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antitrust lawsuit filed against Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor and Francis, Sage, Wiley, and Wolters Kluwer, for conspiring to appropriate billions that should have funded scientific research
emergencyfood 14 hours ago • 100%
That already exists. It's called arXiv, and is used by mathematicians, physicists and computer scientists. Everyone else has to pay up.
emergencyfood 17 hours ago • 100%
better yet how about they take enough for donation and decanter a portion out an do blood testing both to make sure the blood is clean but alsoso the individual is aware of they are free of X
This is already how they do it here (India). They'll test all donations for a number of infections, and you can give them your mobile number / e-mail / postal address to inform you if they find something.
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So much
emergencyfood 1 week ago • 50%
Not a mathematician, but I'm pretty sure this isn't necessarily true. What if L is -1 and f(x) = x^2? Also I think your function has to be continuous.
emergencyfood 1 week ago • 100%
I think it was Charlie Chaplin who said that the best jokes make you first laugh and then cry.
emergencyfood 1 week ago • 100%
It could be a different stratum of society. Maybe like politicians and businessmen. They say ~5% of Indians have iPhones, but I only know two people with iPhones (and one was second-hand).
emergencyfood 1 week ago • 100%
I don't think SMIC refuses to sell to non-Chinese companies. Nokia mostly uses Unisoc chips, which are made in China (not sure if by SMIC).
But if they did, it would be a pretty serious problem, since I don't think SMIC even has a viable competitor in the entry-level smartphone chip market.
emergencyfood 1 week ago • 100%
They have microSD, audio jack, okay chip (Snapdragon 4 Gen 2) and RAM (4-8 GB), replaceable batteries and screens, and HMD has pledged spare parts for seven years. That's a good start, but it's a bit overpriced for its specs and currently only available in Europe, so it probably won't sell very well.
emergencyfood 1 week ago • 100%
Apple is leading in a lot of countries despite Android being the dominant OS, because the Android userbase is divided among different manufacturers. See China, for example.
emergencyfood 1 week ago • 100%
Govt jobs in India have 30-40 days, which is 6-8 weeks. But the private sector will riot if you try mandating anything close to that.
emergencyfood 1 week ago • 100%
The second image in the lead is showing the list of countries who recognised Palestine after the episode in question. Based on the title, you need the list of countries who recognised before.
And yes, we recognised them in 1988.
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Autoclave
emergencyfood 2 weeks ago • 100%
Thanks!
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Leading smartphone vendor in each country
emergencyfood 2 weeks ago • 100%
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Leading smartphone vendor in each country
emergencyfood 2 weeks ago • 100%
Fixed. Thanks!
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emergencyfood 2 weeks ago • 100%
LibreOffice + me trying to fix things and making it worse + svg to png conversion
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Leading smartphone vendor in each country
emergencyfood 2 weeks ago • 100%
You overestimate my artistic abilities. I took the default colour palette LibreOffice gave, and replaced a few with ones that clash less.
emergencyfood 2 weeks ago • 100%
I asked how much corn or sorghum they eat. None,the children don't like either.
Isn't niacin found in meat and fish? What do corn and sorghum have to do with it?
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Autoclave
emergencyfood 2 weeks ago • 100%
Why do aircraft parts need to be sterile?
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Happy Weekend, boyz
emergencyfood 2 weeks ago • 100%
I see. I've only used ethanol for disinfection, and it was always methylated.
emergencyfood 2 weeks ago • 100%
being pushed into unsafe diet and exercise plans, often with very high pressure coming from parents and coaches
That's true of any sport? I agree that sports should be more fun and less competitive, at least for children, but why single out gymnastics? At least there's no contact like in wrestling or even football.
emergencyfood 2 weeks ago • 100%
I mean, the biggest (or rather, only) reason I still use WhatsApp is that it works with (other people's) WhatsApp.
emergencyfood 2 weeks ago • 100%
Oh right, some of their assets were frozen, due to non-payment of tax. I thought you meant freezing all assets and kicking them out of the country, like what happened to Huawei.
