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Money and Violence dictates who controls resources hence power. So, companies controlling government is no surprise.

Wages do not matter anymore, i've seen guys making 300K+ a year struggling to get women interested in them. Also, if you want to lose all your assets - only then lead with your wal…

They all just write code, imho - software guys are considered very low status and have no pull compared to other professions like doctor, lawyers - i never seen a woman being excit…

We had that problem in barebones WP with no plugins at all. Once we installed a few security plugins, it worked out just fine!

unless you collude with other companies, doesn't seem like it is.

I used to waste tons of time checking man pages for Linux utilities and programs. I always wondered why I had to memorize all those flags, especially when the chances of recalling …

It's a command-line suggestion tool similar to Copilot, offering near-instant suggestions in --quick mode. Best of all, it's completely free and widely accessible, as almost everyo…

Cycling power does same

I read it as perlite, the volcanic foam

This is good atleast now Indians will stay in India and develop our country instead of going to the US and contributing to a country which is already ahead in everyway.

I see lots of startups in India but still nothing like ebay. There is no place to buy second hand goods or source some scrap from someone who owns it.

>The (income) tax base in India is about 5%; they have no voice in the politics of the country unless they are big corps. Excise on petroleum import affects nearly everyone. I am n…

>Excessive taxation on luxury goods is one of the few ways we can still milk the rich You'll be able to milk rich if there are more mercedes on road, they'll need more repairmen or…

>As stated in another comment, most of the income taxes / import taxes etc affect a tiny fraction of the population. Not really a huge voter base there. Influential and disproporti…

Government have been tweaking excise rates. Petrol and Diesel is cheaper everywhere except India, Indian government made 30% revenue increase in exise during lockdown period when a…

I have never seen any political party in India having "tax reduction" as their stated goal. I think if someone makes such party, people will vote for it as taxes affect them direct…

I use amazon India, sometimes I receive broken stuff and I repair it on my own and ask Amazon India if they are willing to refund the part of the sale price. Recently I had receive…

I think we don't have a good way to transport energy which makes green energy slightly impractical as the main source of energy. If we find a way to connect the world on a common e…

Sanctions are way to starve the beast. The beast is the country and the people in power are the ones who control that beast. If the beast is powerful, the people in power can use t…

Finland is a tiny developed country it probably has good fiber or coax penetration both of which offer better latency than 4g. So what gives? Its similar to my usage pattern, only …

Here's what happend to me: Day 1: Fever, chills. I slept under 2 blanket and after 4 hours I started sweating so I threw off all the blankets. Day 2: Took the test and came out pos…

Modi couldn't ban alibaba let alone Google play store. India today has no eBay equivalent or even Alibaba or Taobao equivalent, without these I don't see b2b or even exports growin…

My suggestion: 1. Go to a big city where software folks are paid a lot 2. Apply for roles at startups or small companies who find it hard to compete with big companies paying a lot…

Ofc here assumption being made is that college is the deciding factor of success later in life. Most backward cast candidates will be unable to forge deeper connection with powerfu…