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Comment · 8 years ago
what's the reason for tld price variation ?
Comment · 9 years ago
This account live tweets the proceedings from Supreme Court : https://twitter.com/gautambhatia88
Comment · 9 years ago
> That was an excellent move by the govt
The jury is still out on this one. Any hard proof or statistics that say otherwise ? Wish there was more transparency.
Comment · 10 years ago
Some stats on Income tax payers from India :
"Data shows only 1% of population pays income tax, over 5000 pay more than 1 crore ($145K USD)"
Only "six individuals fell in the high-end earning bracket of Rs 50-100 crore (7-14 Million USD) of salary income."
Wow ! Just 6 individuals. India's got NO shortage of millionaires & billionaires. The abysmal income tax collection clearly indicates a gaping problem with rules & their implementation.
- Source : http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/data...
Comment · 10 years ago
The modus operandi (of loopholes) is nothing new, it's second nature to many businessmen. I wonder why there weren't enough checks in place when the plan was announced.
Comment · 10 years ago
"It’s like the PM is cleaning a pond to kill the crocodiles, forgetting that crocodiles can survive even on land. Big crocodiles have survived. Small fish have died." [1]
The immediate reaction of the common man on de-monetization of higher currency notes (followed by replacement with newer ones) was euphoric. A popular thought process was that people can tolerate inconvenience for a few days because it'll invalidate the "black money" [2] and thus rein in inflation, property prices and corruption to some extent. However, the moment this was announced, people have been brazenly finding loop-holes to convert their currency notes through unofficial means. Example : back-dated receipts for expensive items (gold, cars, property), fake accounts, hiring poor folks for conversion via official channels, bulk purchase of coupons / cards for essential items that are permitted to accept older notes, etc..
[1] http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/demo...
[2] Untaxed money, undeclared income, ill-gotten money via bribery, fraud etc..
Comment · 10 years ago
> For anything serious or consumer facing it's crap
I've run consumer facing products with real-time autosuggest using postgresql's search. Calling it crap is hyperbole.
Comment · 10 years ago
On-premises version : https://www.amazon.com/s/?field-keywords=treadmill
Comment · 10 years ago
I know you are a very talented developer so I'm curious :
Why another uptime monitoring service ? There are about 20-30 existing services [1] with a wide variety of features. I agree you've got a great interface and you'll get there feature-wise too. But are there any significant technically sound reasons to switch to your service ?
P.S. My question sounds blunt but I don't mean to belittle your effort.
P.P.S. Here's a list of services that do performance / uptime monitoring in various forms. Some might be incorrect / irrelevant, but just to convey an idea of the crowded space :
[1] pingdom , site24x7, statuscake, statuspage.io, status.io , runscope, opsgenie , newrelic , datadog, Librato, Scout , Skylight , Server Density , Stackify, OpsDash , Boundary, Netuitive, Keymetrics, Appsignal, Appdynamics, copperegg , stackdriver, xmatters, uptimerobot, AWS route53 health check , nagios, t1mr.com, Visualping, diff.io, Obvious.io, Stashboard, Cachet, updown.io, Pingometer , stillalive, alertbot, vigil, AWS Cloudwatch, Cloudability, StatusGator, CloudCheckr,
Comment · 10 years ago
I think you are missing the point. The protest should be against polluting the city to power a non-necessary activity by not going to the mall.
AND if the government purposely delayed an electricity connection by months or years, then you should protest against them too. The above problem doesn't seem to be an issue of supply & demand of electricity, but more of a power tussle between the builder & authorities for possible kickbacks.
Related, it seems like India is almost power surplus according to these sources : [1] [2] [3]
[1] http://www.businesstoday.in/magazine/features/we-can-tell-th...
[2] "By the end of calendar year 2015, India has become power surplus country despite lower power tariffs" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_India
Comment · 10 years ago
Amenities !
You may not get your favorite loaf of bread, although you'll get fresh organic eggs. You may not be able to watch the latest movies in a theater. A good gymnasium probably won't exist, but you can always run in a grass field. There are countless other differences. People are materialistic & not everyone can make that compromise :)
Comment · 10 years ago
A related story : There's a mega mall in Chandigarh, India that wasn't given approval for a power connection for quite some time (politics / corruption).
Real estate is super expensive & the owners couldn't afford to sit idle and play games with the government so they decided to run the mall from morning till night on diesel generators. That's ~ $4500 of diesel each day, probably 6-8k litres. This is an example of a pollution source that's completely avoidable. I'm not sure for how many years this continued on.
What's worse is that there was no widespread public outrage. Why didn't people boycott the mall that's polluting their city and at the same time put pressure on the government to set things right ?
For a perspective, the city I'm talking about is a modern affluent city, close to Delhi (~ 160 miles). Home to a lot of politicians & celebrities, one of the most well planned cities in the world [1] & one of the cleanest in India [2]
[1] http://www.indiatimes.com/culture/travel/9-most-well-planned...
Comment · 10 years ago
Vehicular pollution, construction dust, diesel generators are a common problem in almost all big cities in India.
However you are looking at the advantages of villages as a visitor with a point of view towards being closer to nature. There are other problems in villages that you probably won't encounter unless you live there on a day to day basis. Finally, grass is always greener on the other side (holds true for both villages & city dwellers).
> A large number of people need to die due to cancer for it be taken seriously
Cancer isn't uncommon in villages and city pollution isn't the only cause.