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This is not new. These terms were quietly updated on 1st April 2023. Looks like very few people noticed it until now.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230401045359/https://explore.z...

The UPI system adopted by India sounds promising to solve problems like these, where users can use the app of their choice and connect it to the bank account of their choice.

Eventually, you have a system where bank-to-bank transfers happen instantly with no intermediary apps holding your money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface

I just see two buttons: One that says "Log in", another that says "I'm not over 18"

Because that can be seen as a money making opportunity by one of their executives in future and the number of accounts that would need support could rise.

> There are several foreign channels that are banned in India including Al Jazeera and for very good reasons.

Al Jazeera isn't banned. In fact it is a free channel on most cable network providers

> Plus, I’m sure the West doesn’t get Russia Today or CCTV right now. nor India’s DD

Actually DD is also available in US, just like WION (another Indian news channel)

So you agree that tax officials are being used to harass them for the documentary?

> it could create communal disharmony and doesn't actually provide any further court admissible evidence.

I'll wait for these tax officials to raid OpIndia and SwarajyaMag's offices soon as well then.

I never understood the Indian ban. Aren't BBC documentaries available in the UK only anyways? Indian residents couldn't have accessed it without a VPN anyways.

> Why should a British funded propaganda machine be even allowed in a foreign country?

Same reason why any other foreign website is allowed in India or why other countries watch Bollywood movies. Globalization is a win-win for everyone. No country in the world is self-sustaining.

> the BBC think it is right and every other foreign country is wrong lOL

Actually that's what BJP thinks. Whenever anyone says anything against them, they are termed as a 'Conspiracy against the nation' or 'anti-national'. It is BJP who thinks they are right and everyone else is wrong, not the other way round :)

If other ISPs start following the same, you are right in saying I'm downplaying the situation.

But I also mentioned it is unlikely to happen since all major IT Consultancy firms in the country rely on GitHub for their work in one way or another. And not just with their code but also with their client's code.

> What do you mean blown out of proportion?

It is on the HN front page :)

Indian here. This seems to be blown a bit out of proportion. I am residing in a Tier-1 city in India and have an internet connection with a local ISP. I am able to access the content on the supposed blocked domain, so this is probably one ISP proactively blocking the domain without it being formally asked to do so (court order can't be ISP-specific AFAIK).

I work in a large consultancy firm and have friends in other Indian IT consultancy firms. GitHub is very commonly used across these firms for quite large projects and blocking that domain would certainly slow down the work of thousands of employees across the country instantly. No way can this block be carried ahead.

I was about to say, this reaffirms the word 'mouthbreather'

Not until we can have a browser within this docker container

The company named 2K pulls this every year where they disable the multiplayer and even single-player story-mode of their NBA 2K games that are less than 2 years old (they turned off NBA 2K20 servers in Dec 2021)

Its kind of sad what unemployment can do to people. India's unemployment rate has always been high and has kept going up post COVID.

On the flip side, not all Indians are bad. I've got multiple chances to work with some of them in the past and they are just a refreshing change to work with.

Wow, recession has really hit Matt Daemon hard if he is working at Amazon now.

In case you didn't read the article, it clearly mentions that Coffeezilla himself owns some Bitcoin. So no, he doesn't think that "all crypto is 100% scams".

In case you haven't yet done it already, you can ask TrueCaller to unlist your phone number from their System: https://www.truecaller.com/unlisting

Sorry but why is Number 1 to be expected? HN often shows a lot of hate when any Google products like Gmail or Google Meet works well on Chrome, but not on Firefox.

Web technologies should be browser independent.

Is no one going to talk about how Apple is implementing this?

If Apple is training a neural network to detect this kind of imagery, I would imagine there to be thousands, if not millions of child pornography images on Apple's servers that are being used by their own engineers to train this system

Sorry for my ignorance, but can you please explain what you mean by this?

You are right. It isn't easy. But no one ever said running a country would be easy. If you are choosing to use another country's currency for your economy, you carry all the risks associated to that currency

Yes. Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum founder) talks about this in his talk with Lex Fridman. According to him, the overhead of running a Quantum computer will be higher than the speed-up advantage you get by using it for mining.

Link to his talk https://youtu.be/3x1b_S6Qp2Q?t=2580 (43:00)

Depends on how tech savvy they are.

Bitcoin has a public ledger, so once you know who the owner is of a particular address, you can view all of their past transactions and all the addresses of those transactions, potentially exposing a lot of metadata of their activities

Great site, lot of interesting problems.

Any chance of adding Rust to the list of supported languages?

I wonder if this would unsettle innocent people as well. Sounds like this would unsettle some non-suspects too

That is because the stakes are too low to make you feel unsettled (in getting a random number).

But if you knew you did something that could land you in prison and you were supposed to hide it, that would be a completely different scenario.

Wait till you find out about YouTube

Those are definitely different things. Owning a GameStop stock gives you a small ownership and right to their profits (in form of dividends) in real money.

Owning a cryptocurrency means nothing if you can't actually use it as a currency in real world.