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From [4]: > The government is in-principle against allowing import and sale of second-hand phones in India to prevent dumping of hazardous electronic waste, said a person familiar …

Faster (at least it's attempting to be) without losing any quality metrics.

What about this? class Function { public apply(T param); }

> Long-term couples tend to take care of each other's health and wellbeing ... because it makes citizens happier, more productive, less likely to need public handouts ... Citation …

As much as you might loathe it, learnings is now a word (and has been used intermittently for a new centuries [1]) so deal with it. Additionally, Indian students do the best they c…

> voting members Except 5, other countries don't have a permanent say in the system. The 5 can veto any resolution. The sad reality is that UN has been successful on various issues…

> flat-rate fee per-person for transport That was not the case. I remember paying a different amount than the person I was sitting next to, because we were travelling different dis…

> Is Uber trying to shut down Lyft, through a variety of tactics? But not through cancelled rides, right? I don't understand how Uber trying to recruit drivers is any different fro…

>Japanese Hackers simply ignoring English speaking part of the internet. Internationalization seems to be something that hackers rarely invest time on. It is not like hackers in Si…

I cannot be sure, but I think he as arguing about it at societal level. This is my interpretation: Given the technological improvements, privacy is unsustainable. If everyone reali…

Just because he argues that privacy is unsustainable/sub-optimal doesn't mean that he has to facilitate its erosion. It is similar to how someone who demands privacy doesn't need t…

+1. I can't take it anymore! ( http://imgur.com/FQEHB7b )

> how society maintains is social structure I grew up in India. My schools had no bullying at all. And we still had a (much weaker) social structure, the popular ones, the slightly…

> And that is the definition of an insult. No it's not. The person who leaked the info should feel some responsibility for his actions. I don't think HTC exec's actions were not to…

Reuse of the same username across multiple social networks/forums, I would guess.

> What is legit or scientific about it? Nothing. And no one here is claiming that all parts of these texts are to be taken as absolute fact with empirical proof. Most of it, as you…

I didn't upvote the submission, I didn't downvote you - but if you call people shills when they are not, some of them might. And I find 1M R/s impressive, but you can ignore it if …

Since you are qualifying the statement with "some", a lot of people (including me) will have no qualms about agreeing to it.

> the ability to capitalize on reading your opponent is more limited than it could be Shouldn't be a capitalizable entity in chess. I like chess (unfortunately I don't like it enou…

Blink was a awesome episode. I have used it to convert at least 4 civvies into Whovians. However, I think Doctor Who is getting less and less scary and more and more dramatic/epic.…

I really can't differentiate between Disabled buttons and Rounded buttons. There would also be very little differentiation between the a basic button with no icon (because there is…

I think the scientists involved would be totally fine with skepticism about technical decisions that they have made on such missions. I would argue that they might even appreciate …

It's incredible and useful because there are some others like me, who would rather reboot to Ubuntu/Fedora/etc just to avoid the hostile developer environment of windows, even for …

> Humans suck at predicting stuff. But surely humans beat randomness at many if not most tasks. This argument is not as much about whether we get sharper teeth or not, as it is abo…

Don't proxy it through friends who don't use software audited and compiled by you/people-you-trust then.