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Who talked about the balkanisation of India? The OP is pointing out an inaccurate fact — Europe did not break up on religion.

We could all use a little drama to support our points here.

Mate, you do realise that Whataboutery is simply another way to have a faux conversation with yourself?

There’s little one can do if some in the country are hell bent on putting their heads in sands like an ostrich. Doesn’t change the truth, unfortunately.

As for Al Jazeera and other channels you mentioned, they can be watched online – unlike the Modi documentary.

What made you remove it?

Well, it is an object fact though — isn't it? Twitter is an order of magnitude smaller than Meta, and Facebook / Meta / Zuckerberg have been fined and trialled an order of magnitude more times than twitter for its deeds. Whistleblowers have presented an order of magnitude more documentation and proof for Facebook's shady practices. It is only fair that it is discussed an order of magnitude more times than Twitter.

Just because you want the two to be "equally bad" doesn't make it so, and bringing up Y when the topic is X in this case is the textbook definition of whataboutery.

Being the vaccine manufacturing hub of the world since a few decades, if India did not manufacture its own vaccines it would be a shock. I don’t think that’s something unusual – if anything failure to scale up vaccine manufacturing that led to a deadly second wave is to be considered an abject failure.

I don’t get this Whataboutery? The news story and the article is about Meta - why bring Twitter or any other media into discussion, unless you want to distract from the topic at hand.

I think you should speak for yourself instead of for all Indians. You believing or not believing something has little effect on facts. Bullying everyone into believing your unquestioned love for the present day government is rather disenginious.

It's not about your laws vs my laws — I think we can objectively judge what sort of protections make sense for someone who doesn't necessarily agree with the government of the day, without going into defensive nationalism.

Why would you compare violence from 1980's to 2020? You realise thats a gap of 40 years?

It's almost as if you're trying to find a previous period with same communalism rates going back as far as you need to to prove point.

In terms of trends in the 20th century, there's been a clear noticeable jump after the current government came in, which is what should matter.

Sure, again, context matters. A lot of Delhi, and probably a lot more of Mumbai is just illegal construction, if you were to apply the law squarely, a large part of the cities would be rubble.

You're (perhaps rather knowingly) ignoring the nuance here.

This assumes people vote on election manifestos, which is far from the truth, at least in India.

How many people who voted for the current government do you think would know what NRC meant when they voted? Infact, does the general mass understand it even to date?

This is especially disappointing considering the time, legal and administrative effort and money will be spent on trialing and detention of alleged non-citizens.

For a government which has attained a historical majority for the second time, just imagine the impact they can have if they focussed this energy on improving economic and human-life indicators instead. India still ranks 103 on the world hunger index, even below its less developed neighbour – Pakistan.

I hope they don't squander this majority away, but I fear they will.

It's a shame really then that it continues to be the most popular password manager.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=1Password,LastPas...

TLDR; A gas supply utility, Indane, provided an un -authenticated, non-rate limited API proxy to the authenticated Aadhar API, allowing anyone to make more than a thousand requests a minute to fetch personal information, by just iterating through the Aadhar numbers.

The app seems to be throwing an error?

Edit: Nevermind, looks like its up again.

Not to mention the numerous results from Google SketchUp and Autodesk SketchBook that popup when you're searching for "sketch <help-me-with-something>"

It does, although only can only assume the effect of performance on search rankings. It's non-tangible metric as far as revenue is concerned.

As someone who has developed for mobile web, it can be surprisingly hard to push back on bloat from marketing / seo / analytics teams. I hope this becomes a W3C standard so us developers can show them the finger the next time they want to bring mobile web to a crawl.

The problem doesn't seem to be related only to web. These dark interstitial patterns are present in every platform.

Recently used Ola's (Uber's main competitor in India) native app on android, and right when you're about to book a pool ride, at times, they'll show you a full page interstitial advertising pool rides. And if that wasn't ridiculous already, they provide no way to cancel the popup. The only way to proceed is by clicking "Try share".

And when you do so, it throws a generic "Uh Oh, Something went wrong error", and you're basically stuck without a ride.

Of course, and this does get pointed out to them.

But it's easier for them to extrapolate data and say, hey, we couldn't get emails of xxx thousand users, so we lost xxx amount, vs our argument that they probably lost a number of users who were annoyed by the popup.

Except, you can count conversions, but you can't "measure annoyance"

Marketing teams are usually data driven rather than user experience driven.

How does one counter the argument that "anecdotal evidence suggests people who sign up with us are 2x more likely to convert, so let's force more sign ups to increase revenue".

What's disheartening is that many websites have started finding workarounds to show these interstitials after a delay or in between screen transitions.

The inherent problem is that app experiences somehow lead to better conversions, and no company would want to lose revenue due to dropped install numbers.

I think cancelling HTTP requests is quite a useful in some scenarios. Eg 1) Say you're fetching heavy json/binary data on an user action, and before data arrives, he changes his action. Not only do ypu download all of the extra data, but the fetch for the next action is slowed down like hell.

Not sure, but does this mean that I can't cancel a heavy file upload if a user changes his mind?

It's surprising that so many good tools are regretted because of lack of clear documentation and intuitive API (looking at you, Webpack).

No, a good user experience is not a luxury you can afford to omit. Stop creating backlog tickets to "simplify code". It's just plain selfishness.

True, but the poor browser support for connection type and even poorer support for downlink means it cannot be relied on all the time.

`navigation.connection` only tells if the user is on cellular/wifi. While this is certainly helpful, cellular connections themselves can vary enormously.

Very true.