To some extent, these might be routine tax evasion investigations. But there is definitely a pattern of certain Indian companies getting favourable treatment over foreign competitors. Whether this is a deliberate move, or just politicians shaking up businesses for hush money, I do not know.
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Happy Weekend, boyz
emergencyfood 2 weeks ago • 100%
lab grade ethanol
That's usually methylated spirit. It probably won't kill you, but you'll lose your vision.
emergencyfood 2 weeks ago • 100%
It could just be small sample size giving a wrong result. These are based on website hits, not official sales figures.
emergencyfood 2 weeks ago • 100%
Grey is 'I couldn't be arsed to look up this country; it's tiny so I hope no one notices'.
emergencyfood 2 weeks ago • 100%
Apple has 'won' a lot of countries with just 20-30% marketshare, because the Android market is so fragmented. Look at China, for example.
emergencyfood 2 weeks ago • 100%
Major markets. The arrangement is whatever LibreOffice chose, which for some reason is reverse alphabetical order. Oh well, at least World comes first.
emergencyfood 2 weeks ago • 100%
India has not frozen Xiaomi's assets as far as I know. They got a pretty big fine for tax evasion (they said they were paying the tax in China, but weren't, or something like that).
its attempts to stir up a China vs India culture war
All the viable alternatives to Xiaomi (Oppo, Vivo, Realme,, etc.) are also Chinese, so this doesn't really matter. Now these companies are challenging Xiaomi, but they're doing it by offering comparable performance to price ratio and better cameras. Also, Xiaomi has conceded to our demand to set up some local manufacturing. Low-end phones are now assembled in Chennai, Bengaluru and Noida, although the components are still imported.
Edit: First sentence is incorrect, as pointed out below.
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Leading smartphone vendor in each country
emergencyfood 2 weeks ago • 85%
Look at the bar chart below. Apple has almost a two-third marketshare in Japan, but only about 20% in China. But China has a variety of Android manufacturers, so that Apple is the single biggest vendor.
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emergencyfood 2 weeks ago • 100%
Sorry, but I couldn't find 12 distinct colours that all lie on the blue - yellow spectrum.
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emergencyfood 2 weeks ago • 100%
In addition to what philpo said, they also provide good language support for many African languages, something no other vendor does.
Across the world, the biggest smartphone manufacturers are Apple (28%), Samsung (24%), Xiaomi (12%), Oppo (6%) and Vivo (5%). However, there are geographic patterns in popularity, with Apple dominating North America and East Asia, while Samsung leads in South America, Europe, Africa and West Asia in addition to its home turf of South Korea. Xiaomi is the most popular phone brand across South Asia, Spain, Venezuela, Ukraine, Madagascar, Kyrgyzstan and Palestine, while Tecno is popular in West and Central Africa. Oppo, Vivo and Huawei lead in Indonesia, Bhutan and Togo respectively.
Across the world, the biggest smartphone manufacturers are Apple (28%), Samsung (24%), Xiaomi (12%), Oppo (6%) and Vivo (5%). However, there are geographic patterns in popularity, with Apple dominating North America and East Asia, while Samsung leads in South America, Europe, Africa and West Asia in addition to its home turf of South Korea. Xiaomi is the most popular phone brand across South Asia, Spain, Venezuela, Ukraine, Madagascar, Kyrgyzstan and Palestine, while Tecno is popular in West and Central Africa. Oppo, Vivo and Huawei lead in Indonesia, Bhutan and Togo respectively.
Across the world, the biggest smartphone manufacturers are Apple (28%), Samsung (24%), Xiaomi (12%), Oppo (6%) and Vivo (5%). However, there are geographic patterns in popularity, with Apple dominating North America and East Asia, while Samsung leads in South America, Europe, Africa and West Asia in addition to its home turf of South Korea. Xiaomi is the most popular phone brand across South Asia, Spain, Venezuela, Ukraine, Madagascar, Kyrgyzstan and Palestine, while Tecno is popular in West and Central Africa. Oppo, Vivo and Huawei lead in Indonesia, Bhutan and Togo respectively.
