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Is this for distributed data processing like spark is?

The documentation has nothing to indicate that it is.

Google had a very successful payments app called Tez in India. They merged that into Google pay during a flutter rewrite so that they can say things like “Google pay has 200 million users in 120 countries” even though all 200 million of those were in India.

In India, Google pay is a client for the UPI platform. You could send money from Google pay to Whatsapp pay for example.

then imagine what the collective hubris and arrogance displayed by the people in this sub-thread would imply about their respective countries’ democratic nature.

obviously indices created by the west would rank themselves higher.

India has a much more robust democracy because Indians have several dozen political parties to choose from unlike the US which has only 2 recognised parties.

India has had Prime Ministers from even very small regional parties that formed giant coalitions.

Americans meanwhile are stuck with 2 parties they perpetually hate

every sentence of this is wrong.

There are several foreign channels that are banned in India including Al Jazeera and for very good reasons.

Plus, I’m sure the West doesn’t get Russia Today or CCTV right now. nor India’s DD

that’s not the worst part. The worst part is not fixing it for over a decade despite being called out

The title, if it’s not clear to you already.

It makes it sound like there’s a pollution warfare even though the article makes no justifications on how these countries are choking on each other’s pollution rather than their own. The article also talks about Nepal and Bhutan but the title has only Ind/Pak

it’s hard not to associate a nefarious reason especially because it is the economist

should have simply been “South Asia is choking in its pollution”

Google used to be the company that delivered us a fast browser, free online video streaming and was going to give absurdly cheaper fiber and wireless internet and affordable yet awesome smartphones.

Not anymore.

This is the same thing that pretty much ended IBM.

They had been pitching AI for how long and now they have to sustain themselves on openshift sales.

Plus, what kind of strategy is it to antagonise every single large player in the industry.

Apple and Amazon are friendly to each other. Microsoft and Facebook have been longtime partners despite Microsoft owning Linkedin. but Google manages to enter everybody’s industry and fail.

And at that time they were also operating with enthusiastic Engineers who can’t write bubble sort on their first try but then started hiring using the methods that led to “Cracking the coding interview” and terrible products

Google Pay is huge in India but it is/was a completely different product that started in Google India as Tez but was taken over from the Indian team and ruined.

Google claims to operate Pay in dozens of countries with millions of transactions but almost all of them are from India where Google pay is merely a client for UPI

For a company that really depends on user click signals, removing the dislike count from Youtube (and making the button pointless) is a amateurish mistake indicating a very broken internal structure.

the search UX, especially the top bar where you switch between search types is broken for nearly a decade and they are not able to fix that.

All late 2000s stuff before their endless rebrandings