mikymoothrowa

Is this for distributed data processing like spark is?

The documentation has nothing to indicate that it is.

Google had a very successful payments app called Tez in India. They merged that into Google pay during a flutter rewrite so that they can say things like “Google pay has 200 million users in 120 countries” even though all 200 million of those were in India.

In India, Google pay is a client for the UPI platform. You could send money from Google pay to Whatsapp pay for example.

then imagine what the collective hubris and arrogance displayed by the people in this sub-thread would imply about their respective countries’ democratic nature.

obviously indices created by the west would rank themselves higher.

India has a much more robust democracy because Indians have several dozen political parties to choose from unlike the US which has only 2 recognised parties.

India has had Prime Ministers from even very small regional parties that formed giant coalitions.

Americans meanwhile are stuck with 2 parties they perpetually hate

every sentence of this is wrong.

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

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

that’s not the worst part. The worst part is not fixing it for over a decade despite being called out

The title, if it’s not clear to you already.

It makes it sound like there’s a pollution warfare even though the article makes no justifications on how these countries are choking on each other’s pollution rather than their own. The article also talks about Nepal and Bhutan but the title has only Ind/Pak

it’s hard not to associate a nefarious reason especially because it is the economist

should have simply been “South Asia is choking in its pollution”

Google used to be the company that delivered us a fast browser, free online video streaming and was going to give absurdly cheaper fiber and wireless internet and affordable yet awesome smartphones.

Not anymore.

This is the same thing that pretty much ended IBM.

They had been pitching AI for how long and now they have to sustain themselves on openshift sales.

Plus, what kind of strategy is it to antagonise every single large player in the industry.

Apple and Amazon are friendly to each other. Microsoft and Facebook have been longtime partners despite Microsoft owning Linkedin. but Google manages to enter everybody’s industry and fail.

And at that time they were also operating with enthusiastic Engineers who can’t write bubble sort on their first try but then started hiring using the methods that led to “Cracking the coding interview” and terrible products

Google Pay is huge in India but it is/was a completely different product that started in Google India as Tez but was taken over from the Indian team and ruined.

Google claims to operate Pay in dozens of countries with millions of transactions but almost all of them are from India where Google pay is merely a client for UPI

For a company that really depends on user click signals, removing the dislike count from Youtube (and making the button pointless) is a amateurish mistake indicating a very broken internal structure.

the search UX, especially the top bar where you switch between search types is broken for nearly a decade and they are not able to fix that.

All late 2000s stuff before their endless rebrandings

Browser vendors are free to choose their own default search engines and get paid for it just like how Brave search is the default search on brave private

This tweet thread is unnecessarily confusing the two. How does restricting browser engine to webkit decide what browser engines they use?

Here’s how I think about it:

Davos is a religious gathering. You wouldn’t be happy/unhappy about other religious gatherings that you don’t participate in.

The elites really don’t have any control or vision over what’s going to happen, just like shamans and religious leaders of the past did not

Even when that line was true, I could get Linux working with a few hours of effort

No amount of effort is going to make windows usable when there’s a company actively working to make it user-hostile

Windows never changed.

It was a “new Microsoft” because they stopped making windows the center of their existence.

now windows takes a lower priority behind xbox even within it’s own division.

Searching for “The Gervais Principle” will give you a nice life cycle diagram for what you’re describing

they consume more and pay taxes, the taxes support municipal services which pay the salaries

In India, neither income taxes nor consumption taxes go to the local municipalities. This fact makes the rest of your comment meaningless although positive loops can be created in other ways.

But my original point stands: Local governments need to increase their housing taxes and provide these services

There’s a pro-Poor policy bias in places that are actually rich and these places have very different expectations.

You shouldn’t blame culture when investments on this front are lacking.

Local governments in India are perennially short on money and it’s they who are responsible for things like water supply, sanitation and garbage collection.

There are several joint venture garbage disposal companies operating in India. But only a few municipal corporations can afford to pay them.

And those few cities that do use these services rank well in cleanliness rankings

There are laws against dumping trash and sewage into creeks which do not get enforced.

City corporations need money to enforce the laws and clean stuff up but housing taxes continue to remain disproportionately low and people don’t pay that either.

only a very small fraction of people getting laid off are engineers.

especially because of this whole imessage/rcs thing, your friends are extremely more likely to be using the same OS as you.

DDG uses bing only for images AFAIK. Has that changed?

And they can only exist in the fictional economics textbook universe where currency and financial machinations don’t exist.

I like how it’s convenient for economic theorists and political historians to point to anything that existed in the 1980s US and claim that the Cold war was won because of that thing.

Somehow they ignore the fact that those things existed pre-Reagan and the pathetic state they were in economically, socially and politically regardless.

All countries have historically had tariffs. So, “broken” would mean a break from this free trade cultism that happened after large economies espoused the Austrian School of economics type free trade.

And US had no reason to break it because until maybe 2005 US was the biggest beneficiary of this system.

one only needs to look at the cement/steel production vs capacity to understand that they’re not the same.

This is plain circular reasoning.

You’re complaining that india doesn’t have the manufacturing capability by pointing to the fact that stuff is not manufactured in India, in a thread that talks about manufacturing moving to India.

You realistically don’t have a way to measure capability.