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OK.
emergencyfood 2 weeks ago • 100%
Ah, makes sense.
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OK.
emergencyfood 2 weeks ago • 100%
I'm pretty sure the sun isn't massive enough to go supernova.
emergencyfood 3 weeks ago • 100%
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There are Terminal emulators. They can't do everything, but they're okay.
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They used to have freely unlockable bootloaders but it is becoming harder and harder with newer models.
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Becoming et al.
emergencyfood 3 weeks ago • 100%
Umm, that sounds very illegal?
emergencyfood 3 weeks ago • 60%
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Why? Android is Linux.
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Xiaomi allows bootloader unlocking, so you can install a ROM that gives you root access.
emergencyfood 3 weeks ago • 100%
Voting is about choosing good candidates well before it gets pared down to 2 options.
In the US, yes. I was making a general statement. A voting system can be set up in multiple ways, but if it forces people to play lesser of the two evils then it is broken and needs to be changed.
emergencyfood 3 weeks ago • 28%
Voting is about choosing good candidates (or parties, or policies). If your system doesn't let you vote, then you should consider changing your system.
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India stands 'firmly for peace' PM Modi tells Ukraine's Zelensky
emergencyfood 3 weeks ago • 66%
If a violent criminal tried to break into my house, I would definitely not try to fight them alone. I do not have a death wish.
Of course Russia should not occupy Ukraine (and neither should Ukraine act as an occupying army towards its own Russian minority). But questions of what is right and what is wrong will not be decided on the battlefield. The only thing that will be proven on the battlefield is which side has a bigger army, and we already know the answer to that question.
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India stands 'firmly for peace' PM Modi tells Ukraine's Zelensky
emergencyfood 3 weeks ago • 69%
that is definitely NOT taking a side lol.
Under the current circumstances, the only moral position is to support peace. Once a peace - or at least a ceasefire - is achieved, Russia, Ukraine and the separatist regions may be able to negotiate a settlement and those who started the war might even be exposed and punished. But if the fighting continues, thousands of random people will die needlessly.
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Google threatened tech influencers unless they ‘preferred’ the Pixel
emergencyfood 4 weeks ago • 100%
Poco phones are based on Redmis. They do change some things, even hardware. So nothing is stopping them from changing their unlocking policy.
Low hanging fruit, but whatever. It is what it is.
Cheung Ka-long's 15-14 victory in an Olympic fencing final against Filippo Macchi has resulted in a war of words between their fans. Italy supporters have attacked Cheung's social media accounts, arguing that the referees - from South Korea and Taiwan - may have been biased towards him. In response, Hongkongers have posted their love of 'pineapple on pizza' and 'pasta with soy sauce'. Pizza hut Hong Kong has announced free pineapple toppings on pizza orders.
South Korea's Supreme Court ruled that the state health insurance agency should provide the same benefits to spouses in same-gender relationships as it does to those in heterosexual marriages. The ruling is final and cannot be appealed. South Korea, like most of East Asia, neither prohibits nor recognises same-sex relationships. As of now, only three places in Asia - Nepal, Thailand and Taiwan - have full marriage equality.
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The Labour party has won over 400 seats (out of 650) in the 2024 UK General Elections, and Keir Starmer is expected to replace Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister. The Conservatives, in power for the last fourteen years, have suffered a rout, losing over two-thirds of their seats. The SNP has collapsed in Scotland, mostly to Labour, and the Liberal Democrats have gained over sixty seats.
(Context: the 2024 Parliament elections in India, for the constituency of Kollam. The numbers in brackets are lead, not change from last election. Source: Election Commission of India)
Results for the 2024 Indian Parliament elections for the state of Maharashtra - constituencies coloured according to winning party (Cyan - Congress (13 seats), Green - SSUBT (9), Orange - BJP (9), Pink - NCPSP (8), Yellow - SHS (7), Blue - NCP(AP) (1), Grey - Ind (1)).
