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7171u | 5 years ago | on: Amnesty International India Halts Its Work in India Due to Government Reprisal

Yes. https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/caste-not-dead-su... https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/dalit-family-lives-gro... https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/hyderabad/hyderabad... https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/denied-access-barbersh...?

7171u | 5 years ago | on: Indian robot climbs trees to harvest coconuts

Robot looks very fragile and process seems very slow.

7171u | 6 years ago | on: Facebook is embedding tracking data inside the photos you download

Who gives Facebook the authority to do so?

7171u | 7 years ago | on: Spotify adds 1M unique listeners in India in less than a week

May be because of this: https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/26/18241345/spotify-india-la...

7171u | 8 years ago | on: A beginner’s guide to getting started in the cryptocurrency world

He meant Monero not Bitcoin.

7171u | 8 years ago | on: Facebook Is the Junk Food of Socializing (2015)

I have deactivated FB since last Jan. Never felt any urge to return. But Reddit seems to be hard to quit as the majority of the time it delivers the garbage disguised as information. As a person who was on FB only for news feeds, Reddit seems to be the perfect shelter for me.

7171u | 8 years ago | on: Base-4 fractions in Telugu

Another one.

First Malayalam-English( another south Indian Language) dictionary was compiled by a German linguist Hermann Gundert who is the grandfather of German novelist and Nobel laureate Hermann Hesse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Gundert

7171u | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: How can I get better at bash?

I was using CTRL+C to open new prompt instead of undoing. Thanks for this.

7171u | 9 years ago | on: Stanford Professor Loses Political Battle To Simplify Tax Filing Process

In India also we get form from employer with information on tax paid in that financial year. You just need to copy paste the values to tax dept. website and submit. So simple.

7171u | 9 years ago | on: /usr/bin/time: not the command you think you know

I had to use "--verbose" instead of "-l" in my RHEL7

  \time --verbose  echo