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Cash also causes corruption. Part of the way India is trying to curb corruption is to move people off of cash. Not that it is working.

Egg noodles are mostly flour or maida based. Atta noodles will be marketed as whole wheat noodles.

I would pay good money for this and other improvements to make Linux even come close to Mac (HiDPI support, simple set of utilities, etc)

I don’t know why you are downvoted since your comment is a well formed addition to the discussion.

I upvoted you and I am seeing this on HN more often now. That people would use downvote as a signal of disagreement.

Yes, my bad on the GPS/GNSS.

Yet on the use cases for this, I don't think India would have ponied up the money for this if it wasn't for the military use. With GPS, Galileo, Beidou and Glonass, the civilian navigation problem is pretty much solved. Are you aware of a use case it is solving that the others aren't?

As good but works only in the Indian subcontinent and its neighbourhood.

Case of typical uninformed journalism. The basic use would be independent and reliable GPS guided munition.

Appeal to Extremes? In a society where we interact with other people we are okay with some information about us being 'out there'. I am okay with you knowing my school, but not that I am uncircumcised.

Edit: Not that I am with OP on shadow profiles or what Facebook is doing. I think it is okay to use people's data for advertisements and other monetary benefit but you should tell that clearly to people and it should be a big opt-in decision point with lots of information provided. I just wanted to point out that your argument is a fallacious argument.

The “how many people have been killed” is a really poor test of if something is right or wrong.

If I had to guess the conspiracy is that Central government does not want to excavate sites that prove that Sangam culture was greater and earlier than the Northern Indian culture.

As someone who got Hepatitis A from drinking from a mountain stream in deep Himalayas ( however deep you go in India you always have someone above you shitting in the water), I always carry an Iodine tablet with me now.

Counterpoint: Radiohead is a really popular band.

I remember seeing a bbc introduction where Pink Floyd were introduced as a ‘pop band’ and you could see the derision on the presenters face.

I have banked with five different banks (private and public) and have never had to face the tight coupling with a particular branch that you talk about?

Indian banking system is actually a joy to use compared to the first world systems that I have seen.

You are probably on Airtel or one of the providers that exclusively peers with Airtel at the Chennai location for International traffic.

What are the barriers put in Amazon's way in India? Really curious.

^^I read this a lot on hyperloop forums and articles, but it doesn't really matter. What pressure constitutes a vacuum ? What pressure do you mean by low pressure?

Zero pressure(perfect vacuum) is impossible to do in life. So what these articles/videos mean by vacuum is sufficiently low pressure that can reduce drag and that is essentially impossible to do across a tube of any meaningful size.

Copyright on a song or book is like ownership. Imagine a scenario where you mould from clay an amazing aesthetically pleasing shape. Do you think that it should be taken from you after a set time period?

Sure let's have quotas per sq meter of arable land adjusted for number of crops you can grow in a year? Or better still on yield of the soil. Makes more sense than a straight per sq m quota.

A voter living in squalor may not see it the same way, especially when the more fortunate ones are not making the same sacrifices.

I will still make that argument, why should a poor guy living in isolated tribal land in India find his dream of basic electricity a bit farther, while people in Europe can take the moral high ground and still pollute nearly an order of magnitude than an Indian.

Also the pollution in the last two-three centuries has been primarily First World led. Tell me how can Im as an Indian, tell the guy that he will have to wait some more time till we can get him to a basic living standard because cheaper options to get you there are off the table.

Per capita human emissions should be equal within reasonable bounds of geographical needs?

As an Indian and personal supporter of the Indian space program, I don't see this as a feat in the international sense.

What was the technological leap? ISRO could have done this few years back as well. Its just that the payload combination clicked this time.

By bragging about things like these we merely betray our jingoism. And what's more when a real technological feat happens it would be drowned out because we gloated over things like this.

Also I hope many of the posters here are seriously thinking about giving to ISRO or working for them. ISRO could seriously use more tech talent.

It is always possible to convert to Hinduism. There is no authority that decides if you are Hindu or not. You just are if you believe that you are.

Lets I digress. You can be a Hindu today if you want. Just start incorporating Hindu philosophies in your life. Choose an atheist one if you like.

PS: Not advocating anyone to convert to Hinduism. In fact I think that the lower castes should abandon Hinduism if the upper castes don't reform fast enough.

A classical Kashmiri justification is classifying our exodus as a state sponsored one. However dear sir we made the journey. We should know something about the circumstance. Not the lies that you have been fed. In any case, my first person account should carry more weight?

You then move to justifying the forceful migration of Pandits as "What goes around, comes around". You do realise that this will be true for you as well?

In any case, my arguments will have no effect on you. So live on in your uber geek world.

Obligatory comment on the ethnic cleansing of the Hindus from the valley. Over 700k Hindus left the valley in 1990 as a result of the Islamic insurgency. These Hindus were original inhabitants of the valley, of the same stock as the Muslims. They were not outsiders. Even the most hardliner Kashmiri Separatist will not consider them outsiders. Yet they were forced to leave in violent circumstances.

Hence when the reporter writes that the political culture is tolerant, I am immediately reminded of not making sweeping generalizations based on one visit to the valley and interviewing the people there.

PS: I was one of the people who had to leave in 1990.

I have got news for you. The exponential population growth is already slowing in most of the world save Africa. It is going to halt somewhere around 2150 and then reverse.

Well IQ is directly related to nutrition. So lets see how that plays out.

Also Indian population density is less than the Netherlands. So its not all about over population.

India is also inching towards lower birth rates with southern states already below 2.1 .

Gurgaon city population is around a million. Hard to believe but it is true.

Ahh you couldn't have had rain forests in India. The Gangetic plain though was a thick forest, all chopped up for agriculture.

No one is confused about the death of the river. The problem is clearly with Indian people itself, including me.

There is a lot going on at the ground level and there is a lot more that should be done.

I used to be as exasperated as you, but I have come to peace that this is all attributable to poverty. You cannot expect "rational" behaviour from people fighting for their next meal? As average incomes grow, people are going to care about other things and you can already see the shoots of this in India.

Is it possible that you are using whatsapp web? The app updated right now. I had the same issue.