Cyan - Congress (13 seats), Green - SSUBT (9), Orange - BJP (9), Pink - NCPSP (8), Yellow - SHS (7), Blue - NCP(AP) (1), Grey - Ind (1) The shapefile is from the Election Commission of India [website](https://results.eci.gov.in).
Preliminary results for the 2024 Indian General election suggest that the Bharatiya Janata Party is set to lose its absolute majority in the lower house of Parliament. However, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) it leads is projected to cross the halfway mark. The opposition INDIA alliance is projected to more than double its seat count, from 92 to around 200 seats.
I have about 500GB of data (photos, documents, videos etc.) that I have accumulated over the years. Currently, I keep them on my computer and rsync all additions / changes once a month or so to an external hard drive. Do I need to be worried about data loss (sectors going bad, bit rot, bit flip, whatever it is called)? To clarify, 1. None of this is commercially important; I just don't want to get into a situation where I look up an old family photo or video twenty years down the line and it has got corrupted. 2. Both my computer and the external HD are HDDs. They are fairly cheap here (and very cheap if second hand). Buying SSDs or dedicated hardware would be expensive.
Following the last day of voting for the 2024 Indian Parliamentary elections, exit polls predicted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's National Democratic Alliance would retain its majority, winning 340 - 401 seats compared to 353 in 2019. The main opposition INDIA alliance was expected to win 109 - 169 seats, up from 91 in 2019. Three 'neutral' regional parties - the BRS, BJD and TMC, were expected to lose seats. Compared to 2019, the NDA was expected to win West Bengal from the TMC, and to make inroads into south India, where it has historically been weak. In return, INDIA was expected to pick up seats in Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Haryana and Bihar, and to wrest Telangana from the BRS.
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The Indian ocean could warm by a further 1.7-3.8 degrees in the coming eighty years, according to a study published by scientists at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology in Pune. Each second, the ocean is absorbing heat comparable to that released by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. In addition to sea level rise, this warming could lead to stronger monsoons and coral bleaching.
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The Supreme Court of India, in a case concerning the protection of the Great Indian Bustard, ruled that the right against climate change is a fundamental right. Fundamental rights are rights guaranteed by the constitution (such as the rights to equality and personal freedom) or 'interpreted' as such by the Supreme Court (so far, only the right to privacy). They apply to all Indian residents, rather than only citizens, and cannot be removed except by constitutional amendment. The court also set up an expert panel to monitor the protection of the bird, and urged governments to speed up expansion of solar power.
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A [report](https://wid.world/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/WorldInequalityLab_WP2024_09_Income-and-Wealth-Inequality-in-India-1922-2023_Final.pdf) by the World Inequality Lab, co-authored by French economist Thomas Piketty, has estimated that in 2022-23, India's income and wealth inequalities were at their highest levels since records began in 1922 and 1961 respectively. The richest 1% of the population now own 40.1% of the nation's wealth, higher than in the US (34.9%), China (32.6%) or France (24%). Previously, inequality fell from Indian independence in 1947 to the 1980s and has been rising since.
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The Indian Space Research Organisation has shortlisted four Indian Air Force pilots - Group Captain Prasanth Balakrishnan Nair, Group Captain Ajit Krishnan, Group Captain Angad Pratap and Wing Commander Shubhanshu Shukla, for India's first manned space mission, *Gaganyaan*. They have completed basic training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in Russia, and will undergo specialised training at the Crew Training Facility in India.
Source: [Part 1](https://youtu.be/-Im4YAMWK74) and [Part 2](https://youtu.be/woB0eecbf6A) Tl;dw - Unlike China and Japan, medieval Korea followed an extreme school of Confucianism that emphasized hierarchy and age over practicality. After WW2, the South Korean ~~dictatorship~~ government used this tradition to cement their own power. The video argues that these have made South Korea an extremely hierarchical, and in particular, sexist, society. A video game's refusal to sexualize a female character for their (mostly male) audience was thus seen as an attack on the system. A female artist at the studio was accused of being a 'radical feminist', and either fired or resigned to appease fans.
