Comment USA sends money everywhere (Score 1) 101
It is surprising that USA sends money to so many places and many a times even citizens of those countries dont know that.
Comment Opportunity (Score 1) 6
India is seeing EU making billions from big corps as fines, why not do the same? As long the profit is more than the fine, companies will stay. The only people losing in this is Americans who don't want to touch the corporations and tax/fine them.
Comment Business = Corruption (Score 1) 26
Business means corruption in India. You cannot do business without corruption in India. Bribe, protection money, not showing the real income etc. is open secret in India. The question is who the government targets. It is not that Apple is good, it is that almost every other company is doing the same just that the government is ignoring them but decided not to ignore Apple.
5G Speeds In the US Rank Dead Last Among Early Adopters (gizmodo.com) 77
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: A new report released by Ookla placed the U.S. at the very top of a list of 40 countries in terms of 5G availability. To determine this, Ookla tested to see what percent of users with 5G devices spent the majority of their time actually on 5G during Q3. Under that criteria, the U.S. ranked number one with 49.2% availability. But hold on, don't whip out your red, white, and blue foam finger just yet, it's not all good news. The actual download and upload speeds (in other words, the whole point) of 5G networks still vary significantly by country according to the report. Though the U.S. ranked first in availability, its actual download speeds were amongst the worst of early 5G adopter nations. Ookla placed median 5G download speeds at 93.73 Mbps in the US, far lower than the UK's 184.2 Mbps median and far lower still than South Korea, which led the pack at 492.48 Mbps. The U.S. placed around the same relative position for upload speeds as well. And while U.S. wireless customers can take some solace knowing they're on the top of the availability list, the list itself is unimpressive as a whole, especially in relation to the types of coverage necessary for 5G's most ambitious promises.
Comment Price of Ownership (Score 1) 107
NFT makes sense for a few rare items even if the items are not sold. For example, many people would be willing to pay good amount of money to "Own" Mona Lisa even with the condition that they cannot take it home. However this only works for very few well known things and must be controlled from one or a few centralized places.
Comment WatchPeopleDie (Score 1) 582
Seems that I can not find this subreddit !
Comment It works but (Score 1) 71
There is a difference between you do not have food available and you are willingly fasting. For most of the people, dieting is a psychological problem. Telling me this way is good does not help as long I do not have the motivation or mental will to stick to it. That is why a single style diet does not work for everybody even if it is the "Best"
Comment That is not "Less" (Score 1) 58
Average income is also much less in India in absolute $$ terms.
Comment Let me guess (Score 1) 132
High quality diet, not smoking or drinking too much, exercise, being stress free etc?
Everybody knows these are "Good" if they want to live longer and healthier life. Problem ? We do not do it.
Comment USD is way stronger than BTC (Score 1) 229
USD is and will always be way stronger than BTC unless governments adopts BTC. USD is backed by government which has enormous military and economic power to back it up. It is not only USA who will back it up, if BTC poses a threat to replace USD, it also poses threat to replace any other currencies by any other nations. If world economy goes down almost all countries suffer. China/Russia might want to punish USA by buying/selling BTC but they will never want BTC to win over the ruins of whole world economy.
So at one side you have the whole world nations and another you have some technical guys and some rogue states that do not care about their currencies but to destroy USA even if they get destroyed in the way.
That does not mean BTC price cannot grow up. It can. As long there will be demand (and supply will reduce by its design) it can go to the moon but it will always be volatile to any government announcement and war will not be fought to back it up. A rare panting can go up to millions USD but is it stronger than USD? No. BTC is a commodity and except a niche market it is not a currency. It is growing only because of speculation and probably lack of supply.
Comment 99.99% people don't give a f**k about privacy (Score 1) 97
except banking passwords etc. Most people don't really care about privacy over comfort of feeling good when people "like" their cat picture. And that is almost all of the market. When asked "Do you value privacy?" they will answer "Sure sir" but "would you refrain sharing every goddamn details on internet?" "No Sir"
Comment Why religious but not personal? (Score 1) 426
If a christian can say "I do not vaccinate my child for my religious belief" why can't a non-religious person say "I do not vaccinate my child for my "pseudo-scientific" belief"?
Submission + - Senator Introduces Do Not Track Bill to Give Consumers Control
Trailrunner7 writes: There’s yet another effort underway in Washington to establish an enforceable Do Not Track system that would provide a one-click mechanism for people to opt out of persistent web tracking by advertisers and social media platforms.
The latest push comes in the form of the Do Not Track Act, a bill unveiled this week by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) that emulates the structure of the Do Not Call registry. It would establish a method for consumers to send a signal to online companies that would block them from collecting any information past what is necessary to deliver their services. The bill also would stop companies from building profiles of the people who activate the DNT mechanism or discriminating against them if they use the option.
Hawley’s bill makes the Federal Trade Commission the enforcement authority for the system and any person who violates the measure would be liable for penalties of $50 per user affected by a violation for every day that the violation is ongoing.
The latest push comes in the form of the Do Not Track Act, a bill unveiled this week by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) that emulates the structure of the Do Not Call registry. It would establish a method for consumers to send a signal to online companies that would block them from collecting any information past what is necessary to deliver their services. The bill also would stop companies from building profiles of the people who activate the DNT mechanism or discriminating against them if they use the option.
Hawley’s bill makes the Federal Trade Commission the enforcement authority for the system and any person who violates the measure would be liable for penalties of $50 per user affected by a violation for every day that the violation is ongoing.
Submission + - The Dirty Little Secrets of Search
Hugh Pickens writes writes: The NY Times has an interesting story (reg. may be required) about how J. C. Penny used link farms to become the number one google search result for such terms as "dresses," "bedding," and "samsonite carry on luggage" and what google did to them when they found out. "Actually, it’s the most ambitious attempt I’ve ever heard of,” says Doug Pierce, an expert in online search. “This whole thing just blew me away. Especially for such a major brand. You’d think they would have people around them that would know better."
Submission + - File organization - how do you do it? 4
siddesu writes: After 30 years of being around computers, I have, like everyone else, amassed a huge amount of files in huge amount of formats about a huge amount of topics. And it isn't only me — the family has now a ton of data that they want managed and easily accessible.
Keeping all that information in order has always been a pain, but it has gone harder as the storage has increased and people and files and sizes have multiplied.
What do you folks use to keep your odd terabyte of document, picture, video and code files organized — that is, relatively uniformly tagged, versioned, searchable and ultimately findable, without 50 duplicates over your 50 devices and without typing arcane commands in a terminal window?
I found this discussion from 2003 and this tangentially relevant post from 2006. How have things changed for you in 2011?
And how satisfied is your extended family with the solution you have unleashed upon them?
Keeping all that information in order has always been a pain, but it has gone harder as the storage has increased and people and files and sizes have multiplied.
What do you folks use to keep your odd terabyte of document, picture, video and code files organized — that is, relatively uniformly tagged, versioned, searchable and ultimately findable, without 50 duplicates over your 50 devices and without typing arcane commands in a terminal window?
I found this discussion from 2003 and this tangentially relevant post from 2006. How have things changed for you in 2011?
And how satisfied is your extended family with the solution you have unleashed upon them?
