You are wrong. Marriage and/or any other union should be based on trust. Love may or may not be present.

Prenup is needed when you cannot trust the person you marry.

If you cannot trust a person then how can you marry them?

Maybe marriage is something different for these folks.

If some VC tries to CYA with a prenup...that's different.

What's the problem if the distro uses systemd and if there is a solution?

Also, there is no "assurance" that the system would have behaved better if I was using a non systemd distro. Its just speculation at this point.

After seldom reboots, the first steps on my 10 year old Thinkpad X1 are the following...

1. Swap on (through GParted) 2. sudo sysctl vm.swappiness=90 3. sudo journalctl --rotate 4. sudo journalctl --vacuum-time=1s

Without SWAP the machine freezes and unusable in ten mins.

If you believe gun violence in US is not a problem because millions of gun owners "fail" to kill anyone then there is no point in continuing the conversation.

I would like to know your stand on gun violence in US. Do you think guns needs to be controlled or there should "deal with the people causing problems"?

At least in India and many other developing countries the damage has been enormous. People have been killed, falsehoods spread, ethnic and minority related bigotry getting legitimacy and so on.

And Canada will win. Most Western democracies are on a population decline. The current economic models followed across the world are growth based. For that to work you need a positive population growth.

The current BJP govt did not get protectionist all of a sudden. E-Commerce policy changes are not an important topic for any partys re-election prospects.

There are far more serious issues for Indian electorate...farmer distress, rising unemployment, promises not being kept, effects of super stupid demonetization, GST implementation etc. Add social polarisation of the country with Hindu-Muslim division being played for the BJP's right wing Hindu support base .

Stray cows roaming around is probably more of a problem for Indians than whatever E-commerce stuff. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/07/16/amp-stories/why-india-has-million-stray-cows-roaming-country/

What is wrong if payment processors are asked to keep data inside geographical boundaries? (Tho technically it doesn't make much sense.) It cannot be seen as "protectionist" or "isolationist".

Not so fast.

FB is useful for certain sections traditionally finding it difficult to get their voice heard.

I know activists in many languages including English - good / bad according to your political philosophy - who command a huge following on FB where they don't need an outlet in mainstream media to have their opinions heard. This is important for anyone who's not in the mainstream...for an example, take US, what if you don't get included in a NYT or Fox or WSJ...you may get some minor players.

You can always retort "why they cannot start a website or blog". But Facebook removes the effort needed (including the multiplier effects of having an audience, sharing, a much superior commenting system, archival etc.) of running a website/blog. There's no platform with the sophistication of Facebook where such community activity can be planned and rolled out.

Using a car analogy...its like using a Mac instead of Slackware.

I am typing this from a Linux Mint installation...its good for mainstream use, we need a Linux Mint type of Facebook...very usable, but not evil/spyware/manipulative.

My first trip outside my home country was to US...to San Francisco, October 1999. I was in my mid twenties.

I landed with $30...straight went to a Safeway and found a bottle of Popov. Then and now its only $10. Its fine stuff...especially when you filter it through a Brita.

On way to where I stayed those days - somewhere in Fremont - I saw the first big splashy billboard...garden.com Then and now I don't understand their business. I remember the billboard. I thought of PT Barnum...'there's a sucker born every minute".

San Francisco showed what US can be...the generosity and love which made Haight and Ashbury, the greedy blocky buildings of Cupertino, the tranquillity of Half Moon Bay and so on.

Almost two decades and many adventures later, at NYC I am still amazed by US...what a country, what an idea and imagination.

Distributors cut is usually between 50 to 60%. Exhibitors keep the rest. I don't think exhibitors pay distributors money to show a film.

The "I wanna be POTUS" dude and Lean On Woman are embarrassments. They should be deleted.

Birth rates are declining in the West as a whole. (Look at Europe, Russia and the classic case of Japan.) Even some of the states in India have stabilized. For economy to keep growing you need more consumers. Immigration helps that. (Unless you want folks of your own skin color.) Any counter argument about jobs being lost - at least today you have the least unemployment in decades.

May be you can make a case about "when automation comes they immigrants will be a financial burden". I guess a huge subset of the population will require some sort of UBI.

Canada has a sensible (you can call it progressive as well) immigration policy. They take in 1% of their population - about 350K migrants - an year. (I was a Canadian immigrant once, now an American immigrant.) For an American immigrant, your primary identity is of an American, and that's the whole point of United States of America.

This can happen. The top level associates and hangers-on are more rabid than the top dude himself. (Usually its a "dude".)

In India when the current hindu right wing administration got into power in 2014, someone from the home ministry (or close to Prime Ministers office) was identified as debasing Wikipedia articles on Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister, and a true giant of a statesman.

The current PM Modi may understand he has differences of opinion about Nehru and his contributions to Indian society, but his acolytes and henchmen will do the dirty work without prompting.