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This is a lazy comment. India's TFR just reached 1.9 which is below replacement rate.. The state I live in with 60m people has 1.5-1.6 TFR and still going down rapidly towards Japa…

This is so cool!! The responsiveness of the page is so much better than any maps app I have used.

What does DuckDB mean by query engines here? Something like Trino?

I can't say user metrics but Google Photos came out of Google+ and it is a massively successful product. Hangouts (now Meet?) was also a product out of Google+ but considering GCha…

I love the convenience of physical SIMs. Will hate the day when I don't have a choice but to 'upgrade' to eSIMs. I have a phone with dual physical SIM card slots. I can go to any c…

Byju's was perplexing as almost every customer of theirs and the target customers knew what Byju's was doing except those in the board, the VC analysts and LPs.

> red tape I would attribute red tape to only fintech companies. Ideally edtech should have had redtape considering how much rampant these VC funded companies ran riot. Also, SV ha…

I have used OAuth2 with and without JWTs as bearer tokens and pretty much used them the same way. JWT helps with fetching the user details without having to hit the DB/backend, and…

Wow, I have never been more impressed with any other Show HN before. The sheer number of features and platforms you have covered and also keeping to some core engineering principle…

That's how Google Analytics started.

2300 - 23 hundred is a spoken informal thing. Two thousand three hundred is another common usage which might be the 'proper' way.

I have been a long time MacOS user and the app/window switching never made any sense to me. Windows and Linux just does it better.

Worse in multilingual countries. The websites somehow think I speak the most prominent language in the country when I can't understand a word of it and I prefer English and my own …

How is it different from any digital payment? Many European countries and the US has been doing digital transactions for like 2 decades now. How was it not authoritarian then but s…

It's 200 Rs/mo as per a shopkeeper I talked to. It's pretty affordable for many shops as it cuts down on fraud a bit and they see utility in it.

It's just not screenshots. Initially the payment apps added moving icons/pictures to differentiate screenshots with actual payment confirmation screens. As a response, some people …

Similarly Netherlands is not even as big as most provinces/states of the bigger countries where internet wiring challenges exists. So not sure what is the point of bringing up the …

What was the final result numbers from the transcription?

Honestly, many of the employees and scenarios quoted in the article comes out like they were because of people making decisions without forethought. Do note they are still earning …

Weird cultural attacks and criticisms here. I'm sure everyone here started as a Principal Engineer calibre engineers straight out of college. It will be a fair criticism if this sa…

If you are within customs rules, you don't have to pay anything. Else pay the right duty based on the original invoice you should be carrying with you. I have taken TVs, laptops, i…

Probably India must be their short lived launch. They did a launch party and announcement but their fiat payment integration was pulled by the central bank and they never actually …

This is a super critical hack, looks really bad for CircleCI. But I don't see any negative news much elsewhere. They will move on. Also, maybe that localised build system running o…

Timers are very common in Asia. But the countdown timers for Green to Yellow could be dangerous as most people seeing the timer about to be zero from far and speeds up instead of s…

Doxxing is a fair policy and sharing real time location to be included in the doxxing policy is fair. No disagreements there. Elon backtracking from the absolute free speech is fai…