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Typical propaganda by a Modi hating, American owned and Soros funded rag. They can’t beat Modi at polls - so one day we have Jan 6 style Maidan Color revolution to overthrow Modi, next they try to get him lynched on Jan 5 in Punjab by blocking his motorcade for 20 minutes near the Pakistani border.

These so called reporters are inimical toward India, write incendiary lies and collaborate with Pakistan, Jihadis and Soros style ngos. So if you gonna dish it out you better take it too from the people as that is democracy. They indulge in worst kind of Twitter tricks using fake videos and fake news weekly.


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Implies they scan your email. Creepy. So no difference if it is FastMail, Gmail, Proton. Irony is they all pitch privacy, except from themselves.


How can you be surprised that a web email front end is able to do .indexOf() on your text?

It’s not creepy, it’s user friendly.


True but you missing the point. This shared database gives the power of decentralisation- you won’t get cancelled - the so called permission less data. Nobody is control yet everybody has some control - true democracy.

The public transaction problem is solved by bullet & zero knowledge proofs in currencies like Monero & Zcash. I trust Monero more as it seems Zcash has a on demand back door to unravel specific transactions.

Web3 is a panacea but it might take a decade to arrive as the building blocks are in place.


What you are attempting to do was done long back by a Rishi and great astrologer in ancient India named Brighu. But unfortunately large parts of his bulk horoscopes got lost. In some parts of india you get astrologers who have parts of this corpus and if your birth data is available, you will get a good accurate reading.

I will advice you to learn Vedic astrology which accounts for earths precession and hence is very accurate if your concepts are clear. Any book by B V Raman will help. Remember there are nearly a billion combinations 9 power 12. - 12 house and 9 planets. Good luck.


Yes web was decentralised till it became centralised with big tech gatekeepers. AMZN makes more money from sellers fee than AWS now. Thus killing small businesses - the lifeblood of most economies. Link below.

It is time to get rid of gatekeepers, toll collector and have control of our data & communities. Web 3 is a way do that and will take about a decade as the infra builds out. So it certainly is BS for big tech landlords and their retinue.

Crypto, is part of that plan for payments. Certainly there are scams but no different than scams today - where we are treated like lab rats subjected to data stimuli, our data stolen without permission or compensation.

Sure I will take the Internet of 90s any day over today’s web with its surveillance capitalism. But that boat passed long back, as will the current one. Web3 allows users to be in control of the network(s) or communities collectively. That certainly is good for most folks.

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What were you able to do in the 90s that you cannot do now on the web? I do not subscribe to this mumbo jumbo about gatekeepers, data stealing, centralised internet etc. While true, you are literally free to use any service you like, nobody is forcing you to spend your dollar here or there.

Good products are usually driven by commercial entities. I would love to use something else besides Android or iOS that is not backed by a commercial giant, which WORKS, is not full of spyware and has a healthy ecosystem but nobody is making one, nobody is able to put 2 and 2 together there.

Are the products you buy online going to physically move differently when you use the "decentralised" internet? Are the small businesses going to revive because of that? AMZN did not kill them, the consumer did. It's the consumer that spends the dollar and dictates such outcomes - none of which are going to be fixed by Web 3. For me, the centralisation that amazon provides is a feature, not a bug. You will not kill AMZN until you understand why it works the way it does and start competing with them. Don't tell me it can't be done because AliExpress is giggling in the background.

I have a few friends doing a fortune on AMZN without even seeing the products they sell (FBA). Adapt or die, it's just nature.


You can’t run a mailserver from your home without significant issues.


Oh yes you can, without much technical difficulties, easier than you would in the 90s actually [1][2]. Does it work as you would expect? Probably not because gmail and other ones are blocking/ghosting you (I suspect this to be the issue right?). Nobody is forcing people towards gmail though. I am one that is scared of being locked out by giants like Google and I switched everything (website logins + mail) to something else (my domain email, managed by protonmail). The transition was seamless and I control my mail with my domain right now. I can migrate at will any time I want.

Mailservers not running from your house is not really all that bad...for the rest of us. Imagine all the spammy software that your friends and relatives install on their computer being able to spin one and blast campaigns.

[1] https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver [2] https://mailu.io/1.8/


Amazon has been fantastic for my small business.

