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setum··on Why birds do not fall while sleeping
until it breaks the loop
setum··on U.S. Provided Canada with Intelligence on Killing of Sikh Leader
> Undoubtedly the Modi administration has received more information about it than we have.

why undoubtedly? -- looking at the Indian response I doubt that they have.

> Hypothetically, is there some sort of motive you have for Canada to want to blame India for such a murder? What would they have to gain?

Yes, there is. The Trudeau govt will fall, if not for the support from Jagmeet Singh who is openly pro Khalistan and anti-India. Trudeau has every reason to act on behest of Jagmeet Singh. To top it all, Trudeau also aspires for the same pro-Khalistan/anti-India voters. The differences between India-Canada relationship are not new, it started soon after Trudeau became PM. In 2018 during his India visit, Trudeau, with him, invited a known Khalistani, convicted of attempted murder of an Indian Minister. But, however, the differences go all the way back to 1985 when pro-Khalistan Canadians bombed Air India Flight 182, killing all 329 aboard and failed-attempt to bomb another Air India Flight 301.

It is not to suggest that these allegation are because of this motive -- but only to list motive (since you asked).

setum··on U.S. Provided Canada with Intelligence on Killing of Sikh Leader
Iraq War: The fabrication of evidence.

Do you need links?

setum··on U.S. Provided Canada with Intelligence on Killing of Sikh Leader
All the proof put forward thus far is: trust me bro.
setum··on SingleFile: Save a complete web page into a single HTML file
IIRC, back in the day mhtml won’t save java applets.
setum··on Poly Styrene Broke the Mold
I assumed this would be something related to polystyrene and mold making.
setum··on Files – Single-file photo gallery and file manager
Nothing. My first thought as well. I have a NAS and a bunch of self hosted apps running on kubernetes. Something like this will be really useful.
setum··on India Semiconductor Mission
The failed enterprise was a government owned and managed entity. The new attempt is to help setup private sector managed entities.
setum··on India Semiconductor Mission
It’s a legacy feature of Indian democracy. Prior to this almost every public building (universities, Stadiums, Zoos, Office Buildings, Parks, etc) were named after Nehru, Gandhi or someone else from ruling family. Those names still exist.
setum··on Ask HN: Have you accepted the TOS that give FB access to your WhatsApp data?
I didn’t all this while, but just yesterday when my toddler was playing with my phone, the pop up opened and it got clicked as my toddler was repeatedly beating on the screen.

I guess this was their intention all along by showing repeated pop up windows.

setum··on Ask HN: Is it even worth reading news outside of HN?
If everyone stops reading outside of HN, we won’t have HN posts to begin with. So YES, not everyone should stop reading outside HN.
setum··on 20 Reasons America Is No Longer the Greatest Country in the World
They came up with the idea in 17xx, but fine print said: to be implemented later…

And by ‘men’, they certainly didn’t mean to include women.

setum··on 20 Reasons America Is No Longer the Greatest Country in the World
I see that the article lists a number of metrics, none of which is topped by US. Got it. But the greatness should be holistic measure of all the metrics.

So the question is: Is there any other country that overall ranks better than US. If not, then US remains greatest. Isn’t it?

setum··on Group of monkeys kill over 250 dogs for 'revenge' in Indian town
> can they really ambush a human, and push them over a ledge?

I would say male adult monkeys in my village can (males are bigger and stronger), although they don’t. They are fast, agile and acrobatic. Except for well prepared adult humans, monkeys can throw everyone else off a ledge.

Reason so many monkeys exist in India is because they are sacred animals (to Hindus, 80% population). In our village, no one can kill them. The most one can do is throw a stone to scare them away.

setum··on The origins of ‘horn ok please,’ India’s most ubiquitous phrase (2016)
輕信游客 means ‘gullible tourists’. That’s funny.
setum··on 6th Generation Stealth Fighter: Joint Effort by UK, Japan, Italy and Sweden?
$2 trillions could have been used to convert Palestinians into Jews, Christians, Jains or Buddhists, peacefully of-course. While it may not have resolved all the conflicts, it definitely would have reduced it drastically.
setum··on Biden to mandate coronavirus vaccine for federal workers
yes, if obesity were contagious.
setum··on Model sued for posting photo of herself on Instagram
clever.

would makeup or clothing choices count as intellectual property in the court of law? any existing examples?

setum··on Home Assistant iOS app adds local push notification support
I had it running on raspberry pi 3 earlier, but I have now moved it to kubernetes (k3s) running from my NAS (x64).
setum··on Windows 11 will leave millions of PCs behind
Windows 11 is being offered as free upgrade to consumers, OEMs will still need to pay.
setum··on Saudi Arabia executes Mustafa al-Darwish for teenage protests
> in prison huge numbers of 𝚛̶𝚎̶𝚕̶𝚒̶𝚐̶𝚒̶𝚘̶𝚞̶𝚜̶ minorities

this reminds me of another country, takes pride in its democracy, where citizens love marijuana, government don’t.

different places, different basis for prosecution.

setum··on Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to build new kind of nuclear reactor in Wyoming
> Same thing with Elon Musk and the Hyperloop; what does he know that thousands of people…

Damn! What’s with Musk and electric cars?

setum··on “There ain't no such thing as a free lunch”
water mills are not dams
setum··on Amazon Prime inflates prices, using the false promise of ‘free shipping’
> and then punishing them if they sell somewhere else that has lower fees for a lower price

how would Amazon know if a particular seller is also selling elsewhere?

setum··on WhatsApp sues Indian government, says new media rules mean end to privacy
WhatsApp a facebook company, in midst of changing their terms to reduce user privacy is suing to defend privacy. that’s funny!
setum··on Show HN: Wg-easy] Easy to setup, all-in-one WireGuard and Management Web UI
very useful, I was looking up for something like this. How to make it run kubernetes (k3s) cluster, especially the `sysctls` part.
setum··on China bans financial, payment institutions from cryptocurrency business
> would have collapsed without massive and unprecedented government intervention

would have, could have, but didn’t, that goes only to prove op’s point that institutions don’t lose money, especially the big ones.

setum··on Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge
It violates principle of equality to target only one
setum··on Uber used 50 Dutch shell companies to dodge taxes
Who is to blame Uber or inferior lawmakers?
setum··on Will Linux phones stay around this time?
thank-you, I didn’t know of this feature. And I am using iPhone for over a year now. It was such a pain to get cursor to correct spot up until now. Please share if know of any catalog of such tricks.
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