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Mastercard is banned in India because they violated local data storage rules https://www.livemint.com/news/world/us-trade-officials-calle...

Indian merchants have to support UPI - another payment mechanism which is secure. I tend to use that in most places so that I dont have to store my card details.

I am from Chennai, India where < 18 deg C is once a few days in a year event. I spent 3 months in MSP working with one of the large retailers. Their offices were in a set of buildings and as a contractor had to park the car in the parking lot and take the shuttle into the office. It was miserably cold and you come back to frozen keylocks or worse batteries. But the entire town just worked during the cold weather. Amazing!

Sorry can you please elaborate what is Google doing?

If you know any Indian family ask them. Most Indian households make yogurt every day and the culture is months even years old. They will use latest generation to make the next batch.

Have they started selling NFT on those stones yet?

umn.edu submissions are now banned?

I have replaced the keyboard and battery on my2017 Pro in India that was purchased in US I bought it in2017 and replaced both under applecare in 2020. I had the extended global warranty . They took a week to fix it but worked like a breeze . I paid nothing for it.

asafoetida is a standard item in most Indian cooking if you have eaten dal you have had asafoetida

This is a good idea. I am a follower of GTD for over a decade and always the annual reviews, tickler file management etc., (long term to TODO) was a challenge. I wrote a python script to keep all my long term ideas in a separate file and transfer to my todo. I open sourced it. You can find it here https://github.com/vivekhub/todo-tickler

Personal well-being investments - health, Mind, Body if isn't already a big trend, it sure will continue to be. With the pandemic triggering the fear in the hearts of people, the focus on personal well being will be higher.

I am seeing multiple discussions confusing the 'have I been pwned' and 'pwned passwords' services. This is a release of pwned passwords. I wrote a small commandline tool where I generate my own passwords and I validate them against the pwnd passwords database. The code can be seen here https://github.com/vivekhub/password-generator/blob/9a3ca8aa.... The two lines of python code summarizes the approach. Create an SHA1 and send the first five characters.

Isnt this a repost? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23192306

Yes Completely agree. I live in India - we have 30 + languages. I speak and read 3 of them.. So most of the time when sites try this, I am struggling.

Principles of game theory come into play at that time isnt it?

Took over all of cooking at home - all meals so as to give the spouse a break. Lesson learnt, cooking once in a while is fun but cooking every meal every day (in lock down from march 22nd) is really really hard since it requires meal planning and execution every day from the moment you wake up.

Decided to open source some of the personal projects of mine. https://github.com/vivekhub/password-generator and https://github.com/vivekhub/simplenote-backup. Nothing fancy but something I have been meaning to do and started doing it. Started learning K8S as well so that is a positive. Decided to setup a personal website https://www.vivekv.info as well and had to learn hugo to do that. So on the whole feeling good. Sorry about all the links and plugs but hey I am genuinely proud of what I have done :-)

Illusions - adventures of a reluctant messiah by Richard Bach

Jonathan Livingston seagull. Same author

Thanks for a detailed reply. Taskwarrior looks interesting will explore more. From what I see it seems to be pushing the limit of todo.txt file format by having all the different types of date formats. Does that mean that typical clients such as simpletask (Android) won't work with these todo.txt files? I have made sure I never touch the todo.txt file so all existing tools work fine while I track everything in tickler.txt

Been a long term practitioner of GTD, I adopted todo.txt about 7-8 years ago and never looked for tools after that! I created something similar for the tickler file as well. Would love to get some feedback.

I had a similar thought process a few days ago and wrote a post on the same. I was looking to see where the balance lied, ie between producing and consuming as there needs to be consumers for every product.

A bit of self promotion - my article is here https://medium.com/@criticalmind/creation-vs-consumption-8e7...

If you can ask your team to write a detailed blog post on how you handled this situation and remedied it for future it would be a great help for many of us

This is a fairly amazing video. I wonder what is the size of a nano satellite

Truckers become car hackers

I run http://ipof.in which provides data in various formats

While I agree that standing on a foreign street anywhere on the planet is a bad problem, I dont think overbooking as a problem has been addressed by anybody efficiently so far. The only mechanism that exists today is the feedback mechanism by the end user against the hotels.

I love a good free service where the data quality is improved. I have played around with maxmind's service a bit but the data for India is far from accurate. I have been hunting for a local database (no service) since I run a IP lookup service http://ipof.in where I want the service subsumed in. This is a free service for anybody who uses it. It supports XML/JSON and plain text.

Aren't most modern browsers evolving in the same pattern?

I received a bunch of feature requests and here is the status

1. smaller URL : Changed it to ipof.in so the new URL is

http://ipof.in/json http://ipof.in/xml http://ipof.in/txt

2. HTTPS support

Done. same URLs as above, except in HTTPS format

3. Return the IP in the HTTP response headers

Done. Added header X-IPof : <ipaddress>

4. check if the IP is blacklisted

Done. Returns a blacklisted flag in the XML and JSON response.

5. Todo

IPv6 Geo location data

Hope this helps

Nice one senthil. Will have to try it out sometime

What about electricity to use these things :) ? A schottky diode works on electricity...