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There were a total of 117 lynchings in India in 2019, compared to 41 for the US in the same time period. This is the same number of lynchings on a per capita basis - while 117 lynchings is a 117 too many, the number is effectively negligible in a country of 1.2 billion people.

Execution style hit jobs on rivals? When did these happen? Are you simply making up executions in your mind?

Claiming India will collapse in 10 years is one of the weirdest statements I've heard in a long time. Which countries will not collapse according to your standards then? I'm honestly asking - no major country seems to be surviving the next 10 years as per your worldview.

I'm open to debate, but you seem to be inventing executions in thin air.

Sources: https://ncrb.gov.in/en/crime-in-india-2019 https://indianexpress.com/article/india/117-lynching-inciden... "ADL Report: At Least 50 White Supremacist Murders in 2018" by the Anti-Defamation League: https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/adl-report-at-least-... "What We Know: The Far-Right and Extremism in 2019" by the Anti-Defamation League: https://www.adl.org/resources/reports/what-we-know-the-far-r...

It's a lot more nuanced than India hating Pakistan. Discrediting a newspaper for being Indian doesn't seem like the right approach - it's the equivalent of dismissing any and all news on Russia or China by American papers. Should the NYT or WSJ reporting on Putin and Xi be ignored for the sole idea that the US hates these countries?

10 years to implode on what basis? That there's an oligarchy of sorts? What an absurd statement.

Slightly confused - why is this a problem? If the US government asks Twitter to take a tweet down, do you expect them to take it down only in the USA, while leaving it up everywhere else?

Very valid point! They banned all VLC impersonators alongside VLC, I believe. Again - definitely not how you solve the problem. I was simply clarifying what had actually happened.

Not exactly. They banned VLC because a bunch of Chinese companies were spreading illegitimate versions of VLC disguised as the real package, and installing spyware alongside the media player.

Not the best way to tackle the problem, but I think it's important to know exactly what happened. Also - I think the ban's gone - I just downloaded VLC yesterday. Probably because VideoLAN took the government to court.

Man, I have an M1 Mac and downloaded Chrome about a week ago. This thing drains my battery. I mean, I still get 10 hours out of the machine, but it's extraordinarily bad - running Chrome made me hear my Mac's fans for the first time since I bought it (>2 years)!

Safari isn't a browser I like, but one that I need to use - every other browser is simply too inefficient.

How do you apply though? I'd assume vacancies would be extremely rare - quite interesting you've had four friends do it.

Thank you very much for the recommendation! I now how I'm spending the day today :)

If you're using Private Relay, your ISP won't be able to see what websites you're visiting. Would you still need to verify your identity in that case?

Hi! Very sorry - won't happen again.

Hi Chris! Love what you're doing with Substack. One quick thing though - this may seem weird, but Substack at the moment does not, in my opinion, offer a lot of customisation of the website. If you see a website, it's extremely easy to tell its a Substack.

Over the past year, I've only read high quality Substack posts - and my brain has sort of come to instinctively believe that if I see that specific layout, the post will be high quality. E.g. (not a very nice one) but in general, if I see the Medium layout, my brain almost immediately get turned off, believing the quality of the content to be sub-par.

I think individual theming, as in the case of The Free Press, takes away that immediate notion. I understand that the vast majority of people will not face this issue, but I think I will. I just wanted to know if you think this is an issue, and if it is, what you'll do to 'counter' it. I'd really like to hear your thoughts on this!

Hi Chris! Love what you're doing with Substack. One quick thing though - this may seem weird, but Substack at the moment does not, in my opinion, offer a lot of customisation of the website. If you see a website, it's extremely easy to tell its a Substack.

Over the past year, I've only read high quality Substack posts - and my brain has sort of come to instinctively believe that if I see that specific layout, the post will be high quality. E.g. (not a very nice one) but in general, if I see the Medium layout, my brain almost immediately get turned off, believing the quality of the content to be sub-par.

I think individual theming, as in the case of The Free Press, takes away that immediate notion. I understand that the vast majority of people will not face this issue, but I think I will. I just wanted to know if you think this is an issue, and if it is, what you'll do to 'counter' it. I'd really like to hear your thoughts on this!

Hi Walter! You have (evidently) a tonne of experience in the aviation industry. Is there anything you noticed the 'engineer's engineers' had in common? What made them such great engineers.

I was looking to a career in Aerospace Engineering - but it's an interest. I'm still in college, but I'm not sure if it's what I want to do. Regardless - what do you think makes an engineer an engineer's engineer?

I appreciate your comment - and I admire your belief in Medium's ability to go back to the right path, but why do you think Medium will be able to get people to its platform, considering Substack is already on the right path?

As far as I can see, Medium's unique competitive advantage is its recommendations - most of your competitors are individual tools, but do not have Medium-level recommendation and content discovery systems. Substack, though, seems to me to be on the right track - good recommendation system and good content creation tools.

Why do you think Medium will recover to go back to the right path? How do you know it's not too late?

Sure, but ironically sounds a whole lot better than nominative deterministically.

Not OP, but thanks an absolute tonne for the recommendation!

I'm not sure why, but this comment instilled a sense of joy and wonder in me. It made me so, so happy to see this - thank you!

Thanks for the reply! Were you aware NASA was using ScriptEase? And was(is?) ScriptEase open source?

This is awesome! How does it feel to have contributed to a massive advancement in space exploration? Did you develop ScriptEase with this use case in mind (cameras)? Why did ScriptEase development stop? Do you think ScriptEase would be useful in cameras today?

The article basically states that the reason the government banned it was because Chinese actors were using VideoLAN products (VLC) to deploy malware loaders onto citizens' devices.

I don't understand why they banned videolan.org though. It's a French website, and I'd assume the Chinese actors were bundling malware when VLC was installed from another website and not videolan.org.

Videolan.org is EXACTLY where VLC should be downloaded from to ensure the software you download is malware free - ironically, I'd expect banning the VLC website to increase VLC downloads from alternative sources, and thus increasing the possibility of the user downloading malware.

>The weirdest is that some ISP are blocking it and some are not. So why is that the case? Are some ISP not listening to the government?

Pretty much. My ISP doesn't block half the stuff the Indian government has banned, while my mobile data provider has - it's genuinely very weird.

Regarding contacting the government - maybe https://pgportal.gov.in should help? File your grievance with the section of the government you want to complain to - in this case, I'd guess that's the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.

I believe they're suggesting you change the post to a 'Launch HN' post.

This is generally a post of this sorts (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14911467) - you launch your product and show it to the HN community, hopefully getting some customers and valuable feedback!

Thanks an absolute tonne! It's like you read my mind :)

Thanks for the tip, but 1Blocker’s In App FAQs state that certain features don’t work with private relay. I believe ad blockers work INSIDE Safari with Private Relay on, but I was looking at an OS level solution.

AdGuard system-wide blocking wasn’t working, so I opted to go all in on AdGuard and turned off private relay.

I used it when I used Safari, and honestly thought it was great. Problem is I had a problem enabling both ad blocking and Private Relay at the same time, and I eventually opted to used AdGuard DNS instead of Private Relay.

Interesting! I'd appreciate any sources though.

There does, however, seem to be a section in which an order may be challenged in case the CLOUD Act conflicted with local laws.

Doesn't the CLOUD Act state that companies operating under US jurisdiction are legally required to hand over data outside US borders if the US Government was to ask for it?

https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/cloud-act/