lazyninja987

interesting parallels with ayyappan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayyappan

Syrian christians in Kerala are not related to St.Thomas. Syrian chritians landed in kerala while fleeing arabic invasion of Syria. (7th century)

Also 'martyrdom' of St.Thomas is debated. The earliest mention of martyrdom of St.Thomas originate from 16th century portugese missionaries who operated in india at that time. not backed by any evidence.

do you plan to introduce automation run scheduling? (ex: run these steps once a week)

what if the target machine is not up and running when the scheduler tried to execute the steps?

interesting. i need to guess and try some of the strategies to get some discounts :)

i remember seeing such strategies in action in the past, when i was moving mouse to close the tab, suddenly a popup shows up offering discount, i believe that is one such simple strategy to maximize conversion.

Does a merchant has to give your tool access to their user data to generate personalized discounts? Apart from user activity data, what data do you need for maximum effectiveness?

Is it a pre-requisute for the agents to have access to the source code to generate attack strategies?

How about pen-testing a black box?

Does the potential vulnerabilities list is generated by matching list of vulnerabilities that are publicly disclosed for the framework version of target software stack constituents?

I am new to LLMs or any ML for that matter. Congrats on your launch.

for people who are interested in Ramanujan's biography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Knew_Infinity

Haggling is expected in some areas.

Vendors expect customer to haggle, so they inflate sometimes as high as 100%. Customers know vendors inflate, so they start haggling right away. vendors get to sold at a desired price, buyer walks away thinking, they got a deal.

kids try to negotiate their punishments, i negotiated a bribe with a traffic cop once.

When haggling is expected and one party doesn't engage, the other party gets frustrated and try to walk away.

There are some pockets of activities where no-haggling is preferred choice. Like branded goods (clothes, travel, automobile), high end real estate. people who are not good at negotiations prefer these options.

I purchased a house from a builder, who is notorious for not engaging in negotiations. I was happy with purchase because i know i got same deal as everyone else and did not lose anything.

usually people initiate transfer using 10 digit phone number. i really dont like QR codes too because most of the time either the QR code is not oriented for easy scanning or worn out and no longer scannable.

what is 'deduct sales tax' mean? sorry, i am new to taxes. can you add more info? is it something an individual can use?

bruh, razorpay supports processing international cards. its literally on their website.

I dont think it has anything to do with BJP. Congress in the past too jailed people for criticizing sonia gandhi over social media.

It was facebook of the past.

Having said that, razor pay has very less options here. Anti-money laundering laws across the world record sender-reciever details out-of-the-box even though the transaction is as benign as buying a box of chocolates.

In this scenario, govt came back to collect information, which it asked razorpay to collect as part of book keeping.

Volunteer or Work parttime (like uber or coffeeshop or backend of a reatiler). light work, social group to interact with in a hands off manner.

A pet also do wonders to mental health BTW.

Tipu Sultan was a cruel ruler, and got soundly defeated by a superior, well supplied force despite Tipu having access to rockets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Mysore_Wars

What is this treachery you are talking about ?

I am wondering how can they enforce it in just one state. I can just cross state lines to have a 3rd child.

who said indian government planted it ? What if the defendent created a trail of planting to exonerate his/her self.

Do you think faking a digital evidence is hard ?

Well, the entire article presumes the security audit does not have conflict of interest and Everyone here presumes its state planted and activists are falsely imprisioned.

This article is nothing but a hit piece trying to capitilize on the death news of one of the 'activist' and trying to create a sympathy wave.

I am not presuming anything. I am just giving backstory on what goes on on the ground. Anyone who claims to fight for tribals rights are either maoists or chritian missionaries.

One of the so called activist (who died last week) was a Jesuit priest.

haha.

the article does not shy away insinuating that govt planted it with out any evidence. Having watched maoists for the last 20 years, i doubt they are the good guys in this story.

still does not resolve the conflict of interest.

the defendant lawyer hired a firm which found evidence the defendant is not guilty.

The pro bono part raises more suspicions. One of the accused activist died of old age in a top tier hospital, not exactly a poor client requiring pro bono work.

