Well, given than India has signed the WTO "Information Technology Agreement", definitely.

Specially given the previous findings by WTO where India went "We did not understand what we have signed" having ruled on similar things, so India cannot even use that excuse this time..

India has been quite protectionist in other sectors, so this one was definitely coming..

No. They will first announce a roadmap, then some positive things about it and only several months later the shutdown.

Ugh what for?

Do they really need that many customer service reps or ad sales people? Or what do all those people do?

As it requires the device directly or to be within bluetooth range of the device doing the authentication and many desktops do not have bluetooth..

>Indeed. Most C-suite occupiers in the automotive industry are still using Henry Ford's original playbook, making decisions along the lines of "any color you like - as long as it's black."

No

That is the part they specifically forgot.

The reason for black was because it would dry fast. Thus reducing manufacturing cost.

Any given vehicle of theirs has million of possible combinations of color and options, making manufacturing slower than it would be with less.

And Linus is clearly more a creative type than a manager. Though he has apparently done a good enough job as a manager to grow the company that much.

So if they get an actually good manager it might go great for them. But there is of course a catch. A new manager will inevitable cause a shift in the culture and it remains to be seen if the end product remains as good after that shift is complete.

Yeah,
The problem for possible competitors is that SpaceX has a advantage in launch costs.

If you are anyone else your choices are
1) buy launches from SpaceX and pay the launch cost+SpaceX margin.
2) buy launches from someone else at higher cost.

Whereas SpaceX can launch without the profit margin. So competing with someone who has lower costs is hard..

Most people in most developed countries do not have to file.

They get a tax proposal from the government and only if they spot errors do they file the change for that error.

That would be great. If Amazon and Aliexpress specially pulled out. That would definitely make me more money.

Google services would not be a big loss, except for android users I guess.

Facebook, Instagram, Twitter,Snapchat and Tiktok pulling out would be a big overall win for sanity.

The ones that would be annoying are booking.com, Apple's App Store and Wikipedia

Also the freeing of the ad business from the dominance by Google and Facebook would be a great opportunity.

So here is to hoping they do..

So why did you not remove that requirement? I think Rufus still works fine for that.

I have seen many people with Indian IT degrees and most seem to have received quite questionable education.

A lot of them have not even learned the basics and a large number of those who have learned well, seem to have learned well despite their degree and not because of it.

I have talked to many people from different parts of the world about their education and in general for Indians the education has been more of the same "sit in classroom and listen to the teacher drone on" from high school, not the exploration of knowledge that a higher degree should be.

I cannot say that it is like that everywhere but that seemed to be the norm among the couple of dozen of people with degrees from there that I have talked to.

No. If you have large number people in a group have them do things for a few days.. and then pick the three who did the most stupid things, you will get some incredibly stupid results.

It does not necessarily mean that those three people who did the most stupid things in my example are more stupid than normal people(though they might be), as everyone does something stupid from time to rime.

This is the system here in Finland.

They send a Pre-filled tax calculation either in paper form or if you only want look at it online you can unsubscribe the physical form.

You then look though it and if there is something wrong you either correct them on the paper form and send it or correct them online.

Many of the big tech companies that are laying off managed to handle say half the customer base with say 1/10th the staff and have seen a large bloat in number of people in the last say 5 years. I do not think all the new hires were really needed..