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by devnonymous 9y ago
..and complained when he didn't receive any answers from the government in power and now that his Government is in power, not only is it also refusing to answer questions but is also targeting the people who ask similar questions.[1] [
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by devnonymous 9y ago
Ok, but since appear to have such a strong opinion on the subject, perhaps you could also address the questions I've asked ?
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by devnonymous 9y ago
Edit: I don't care about karma on HN but if you're downvoting please explain yourself. > The Indian ID drive has ensured that benefits make it to the people who need > them without 80% of it being skimmed by corrupt bu
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by devnonymous 9y ago
ehm... Also the guy to guise opposition to net neutrality as just being fervently anti-colonisim
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by devnonymous 9y ago
Well it is culturally ignorant tho I won't call it insensitive. Why do they do it? Because they can :-) Is it comfortable? Sure it is, if you've been used to sitting that way for most of your life. Is it clean? No more cleaner tha
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A Creationist Is About to Sue the Grand Canyon(iflscience.com)
3 points by devnonymous 9y ago|0 comments
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by devnonymous 9y ago
Yep, but worth reminding you at this point that in this case you are the commodity, the companies are the consumers and the Internet is the market. Free market will make more sense if you think about it that way.
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India's governance is susceptible to poorly tested ideas pushed by the powerful(scroll.in)
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by devnonymous 9y ago
For context, Aadhaar mentioned here is a unique identity program being implemented by the Government of India in association with some private companies. It has been criticized for lack of transparency, dubious claims with regards to distri
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Inside the mind of India’s chief tech stack evangelist(medium.com)
2 points by devnonymous 9y ago|1 comments
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by devnonymous 9y ago
Considering its longevity as compared with other 'standards' that came around 40 years ago, I'd say it is in fact, a great standard.
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by devnonymous 9y ago
Just a thought for everyone discussing human settlement - habitable doesn't necessarily imply humans should go there, robots growing stuff far far away would be great as well. I'd say having farming planets (or in this case moon
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by devnonymous 9y ago
Nice project, wish you the best ! Although tbh, I personally won't use this simply because I know enough of find(1) to not see the cognitive overhead of switching to sql to do filesystem /queries/. Any examples where this wou
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by devnonymous 9y ago
This is a problem with a lot of Indian studies[1]. The subjects are so intertwined with religion, culture, mythology (to say nothing about the biases and opinions of the people who would be teaching you) that while on one hand it helps in e
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by devnonymous 9y ago
We need more articles like this. The more vocal chest thumping 'patriots' do a great disservice to the rich fascinating history of India by mixing impressive facts with laughable fiction.
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by devnonymous 9y ago
My initial thoughts as well. This is a good idea but it is thin on details. - What is a snippet? 'Use your judgement' isn't a scalable option. - What are the measures against abuse? How is validation occurring? (ie: how can y
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by devnonymous 9y ago
I found this interesting because for all its reputation as the tech capital of mainland Europe, online shopping experiences in Germany are far from satisfying. The local business could definitely do with some competition.
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Amazon brings online supermarket to Germany, stirring up worries for competition(thelocal.de)
1 points by devnonymous 9y ago|1 comments
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by devnonymous 9y ago
The worrying bit about this statement is not what was said but the fact that the media is getting fixated on this intentionally ambiguous statement to conflate the real issue of forced biometric data collection into a black box central data
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by devnonymous 9y ago
> That was an excellent move by the govt Pray tell what exactly was achieved by demonitisation?
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by devnonymous 9y ago
...but doesn't that remove the anonymity of the vote? IIRC political voting is by and large a secret ballot.
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by devnonymous 9y ago
While I could possibly sympathize a bit with the parts of the post dealing the frustration of dealing with German bureaucracy, after having experienced the Italian health care (having experienced both personally), I don't understand th
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by devnonymous 9y ago
Before we go there you perhaps want to answer this - what in your opinion is the function of banks and of currency? If there's a single currency, who gets to set it's value in terms of goods that it can be exchanged for? If there&
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Escaping a Python sandbox with a memory corruption bug(hackernoon.com)
2 points by devnonymous 9y ago|0 comments
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by devnonymous 9y ago
Although you understood how the technology works, I think you misunderstand the intent . Noise cancellation in headphones exist to cancel out the ambient noise around the cups of the headphones so that effectively only a subset of the to
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by devnonymous 9y ago
- You make a snide comment - Someone misinterprets it as an honest mistake and tries to explain things - You take on a condescending tone attempting to ^educate^ this obviously clueless person who doesn't know what word they ought to b
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by devnonymous 9y ago
A word can have more than one meanings. From https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Ascribe&oq=define%3A... 3. a pointed instrument used for making marks on wood, bricks, etc., to guide a saw or in signwriting.
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by devnonymous 9y ago
Agreed... And its not just war but all the stuff that has proven to be bad for your health like tobacco, liquor, sugar etc is available for people to use at their own discretion, why not something that might actually help in the long run.
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The real reason for the devices ban on flights – competition(businessinsider.com)
1 points by devnonymous 10y ago|0 comments
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by devnonymous 10y ago
Guy copy/pastes from the Wikipedia page of catb into medium, adds his github project at the bottom and submits to HN.

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