This story was close to my heart. Having grown with naxalite-maoist ideals, I used to rever them.

During 1940-1990s Moaists did an phenomenal job in fighting for oppressed, they were solely responsible for minimum wage enforcement, stopping the exploitation of tribals.

They fought off razakars with armed guerilla groups and saved innocent women from getting raped and mutilated.

Post 1990s, The land reforms, abolition of feudal landlord system, employment creation actually solved most of the problems the poor were facing. Migration of people to urban areas increased. Thus, The maoists lost their purpose, and started searching for monsters to fight.

Post 1990, maoists are bunch of thugs living in forests doing contract killings in their free time. They claim to fight for poor, but they oppose anything that bring out poor tribal people out of their poverty. In the last 10 years there were hunderds of incidents of maoists killing contractors laying roads to remote villages fearing the tribals will be out of their grip.

Hence I have zero sympathies for these 'activists' aka hired thugs.

The whole process of discovery reeks of conflict of interest.

The audit was done by a firm at the behest of defense lawyer.

Is the security firm going to get paid if they claim their is no evidence of a plant ?

Also, its not proven its a state sponsored plant.

my comment is based on observation that, periodically articles criticizing indian govt is posted to a tech feed that too at a regular frequency as if its planned to push such articles to front page.

Even if i take the tech part of the above article into consideration, the title hints its the govt planted it, which is again not proved yet.

Hence my comment.

i live in the red corridor you highlighted. I agree with illiteracy, povery, but not overpopulation.

Naxalite's are popular for various reasons. . they are popular in telengana because of oppression by muslims. . they are popular in bihar because of cate based oppression. . they are popular in andhra because of exploitation by landlords. . also they are mainly dependent on forest area for shelter.

as the other comment says, asura/deva were not allways hero/villain split.

King Bali is the perfect example. Bali was called an asura, but he never did anything wrong. He waged wars with devas, and even when devas pleaded vishnu for defeating him, Vishnu recognized his virtues and agreed to push him to paatala (below earth) using trick instead of killing him.

King Prahlad is also another example, he is born to an asura father, but is worshipped as deva. His cousins/sons were again be treated as asuras.

Deva/Asura is calibrated to the speaker. as BBC once said, one man's hero is other man's villain.

I am too poor to do anything else in my country. To earn as much as i do in Software industry, I need to be either a politician or a corrupt contractor or straight up looting banks.

ketzo is accurate. if a rich person is supporting fundementalism, its mostly to consolidate their power and protect his/her wealth.

Rich hindus allways have means to do so with out resorting to fundementalism.

for example, ambani supported congress (which is anti-hindu), and when congress got weak, he started support BJP (which is pro-hindu). In both cases it is to protect his own interests.

Same is happening in US.

I am interested in one more detail. average family income for all church members.

I have observed hindus, muslims, christians, jains. My observation so far is, religious fervor is directly to 2 factors.

1. is that religion a minority in a given state ? 2. whether you grew up in prosperity (not wealth, but above middle class)?

societies which are poor tend towards fundamentalism. religion gives some sort of escape place where poor might forget their harsh reality and usually its provides some sort of alt-reality that their after life is going to be good. rich people who already seen those comforts dont search for such answers.

Also, if that particular religion is minority in a country, the religion offers companionship and keep the group close. also, it forms the main identity of that group which is difficult to get away from.

for the above reasons, In india, there are a lot of atheist hindus, but not many athiest muslims or atheist christians.

You are so true about anglo-centricism. I dont recall the name, but one indian mathematician travelleled to iraq (during its golden age) where he discussed mathematics with then iraqi scholars and his works are further translated which than reached europeans as arabic numerals.

usually intermittent fasting is best, and the edge cases are not required to do fasting for obvious reasons.

i used to follow 2 day per month fasting, and it serves me well.

The usual reason behind being vegeterianism in india is mostly spiritual or family tradition.

Giving up Tamas food (meat, garlic, onion etc.,) is the first set of rules to follow on a spiritual journey.

once a family starts on this path, the behavior permeates to next generation automatically.

even though my family allowed me to eat meat, i started & stopped within a year because of ethical reasons (and not spiritual reasons).