The fees aren't too crippling (around 15% of revenue) and FBA is an absolute Godsend for anyone based outside of the US trying to crack into that market (similar for Europe).

I could not thank Mr. Bezos more for the opportunities Amazon has given my family. The income from FBA was a major factor in my decision to quit my job back in 2020, and because of that my daughter can be with her daddy every single day.


The problem with Amazon is that a) for every story like yours, there are 5 that say the opposite, and b) it's all enabled by abusive labour practices.


I don't disagree with b, but I'd suspect there are many, many more people like me in the silent majority.

You just don't hear about it much because it's a boring news story.


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Sanskrit is one language not many different. It is like saying Bavarian German aka High German is different language from Hamburg German - they are both German. So there is and will be difference between regular speakers with good grammar vs occasional speakers with poor grammar. I run in these issues when I speak basic Sanskrit with Gurukul based students.

The source of Sanskrit and Sanskrit influence is the Saraswat Valley civilisation around 6000 BC. Some recent books have done radio carbon, Sanskrit literature, astronomical charts, climatic events and genomics to validate the time line. The central Asian language influence is migration out of India to Central Europe & Volga referred to as Uttar Kuru.


Please list these books and sources. An 8000 year old timeline is quite a leap over the current consensus which is 3500 years (the Rigveda, whose earliest inscriptions are found way outside the subcontinent all the way over in Syria).

Also what is the Saraswat Valley Civilisation? Are you referring to the Indus Valley Civilisation?

I’m sorry but the Out of India hypothesis is not accepted in the scientific and linguistic consensus in any way. The migration is believed to be in the other direction.

Also, Panini himself distinguished between different forms of Sanskrit as I understand.


Bavarian and other Germans are actually different. 20th century nationalism in Europe merged them into one blob. Same with Italian. In fact many dialects of italian aren’t even mutually intelligible.

Lol at your out of India theory which literally has no basis in any of what you describe


> Bavarian German aka High German

Bavarian German (Bayerische) is quite different from High German (Hochdeutsche) and people from Bavaria would not appreciate this mix up.


Making sweeping false statements without proof or facts. Massive literature (Vedas,Upnishads, yoga, Ayurveda, shavite mediations texts) all were spoken & orally taught till foreign invasions around 1000 AD. The language was part of day to day village culture till India started breaking.

BNF form and Chomsky work was greatly influenced by Panini Grammar Asthadays. It is different matter Chomsky does not acknowledge it while his professors do as to the source of influence on their work.

Tamil derived from Sanskrit as is Malayalam & Kannadiga and countless other Indian languages. So are many words in German, English and central European languages derived from Sanskrit Dhatus(root words). All words in Sanskrit come from this corpus of 2200 root words and new compound words created using these.

Now that is the beauty of Sanskrit. Panini Ashtadaya ought to be read by any serious linguist or CS person trying to built a DSL or a new programming language.


> Tamil derived from Sanskrit as is Malayalam & Kannadiga and countless other Indian languages.

False. Dravidian languages were likely part of Indus Valley civilization. They were the original Indian languages. In fact Tamil doesn’t even have many borrowed words from Sanskrit

Sanskrit was never commonly spoken. Panini himself understands this and created Sanskrit grammar for fast transmission and not easy conversation. It’s not clear if Sanskrit was ever used conversationally. Even today, in Mattur, where everyone uses Sanskrit, it’s not the conversational language. It’s reserved for special occasions and teaching. Decline of Sanskrit has nothing to do with foreign invasions. They never invaded or ruled over south India for long. Hinduism thrived with Shankaracharya, Ramanuja, Bhakthi movement etc in the South. North Indians have no one else but themselves to blame for the loss of their culture.

Have you read Ashtadyayi? It’s a genius piece of work but won’t help you zilch in practice. Also learn the name of the scripture properly before you falsely profess random crap to stroke your ego.


Anybody who has studied Sanskrit & Tamil notices tremendous similarity. Even the sounds and letters 90% overlap. Both Kannadiga & Malayalee agree Sanskrit is the mother language but not missionary funded Tamil political class.

You can’t have it both ways. One side you push the Dravidian supremacist mindset but then claim to be part of the Northern Indus/Saraswati valley civilisation. Indian used to be contiguous land mass, one time all the way to Bali and up to Volga river - king Lalitaditya including Gandhar(Kandhar, AFghanistan.)

