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Same way google and big tech companies fund pro-privacy groups. The intent is not to have stronger privacy laws that doesn't benefit them.

No, GDPR explicitly carve out exception if for reasonable purposes. DDOS and abuse protection would fall under that. Marketing however won't.

No. Residential areas are different from commercial areas in good parts of the world for a reason. This is not a bad example. Many people took loans to buy airbnb to aggressively r…

PG was cheering lambda school's free 4 weeks developer intern trial a while ago. If he doesn't think that is exploitative, maybe huge difference in morality. Airbnb spamming forums…

Maybe they want some employees to implement scary backdoors or portals and it's easier to control an immigrant dependent on Facebook or with different sense of morality.

Yes. I have the same iPhone too. I just don't get why so many people here are fixated on chipset differences when average people care more about having better quality mic, speakers…

No, notifications have changed a lot in the recent years. And you can get unified clipboard by installing app for your OS (windows or linux) through playstore. You should try a new…

I don't know that's true anymore. Overall experience feels better on android. Few things that make difference for me. 1. Notifications are leagues ahead of anything on iOS. 2. Litt…

I think the definition of democracy exclude many countries today. One of the major point of democracy which I was taught in my social class was that we need enough choices in our p…

How many big startups/companies in India are making enough profit to self sustain themselves currently? Jio, swiggy, Zomato, Tata motors, Amazon, flipkart, ola, big basket, oyo, Pa…

Can you explain more?

India is trying to be china or to some extent US but without having the development of either of those countries.

Ali express? C'mon. If I could find my electronics elsewhere and for a reasonable price, I would choose that but I can't. Government butchered the manufacturing industry, imposed r…

I have to agree with the assertion. The political will to change anything decreases with the number of people in the area. It's hard to break compatibility between versions when yo…

It is if they are used abusively and sarcastically regularly.

What's the point of separating it? Why not just increase the price of the food and service charges to compensate for the salaries? It feels like some kind of psychological hack whe…

See the CEO talking on slack about creating an app: https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/jyt7et/whitehatjr_fi...

Here are the investors in the parent company, byjus: https://byjus.com/our-investors/ Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, Tencent, Sequoia Capital India, Sofina, Verlinvest, Owl Ventures, …

Average person in developed countries spend more than few hours consuming media every day even more so in the US. Why do we think this is sustainable? I have always wondered the se…

What changed in the recent years is the amount of media time nutjobs on the internet get that everyone ignored back then. Nothing else. If you checked qanon groups before and after…

> Humans tend to trust the first thing they hear and we tend to be less skeptical about news media especially if they seem very confident or persuasive. This has been widely studie…