spikengineer

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by spikengineer 3y ago
Yep. Just got logged out and cannot log back in. It redirects to logout immediately after login.
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by spikengineer 5y ago
sumatra uses a mupdf backend. Same as zathura on linux.
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by spikengineer 5y ago
It's a potential situation India is always worried about from a strategic aspect. India is neither strategically aligned to the US nor against it. Historically US strongly supported India's enemies and actively worked against Indi
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by spikengineer 5y ago
MDR problem can be solved as you indicated. It also needs a solution pretty soon too. EU and developed countries' banks live and finance their profits on fees as they don't make much or any money on loans and other traditional fin
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by spikengineer 5y ago
Yes, some basis exists for such assumptions. RuPay and UPI were originally conceptualised by RBI and Govt of India to solve the overdependence problem. Otherwise RBI and GoI had no reason to introduce RuPay and they could have let the marke
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by spikengineer 5y ago
I don't agree with your interpretation on this being a stealth tactic but even if this was one it's just the state institutions acting in the interest of their mandate. This might not be beneficial to you employer or Visa or Maste
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by spikengineer 5y ago
Please understand the context behind the rules before ranting. PayPal restrictions exist because india doesn't have free capital account convertibility and forex providers need to implement regulatory mechanisms to comply with forex re
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by spikengineer 5y ago
UPI primarily uses a virtual private address in the form of an email address. You only need to disclose this vpa to the merchant. It looks like username@statebank You don't need to disclose your phone number or bank account number to t
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by spikengineer 5y ago
Not a problem since the last two years - widely available but expensive. They are irradiated at BRIT, Navi Mumbai and shipped of directly to Atlanta. India now has many irradiation facilities and exports are picking up.
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by spikengineer 5y ago
It's actually called Paracetamol in the rest of the world except USA. It's in the list.
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by spikengineer 5y ago
Since 2017, India has abolished state VAT by a constitutional amendment. Now there is a single consumption tax system called the GST across all states. A GST council collects all taxes and devolves receipts to states as per law. The income
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by spikengineer 5y ago
I am neither an expert nor familiar with US constitutional law, but in most other countries the federal power trumps the power of any states/provinces and is not limited by a single clause and helps simplify and remove any disparities
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by spikengineer 5y ago
In Most countries, the National legislature can restructure states, impose nationwide simplification of tax policy etc within the limits of the federal structure they have. US is one of the few countries the relationship is the other way ar
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by spikengineer 6y ago
They actively use IMF as a tool and their own trade policies as avenues to force smaller countries to to remove or not implement capital controls although it's disadvantagious to those respective countries. US has policies in trade re
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by spikengineer 6y ago
True. This is hypocrisy at its finest
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by spikengineer 6y ago
Don't conflate regulation with authoritarianism. Capital restrictive make sense as long as countries don't permit free labour movement. If you permit capital flight from developing countries it will just be a repeat of colonial ex
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by spikengineer 6y ago
Western countries don't need capital controls because they have widely accepted reserve currencies. This is a developing country risk
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by spikengineer 6y ago
Expectation of difficulties of enforcement is not a legitimate concern that can exceed or override the need for regulation. Lack of regulation can be much worse. False dichotomy
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by spikengineer 6y ago
Capital controls are necessary to prevent complete failure of the financial system of developing countries due to hyperinflation where the rich can extract the maximum from the economy and runaway by investing in foreign economies. This is
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by spikengineer 6y ago
Legitimate business are allowed to exceed capital controls after verification of intent and is a long standing practice among many countries
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by spikengineer 6y ago
These restrictions will be more common among developing countries. This is legitimate financial regulation and has nothing to do with bombastic statements by some media accusing the Indian govt of overreach Most developing countries are at
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by spikengineer 6y ago
Most developing countries are at a high risk of capital flight by the rich and hence they regulate foreign exchange with Capital controls. India already has a cap of USD 250k limit on capital flight by individuals. Nowadays bitcoin is a com
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by spikengineer 6y ago
Timed delete
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by spikengineer 7y ago
Bill has been referred to joint select committee of both houses of the Parliament. Unlikely to pass in this session but could be taken up in the budget session in February-March.
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by spikengineer 7y ago
The bill has expanded right to correction to include right to erasure, once the data is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was processed.
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by spikengineer 7y ago
Gaming companies are going to have a bad day, Data fiduciaries will need to verify a child age & obtain consent of their guardian. Data Protection Authority can classify some as "guardian data fiduciaries" if they target child
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by spikengineer 7y ago
Live thread from a local news team: https://twitter.com/medianama/status/1204308889128169472
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by spikengineer 7y ago
India is due to introduce a very strong Personal data protection bill in the Parliament today. Draft bill can be accessed here: https://www.medianama.com/wp-content/uploads/Personal-Data-P... This bill seems to be
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India’s Data protection bill:Strong on companies,weak on govt. surveillance(blog.mozilla.org)
2 points by spikengineer 7y ago|5 comments
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by spikengineer 10y ago
If you don't use Apple Webkit view apple doesn't even allow you put your browser on the appstore. All other browser engines are banned. See section 2.5.6 of the Appstore guidelines "2.5.6 Apps that browse the web must use the

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