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by wtmt 6y ago
Although it’s now quite common in the cuisine, did you know that chili peppers are not native to India and were brought into the country by Portuguese traders just over 500 years ago? [1] Black pepper, on the other hand, is native to the co
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by wtmt 6y ago
> “The exact reasons and mechanisms that might explain our findings, though, are currently unknown. Therefore, it is impossible to conclusively say that eating more chili pepper can prolong life and reduce deaths, especially from cardiov
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by wtmt 6y ago
I'm not talking about the taxes paid in Dubai, in this instance. Whether one can claim it in Dubai or not depends on Dubai's laws. I've seen countries with VAT or GST have this provision for tourists. On the other hand, count
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by wtmt 6y ago
The author has made this too simplistic and avoided the point about customs duty on imported goods brought in person. The duty free limit for returning Indian citizens for travels longer than three days is INR 50K (about USD 676). Anything
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by wtmt 6y ago
The calculation is not as simple as that. Any imports above INR 50K (about USD 676), while traveling back to India by Indian citizens, attract import duties (of 35% or so, IIRC). So the $1140.15 device, when it lands in India, would attract
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by wtmt 6y ago
Don't you have a "use tax" that you're legally obligated to pay sales tax locally as per the rates in force in Los Angeles even if you buy something from another location? I recognize that legal requirements and common p
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by wtmt 6y ago
I was expecting a refresh of the HomePod too, though rumors mentioned only the HomePod mini. I also thought that a price of $79 would’ve been quite attractive compared to the $99 price. Just have to wait for holiday sales, I guess. I can’t
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by wtmt 6y ago
To be honest, this move by Apple is good for first world countries where many people may keep their older devices and power adapters, but will raise the costs in other countries where people usually sell their phones (with accessories) and
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by wtmt 6y ago
One word names are called “mononyms”. Your example is again an example. You may have others around you with the same name but write it as Kumaran R (the initial derived from the first letter of the father’s name or the place of origin). Som
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by wtmt 6y ago
I don’t get why people still take it for granted that a woman should change her name on getting married and use the husband’s name. People should have the names assigned to them at birth or whatever they’ve changed it to as per their wish.
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by wtmt 6y ago
It is quite annoying to see that insistence on last names or family names in most places. In India, which is a single country but has many different languages (22 official and nearly a 1000 unofficial, including dialects) and cultures, I se
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by wtmt 6y ago
Can someone please post a top comment with links to audio (and video, if pertinent and available)? The couple of links I visited in some comments were mesmerizing. Thank you.
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by wtmt 6y ago
This is going to be a big mess. PayTM as a company isn’t known for respecting user privacy. The CEO’s brother was caught in a sting video saying they could sell any user’s information for a price (search online and you’ll find the video). A
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by wtmt 6y ago
The spam integration wasn’t done in the way TRAI was pushing Apple to. On Android, the DND (Do Not Disturb) app could get permissions to the call log and SMS, but this wasn’t possible on iOS. Apple pushed back on that requirement for privac
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by wtmt 6y ago
> The whimsical attitude towards web censorship from both ISPs and the Government necessitates the development of a crowdsourced tool to monitor and measure such censorship from different vantage points in the country. I have to say, the
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by wtmt 6y ago
Do you have any plans of releasing an iOS app anytime soon? I’m going to recommend the Android app to people I know, but it would be good to have something for the iOS users too.
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by wtmt 6y ago
IMO, UAPA and similar laws should be repealed and never be allowed to be enacted again.
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Tell me the Supreme Court is doing its job when it hears the long pending cases on Aadhaar, electoral bonds and others of critical national interest. So far, it's just been busy playing around with telecom company dues, Tata Sons'
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by wtmt 6y ago
As stated in my comment, I am using a DoH provider outside the country, but see similar blocking results as the article. Handling DNS alone isn’t going to work all the time, which is what the article detailed out.
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by wtmt 6y ago
You have to understand that reasons aren’t provided for blocking, because the blocking orders may come from different authorities and may not be disclosed due to “national security” reasons. All that we can glean from a site being blocked i
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by wtmt 6y ago
Yes, it’s frustrating to see the lack of transparency and the sheer futility in some cases to find who issued an order for what purpose in which jurisdiction affecting which ISPs. DuckDuckGo was blocked a couple of o this ago. The nebulous
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by wtmt 6y ago
This is a great, detailed report. I use one of these providers and see somewhat similar results (I do not use my ISPs DNS, but another one with DoH). Am I right in concluding that these blocking methodologies can be thwarted to a greater e
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by wtmt 6y ago
If you worry about privacy in a country with no data protection law in place, you should stay far away from anything Jio. I’ve said this before here: when Jio was announced, the company said that “data is the new oil”, indicating that what
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by wtmt 6y ago
COVID-19 has really held a mirror in front us collectively, and what we see mostly is ugliness of the kind many people haven’t been exposed to en masse (or maybe not for quite sometime). Talking about India, it’s soon set to cross the U.S.
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by wtmt 6y ago
> India too, have milk & its products as a major part of diet since millions of years. Citation needed on “millions of years.”
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by wtmt 6y ago
> Ignoring my main concern that any digital project led by the current government will no doubt fail and be used as another excuse to funnel billions to "friends" (not alarmist, but fact), as someone else comments: > "I
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by wtmt 6y ago
> This isn’t about a philosophical position on privacy. It’s about who the government shares our information with, and how it treats us based on what it thinks it knows about us. The article mentions just one incident in India in passing
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by wtmt 6y ago
One thing I find amusing in this saga that's been playing out since the last few months is TikTok's reaction to being banned. When it was banned in India a couple of months ago, it didn't file any lawsuits claiming that it&#x
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by wtmt 6y ago
This can only be solved when more and more people understand the threats not just for the present, but for the future. What Facebook and WhatsApp have enabled are convenient and useful for those in power. So while there may probably be some
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by wtmt 6y ago
That might be true, and may involve backchannel negotiations. But Apple didn't hesitate to revoke Facebook's developer certificate (for internal apps) and make Facebook employees scramble for a day or so because of the "VPN&q

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