mayanksinghal

From [4]: > The government is in-principle against allowing import and sale of second-hand phones in India to prevent dumping of hazardous electronic waste, said a person familiar with the matter. But it might take a more favourable view of the proposal if Apple agrees to manufacture in India. "Local manufacturing will be the thrust of the PM's message to Cook," the person said.

Free market doesn't prevent dumping of hazardous waste in developing countries.

Faster (at least it's attempting to be) without losing any quality metrics.

What about this?

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> Long-term couples tend to take care of each other's health and wellbeing ... because it makes citizens happier, more productive, less likely to need public handouts ...

Citation needed. Plus, the benefits have to outweigh the costs: tax breaks, unhappy folks (would that cause health issues?) stuck in the bad marriages etc.

I am guessing availability for comparatively stable social unit for raising kids might be a large enough positive, but the benefits should then be for families who raise kids, potentially scaled with the number of kids (don't know if that's already the case). Even the other benefits you mentioned, have nothing to do with marriage - civil unions (or even group of not-romantically-involved-with-each-other friends) can make citizens happier, productive, less likely to need handouts, raise children well (if single parents can, why not multiple parents?) and produce taxable wealth.

As much as you might loathe it, learnings is now a word (and has been used intermittently for a new centuries [1]) so deal with it.

Additionally, Indian students do the best they can given the limited resources (we have). And even when they do have broad education it's not going to be about Mozart and effect of WWII on the western nations - they will always be out of context when it comes to western culture. It's the same kind of lack of ability to think (or express without getting eyebrows raised) about everything else that you might be showing here.

[1] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/learnings

> voting members

Except 5, other countries don't have a permanent say in the system. The 5 can veto any resolution. The sad reality is that UN has been successful on various issues (while still failing on very many) despite being an utterly undemocratic establishment and that is constantly being used as an excuse to continue with the current system.

> flat-rate fee per-person for transport

That was not the case. I remember paying a different amount than the person I was sitting next to, because we were travelling different distances.

> Is Uber trying to shut down Lyft, through a variety of tactics?

But not through cancelled rides, right? I don't understand how Uber trying to recruit drivers is any different from any tech company trying to recruit me.

>Japanese Hackers simply ignoring English speaking part of the internet.

Internationalization seems to be something that hackers rarely invest time on. It is not like hackers in Silicon Valley build their products while worrying about supporting users who speak Mandarin/Cantonese/Japanese/Hindi etc. I really don't think it is close-mindedness at play here.

I cannot be sure, but I think he as arguing about it at societal level. This is my interpretation:

Given the technological improvements, privacy is unsustainable. If everyone realizes this and accepts it, we can reap the benefits of transparency. In a society that does not hold bad actions against those who already paid their due fine (or served the due time). Neither does that future society discriminate against people who are different. In that society, privacy will probably be beneficial only to the dishonest.

Now, I personally don't think if we can reach that stage of maturity, not anytime soon at least. But I think we are moving towards it faster than before and we are doing that because of the easy access to information especially the kind of information that we would otherwise keep private.

Just because he argues that privacy is unsustainable/sub-optimal doesn't mean that he has to facilitate its erosion. It is similar to how someone who demands privacy doesn't need to be prove his anonymity.

+1. I can't take it anymore! (http://imgur.com/FQEHB7b)

> how society maintains is social structure

I grew up in India. My schools had no bullying at all. And we still had a (much weaker) social structure, the popular ones, the slightly-dangerous ones (those I would avoid hanging out with) and the not-so-popular ones (like those who would spend time on a computer instead of meeting up for sports). Bullying is not universal. Neither is it necessary.

> And that is the definition of an insult.

No it's not. The person who leaked the info should feel some responsibility for his actions. I don't think HTC exec's actions were not to scale in opinion. But this is no way an insult.

Reuse of the same username across multiple social networks/forums, I would guess.

> What is legit or scientific about it?

