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3,140karma·1,202submissions·December 12, 2023
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> As per the proposal, which has been paused for now following backlash from IT workers, “An employee working in IT/ITeS/BPO sector may be required or allowed to work for more than 12 ho…
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> Politics in developing countries is a business, not ideological. What a joke! Imperialism flourished due to corporates being allowed to own their own private armies. The US is the best example …
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> It's a handful of elite 70 year olds who have been running a country where the median age is 25 and are ruining it due to their own personal drama from the 70s and 80s. Really? Are you goi…
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At This Banana Farm, the Bunches Grow in 430 Shapes and Sizes - https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-many-kinds-bananas... …
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Interesting. See also Mouthwash use could inhibit benefits of exercise - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34855194 …
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Like Germany did from the US for the F-104, India too got nearly full tech transfer to assemble the MiG-21 from Russia. The Indian Air Force has operated around 1200+ MiG-21's (some of them with …
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This is the way. You just need to be patient. Threatening to file a case with the consumer court (India) often gets a better response from big businesses. Though, I am surprised why you are allowed to…
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PaleMoon - http://www.palemoon.org/ - is a hard fork of Firefox that still supports XUL.
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Yeah, body temperature falls when you sleep. In fact, that's one of the tips give to insomniacs to help them sleep - have a bath at night, preferably with cold water.
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> less inclusion and less freedom People have different values and ideas, which means those words may mean something entirely different to someone else, to how you interpret them. xGPL code seeks t…
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You missed my point - I am agreeing with you that the arguments for or against both end up political, because politics is the reason both are being promoted. Technically both products are equivalent. …
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> The rumors of future products keep me of buying the current products. You may have heard of the 5-minute rule - "Will doing this take me less than 5 minutes? If the answer is yes, do it now…
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It is political . As I mentioned elsewhere in HN, Telegram is now being promoted in the US by the political-right there because they have lost trust in US BigTech social media platforms who, they bel…
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Does GNU Jami work in the middle-east where most voip are banned, and only middle-eastern intelligence agency run apps like BotIM are allowed?
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Want to bet that any messenger service that requires your phone number to register and id you on their network is compromised? For those interested, watch this interview of the Telegram founder by t…
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It has more to do with US politics - both the major US political parties lean to the right- and allowing unions encourages socialist ideas that obviously clash with the ideas of the political right. U…
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Checkout https://textpattern.com/ - its development started around the same time as WordPress, and still continues. Even though it didn't reach Wordpress' success, I've…
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It evolved into https://sailfishos.org/ under a startup of ex-Nokia employees ... who knows what the mobile OS' future would have been if it was actually backed properly by Nokia…
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"Data is the new oil" - if you don't collect your customer data, and treat it as an asset, you are guilty of mismanagement . /s