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The protests are a sham consisting of only APMC commission agents and those farmers heavily dependent on MSP by indulging in wrong crops (wheat/rice) for decades, thus draining tax…

Except that UPI is a payment standard, Google neither has monopoly over it nor the only one payment company who supports UPI in India, there are many others like Paytm, Phonepe, Mo…

>> "oh shit, someone stole my wallet (/ online identity)" Isn't one supposed to be responsible for their own passwords/security? Does Microsoft take responsibility if someone steal…

But America does give unemployment allowance to the laid off, so no need to worry?

A google employee had also similarly pointed out evidence in an internal company memo few years ago. That employee was promptly fired and last I heard, he is struggling to make a l…

It deserves to be in trouble considering they blatantly tried to kill speech of Saragon of Akkad and a few others. Monopoly shouldn't be abused in this manner.

They are indirectly helping the community by prodding them to look for decentralized alternatives like peertube, lbry, etc. every now and then. They can't say it outright as they h…

Sun's main issue was that they failed to capitalize on all the wonderful tech they had including Java, VirtualBox and Openoffice/StarOffice. Even after open sourcing all of them, t…

That's true but on the other side, ideas are sold dime a dozen, only their successful implementation proves in hindsight that the idea was worth something. Stealing ideas doesn't m…

Why bother investing and prying when you can simply buy those companies off once they become large enough?

I've read in some article that insurance companies are actually encouraging the hackers by forcing their insured victims to pay the ransom instead of try to recover on their own or…

What I'm seeing besides xenophobia is the old protectionist argument (our country-men are being laid off by companies each day and you dare bring foreigners here!). Its a very old …

For Greece, the reasons for conflict are the same that used to be in the battle of thermopylae? Is it the same ancient culture conflict still responsible for these wars?

From what I've heard, the Nordic countries like Netherlands, Norway, Finland, etc. and some Eastern European countries like Romania are people friendly (at least for now).