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Is this for distributed data processing like spark is? The documentation has nothing to indicate that it is.

Google had a very successful payments app called Tez in India. They merged that into Google pay during a flutter rewrite so that they can say things like “Google pay has 200 millio…

then imagine what the collective hubris and arrogance displayed by the people in this sub-thread would imply about their respective countries’ democratic nature.

obviously indices created by the west would rank themselves higher. India has a much more robust democracy because Indians have several dozen political parties to choose from unlik…

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every sentence of this is wrong. There are several foreign channels that are banned in India including Al Jazeera and for very good reasons. Plus, I’m sure the West doesn’t get Rus…

that’s not the worst part. The worst part is not fixing it for over a decade despite being called out

The title, if it’s not clear to you already. It makes it sound like there’s a pollution warfare even though the article makes no justifications on how these countries are choking o…

Google used to be the company that delivered us a fast browser, free online video streaming and was going to give absurdly cheaper fiber and wireless internet and affordable yet aw…

This is the same thing that pretty much ended IBM. They had been pitching AI for how long and now they have to sustain themselves on openshift sales.

Plus, what kind of strategy is it to antagonise every single large player in the industry. Apple and Amazon are friendly to each other. Microsoft and Facebook have been longtime pa…

And at that time they were also operating with enthusiastic Engineers who can’t write bubble sort on their first try but then started hiring using the methods that led to “Cracking…

Google Pay is huge in India but it is/was a completely different product that started in Google India as Tez but was taken over from the Indian team and ruined. Google claims to op…

For a company that really depends on user click signals, removing the dislike count from Youtube (and making the button pointless) is a amateurish mistake indicating a very broken …

All late 2000s stuff before their endless rebrandings

Browser vendors are free to choose their own default search engines and get paid for it just like how Brave search is the default search on brave private This tweet thread is unnec…

Here’s how I think about it: Davos is a religious gathering. You wouldn’t be happy/unhappy about other religious gatherings that you don’t participate in. The elites really don’t h…

Even when that line was true, I could get Linux working with a few hours of effort No amount of effort is going to make windows usable when there’s a company actively working to ma…

Windows never changed. It was a “new Microsoft” because they stopped making windows the center of their existence. now windows takes a lower priority behind xbox even within it’s o…

Searching for “The Gervais Principle” will give you a nice life cycle diagram for what you’re describing

> they consume more and pay taxes, the taxes support municipal services which pay the salaries In India, neither income taxes nor consumption taxes go to the local municipalities. …

You shouldn’t blame culture when investments on this front are lacking. Local governments in India are perennially short on money and it’s they who are responsible for things like …

There are laws against dumping trash and sewage into creeks which do not get enforced. City corporations need money to enforce the laws and clean stuff up but housing taxes continu…

only a very small fraction of people getting laid off are engineers.

especially because of this whole imessage/rcs thing, your friends are extremely more likely to be using the same OS as you.