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We are making progress but it is slow. Current govt is more for headline management.

Govt do work as long as beneficiaries are good friends - tatas and adani for example. I cautiously optimistic

Re:Making Startups Powerful on Monday September 14, 2026 @04:57AM (#49693884)
In India we have company that enable gig workers - maids, drivers, beauticians, fixing aircons etc. Company charges so much that people try to cut way from the aggregator. Instead a fixed number and vision to reduce that further would these companies much bigger.
Our demand for perfectionism prevent any progress. I would consider shortening patent length that can help everyone. With all the improvements in the world we could afford shorter window.
Enterprise account . We got - 3trillion and change
Re:Is America Becoming a Gerontocracy? on Saturday June 27, 2026 @04:25AM (#48696282)
> Wealth Accumulation: Older Americans hold a massive share of the nation's assets, often choosing to retain their wealth rather than pass it down early, largely due to the terrifyingly high costs of late-life healthcare.

So having good social security helps everyone. Unfortunately my country ( IN) does not prioritise that part.

Re:How Diamonds Are Made on Monday May 18, 2026 @11:30AM (#48181200)
Re:Nobody ever got fired for using a struct on Thursday March 05, 2026 @10:48PM (#47270631)
Property1 to 20 or more is an example. There are better ways to do it but I have seen columns for storing ‘anything’
Re:Turn Dependabot Off on Saturday February 21, 2026 @02:14AM (#47098301)
Our top management has zero interest in context. There is a chart , that must not have red items.

Security team cannot explain attach surface. In the end it is binary. Fix it or take the blame

Re:How I Estimate Work as a Staff Software Engineer on Saturday January 24, 2026 @10:56AM (#46744630)
Agree. I feel people with less clarity about priorities of features waste too much time by asking accurate estimates
Re:Cloudflare acquires Astro on Friday January 16, 2026 @09:39PM (#46654776)
VMware maintained spring framework for many years. It was good ( as a user)
Re:Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq for about $20B on Thursday December 25, 2025 @05:59AM (#46383659)
China may take over the open source part. That is the only country with exposure to hardware, software and political might.
Re:Flat-pack washing machine spins a fairer future on Sunday December 14, 2025 @08:47AM (#46262960)
I could not find if the team makes design open

https://www.thewashingmachineproject.org/

That alone will be revolutionary.

I am worried about a software fix for what looks like hardware problem.
Re:Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower on Monday November 03, 2025 @10:19AM (#45799997)
> According to YASA, this is achieved without using exotic or expensive materials, so the design could actually be scalable once the demand kicks in.

That is ever more special

Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications on Sunday September 21, 2025 @02:19AM (#45320490)
Half of India’s talent will be in US next day after H1B cap is removed. I will be first one to try
I am from India. Could you add local UPI based donation option at some point? Not everyone has card here.
Using most modern technology to enforce most regressive step. I am sure this will extended to go after dissidents
Could Apple join hands with Kagi search?
Re:George Orwell Complete Works on Monday September 18, 2023 @10:26PM (#37564964)
..and so many advertisements.

Low quality effort.

Re:Tell HN: DuckDuckGo is blocked by Indian govt on Saturday November 19, 2022 @10:51PM (#33678038)
Which provider..?

Tested with airtel and act. Works fine..

>achieved this high availability by implementing highly-autonomous client sidecars, able to proactively shield themselves from complete AWS region failures.

complete region fail? How often does that happen?