varunvkrishnan | 8 years ago | on: India demonetisation fails to purge black money
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varunvkrishnan | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: 6-figure freelancers of HN, what do you do?
Agreed and this is probably true for most "legacy" languages - for example there is still very much a market for COBOL, REXX, etc and it does pay well. However the flip side is that the size of the niche market gets smaller over time.
varunvkrishnan | 8 years ago | on: China sends first ‘unhackable’ message to satellite
Non-Paywalled version: http://www.popsci.com/china-launches-quantum-satellite-in-se....
"Importantly, though, quantum communications can be compromised by vulnerabilities in physical equipment or personnel or when other forms of communication link into the process." - It is just a matter of time before one of this happens.
varunvkrishnan | 9 years ago | on: Root Zone Database
That makes sense now.. thanks!
varunvkrishnan | 9 years ago | on: Root Zone Database
The list of domains owned by Google (Charleston Road Registry Inc.) & Amazon (Amazon Registry Services, Inc.) probably give a good idea about their future (predictable) priorities (Google - Ads, Android while Amazon's list looks more shopping oriented)
Any ideas on what they they plan on doing with guge & esq domains?
varunvkrishnan | 9 years ago | on: Symantec CA Response to Google Proposal and Community Feedback
Incompetence needs to be penalized. Period. Symantec's reasoning is pathetic and infact a veiled blackmail attempt.
varunvkrishnan | 9 years ago | on: Identify Plants with an App
Well - what is wrong with that? And atleast one of them is a Phd
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Yes - exactly - the assumption earlier was that a significant amount of money stored with the denominations that were de-monetised was "black"/unaccounted money. And this would not be deposited into banks due to fear of being scrutinized. If this had happened on a large scale and if the money had not been deposited - the liability of the exchequer would have reduced.