svenkatesh

>If you could convince enough drivers

Good luck with that. If you even tried to convince drivers to do that, they'd scream about a conspiracy to track everyone's movement (beyond the tracking that already exists).

Er... you think you're startup (microcosm), which is glorified forum software, will change "political systems, the structure of them and how populaces engage with them?"

He had enrolled in, and dropped out of, a PhD program for Physics at Stanford by 2002.

Use any email provider. Encrypt your messages with PGP.

From the cited BBC article: "The investigation team also reported, however, that in many other instances the Indian Army had behaved well and protected Muslims.

The backlash was said to have been in response to many years of intimidation and violence against Hindus by the Razakars."

It's clear we each have our biases, and this discussion could go on.

I only brought up the wikipedia article in the first place to show that violence against Muslims resulting from the annex of Hyderabad wasn't unprovoked. Both sides were wrong in some of their actions though.

I'm a bit lost. What genocidal violence was it, that caused the formation of the state of Pakistan?

Would you care to point out some of the inconsistencies/falsehoods in the article?

>It is much more civilized than many nations and has much of the institutions that make a modern nation. Just that the military and religious extremism

Given that the Pakistani military and ISI control so much of Pakistan's government, is this a worthwhile distinction?

Apps for Education targets Universities.

Right, fraudsters should be allowed to keep their ill-gotten gains.

Why would he be refunding someone for a free trial? ...

Moore's law is about transistor count; what does that have to do with battery life?

>you're a Newsweek shill.

Has Hacker News really fallen to this level?