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helloindia··on Facebook Asking for Some New Users' Email Passwords
Done is better than perfect.
helloindia··on The World’s Cheapest Hospital Has to Get Even Cheaper
"India also has the worst "private" hospitals if you compare the hospital support staff specially nurses. Most of them (not all) nurses have no passion and the profession itself is not given the kind of importance that it is given in the US."

This is because Nurses don't get paid well, avg pay will be around Rs 15,000/month which is simply not enough in metro cities. Majority of the profits of private hospitals goes towards Doctors and hospital administration. Nurses pay have been stagnant for so long. Nurses don't even get extra pay or shift allowance for working nights. Many of the skilled ones, migrate to western countries rather than stay and work in India. Nurses do get paid well in govt hospitals, but govt hospitals are so few as compared to privately run hospitals.

helloindia··on Stoicism's Appeal to the Rich and Powerful
"Stoicism was likely influenced by Buddhism through contact with India during the wars of Alexander the Great, and shares a lot with Buddhism: the whole universe is one vast, living, divine whole."

Universe as a "divine whole" is a concept found in Advaita vedanta, not in Buddhism.

“Life is full of suffering, but that suffering is a path to understanding a larger good.”

Again wrong. Understanding true nature of reality, any experience happiness,suffering, neutral is considered a path. Not just suffering.

helloindia··on Why Are Creators Paying for TikTok’s Mistake?
Related: “New hunting ground for paedophiles: Chinese apps” https://m.timesofindia.com/india/new-hunting-ground-for-paed...
helloindia··on Apple tells suppliers to produce 10% fewer new iPhones
here you go.

"The business was carried out under the instructions or consent of the restaurant owners for months, the report said."

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2091125/chin...

helloindia··on Letter from Tim Cook to Apple Investors
Battery replacement scheme was available India. But, due to absence of Apple store, users have to go to Apple authorized service vendors where services take days. It took me 5 days to replace the battery in Dec 2018 because battery had to be specially ordered.(I live in major Indian city.) Cheap Android phones from Xiaomi etc are flooding the Indian market. If Apple doesn't ramp up the quality of experience in areas other than Hardware and OS, it's gonna lose whatever market share it has in India.
helloindia··on Letter from Tim Cook to Apple Investors
iPhone already has Battery-saver mode feature which kicks in at 20% battery. Involuntary CPU throttling feature & voluntary battery-saver feature, is wrong comparison.

I'd have preferred to prevent the CPU throttle by replacing battery within the phone warranty period than having to know it(cpu throttling) afterwards, when my phone was already out of warranty.

helloindia··on Why Do Hospitals Hate Sleep So Much?
The author makes it pretty clear, hospital staffs should wake up patients if absolutely necessary.

"If a patient is at low risk and can go six or eight hours without a vitals check, for example, perhaps don’t do that check once every four hours." ..

"..I made a sort of handshake deal with my nurses to leave me alone between 11 and 7. This mostly worked (and was reasonable in my case since I was only there waiting for the first round of chemo to start). I also refused to allow the night nurse to draw blood at 4 am, and that was that. She never came back, and that was fine: after all, there are lots of cases where they really don’t need your counts on a daily basis. And they certainly don’t need them at 4 am. That’s merely for the convenience of doctors, who want the results back by 8 am." ...

