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This raises questions on the legitimacy of 2019 GE.
FYI, considering your voluntary ignorance, BJP has bigger, broader and older dynasties than any other party in the whole country.
Don't forget the Rafael Deal too...
Study finds that 34% of humans are sick of stressful and exhausting daily commute to work.
Highly irresponsible and foolish move but what else can you expect from him these days.
Re:Lost nuclear device atop of Nanda Devi on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @04:14AM (#25580010)
> Intestinal tract infections can kill you within days after a single gulp of polluted water.

Your point being? What do you think water treatment plants are for?

Re:Lost nuclear device atop of Nanda Devi on Monday December 28, 2020 @11:34PM (#25566763)
What's worse than radioactive isotopes that can't possibly be filtered out in conventional water treatment plants?

Pollution is an issue in majority of rivers in the world, especially in developing countries but doesn't justify or discount radioactive waste in there.

Re:Lost nuclear device atop of Nanda Devi on Sunday December 27, 2020 @12:24AM (#25549081)
Last week, I went into the rabbit hole and researched about the whole incident as my drinking water comes from one of the tributaries of Ganga river and this device has polluted a source glacier of the river - with plutonium. Great.

One of the climbers, Jim McCarthy claimed he got cancer due to the time he spent in close proximity of the device and according to him, the local people who helped them in the trek are long dead because they spent much more time huddled close to the device. They were not cautioned about the dangers as the mission was "top secret".

When this story came to light back in 1978 after an article was published in a magazine and someone in US congress wrote a letter to the president, Indian govt. finally felt the need to assess the consequences of their blunder.

Researchers hypothesized that the device melted through the snow before reaching the mountain rock surface where it remains stuck to this day. They tested water samples from the river for a year or two while the story was hot and public pressure was on. Ideally, they should have continued periodic testing forever and annual search missions to locate the device.

Re:Google outage – resolved on Monday December 14, 2020 @08:00AM (#25416965)
Ummm.. no.
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? on Monday December 14, 2020 @04:11AM (#25414931)
Oh! I must have overlooked that option in settings. Thanks.
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? on Friday December 11, 2020 @04:09AM (#25383784)
Hi, another happy user here. I've been using it for about a year now and it has helped me to be more productive.

Not sure if you already know, it can be tricked by setting system clock to a future datetime :)

Re:Amazon EC2 Mac Instances on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @05:44AM (#25264114)
Boycott Apple completely. How did we go from open development to some overpriced, only half decent and walled mess that's now worth $2 trillion? Shame.
Re:Facebook Takes $5.7B Stake in India’s Jio on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @02:25AM (#22942830)
Exactly.

> JIO is deeply embedded into the rural populace. Exactly the ones who are vulnerable to disinformation campaigns.

This deeply concerns me as it will have unwanted consequences.

Re:Facebook Takes $5.7B Stake in India’s Jio on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @02:22AM (#22942817)
This is a proxy move by Facebook for all the same shady motives that led to Internet.org. GoI should look into this very carefully from a long term perspective of India's internet space. Zuck can't be allowed to take hold of Jio's scale in India.
Re:Why are we so bad at software engineering? on Thursday February 13, 2020 @08:16AM (#22317444)
Food for thought: Should we establish a system that gives people license to code? Doctors need to get a license too because their practice involves human lives at stake.

I don't see how software doesn't put human lives at stake. Honestly, the number of lives at stake is increasing with each new self-driving car hitting the road.

Re:64 Core Threadripper 3990X CPU Review on Thursday February 13, 2020 @06:30AM (#22316892)
This article is more about Windows 10 limitations than 3990K. Good read though.
Re:Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on? on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @04:53AM (#22178948)
By vendors, you mean brands right?
Wrong. Absolutely wrong analogy.

You can't discount people who keep code clean, modular and simple. It's not an easy thing to do unlike cleaning your house. It just takes one's will to clean the house but when it comes to keeping your codebase clean, it's much more than just will.

Sound knowledge of software architecture and design principles is required to write and keep your code clean and unfortunately, the number of people with this knowledge is very small in most teams and sometimes there's none.

Also, it's not okay to be messy unless you are working on a school/university project.

Apple already collects all the data of their users heavily and moves like these are simply meant to annoy their competitors (mostly Google) and keep the data to themselves while looking like a good kid in the valley.

The number of gullible people aka Apple fanboys is staggering here who actually think Apple is trying to _save_ their privacy from advertisers after reading this highly biased article. Hah.

Re:GitHub Archive Program on Thursday November 14, 2019 @03:01AM (#21533649)
Software/code rots if not touched for months. This is such a fruitless effort but does get Github some good PR. They should instead preserve ideas that make all software happen.
I can assure you that you don't want to live in an atmosphere with 1000-2000 ppm CO2. Would you?
Re:How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy on Thursday May 02, 2019 @07:50AM (#19806838)
Yes, attention is a commodity with great value when accumulated in large numbers. Exponential in a way, I would say.
Re:How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy on Thursday May 02, 2019 @07:46AM (#19806827)
The global economy will collapse the day people get a hold on their senses to the fact that time spent on social media is time wasted poorly. Ofcourse, it is hypothetical... saw a video of a chimp using Instagram the other day on Twitter, so yeah global economy is not collapsing anytime soon.
Re:Netflix Flexes on Monday January 28, 2019 @02:41AM (#19015834)
What are those originals? I haven't come across such content made specifically for Indian viewers as you imply.
Are we going to link FB posts on HackerNews now?
Re:Facebook accused of striking 'secret deals over user data' on Friday December 07, 2018 @06:09AM (#18626680)
Replacing Mark is not going to change anything. The problem is not Mark, the problem is what the company's built upon and its business model.
Re:Facebook accused of striking 'secret deals over user data' on Friday December 07, 2018 @06:03AM (#18626657)
From email dated 4 February 2015

Michael LeBeau – ‘He guys, as you know all the growth team is planning on shipping a permissions update on Android at the end of this month. They are going to include the ‘read call log’ permission, which will trigger the Android permissions dialog on update, requiring users to accept the update. They will then provide an in-app opt in NUX for a feature that lets you continuously upload your SMS and call log history to Facebook to be used for improving things like PYMK, coefficient calculation, feed ranking etc. This is a pretty highrisk thing to do from a PR perspective but it appears that the growth team will charge ahead and do it.’

Yul Kwon – ‘Based on their initial testing, it seems this would allow us to upgrade users without subjecting them to an Android permissions dialog at all.'

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