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I will be able to tell you in a moment as I am installing it at the moment.

Brilliant summary. I would need a VPN mostly to visit some sites while spoofing my location, testing my competitions ux in other countries etc. I can also see because of Mozilla's …

These are precisely the areas where government has a role to play but more often than not, this is precisely where FTC, FCC and rest of the alphabet soup seems to fail.

If you government pays for it someone in Washington would. Ideally (and how it happens today to some extent) this much be determined by market. PS: Note how many folks on HN are ma…

The demand for subsidization of college education is coming from very woke academics who want more taxpayer money for their "woke programs". College education in USA is ridiculousl…

There are some very good arguments as to why government should not be paying for college education: - Loosely speaking K-12 can be seen as a public good because of which it may mak…

> Data residency gives a government willing to bully companies a lot of power. It's simply a lot harder to access information stored abroad and you have a lot less leverage. You ha…

I have been a party to some discussion around the laws with mid level government officials and this was a bit like an episode of Yes Minister. One of the government consultants spo…

American telecom industry has done much better after US government ended government granted monopoly to bell labs. Plenty of literature on that topic actually. Same for aviation. W…

> I think the should literally be nationalized and have their tax software platforms absorbed into the IRS. This is an extremist view and basically advocating theft. I do not think…

I find this criticism somewhat weird. It is very common for companies or even individuals to promote and support policies that benefit themselves. Intuit is seeking self interest h…

I remember that John McAfee was a strong supporter of prostitution. In one of the Libertarian party debates he said he is the most qualified person to support this issue because he…

I have not worked as a janitor but I have done menial work far worse than mopping a floor for assured hourly rate. Being poor sucks everywhere but it sucks less in USA. My claim is…

I made no such assumption. When I moved to USA from India I would have happily moved in as Janiter. Life in USA as a janiter is way way better than a middle class person in India.

> That wouldn't even make sense if freedom of speech weren't a general concept. Free speech as a general concept is irrelevant in the eyes of law unless you have some specific law …

You have to see this with two lenses. Free speech is always about freedom from government control. Your employer can put whatever restriction on your speech that they so desire eve…

I am from India and I have lived in UK and USA. Personally I think it is pretty stupid to compare USA and UK. I would rather be a janitor in USA than an engineer in UK. This is not…

I think article conflate a lot of complex variables to come to conclusion that it wishes to draw. It is not just dumb hard work that was regarded as American virtue. In fact Americ…

The 3900 number is mostly spread by a single researcher at Harvard who is quoted and self-quoted and cited by his own students somehow making his shoddy research some kind of "fact…

> Genetic claims play a role in that you can see in which direction certain genes flowed, and how old they are, and how they’re distributed. I am not very familiar with Genetic the…

There are subtle differences in Rakshasa and Asura indeed but they are nearly interchangeable.

Out of India theory is not fringe at all in fact a pretty dominant theory in India which actually matters. It gained even more importance after the marxist scholars like Romila Tha…

HN is not the forum for the flame war but not providing any evidence and attacking some researcher has "he is not approved by white people" is not a valid defense. I am not entirel…

Yes. I think not having a 'homeland' that pumps in money to spread the God's word like Joshua Project also helps a great deal. Many years ago I attended "Meeting of Elders" an amaz…

I do not want to start a flamewar but Indians should most certainly come out of the shoddy colonial scholarship and their control over Indology. Horse, Early British researchers cl…