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by wtmt 1mo ago
> Why would you call an auto or e-rickshaw when you could call and pay for via Uber (which also does autorickshaw pairing) I don't know when the last time was when you were in India, but using Uber to hail auto rickshaws requires di
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by wtmt 1mo ago
In India, using Google Maps is far better, but it does have a few instances of failures (some that have been disastrous). When lost, asking people for directions has its own failure modes, due to people sometimes describing directions verba
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by wtmt 2mo ago
OP, please add India as a shock target option if possible. It imports close to 80+% of its crude oil and gas requirements and is highly vulnerable to oil flow shocks.
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by wtmt 2mo ago
This may not be much, but if you’re outside India, please write to your local representatives and also to the Indian government that you are going to avoid products made in India as much as possible, will avoid visiting the country for tour
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by wtmt 2mo ago
Jains in India are heavy consumers of dairy products. They consume honey too. Most of them would avoid vegetables that grow underground and avoid the use of leather. They’re generally a bit closer to orthodox Hindus in practice.
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by wtmt 3mo ago
In India this has been the regulation for several years, and has helped along with the Do Not Disturb (DND) registration by the end user and rules for senders/callers. Anyone sending bulk SMSes, even if the sending is done through a th
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by wtmt 3mo ago
Seems like WhatsApp, which is much, much larger in India, couldn’t be restricted like this because everybody depends on it. Government work, police work, judicial work, everything happens on WhatsApp. Telegram is a good poster child to be b
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by wtmt 4mo ago
Is consular processing prioritizing adjustment of status applications? Here in India, as of now, a consular appointment for a B1/B2 non-immigrant visa application is about eight months away. The COVID pandemic was mostly over about thr
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by wtmt 4mo ago
Apple’s focus under Tim Cook to extract every penny possible from services while making them worse has been antithetical to its past promises of innovation or extraordinary experiences. If I wanted an ad infested experience everywhere, why
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by wtmt 5mo ago
> The correct analogy would be a foreign country requiring U.S. banks to send them data on their own citizens abroad. Which, I think, e.g. India could probably do. India does get information from the US and other countries about Indian r
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by wtmt 6mo ago
> The problem with that plan is that no one wants to trade hard commodities for a currency that can’t be spent. One part of the dollars appeal is that it spends the world over. > So no one is going to take up a lot of yuan trade unles
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by wtmt 6mo ago
Meanwhile in India, people are queuing up to get LPG cylinders (cooking gas) and the government is making similar statements as quoted in this article that there are no shortages. Pump prices of petrol and diesel in India are being kept the
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by wtmt 6mo ago
I’ve known the difference in corruption at different levels between a country like India and a country like the US. India hasn’t had a very long authoritarian regime since its independence. Yet, corruption has existed at every touch point w
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by wtmt 7mo ago
The key word here is “typically”. Transferring eSIM from one iPhone to another can be restricted by the carrier. Here in India, the second largest carrier (Airtel), does not support the native iOS eSIM transfer process. It’s a separate set
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by wtmt 8mo ago
There’s an interesting Malayalam (one of the official languages in India) movie titled “Virus” [1] from 2019, which is set during the time of the 2018 Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala (a state in South India). The disease is deadly and can ha
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by wtmt 8mo ago
> In India, every tax imposed on a business goes straight to consumer. The consumer receipt even mentions all those taxes item-wise. As someone in India, this statement is incorrect. There are no consumer receipts in India that show the
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by wtmt 9mo ago
Sorry to hear this. From where I am (India), there’s hardly anything that you can do because it’s likely that the ones with power won’t do anything. As an individual, you can only focus on yourself and those you know and try to educate them
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by wtmt 10mo ago
> In response, the Wi-Fi Alliance and the DSA are trying to stoke fears that such a move would severely dent Europe's digital development, claiming Wi-Fi is the primary way consumers access the internet and constraining it would imp
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by wtmt 10mo ago
> QR Code base system is slow, have security risk and will not work without smartphone. Proliferation of hundred of QR Code based payments system is not a good thing, you need one that works across all countries. Agree on some security r
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by wtmt 11mo ago
Even in India, a large country where Apple has a growing manufacturing presence, Apple Maps is totally neglected. It cannot find many places in major cities. It just does not have any transit directions in major cities. It’s at least 10 yea
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by wtmt 11mo ago
I don’t like this direction that Apple has taken over the last several years that it needs to provide more services and that all its services need to be monetized with an aim of a 70% plus profit margin. This greed to capture every penny is
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by wtmt 1y ago
I was looking through the comments here for something like this. Additional context for others here: Amazon in India is legally allowed only to operate a marketplace. It is not allowed to stock and sell products by itself (it does FBA, i.e.
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by wtmt 1y ago
> Why would a justice in India serve the interests of a few rich foreign companies, while ignoring the needs of Indian students and researchers? Because they’re used to serving the interests of large companies (domestic and international
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by wtmt 1y ago
> The hardest part of learning to drive on the left is not turning on your windshield wipers every time you turn a corner. This is something to learn the very first time when getting into a (new/unfamiliar) car before getting the ve
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by wtmt 1y ago
It’s similar in India. Even many businesses only use WhatsApp for orders and communications with customers. Heck, even the police use it to communicate between their people and with complainants/victims. Politicians use it between thei
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by wtmt 1y ago
The official response is that they won’t because 95% of their costs are in the search itself. I’m unable to figure out how to link to the forum thread, but you can visit https://kagifeedback.org/ and search for “regional pr
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by wtmt 1y ago
Not GP, and I’m in a totally different country than the GP, but I’d be willing to pay USD 2 a month for a duo plan. I’d be willing to pay on an annual basis too, since small monthly payments usually incur higher processing fees (percentage
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by wtmt 1y ago
I’ve never even tried the free tier of Kagi because it’s limited and because the paid tiers are expensive (just like in your situation). I’m not looking for a free solution and I do pay for email (though not like tens of dollars a month, wh
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by wtmt 1y ago
> Eventually, the Fed itself will start issuing stablecoins and out-legitimize everyone else. That would be a CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency), which the current administration doesn’t seem to want. One advantage of such a CBDC would
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by wtmt 1y ago
It’s not much harder to do with real money. India, a country of 1.3 billion people, did it in 2016 with “demonetisation” of specific high value currency denominations. [1] Some people died because they couldn’t get their own money from the

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