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knowThySelfxon One Year After India Killed Off Cash, What Other Countries Should Learn

An old report on Hawala: http://www.frontline.in/static/html/fl2123/stories/200411190...

knowThySelfxon One Year After India Killed Off Cash, What Other Countries Should Learn

Even I am not sure who is correct here. Either the guy is lying about the amount or the Govt is lying about amount received. Things aren't quite clear here.

There's this thing which goes by the name "Kunjalikutti fund" which isn't that trivial from what I heard ;)

knowThySelfxon One Year After India Killed Off Cash, What Other Countries Should Learn

The titling is deliberately chosen to mislead readers.

knowThySelfxon One Year After India Killed Off Cash, What Other Countries Should Learn

It is not in one place, but in the hands of different people. Hawala (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala) is very active in certain northern districts of Kerala.

I agree, its a fairly non-trivial amount of money.

knowThySelfxon One Year After India Killed Off Cash, What Other Countries Should Learn

The title itself is a misnomer. No one checking stuff in HBR? Only denominations of 500s and 1000s were made illegal. This was replaced with new 500 and 2000 Rupee notes. All the other denominations remained valid throughout.The intent was to control counterfeit currency. It also appealed the public to use more digital transactions.

Today, in TV there was news about a district in Kerala (Malappuram) having 50000 crores worth of old currency in the hands of various people there. The person whom the reporter interviewed was an agent who sold these old notes to some people for a percentage of the value of the old notes. They didn't say for what purpose the old notes are bought. A friend of mine who knows some Gujrathi cloth merchants in Kochi's main market was told these old notes are bought so that its thread can be taken for counterfeiting new notes.

knowThySelfxon Diary of an African Cryptocurrency Miner

Hashgraph is the future, not Blockchain/Bitcoin

knowThySelfxon Blockchain vs Hashgraph comparison and stuff

Warning: He writes in a very colloquial lang sprinkled with what he thinks is right. Be your own judge.

knowThySelfxon Hashgraph: Superior Distributed Ledger Technology

Try reading this link for a comparison between Blockchain and Hashgraph: http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2017/10/blockchain-smart-co...

Warning: He writes in a very colloquial lang sprinkled with what he thinks is right. Be your own judge.

knowThySelfxon CRISPR 2.0 Is Here, and It’s More Precise

A very very different treatment of related issue: Warning - this is not from any peer reviewed authority. Also contains things which people will not agree.

http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2015/09/ethics-of-human-clo...

knowThySelfxon The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._C._George_Sudarshan

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2010/aug/10/diracs-...

George Sudarshan was nominated about 5 times and never got it.

knowThySelfxon VLC maintainer has refused “several tens of millions of Euro”

Thank you for a great product. Applauds your principles.

knowThySelfxon VLC maintainer has refused “several tens of millions of Euro”

Democracy is a voting system too :D

knowThySelfxon What should follow the web?

> "can it run on an iPhone" (which kills most new app platforms immediately).

That nails it.

Going off tangent here:

On a macro scale, the devices in our hands are executing output from another machine. This output is usually processed by a browser or a native app.

To make our lives easier, browsers need to be more like OSes, otherwise, we have to write code for each platform for executing the same thing - like the present native app scenario. (aware that we can use hybrid dev, but they aren't entirely satisfactory). WebAssembly holds some promise it seems. Or does it?

Browsers will become more powerful and perhaps would become the most important part of an OS. Maybe eventually, the borders between the browser and the OS will merge and the huge collection of devices and servers would look like a distributed OS of sort.

Another thing is the tooling for present web dev scene which needs to lighten. Setting up tooling takes more work than actual dev at times ;)

knowThySelfxon India unveils $2.5B plan to electrify all households by end 2018

I understand the real estate part. Perhaps it (real estate) needed some regulation (though this is probably not the right way). It was getting out of hand and out of reach of most Indians. Tax evasion is a real problem we face.

Sorry for your loss pal. Lets hope things look up soon.

knowThySelfxon India unveils $2.5B plan to electrify all households by end 2018

Read what I wrote twice. Where did I say or mean its "all ok"?

knowThySelfxon India unveils $2.5B plan to electrify all households by end 2018

He is talking about his own experience. What is your own experience? Leave out what you read from MSM. From what I have seen and experienced, It isn't as bad as whats reported in the media. There were some initial hiccups but otherwise things are fine. A decrease in bootlegging and other evasive/illegal activities must've been included in this "slowdown".

The thing which is currently confusing and causing slowdown is GST implementation. Most businesses don't know what to do. This is to be expected. Feels like the govt wasn't fully ready with a streamlined implementation.

knowThySelfxon China Blocks WhatsApp

Not sure that's an informative answer. Can't always trust what the MSM says. Not sure from where you got such a notion.

knowThySelfxon Mathematics predicts a sixth mass extinction

Yet another way to mass extinction. It seems to have become an obsession for some.

knowThySelfxon Massive genetic study shows how humans are evolving

I doubt it will end well.

knowThySelfxon Legal Marijuana Is Almost Here, If Only Pot Farmers Were on Board

These findings kinda still holds true upon general observation.

knowThySelfxon Legal Marijuana Is Almost Here, If Only Pot Farmers Were on Board

Too much of it is wrong. Even Ambrosia, as the saying goes. Can be reasonably sure Pharma companies have done research over it. After all, it's in their interest if it appears bad. But they also use some of its contents. THC for instance. Seems good business.

knowThySelfxon Legal Marijuana Is Almost Here, If Only Pot Farmers Were on Board

Agreed that the US govt (read companies) put pressure on the govts. of other countries to get it banned.

knowThySelfxon Legal Marijuana Is Almost Here, If Only Pot Farmers Were on Board

> Maybe people at the time had other prerogatives or they had more fun with opium and alcohol?

Haha who knows. I guess a global cultural/and social change probably made people less "responsible". So this mandated a ban? Doesn't look so sound.

I guess there are some issues which most people don't wanna touch on. The constant demonisation made it a taboo. If some people feel there's some vested interest behind it, we don't have solid proof. But feelings/intuition doesn't need such proofs ;)

knowThySelfxon Legal Marijuana Is Almost Here, If Only Pot Farmers Were on Board

Understood. Here's a little overview of what happened in India: https://www.quora.com/When-and-why-was-marijuana-made-illega...

knowThySelfxon Legal Marijuana Is Almost Here, If Only Pot Farmers Were on Board

I agree, it probably is to be used with caution. I guess most people would know that. Same case with alcohol.

knowThySelfxon Legal Marijuana Is Almost Here, If Only Pot Farmers Were on Board

Yeah, used for rituals etc. I think most of the world too. It's also used in medicines. Ayurveda has always used it. And of course, modern medicine uses its contents.

But I wonder what made weed illegal in most countries? I assume it happened not so long ago. Perhaps a century.

knowThySelfxon Legal Marijuana Is Almost Here, If Only Pot Farmers Were on Board

Who is having an agenda here?

knowThySelfxon Legal Marijuana Is Almost Here, If Only Pot Farmers Were on Board

I wonder if all of our ancestors were potheads until weed was made illegal. Was it such a problem that it had to be made illegal? History doesn't show much about weed abuse. Though we've come across the problem of alcoholism in those days too.

knowThySelfxon Climate Engineers Sucking Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere

Getting wet alright, Irma probably does it.

knowThySelfxon Show HN: Make your web page dance with Rythm.js

This could be used in specific cases. Eg: To show association or relation between elements when one of it is clicked. We can "pulse" or colorize the related element.