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There's another comment providing more context; Razorpay is facing flak from some folks because it gave up transaction/donor data for a journalist's company. (Razorpay is the payment provider for the journalist's company AltNews)

The India government is actually trying their best to persecute the journalist (Mohd. Zubair) and putting pressure on Razorpay to get to AltNews/Zubair. (The govt. is trying to insinuate that the journalist is writing articles criticizing India on the behest of foreigners - by cooking up allegations that he has been receiving donations from people outside India)

I'm only arguing that it's next to impossible to stand up to the government in India; Razorpay need not be pro-government or anti Alt news, they are likely being forced to comply with the Government's (perhaps extra legal) demands via shady tactics and they need to save their own skin.

This is the unfortunate reality of India; the government/police don't need to actually go to court. It can harass companies and executives by simply threatening to / actually carrying out unnecessary 'raids' through the tax department.

The usual process is for the a bunch of policemen and beareaucrats to just show up unannounced; seal the office so that no one can enter or leave, and seize computers / phones, files and demand random stuff like invoices for $10 purchases from three years ago and so on. This can happen regularly until all business basically comes to a halt (unless the company complies with whatever the government wants). [1]

The next step is to threaten arrests and actually carry out some arrests on trumped up charge, and you can wait forever until trial (unless you comply with what the government wants). The trials usually result in acquittal after several years but the process is the punishment. The media in the meanwhile is happy to go along with the official version (that the company is question is allegedly employing shady accounting practices).

The next stage is painting the company as 'anti national', arrange for a few mobs to harrass folks / attempt lynchings and finally actually 'dissappear'/kill people (this last step is usually reserved for judges/writers etc since others usually comply before this step)

[1]: https://www.economist.com/asia/2021/10/02/indias-government-...

The tool itself seems to provide upto 3 months of history:

https://open-meteo.com/en/docs#latitude=52.52&longitude=13.4...

You missed the $ in the last sentence

If you don't mind me asking, what are some things you like that you feel make it worth being with this person? (since you mentioned past baggage and having to 'let her win every argument' - that doesn't sound too nice)

In an alternate universe, perhaps the fact that Sony valued this exploit at just 20k would work against them in a piracy case

But a 747 or similarly large aircraft carries 400+ passengers and is not economically viable at 180-200 passengers like the A321.

Smaller but longer range aircraft (like the 787) have enabled airlines to fly direct on long routes with lower demand (instead of having to make a stop, usually at the airline's hub eg. Dubai for Emirates)

Is a boat car an amphibious car?

Uber? :)

Most countries (even non EU ones) allow its citizens residing in foreign countries to vote in national elections at its embassies.

So Hungarians residing in Netherlands could have been able to vote at Hungarian embassies/consulates in Netherlands (if they made it to the embassy).

Better known as pill navigation

If solving a problem isn't going to 1) move the stock price up and /or 2) move a metric that gets someone promoted or 3) help avoid significant negative publicity in some way, it's never going to get solved

I bet this specific example will be tricky, invasions/incursions now a days seem to be usually denied by the aggressor in various ways, i.e. there might actually be a debate, 'Has Russia actually invaded Ukraine yet?'

I've filed a chargeback before in India, the burden of proof was on the merchant at that time. Maybe I got lucky with my card issuer.

They might be great for employees, but have a terrible reputation among customers atleast in Europe.

Most common issues seems to be staff often not enforcing/honouring seat reservations, the company refusing to implement a tag/validation system for hold luggage (allowing rampant theft) as well as bad on time performance + frequent last minute cancellations

Just an idea, maybe the first fetch from S3 should be allowed by R2 do delete the original object from S3 too, so that eventually we're only left with two mutually exclusive sets of files (and no double storage)

The calculators usually account for inflation (and also for a percentage rate of return on the lumpsum you have saved), you would answer "How much income will you need in retirement?" with today's value of a $ (eg. if $80k a year would be enough for this year if you retired today)

The synthesized speech in the video seems pretty realistic - does anyone know which software was used?

The article does mention more than 50 people being fired for it between 2014 and Aug 2015

Lack of will to disrupt the status quo is also the reason why many new builds in Indian cities like Bangalore/Hyderabad are forced to rely on the water tanker cartels instead of getting reliable piped water supply from the local municipal corporations.

The icing on the cake is that water tanker cartels steal from the municipal water supply in the first place.

I don't think the comment you replied to is arguing in favor of Australia's attempts to get Google/FB to pay the media companies

They mention margins of 35-40% percent here: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/166-sam-eaton-of-crave-...

So, $70k - $80k a month in profits

You might find Gene Bransfield's War Kitteh project enlightening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMNSvHswljM

Rules kept getting stricter on paper but none were really enforced in the real world

Aah Slax. My gateway drug into the Linux world and experimenting with computers in general. Back when I was in school looong ago when I got a copy in a tech magazine I bought from a streetside vendor.

Forgot about it at some point, I'm glad too to see it's still around! Doubt I'd be in tech or so interested in tinkering or programming or whatever if it weren't for that.

My bad, sorry

When did FB geoblock users in the US?

Yep WhiteHat JR has started expanding to the Phillipines as well, where they're continuing their MO of targetting hapless parents and children with blatantly false advertising

The apparent success that WhiteHat enjoyed with a $300 million exit within 18 months of founding has unfortunately inspired the current generation of entrepreneurs in India to also try their hands in the edtech space over everything else.

Most of them however don't know the scale of the fraud and unimaginably shady marketing and operating practices WhiteHat engaged in to reach that valuation.

KDE Connect can do it between Linux/Mac and Android. No iOS unfortunately which is what I think you were looking for.

Not that it matters, but I think KDE Connect was available even before Apple's cross device copy paste