I don)t believe in North & South Indian rhetoric - colonial trope popular with Christian missionaries. Not only I have read Ashtaadayi but used it’s principles to build a DSL. Sanskrit was designed for compactness and ease of remembrance, does not rule it out for speaking. I live near Asharams where they speak Sanskrit even today. This Himalayan Ashram is nearly 300 years old.

You keep making false, vague and generalised self serving statements as if you lived and spoken Sanskrit for 100 years. The corpus of Sanskrit literature exposes your “zilch” mindset. So tell me few phonetic sounds which exists in Tamil but not in Sanskrit & ones which exist both in Sanskrit and Tamil ?

That will set the record straight for the audience without you trying to bamboozle us with political rhetoric.


This is so ignorant and willfully racist I’m going to reply once and then stop. First is Kannada. Kannadiga means a person of Kannada culture. Same with Malayalee-Malayalam. No one accepts in any southern languages that Sanskrit is the mother language. This notion died in 20th century when linguistic analysis showed the mutual interaction between languages. Tamil and Sanskrit might seem similar to you the same way German and English are. But just as they didn’t inherit one another neither did Sanskrit or Tamil.

After the decline of Indus Valley and drought in the Saraswati basin the people moved south and westwards. This is archeologically well supported.

Volga is in Russia. Ancient India was only up to Khyber pass. Chanakya made it a point to protect that pass to protect India from foreign invasions and it was never breached until Islamic invasions 1000 years ago.

It’s Ashtadhyayi my dude. Not Ashtaadayi. It’s not even a word. The fact that you don’t realize this glaring error after pointing it out twice tells me everything about your actual knowledge behind these claims.

I’m from an orthodox Brahmin community and yes we do speak Sanskrit. Not just speak but plenty of my relatives have written books and conducted debates in them regularly. Which is also why your borderline childish knowledge seems so obvious to me.

And Christian missionary what? Here we go again with the victim complex and conspiracies. You blame someone else for your own ignorance.

Phonetic sounds are never the basis for identification of languages. Mutual intelligibility and grammar is. Lots of languages sound like one another without having anything in common. All European languages roughly use Greco-Roman phonemes. But they’re far from identical.

There’s no political rhetoric in my replies. It’s you who is making up random unsubstantiated claims and twisting reality when you can’t even spell or correctly write 50% of the words you’re using.

Sanskrit is not the mother of anything. It existed along with Prakrit, Pali and dozens of other languages. They all mixed, bred and propagated through history. Your North Indian supremacist attitude is just a coping mechanism to escape from poverty and backwardness of the north

BTW: I’m not a tamilian. I just used it as an example. And here you are talking about missionary funding and Christianity. It tells a lot about what you actually think. You’ve been fed some Hindutva propaganda and you’re trying to parrot it here.


It is a mixed back. Crooks and angels are both in big and small business. Some examples

1) During Covid Amazon seller doubled the price of oximeter and artificially created shortages. Besides classifying non delivery as customer return. Complained in writing but AMZN took no action. Amazon is just learning the patterns and using proxies to kill mom and pop shops as recent Reuters revelations have shown.

2) Ambani is no different using subsidized Jio phone, forcibly turning on location tracking and breaching SSL connection to locate/learn consumer activity pattern.

3) Some local businesses are stellar and consumer oriented. But others sell faulty Chinese oximeters for nearly 100 dollars and charge double price for a local wine bottle.


Good quality results on English search, but it logs IP address etc and does not anonymizes users. So I wll stick to DDG till the fix it. Otherwise great initial effort.

Excrept fron ther privacy policy - "Such information may include details of the User’s visit, information about the User’s computer, including IP (Internet Protocol) address, operating system and browser type, the User’s location, and usage information. An individual User will not be identified from or by this information and NONA is entitled to copy, distribute or otherwise use such information without limitation".


Are you talking about Nona? We don't log any IP addresses.

You might want to put the quote in context: The passage is from the area of "email and marketing" or "social media", we are obliged to the passage if we maintain a presence there - so in the case our Instagram accounts for example.

But thanks, we might need to edit the text to make it clearer.


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