helloindia··on Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Google Maps
This could explain why the scammers were able to claim the bank listings. The two banks mentioned in the article are nationalised(govt) banks, notorious for unprofessional work-culture. (I have an account at SBI) I wouldn't be surprised if the emails from Google went to black hole email addresses, giving scammers ownership of the listings.
helloindia··on US asks allies to drop Huawei
"Hundreds of Chinese companies have revised their corporate charters to allow a deeper management role for the Communist Party, a sign the ruling party is tightening its control over the private sector." . "Changes include acknowledging a central role for the party and establishing internal party committees to be consulted on important decisions. Some stipulate that corporate chiefs also serve as the heads of in-house party organs. Despite the Communist Party's dominance over the Chinese state, it is unusual for publicly listed businesses to explicitly give the party a role in decision-making, much less write it into their charters." https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/More-companies-are-writing-...
helloindia··on In China, Desperate Patients Smuggle Drugs or Make Their Own
Its also used now. That's why many dissidents die from lack of medical care in Prison. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/10/world/asia/liu-xiaobo-med...
helloindia··on The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker
How did European countries come up with better labor conditions? Through foreign/western countries or Govt regulation?
helloindia··on Apple accused of overpricing, restricting device repairs
"the Netflix iOS app no longer lets you sign up for a subscription. Instead, new users are booted into the web browser to sign up on Netflix.com. Since this transaction happens outside the app, Netflix doesn’t have to give Apple its 30 percent cut.." ... "This approach is even more extreme than what Spotify does on iOS. If you sign up for a subscription via Apple’s platform, the cost is $12.99 per month to cover the Apple fees. If you sign up online, Spotify only charged $9.99. It has even reached out to customers to help them transfer their membership outside of Apple’s sandbox..." https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/276066-netflix-experiment...
helloindia··on Fake review factories that run on Facebook and post five-star Amazon reviews
On my city Startup Facebook group, I see lots of posts offering fake Facebook & Amazon review services. When I report such posts, the response I get is, the said posts doesn't violate Facbook's Community standard Guidlines.
helloindia··on The ‘Real You’ Is a Myth
As someone who is studying at the moment, I thought the same.
helloindia··on The ‘Real You’ Is a Myth
Just like asking which is the real river?
helloindia··on Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access To Your Shadow Contact Information
This happened to me after Facebook acquired Instagram. I had my mobile no in Instagram profile. Instagram cross-referenced my mobile with my Whatsapp contact list(I haven't given Instagram access to my iPhone contacts). I suddenly got suggestions to follow my colleagues on Insta. Colleagues with whom I interact only on Whatsapp. Since then my trust level in Instagram,Facebook & Whatsapp has gone into negative.
helloindia··on The Bitter Regrets of a Useless Chinese Daughter
My thoughts went the same way. I hope this article doesn't cause problem for the Author's parents back home.
helloindia··on Why Facebook is losing the war on hate speech in Myanmar
I recently reported a post made in a regional language(language for which I'm sure Facebook doesn't have any translator/interpreter) as hate speech. I got a response from Facebook saying the said post doesn't violate Facebook's community guideline.
helloindia··on Google Needs to Come Clean About Its Chinese Plans
Are you aware of the fact that Google has search apps on both iOS Appstore and Android Playstore? If you want to know who is using such apps, look up the reviews on them.
helloindia··on What the Indian head wobble really says
South India.
helloindia··on Mindfulness Meditation Impairs Task Motivation but Not Performance [pdf]
Tonglen is a popular practice in Tibetan Buddhist Schools. There are several other practices like, Eight Verses of Mind Training, Generating Bodhichitta with Equalizing self and others. One won't find such methods in general meditation books, as these are practices specific to Mahayana Buddhism.
helloindia··on Things I Learned in the Gulag
And the re-education camps in China. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/15/opinion/china-re-educatio...
helloindia··on Behind the Messy, Expensive Split Between Facebook and WhatsApp’s Founders
FB frequently sends notifications that is not directly related to me. e.g. "A friend has commented on a post in a group that you're a member of." Why would Facebook think this is of interest to me, is beyond my understanding.
helloindia··on Mathematical Illustrations: A manual of geometry and postscript
My work firewall blocks your site because it's under "Games" category.
helloindia··on The Chinese Car Invasion Is Coming
Heard of Google?
helloindia··on My account is sending spam emails
I’ve had similar problem a long time ago with my yahoo account. (Password change didn’t help) So, I cleared my yahoo contact list and that stopped the spam.
helloindia··on In India, high-pressure exams are creating a student suicide crisis
We are talking about way above what is considered "normal". If something good happens, Indians know how to make the whole world know about it. -> Extravagant weddings. -> distributing sweets to the whole street when having a boy, when a student gets a good rank in exams.. etc.
helloindia··on Life is Short (2016)
Just yesterday, I was having a similar thought. as a buddhist student, I realised I missed the Buddha(2500yrs ago) by around 50 generations, assuming life expectancy of 50.
helloindia··on Facebook denies it collects call and SMS data from phones without permission
I use Whatsapp only for communication with office colleagues. I had my Instagram linked to my mobile number(2fA). Soon my office colleagues' profiles started showing up on my Instagram follow suggestions. This happened despite the fact that I have not uploaded my contact list to Instagram. I had to block all my colleagues on insta, and then remove my number from Instagram profile.
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