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by wtmt 6y ago
As someone from India, where the currency exchange rate (with respect to USD, EUR, etc.) is forever depreciating rapidly while inflation is relatively quite high, I appreciate it when content creators offer lower prices and/or offer pu
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There is no requirement to link Aadhaar with bank accounts or provide it to banks. That coercion was banned by the Supreme Court in its 2018 verdict. UPI is a mobile solution that requires a mobile phone number that’s linked to one’s bank a
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by wtmt 6y ago
> in India, thanks to UPI you can pay anybody if you know their phone number Not true. You need the UPI ID of the person, which may probably be phone@bank or phone@paymentsbank. If you assume that everyone is using only Google Pay (or Pa
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by wtmt 6y ago
Seems like this may be relevant in this context: “Low base effect in business and economics is the tendency of a small absolute change from a low initial amount to be translated into a large percentage change.“ [1] [1]: https:/&#x2F
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This is a reaction to opposing voices that wants to quell those quickly anytime they arise. There hasn’t been, and there won’t be, any action taken against supporters of the government or even government authorities even when they incite mu
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by wtmt 6y ago
> India still has an independent judiciary... That’s highly questionable depending on the level of the judiciary being discussed. The highest court (Supreme Court) has sided more often with the executive and takes years to start hearing
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by wtmt 6y ago
What’s more frustrating with Apple is that a lot of data on iCloud is still not encrypted in a way where Apple doesn’t have access to the decryption key (and hence cannot hand over meaningful data). This was reported by Reuters last year as
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by wtmt 6y ago
On removing apps due to government requests, both Apple and Google do it in the territories they operate in. Over the last year or so, the Indian government has had several tens of Chinese origin apps banned on these stores (including apps
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by wtmt 6y ago
> I would say 99% of Indian drivers will fail any DMV tests (both written and behind-the-wheel) conducted in states such as California. In reality, no, it wouldn't be anywhere close to this figure. People are quite good at adapting
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by wtmt 6y ago
If you’re someone outside India, please write to your representatives (or organize something) on matters like Internet access being cut off. We live in an age where this can be a matter of life and death. It is standard practice in India to
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by wtmt 6y ago
There is no need to send checks to people unless it’s required for keeping records or purposes beyond money transfer. India has quite an advanced banking system where quite a large sum of money can be transferred in mere seconds or in sever
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by wtmt 6y ago
Firstly, consider that the Indian government believes every citizen and resident to be a crook and a tax evader unless proven otherwise. That’s why it has been pushing for “cashless” (even after the callous and disastrous demonetization exe
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by wtmt 6y ago
Great effort! I wish the files were named as Part01.txt, Part02.txt and so on to suit the default string sorting used by GitHub. The list on GitHub has Part1.txt, Part10.txt...Part19.txt, Part2.txt, and so on, which makes it a bit cumbersom
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by wtmt 6y ago
This is just a show of power by poorly informed people and a gimmick to distract people. Don’t read too much into this as the government caring about privacy. The central government in India has no interest in the privacy of residents or ci
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by wtmt 6y ago
> Circuit breaking, exponential backoff, bulkheading should be key pillars and no dev should be allowed to write a client without these key skills. This is all the more critical for client applications that depend on app stores to review
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by wtmt 6y ago
As a different suggestion, you can have a wiki on your machine with TiddlyWiki. [1] With that, there’s no need for a server or complex software deployment and maintenance. [1]: https://tiddlywiki.com
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Regardless of which side of the political spectrum one is or what qualifications one has or what terrible deeds one has done (or alleged to have done), the fact is that phishing attacks aren’t very easy to avoid (you’d be fooling yourself i
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by wtmt 6y ago
I thought this would be a great list to share, but found it quite short and wanting in certain respects. I don't know what class of programmers this list is intended for, but I believe that anything about biometrics should start with t
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by wtmt 6y ago
Do you have local (non-cloud) backups? If yes, that's great, but otherwise I wouldn't recommend a cloud-only (or a single backup) approach to storing important data.
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Could you please expand on why or how you had better luck with Unison and why syncthing wasn't adequate?
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> Google is such an insane value. $5 you get GSuite, auth, drive, chat, meet, and a bunch of things. ... > Stick with Google. It's not fashionable but a bargain. You're commodicized on the internet unless you run your own s
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by wtmt 6y ago
> Maps → Apple maps If Apple were a different company, it would've made maps available for use on web browsers and non-Apple devices. That could also help in a more rapid improvement of maps as opposed to the mostly-useless state it
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by wtmt 6y ago
Thanks for the prompt response. I get a “404 This page could not be found” error page when I visit that link or any other URL I type manually with the date in the last one month. As a start, I think adding a “Choose Date” link and providing
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This site has been quite pleasant to use and read through. I especially liked the easy collapsibility of comment threads and the indication of the comment level. While I haven’t used the site much, it seemed as if one could only navigate by
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by wtmt 6y ago
Since you mentioned Final Cut, I’m going to assume you’re using an iPhone. For music, there’s GarageBand from Apple. There are many third party apps too, many being free as well. For visuals, you have iMovie from Apple and many other painti
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It would be easier to offer some better answers if you edit your post and state what device, OS and browser you’re using for the search. Also, are you logged in to Google or Gmail or any other Google services (even if that window has been c
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Apple seems to want to expand its (primarily) iPhone market in India, and yet Apple Maps is still far behind Google Maps here even in larger cities. There was news a few years ago about investing in maps, but that hasn’t shown as much impro
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by wtmt 6y ago
Not related to the carcinogenic effect or to Americans but to the “life ruining” effect and the general association of alcohol as a bad thing: in India, the movies allowed for public screening are required by the Central Board of Film Certi
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I will always remember the Zappos culture and the way the company interacted with customers and supported them. It’s rare to see companies of that kind.
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> What shocked was the speed of its intervention. Mr Goswami spent just a week in detention, and his case had hardly reached the lowest rung of courts, yet the country’s topmost judges ignored the court’s backlog of some 60,000 cases to

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