I don't know about should you be fined, but anecdotally, I believe you will be responsible. At least that's what I see in our RWA (Indian for HOA) in Bangalore: if we hire a contractor, we have to make sure all the right stuff is mentioned in the contract about labourer safety. I never cross-checked this, and I don't know the law in this case, but it seems to be a thing. And IMHO, it's a good thing if the law requires it.
Not a comment about ETFs, but in general, the word "foolish" applies to someone entering the scheme, not someone running the scheme. And as is the way of humans, there are always enough people willing to be misled into bad decisions. In that sense, these schemes are very smart.
To repeat, this is NOT a comment about ETFs; it's only about where the word "foolish" goes.
My older child is 11 years old, and since a few years before she was born, everyone we knew in India had been naming their children starting with the sound of "Aa" ... We know quite a few kids named "Aarav" and "Aadya" among others. So any names with that starting sound were immediately discarded. We wanted her name to sound significantly different from all contemporary names, and we decided that the best way to do it was to go retro. So "Surabhi" is what we chose. It has a very nice meaning, and it's just sufficiently old to be fashionable again. And it also reminded us of a favourite TV serial from our childhood.
I always allow for the possibility that science is a faith (not religion) simply because there is no way to prove that the universe actually obeys laws that we can discover. Just because an apple fell down in the same way in each of a million experiments, it's not necessary that the relationship we discovered is a "law" that defines the universe. It could just as well be that the next time we try it, the apple falls differently.
Strangely, that's entirely the opposite of what I understood from the original comment. To me, "you can just use XXX" sounds like someone just told me that "all you need is XXX; don't worry it's simple". The assumption is that the HN'er saying it and the HN'er being said to share an implicit level of expertise since we are all talking about mutt here.
Even if you make sure that a credit card can't be wedged in, it is usually possible to put something flexible like an X-Ray film between the door and the frame. It takes longer, but the strike can be pushed eventually if you are persistent! The real solution is to not have a latch like that where security matters, like the front door.
Bangalore resident here. I felt kinda embarassed wearing a mask initially. But it took about two weeks to get used, and now I feel vulnerable if I am not wearing one. I also tense up a bit if someone else not wearing a mask is within a meter from me.
In India, student loans have mainly been in demand from people seeking an MS degree in the US. But things are changing, and education is getting more expensive across the board, and I do worry about my kids. My immediate reaction right now is to save enough fuck-you money for my kids so that they don't have to get into the education rat race at all. I don't know how that will work, if at all, but that's the best I can do. If they choose to spend the money I saved on expensive degrees, I hope collectively as a family, we know what we are getting into.
I am not sure what to make of the fact that the article never says "X86", but keeps mentioning "Intel" and occasionally "AMD". Was that tailored to the expected audience, or the author is not confident enough about what "X86" means?
But then you have to wait for the stock market prediction to come true. Instead, since you already know your temporal password for the year, the proof would be immediately available.
You could move that a notch up and say that only the owner of the bar and their friends get to watch all these conversations and they keep copies. That should really freak out some people.
Ah, that. Thanks, I corrected the use of "libertarian" to "liberal" in my GP comment. I am sure that is not perfect either, but should be good enough to answer the original question ... "left" in India is more about economics than liberty.
Sure, I'll take your word about US politics. But I don't see a disagreement ... the Indian right still represents the liberal end of the Indian spectrum on economic policy. Whether that is far or near in US terms does not constitute a disagreement.
People with leftist political leanings are generally unhappy with all governments, and have very strong opinions about how the country should be run. They end up forming their own tight clubs.
EDIT: corrected "libertarian economics" to "liberal economics"
This has been tried in India many times. The trouble is that it has always been done with the intention to polarize people for political gains. It completely skews the conversation, and most people automatically steer clear of anyone flaunting their "social identity" (not necessarily caste) like that.
EDIT: Replaced "origin" with "social identity", which seems like a better fit.
There's not much to misunderstand, actually. The caste system is a highly discriminatory and unfair classification of people based on their birth. For a major part of Indian history, it was the upper castes that abused it. But since independence, politicians from both higher and lower castes have managed to keep it running for their own gains.
Consider these lyrics:
"They cut me out for a baking bread, but I had other dreams instead".
Now imagine a system designed to completely ignore your dreams and force you to bake bread for now and future generations! And you are not even in chains!
Your guess about not airing the laundry in public is pretty close. "caste awareness" is ingrained from a young age, and you can't lose those circuits even if you yourself don't agree with them. A lot of people, especially higher caste, "understand" at a logical level that this is all wrong, but find it very difficult to change. So discrimination continues in all social spheres, but it's covert.
The silver lining is that there are also those who have distanced themselves from that system, and their number keeps increasing.
What surprises me is that the discussion here is taking the original article at face value. Sure, the Indian govt is citing national security as the reason for the ban. But take a slightly cynical view, and focus your attention on this sentence:
"Jayanth Kolla, an analyst at research firm Convergence Catalyst, told TechCrunch the move was surprising and will have huge impact on Chinese firms, many of which count India as their biggest market."
That's the real reason. This is just posturing between two neighbouring countries who are currently involved in a border dispute. There is already a lot of military posturing, a lot of diplomatic posturing and now a lot of market posturing, which includes the Internet.
TIL that this thing had a name. I used to clench my teeth unconsciously for around two years, until one day I broke a premolar. The reason was mostly anxiety, unhappiness, etc. I was aware of my mental state but completely unaware of the clenching. Surprisingly (or not) focusing on the clenching helped me relax my jaw as well as my mind. Kinda like what is taught in Vipassana ... just trying to be mindful of what the body is doing helped me get out. I still find myself clenching my jaw some times, but I quickly relax when I do.
The article gives the impression of UBI as some sort of targetted scheme with the money of putting money in the hands of people who need it. At least in India, it is touted as an alternative to government subsidies. Seen that way, it's a system overhaul rather than a way to help all people at an individual level. Government subsidies will always be inefficient, no matter how well-intentioned a particular set of people are. Instead, a simple UBI scheme will dramatically reduce administration costs and plug all leakages.
I think the comparison goes somewhat like this: selling one CD puts X dollars in the creator's pocket. How many times need a track be played on Spotify to generate the same number of dollars? The answer is 471, I think.
This looks interesting, but I could not find an RSS feed for the site. Could you please add one, I would definitely prefer that over subscribing to an email newsletter!
That depends on whether each year until [now] had "copyrightable" improvements. For large open source projects, the copyright notice is placed on each file separately, and it is common to see some files not changing (or changing negligibly) over long periods of time.
I am pretty sure that international travel will stay banned for quite some time more, maybe the end of the year? But the current lockdown is supposed to be "eased" on May 3, and we are already seeing lists of districts with zero new case, where things will become really easy. But at the other extreme, there are "hotspots" where the lockdown will not ease at all for some more time. The lockdown won't just end on May 3. Some states intend to continue the lockdown on their own beyond that. Local shops have been allowed to open already. Some travel will become possible, probably within city limits or state limits. Restaurants and malls are unlikely to be opened any time soon. Everyone is still waiting to see what the official policy is.