This sounds so true of India as well. We have few media outlets that are unabashedly pro government and racist, and prominent among them(Republic TV) was in fact founded couple of years ago. Majority of mass regional language channels, including Hindi channels are controlled by pro government propagandists. While we do have a popular government at the center and by definition lot of folks in fact love these pro government propaganda, those in disagreement have no clue how to stand upto and win against these powerful power formation. They got the government, media, well funded social media teams that is few hundred thousand strong and sadly judiciary as well in their favor. They can twist and turn every facts to their convenience and feed the silent majority .
Though there has been a student and minority led protests against these of late, they are just not effective in combating these, with so much odds stacked against them. Honesty many are loosing hope. What in HN's collective wisdom is the way out for us, the nations like India, Turkey and others like us?
Again, I have noticed the green names, but never understood the significance until I saw this comment and decided to look up. Green names are when the account is less than 2 weeks old! Now I know ;)
Kerala's unusual socioeconomic and demographic situation was summarized by author and environmentalist Bill McKibben:[26]
Kerala, a state in India, is a bizarre anomaly among developing nations, a place that offers real hope for the future of the Third World. Though not much larger than Maryland, Kerala has a population as big as California's and a per capita annual income of less than $300. But its infant mortality rate is very low, its literacy rate among the highest on Earth, and its birthrate below America's and falling faster. Kerala's residents live nearly as long as Americans or Europeans. Though mostly a land of paddy-covered plains, statistically Kerala stands out as the Mount Everest of social development; there's truly no place like it.[26]
I'm stuck with Chrome for more of my daily browsing because have been using Chrome browser as my password manager as well for non critical application accounts. Now every time I browse those apps/sites using firefox, i do not remember all of those passwords and need to go back to chrome again. And I been too lazy to go through the forgot password song and dance too. Is there any way to move the Chrome saved passwords over to Firefox?
If you make your learning less like "learning" you will have great chance of learning anything new.
Reading, Listening, Speaking, Writing (not necessarily in any order) are key to improving your language skills.
Pick few subjects that you are reasonably excited about. Movies, Technology, Fashion, Current Affairs, Religion, Music, Designing... basically anything that do not bore you and spend some time finding channels that talk/write about these. Make sure you are able to spend at least a decent amount of time everyday watching/listening/reading about those.
I had very poor English language speaking skills even after I completed my college. I took it as a challenge and made sure I spent at least 15 minutes every day listening English news (I live in India and this was some 20 years ago, so the options were very limited back then)
Read English news papers for about 30 minutes, and always noted down new words and their meaning and kept referring to those when I wasn't preoccupied anything else.. .those notes used to stay with me for few days before I threw those away for newer ones.
Also, moving to Bangalore helped me a lot because, many of my new friends didn't share my mother tongue so English was our primary communication medium.
Thinking about it, it was kinda boring to be honest, I dont know if i will do the same for learning any other language, but I was really motivated to learn English back then so that probably kept me going.
I am looking for the tax information as well for a soon to be launched Staffing Agency back office software. Taxation is the last major thing to finish... Been collecting the information from wherever I can find... but would love to have one authentic source :)
I really wanted to try rethink db in one of my side projects, which is gonna be a SaaS product. What are the best practices/ support for multi tenancy, with rethink?
The front end will mostly be Rails (I currently use apartment gem with postgres).
Though there has been a student and minority led protests against these of late, they are just not effective in combating these, with so much odds stacked against them. Honesty many are loosing hope. What in HN's collective wisdom is the way out for us, the nations like India, Turkey and others like us?