vickychijwani

I have no horse in this race - I’m neither American nor Russian, nor do I particularly love either country. But I am tired of US hypocrisy. I don’t understand how you all don’t see it - you’re all holed up in your cocoons and have no idea what’s actually going on in the world.

[1]: https://www.firstpost.com/opinion/bangladesh-coup-seems-stra...

The number of available UPI apps today exceeds 100. Some of the big ones are created by US companies, sure, but many are created by Indian/non-US-owned companies. There is no lock-in though.

Also, UPI is not on Windows/MacOS either, so it’s not correct to infer that it’s “not open” simply because it doesn’t run on Linux. It was designed from the start to be a mobile payment system, and there are good reasons for that (more on this below).

The reason it doesn’t work on AOSP is, I presume, due to security concerns related to rooting (similar to why it doesn’t work on older known-insecure versions of Android/iOS). The security/fraud prevention mechanisms rely on proving that your device has a SIM card with the phone number linked to your bank account - and the same phone number is tied to your identity via Aadhaar. These guarantees are presumably much harder/costlier to ensure on such devices.

EDIT to add: There is also an economic angle here: the above description of reliable, low-cost KYC in UPI also reduces the cost of operating the network (both directly by simplifying KYC, and indirectly by making fraud harder).

Source: I work on a UPI app (although I am by no means a security expert).

There’s been a recent development on this front: interoperable mobile number payments are coming to UPI in the next few months. The special VPA format for it is mobile-no@mapper.npci.

Ref: https://www.npci.org.in/PDF/npci/upi/circular/2021/NPCI-UPI-...

My understanding so far is that they run a Postgres consulting firm [1], and it appears they took the liberty of registering a Postgres trademark for the class of "professional services" in order to (I presume) protect fair use by their firm and (they claim in their response) by others in the Postgres community.

Some of this is admittedly speculation on my part, and I'm trying to take a charitable view of their actions to try to understand why a community member would do this.

That said I have no opinion on whether this action is net good for the community, and I'm not a Postgres user so I have no horse in this race. It's just the social dynamics of this situation that are interesting to me.

[1]: https://ongres.com/about-us/#team

That said I have no opinion on whether this action is net good for the community, and I'm not a Postgres user so I have no horse in this race. It's just the social dynamics of this situation that are interesting to me.

[1]: https://ongres.com/about-us/#team

Personally I'm interested in hearing more from them, as they don't fit the "trademark troll" description that commenters seem to be taking for granted here. Seeing some interesting discussion dynamics at play.

From the article:

> I’m not a business person. I’m just an open-source dev who likes to build weird things for fun. (If you doubt my track record of building things that don’t make money, just check out the list on my website, and note the conspicuous absence of anything that’s ever made a cent of revenue.)

This doesn't make your interpretation impossible, but it's certainly very unlikely.

A closer analogue would be a traffic experiment designed to gauge the emotional effects of a particular route. That's an important difference.

The article itself says the experiment was designed to look for evidence of emotional contagion, which is quite different from "it was designed to make people sad".

Also, in another thread it's pointed out that the effect sizes from this study were extremely small - something like 0.3% more negative words were used by ~150k people. The effect is said to be on the same scale as any minor UI change, like a size/color change of the "like" button. So it's hard to see this as anything other than folks looking for a reason to get outraged.

"The conventional wisdom is that about 30% of patients suffer fractures or breaks during CPR. However, a 2015 study published in Resuscitation suggested that this percentage is quite a bit higher. The study analyzed autopsy data from 2,148 patients who received CPR for non-trauma-related cardiac arrest, and the statistics were as follows:

* Skeletal chest injuries were found in 86% of men and 91% of women.

* 59% of the men and 79% of the women had sternum fractures.

* 77% of the men and 85% of the women had rib fractures."

"The conventional wisdom is that about 30% of patients suffer fractures or breaks during CPR. However, a 2015 study published in Resuscitation suggested that this percentage is quite a bit higher. The study analyzed autopsy data from 2,148 patients who received CPR for non-trauma-related cardiac arrest, and the statistics were as follows:

* Skeletal chest injuries were found in 86% of men and 91% of women.

* 59% of the men and 79% of the women had sternum fractures.

* 77% of the men and 85% of the women had rib fractures."

Well you gotta pick your poison. It's either them or Google. To be honest, "poison" is too harsh. Mozilla has done a few stupid things, but they're far more trustworthy than other Internet players.

All that said, just use Firefox. It's a much better experience and after Quantum it's on par with Chrome in terms of UI performance.

- Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1842.Guns_Germs_and_Steel)

- Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18077903-creativity-inc) - about Pixar's internal culture

- An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18170143-an-astronaut-s-g...)

In other words, how much of those numbers is explained by said lower probability, and how much by parents' willingness to trust their kids?

I think you're wrong on this one. A large number of devs care about dev experience at the expense of other important things like platform maturity, reliability, and security.

I don't agree with many of Steve's points in his post, but I do agree on this point. Both factors - x-platform development and instant redeploy - have contributed significantly to React Native's success so far. Indeed, if it weren't so important, I wouldn't expect Google to invest as much time and money as it did in getting Instant Run to work correctly (like others said, it was buggy as all hell when it first landed in Studio's stable channel and only became usable after many months). The fact that Flutter advertises "stateful hot reloading" prominently is just more evidence that it's important for attracting devs.

This discussion is about blogging, so IMO it's a valid comparison. While WP can be used for a whole bunch of other stuff, that doesn't change the fact that it's one of the most popular blogging platforms.

> It sounds like you didn't know how to secure your server with at least chroot jail, selective port filtering, and njinx injection filtering or apache fail2ban.

Well, I shouldn't need to know those things if all I really care about is blogging.