Nothing. And no one here is claiming that all parts of these texts are to be taken as absolute fact with empirical proof. Most of it, as you mention, is riddled with imaginary stories probably because scientific discovery was being carried out by religious philosophers of that time.

However, there are parts of these texts that are legitimately impressive, philosophically or scientifically - and a blanket denial of that would be just as unjust as the 'filth'.

I didn't upvote the submission, I didn't downvote you - but if you call people shills when they are not, some of them might. And I find 1M R/s impressive, but you can ignore it if you think it is trivial.

Since you are qualifying the statement with "some", a lot of people (including me) will have no qualms about agreeing to it.

> the ability to capitalize on reading your opponent is more limited than it could be

Shouldn't be a capitalizable entity in chess. I like chess (unfortunately I don't like it enough to practice it often) because of it's no make-a-poker-face-now requirement.

Blink was a awesome episode. I have used it to convert at least 4 civvies into Whovians. However, I think Doctor Who is getting less and less scary and more and more dramatic/epic. Oh the other hand, I started watching DW when I was already 20 years old - I don't think Daleks are that scary to 20 year olds as they are to 8 year olds :)

I really can't differentiate between Disabled buttons and Rounded buttons. There would also be very little differentiation between the a basic button with no icon (because there isn't a good icon for everything) and the text input. Android design guidelines and 'language' is very different, and people expect the apps the buttosn to have some depth and clarity because of it. I, personally, would hate to have any of the apps that I use move to this style.

I think the scientists involved would be totally fine with skepticism about technical decisions that they have made on such missions. I would argue that they might even appreciate it when it comes from people who actually understand the subject (instead of having knowledge worth one wikipedia page). But what might discourage them (and disappoints me, for being a citizen of the country in question) is the lack of trust that is being put in space exploration and petty cost-benefit analysis being used. The same analysis that has been refuted a million other times on hundreds of other occasions in all countries and continents.

It's incredible and useful because there are some others like me, who would rather reboot to Ubuntu/Fedora/etc just to avoid the hostile developer environment of windows, even for small tasks.

There is a severe lack of good commandline utilities. The ones that exist, require so much effort to set up. Just because it is possible to develop on Windows since 1992 doesn't mean it is a pleasant experience to do so.

> Humans suck at predicting stuff.

But surely humans beat randomness at many if not most tasks. This argument is not as much about whether we get sharper teeth or not, as it is about possibly saving a kid about a genetically inherited disorder. You may consider human suffering to be what defines humanity, but those who suffer most certainly don't.

Don't proxy it through friends who don't use software audited and compiled by you/people-you-trust then.

"New study confirms Oreos are basically the cookie form of cocaine" is misleading (and not the original title "Oreos May Be As Addictive As Cocaine")

Anyway, the comparisons performed in the quoted study: preference over plain rice and amount of time spent in Oreo region (vs Morphine/Cocaine etc) seems a shaky correlation at best. Does addictiveness necessarily require withdrawal symptoms? If yes, the study seems to lack it any mention of it [1].

[1] http://www.conncoll.edu/news/news-archive/2013/student-facul...

I have had little to no issues with quality of playback in Chrome. However, like your sibling comment suggested - it does lack keyboard shortcuts.

You should use their HTML5 player instead of the Flash one. The former has speed controls.

They didn't have a bounty program set up, like many if not most companies. I don't see a fuck up.

> Finally, it is ironic to be lectured by an Arab news organization criticizing our democracy.

No it isn't. US media doesn't own an exclusive right to comment on affairs of other nation states. Given the status of US economy in the world, what happens in US affects other nations more than what happens there affects US. They have every reason to report this. And journalism is more than just dumping facts. Though, a journalist's idealogical bias should affect the correctness of the article, his experienced analysis is usually necessary for most readers to understand the gist of the situation who are most likely to be unaware of the law/politics/technology behind the incident.