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7171u··on Amnesty International India Halts Its Work in India Due to Government Reprisal
Yes. https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/caste-not-dead-su... https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/dalit-family-lives-gro... https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/hyderabad/hyderabad... https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/denied-access-barbersh...?
7171u··on Indian robot climbs trees to harvest coconuts
Robot looks very fragile and process seems very slow.
7171u··on Facebook is embedding tracking data inside the photos you download
Who gives Facebook the authority to do so?
7171u··on Spotify adds 1M unique listeners in India in less than a week
May be because of this: https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/26/18241345/spotify-india-la...
7171u··on A beginner’s guide to getting started in the cryptocurrency world
He meant Monero not Bitcoin.
7171u··on Facebook Is the Junk Food of Socializing (2015)
I have deactivated FB since last Jan. Never felt any urge to return. But Reddit seems to be hard to quit as the majority of the time it delivers the garbage disguised as information. As a person who was on FB only for news feeds, Reddit seems to be the perfect shelter for me.
7171u··on Base-4 fractions in Telugu
Another one.

First Malayalam-English( another south Indian Language) dictionary was compiled by a German linguist Hermann Gundert who is the grandfather of German novelist and Nobel laureate Hermann Hesse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Gundert

7171u··on Ask HN: How can I get better at bash?
I was using CTRL+C to open new prompt instead of undoing. Thanks for this.
7171u··on Stanford Professor Loses Political Battle To Simplify Tax Filing Process
In India also we get form from employer with information on tax paid in that financial year. You just need to copy paste the values to tax dept. website and submit. So simple.
7171u··on /usr/bin/time: not the command you think you know
I had to use "--verbose" instead of "-l" in my RHEL7

  \time --verbose  echo