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by wtmt 6y ago
>> the way android apps just demand permisions for everything making the security benefit of permissions largely pointless. > That hasn't been the case for a pretty long time. Now the permissions are quite granular and you can
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How do you manage minerals and micronutrients that are better consumed a few times a day (because the body cannot absorb larger quantities within a short window)? Do you take specific supplements for that?
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I’m pretty sure the GP is referring to battery usage comparisons on Mac and not iOS. There may be battery use differences on iOS too (the UI, networking and other pieces are still Chrome’s), but not of the magnitude described here.
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> This is Sci-Fi territory in my mind. Simpler Sci without the Fi , but still incredible to lay people, is that earth’s gravity and the movement of the satellites cause time dilation that’s accounted for in GPS satellite clocks and th
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This is a bit related: xkcd: Certainty [1] Edit: Here’s the text transcript: > [A door seen from a hallway, with "Teachers' Lounge" on the glass, next to the door is a sign reading "Award." Inside the door are
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> Both these are in direct contrast to NPCI's charter which is a not-for-profit and entirely owned by Indian entities. By Indian entities, if you do include Citibank and HSBC (local arms), then yes. The promoters are private and pub
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I can’t understand why tech’s biggest players are obsessed with it. I mean, I know what they may be thinking and why they’re salivating. But I believe they’re just behaving as if they don’t want to be left behind and seen as losers, whereas
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F irefox U nity B rowser A ddon R enderer?
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I was suspicious of the effectiveness of contact tracing apps, which have to rely on something as unreliable as Bluetooth to estimate distance across different kinds of hardware, different kinds of software drivers and in different situatio
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Yes, here’s one from Reuters from that time. [1] You can also find many other news sites reporting the same if you search for “Jio deep packet inspection data new oil”. [1]: https://in.reuters.com/article/reliance-telec
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Jio was created with the premise that "data is the new oil" (its parent company Reliance Industries is huge on Oil & Gas). This is seen from the time the company was created and named. The way "Jio" is written offici
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Some people say that this is not racism, but there are various undertones that imply that dark skinned people are inferior. Just the skin tone is enough in many instances to help people use stereotypes (leading to both positive and negative
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This doesn’t make sense. Technical ability to correct light and color didn’t fall from the sky. It was created by people who probably didn’t think as much as they did about one direction as they did about another. The origin is a lack of di
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by wtmt 6y ago
I personally don’t believe it’s ever possible to solve verifiable citizenship even in larger developed countries, leave alone in a diverse and populous country like India. Corruption at the long and porous borders and local levels is one bi
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> If China rises to heights of power that eclipse the US completely, only India may be strong enough to speak for liberal democracy. With recent history in mind, I doubt the emphasized part. India is not actually a beacon of a liberal
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A little more detail in a TL;DR way (summarized, but still long): 1. There are border states in India where many people don’t want illegal immigrants to get citizenship or any other benefits. This Act, by giving citizenship to illegal immig
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Slightly related. Auroville [1] in South India has tried its own monetary system (Aurocard). But over time that didn’t catch up much. There are some businesses that will accept only the Aurocard and not any other form of payment (like gover
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> Maybe it's the french in my talking, but I really have a hard time trusting anything else than the state to handle health data. I have a hard time letting the state amass more data from people. > Anytime you associate health wi
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Siri is still bad (and perhaps indisputably the worst assistant), but the competition in other similar areas, where text is typed, don’t seem to be any better. When I’m on a browser and go to Bing or Google, they try to guess my location fr
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by wtmt 6y ago
Mods, please correct this title. The title here is not the title of the news report and is misleading. You could include that this is in just one state in India (something like “Farmers in Indian state of Chhattisgarh to get direct cash ben
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YSK that in a few South Indian languages, “kutty” means “small”, and is also used to address or refer to kids.
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Apple HomePod Releasing in India(apple.com)
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I appreciate the candid statement he has made about one of the things that ails Amazon's leadership. > Only that’s not just Amazon, it’s how 21st-century capitalism is done. I wonder if there's any future opportunity for him in
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> So we should give all this data to the foreign companies instead of our own elected govt? Seems like you haven’t read about the contact tracing technology and the policies of Apple and Google in what they’re developing. There is no dat
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> Do you remember the adhaar database leak? A minor nitpick. It’s “leaks”, not leak. There have been many over the years.
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Complaining and making noise is expected in any democracy to sway policy decisions by the executive and legislature. There are going to be lawsuits against this one very soon.
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They’ll go with ankle monitor kind of things for that. There was recent news about a tender floated by the government to get wrist straps to monitor infected and quarantined people (that report was later debunked). But some countries are lo
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I think this is an old understanding that doesn’t apply any longer to good modern phones.
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I’m sure the app will be turned into the new “Healthy India” app with some name in Hindi that praises the Prime Minister and add many more “services” to entangle more people in its dragnet surveillance scheme.
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Yes, and even for knocking people off of voter lists in Andhra Pradesh.

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