning a six figure USD income or is in a country where eve
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by wtmt 6y ago
India has been building detention centers for people who don’t have official documents, including many Rohingya refugees (among the many people) who come across the borders in the east and northeast. The problem of “outsiders” is what insti
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by wtmt 6y ago
Banks cannot store Aadhaar numbers and allow it to be used for or enable better discovery. Phone number linked to the account is what’s important. Aadhaar is required only if/when receiving government subsidies in one’s bank account. I

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