Source: [Part 1](https://youtu.be/-Im4YAMWK74) and [Part 2](https://youtu.be/woB0eecbf6A) Tl;dw - Unlike China and Japan, medieval Korea followed an extreme school of Confucianism that emphasized hierarchy and age over practicality. After WW2, the South Korean ~~dictatorship~~ government used this tradition to cement their own power. The video argues that these have made South Korea an extremely hierarchical, and in particular, sexist, society. A video game's refusal to sexualize a female character for their (mostly male) audience was thus seen as an attack on the system. A female artist at the studio was accused of being a 'radical feminist', and either fired or resigned to appease fans. Edit: As Denjin pointed out, it should be Ming Dynasty and not Tang Dynasty.
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A five-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India unanimously struck down the electoral bonds scheme, as well as amendments to the Companies Act, Income Tax Act and Representatives of the People Act, that had allowed corporations to anonymously make unlimited financial contributions to political parties. The court found that anonymous political funding promoted corruption and a culture of *quid pro quo* with the ruling party, led to the unrestrained influence of corporates in the electoral process, and violated voters' right to information under Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution. The court also asked the State Bank of India, which handled electoral bonds, to provide details of bonds purchased so far to the Election Commission, which must then release this information on its website.
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In 2022, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was removed from his position in what was alleged to be a military-backed coup, and the Pakistan Muslim League (PMLN) came to power. Following this, Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) had its party symbol banned and candidates were forced to run as independents. However, these independent candidates seem to have taken an early lead in yesterday's elections to the Pakistani Parliament, with 88 (out of 265) seats. The PMLN is second with 60 seats. Votes are still being counted, and the PTI has alleged vote-rigging in many constituencies.
> Hey bro, can I have some antibiotic resistance? > Sure bro, but remember that the heavy metal tolerance gene is a dependency. > Shit, I'm on python 2 but *hmrA* requires python 3.
> Hey Evolution, can I have an oxygen transporter for my red blood cells? > Best I can do is this muscle protein for oxygen storage.
Ancient China suffered from raids from the Xiongnu Confederation of modern-day Mongolia. At first, the Chinese tried defensive tactics such as building the Great Wall and ~~paying tribute~~ donating gifts. But the raids continued, so in 119 BCE the Han Dynasty sent an army into Mongolia. The Chinese army was much smaller, but better trained and much better supplied. In [three battles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mobei) they pretty much annihilated the Xiongnu army, with the survivors splitting into smaller groups (and some even becoming Han vassals). Some Xiongnu tribes retreated north and west into modern-day Siberia and south Russia, pushing the residents westward. They, in turn, moved into eastern Europe and Germany. This pushed the Visigoths of Germany southwards, where they [sacked Rome in 410 CE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Rome_%28410%29). While Rome was no longer the capital of the Roman Empire, it was still a major cultural and economic centre, and its fall sent shockwaves across Europe. The migrations also caused the collapse of the [Burgundian Kingdom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgundians) (in modern-day Rhineland, *not* modern-day Burgundy) at the hands of the Huns (and their Roman allies), which forms the backdrop of the German epic the [Nibelungenlied](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibelungenlied) (not to be confused with Wagner's [Ring of the Nibelung](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Ring_des_Nibelungen), which, despite sharing most characters, borrows heavily from the Norse version of the legend and Wagner's political (socialist) and religious (Buddhist) beliefs).
