lazy_nerd

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Contact: hn [at] prokta [dot] com

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Comment · 6 years ago
If people in US can be misled by fake news, India stood little chance. Facebook and WhatsApp have been used effectively to brainwash the general public in India.

As Barack Obama described in his new book 'Promised Land', the chances of democracy surviving in a multi-ethnic, multi-religious poor country like India was precarious at best. BJP and RSS has effectively made sure that democracy dies in India

Comment · 12 years ago
+N. Its equally telling about the CEO as it is about Emil Michael.
Comment · 12 years ago
+1000. You have hit the nail on the head.
Comment · 13 years ago
Its based on the analysis of 45 million names on social networks so it can be biased towards people who predominantly are present on social networks.
Comment · 13 years ago
Its percentage of Josephs in each country. Is that what you are asking?
Comment · 13 years ago
Comment · 13 years ago
You mean, stocktwits?
Comment · 13 years ago
Comment · 13 years ago
We will be switching to captcha in a day or so - if you want to give it a try after that.
Comment · 13 years ago
Nope, the social login is just to prevent too many queries. We are planning to switch to Captcha in a day or two instead of social login.
Comment · 13 years ago
yeah, I wonder why we didn't think of that option. We will definitely switch to that.
Comment · 13 years ago
We wanted to prevent automated bots from sending too many queries at once - that's why we kept the social login. If you are still concerned, you could authenticate with a fake Twitter or FB account or revoke the permissions after trying it out.

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