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In recent months I've been researching and deciding on what my "next gen" stack is going to be. What would your stack consist of if you were starting a new project today?

There are other connotations to Samsara - in contemporary Telugu and Tamil it is colloquially used for 'universe' and 'family' as well.

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I'm not suggesting anything, the Constitution of India specifically allows for "reasonable restrictions". The right to life does have restrictions - the death penalty is still lega…

IANAL and I could be wrong here, but I think thats only partially right. Although article 21 itself doesn't say anything about food, shelter etc, the courts have established preced…

https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/how-india-reg... AFAIK, the government has not attempted to prosecute anyone for using stronger encryption, and other government depa…

"Reasonable restrictions" are not very well defined in the Indian constitution. They are quite broad and open to interpretation on a case-by-case basis. "... the State can impose r…

This is currently a grey area. All ISPs in India have to abide by their licensing terms with the Department of Telecommunication which restricts encryption to 40 bit RSA or equival…

Full text of the judgement is available[0] Fair warning: its pretty long (547 pages!) [0] http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/pdf/LU/ALL%20WP(C)%20No.49...

IMO, this is a specious argument, especially in the Indian context. Access to food, clothing, and shelter are NOT fundamental rights[0]. On the other hand, the Aadhaar program (whi…

I'll wait for the full text of the judgements before celebrating. The ruling apparently consists of 6 judgements and should be available shortly. Hope this reins in the Aadhaar mon…

There's a part of it here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/13/technology/do...

Not at all, although there are some similarities at a lower level (First class notion of time). Datomic has a much tighter focus on immutability, auditability, and database-as-a-va…

Yup, pretty pointless article IMO. Doesn't even provide any actually good reasons why "Gnome is teh best". I'm sure there are probably a few reasons why Gnome is better than for so…

Of course it has. As I said, this is subjective, but I provide support for a few non technical users (scientists/medical professionals) using the latest Ubuntu with Gnome 3 and I f…

This is pretty subjective, but I've switched away from Gnome since Gnome 3. I find it slow and unintuitive even on modern hardware. I could use at least 4 out of the 6 points the a…

Pandas and Koalas have extremely poor diets in terms of nutrition. It's likely there are other examples as well.

Datomic [0] uses SQUUIDs [1] (Semi sequential UUIDs) to work around this: Many UUID generators produce data that is particularly difficult to index, which can cause performance iss…

You could look at Democracy 3 [0] for inspiration, its a game that tries to model a democratic country from the point of view of a candidate. [0] http://positech.co.uk/democracy3/

Screenshot of an anonymous post on 4chan, so approximately zero credibility. Intel ME is well known however: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Active_Management_Tech...

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