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies are on course to win three of four states in the last major elections before the 2024 General Elections to the Indian Parliament. The BJP improved its position in its stronghold of [Madhya Pradesh](https://www.thehindu.com/article67597767.ece), while flipping the battleground states of [Rajasthan](https://www.thehindu.com/article67597833.ece) and [Chattisgarh](https://www.thehindu.com/article67597720.ece) from the opposition Indian National Congress. The INC, in turn, flipped [Telangana](https://www.thehindu.com/article67597683.ece) from the BRS, winning it for the first time in history. Overall, the BJP and its allies are expected to win 330-340 seats (up from 198), while the INC would get 230-240 (down from 301). Among smaller parties, the BRS would get around 40, the AIMIM 6, the BSP 4 and the CPI 2.
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Australia won their sixth world cup, beating hosts India in final. India 240 all out (50 overs) Australia 241 - 4 (43 overs)
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Haemoglobin is a key component of red blood cells, and transports oxygen across the body. However, a team led by Dr Feng Zhang and Dr Quiang Sun has discovered haemoglobin bodies ('hedies') in cartilage chondrocytes. They also saw that hedies are essential for chondrocyte survival, and that they store and release oxygen as they do in the bloodstream. This is of medical interest as many bone deformities arise from cell death of chondrocytes. Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06611-6
Our model suggests that rainforests aren't real and that most of the earth is heavily populated.
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A 3-2 majority of the Supreme Court of India refused to legalise marriage equality, holding that marriage was a statutory, and not constitutional, right. However, it unanimously urged Parliament and state legislatures to look into concerns faced by same-gender partners, such as in matters of inheritance, employment benefits, and opening of joint bank accounts. It [also held](https://www.thehindu.com/news/!article67431749.ece) that transgender people can marry under the current laws.
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Dr MS Swaminathan, the agricultural scientist known as the father of India's Green Revolution, passed away at his home in Chennai. He was 98, and is survived by three daughters, including former WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan. Mr Swaminathan is best known for his role in developing high-yielding varieties of rice and wheat. He also served as the head of the Indian Council for Agricultural Research, the National Commission on Farmers and the International Rice Research Institute (in the Philippines). While he was highly decorated both by India and the UN, the Green Revolution has also been blamed for environmental destruction and the loss of crop genetic diversity.
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India manufactures a significant share of the world's pharmaceuticals, thanks in part to strict laws against frivolous patents and evergreening. However, a proposed change could make it harder for third parties to object to the granting of patents. This could hurt the Indian pharmaceutical industry as companies shift elsewhere, and drive up prices across the global south in the short term.
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In a bid to encourage organ donation, the government of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu has offered to conduct the funerals of donors with state honours.
Today's result: President wins Image caption: Panel 1 - A few weeks ago - Putin as the Raiden Shogun promising to let the traveller (Prigozhin) leave Russia alive. Panel 2 - Yesterday - The Raiden Shogun attacking the traveller once they have stepped foot outside.
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Due to increasing concerns over cyberattacks and malware, India's Defence Ministry has decided to replace Microsoft's OS with a locally made Ubuntu fork named Maya (meaning 'deception' in Sanskrit). Maya will have an interface similar to Windows to ease the transition, and an end-point detection and protection system called Chakravyuh. The three armed services are also expected to follow suit, with the Navy already having cleared the OS for deployment. The Indian government has long had a policy to transfer all government systems to open-source software, with the Railways and the Bombay Stock Exchange having switched to Red Hat and educational institutions using distributions such as Debian-based [BOSS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharat_Operating_System_Solutions) and Ubuntu-based [KITE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KITE_Kerala#KITE_Gnu-Linux).
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Context: two people who developed extremely destructive weapons, were horrified by their use, and had biographical films made about them. Jiro Horikoshi was a Japanese aviation engineer who designed the dreaded Mitsubishi A6M Rei-sen ('Zero' to allied pilots). J Robert Oppenheimer was a US physicist who led the development of the nuclear bomb. Note that *The Wind Rises* is only partly based on Horikoshi's life, and also borrows from Hori Tatsuo's semi-autobiographical novel The Wind has Risen (itself named after a French poem) and director Hayao Miyazaki's childhood experiences of WW2.