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Re:PostgreSQL 14 on Kubernetes on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @12:20AM (#28769152)
I always thought it's better to host distributed database, like Cockroachdb and Yugabytedb, in multiple kubernetes clusters. Just in case one of the cluster goes down.
> why Dr. Ambedkar asked for only 10 years of caste-based reservations and to be done with it after that?

That's a misconception. There are 4 types of reservation.

1. Political reservation.

2. Reservation in Education.

3. Reservation in (Public) Employment.

4. Reservation in promotion.

That 10 years thing Ambedkar talked is about Political reservation. He said every 10 years it should be REVIEWED to end it or not. The other two reservation in education and employment is a fundamental rights in constitution. So it'll go on till there's discrimination in the society. The last one is not a fundamental right, that's why recently Supreme court of India reject it to implement.

20% of reservation in education was given to SC/STs in 1954, who form the 22.5% of the population. Reservation in (public) employment for them started in 1982 with 22.5%. Reservation for OBCs started in 1992 with 27%, who form the 52% of the population. Indian states have their own ratio for reservation with the condition that total reservation percentage should not exceed 50%. Now notice that the public sector in India only provide 3.8% of the total employment. Private sector is free of any reservation. So much for 70 years of reservation.

Ask HN: Does Google Cloud really route India - Europe traffic through US?

I was checking GCPing.com [1] to check latency to GCP regions from my place. I noticed that latency to European regions is around 400ms. When GCP launched Network Service Tiers, they were showing this map [2] where they didn't have any cable between europe/middle east and India. Now they are showing this map [3] which does, but latency to european regions is still the same. Why is that?PS. I'm...

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Ask HN: AngularDart vs Angular + Flutter vs NativeScript?

Till now I've been dealing with the backend, so my knowledge of the frondend languages/tools is limited. For my next project I want to code the frontend too (full stack?). I've been reading about Flutter, which seems promising for developing iOS and Android apps and maybe even desktop ones.For Web, I thought AngularDart would be appropriate for code sharing between all apps. But by looking at...

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Like someone said, partner with a bank. Maybe check with RBL bank, they even have API for virtual accounts (https://developer.rblbank.com/content/virtual-account-api).