The jury is still out on this one. Any hard proof or statistics that say otherwise ? Wish there was more transparency.

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"Data shows only 1% of population pays income tax, over 5000 pay more than 1 crore ($145K USD)"

Only "six individuals fell in the high-end earning bracket of Rs 50-100 crore (7-14 Million USD) of salary income."

Wow ! Just 6 individuals. India's got NO shortage of millionaires & billionaires. The abysmal income tax collection clearly indicates a gaping problem with rules & their implementation.

- Source : http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/data...

The immediate reaction of the common man on de-monetization of higher currency notes (followed by replacement with newer ones) was euphoric. A popular thought process was that people can tolerate inconvenience for a few days because it'll invalidate the "black money" [2] and thus rein in inflation, property prices and corruption to some extent. However, the moment this was announced, people have been brazenly finding loop-holes to convert their currency notes through unofficial means. Example : back-dated receipts for expensive items (gold, cars, property), fake accounts, hiring poor folks for conversion via official channels, bulk purchase of coupons / cards for essential items that are permitted to accept older notes, etc..

[1] http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/demo...

[2] Untaxed money, undeclared income, ill-gotten money via bribery, fraud etc..

I've run consumer facing products with real-time autosuggest using postgresql's search. Calling it crap is hyperbole.

Why another uptime monitoring service ? There are about 20-30 existing services [1] with a wide variety of features. I agree you've got a great interface and you'll get there feature-wise too. But are there any significant technically sound reasons to switch to your service ?

P.S. My question sounds blunt but I don't mean to belittle your effort.

P.P.S. Here's a list of services that do performance / uptime monitoring in various forms. Some might be incorrect / irrelevant, but just to convey an idea of the crowded space :

[1] pingdom , site24x7, statuscake, statuspage.io, status.io , runscope, opsgenie , newrelic , datadog, Librato, Scout , Skylight , Server Density , Stackify, OpsDash , Boundary, Netuitive, Keymetrics, Appsignal, Appdynamics, copperegg , stackdriver, xmatters, uptimerobot, AWS route53 health check , nagios, t1mr.com, Visualping, diff.io, Obvious.io, Stashboard, Cachet, updown.io, Pingometer , stillalive, alertbot, vigil, AWS Cloudwatch, Cloudability, StatusGator, CloudCheckr,

AND if the government purposely delayed an electricity connection by months or years, then you should protest against them too. The above problem doesn't seem to be an issue of supply & demand of electricity, but more of a power tussle between the builder & authorities for possible kickbacks.

Related, it seems like India is almost power surplus according to these sources : [1] [2] [3]

[1] http://www.businesstoday.in/magazine/features/we-can-tell-th...

[2] "By the end of calendar year 2015, India has become power surplus country despite lower power tariffs" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_India

[3] https://www.google.com/search?q=india+power+surplus

You may not get your favorite loaf of bread, although you'll get fresh organic eggs. You may not be able to watch the latest movies in a theater. A good gymnasium probably won't exist, but you can always run in a grass field. There are countless other differences. People are materialistic & not everyone can make that compromise :)

Real estate is super expensive & the owners couldn't afford to sit idle and play games with the government so they decided to run the mall from morning till night on diesel generators. That's ~ $4500 of diesel each day, probably 6-8k litres. This is an example of a pollution source that's completely avoidable. I'm not sure for how many years this continued on.

What's worse is that there was no widespread public outrage. Why didn't people boycott the mall that's polluting their city and at the same time put pressure on the government to set things right ?

For a perspective, the city I'm talking about is a modern affluent city, close to Delhi (~ 160 miles). Home to a lot of politicians & celebrities, one of the most well planned cities in the world [1] & one of the cleanest in India [2]

[1] http://www.indiatimes.com/culture/travel/9-most-well-planned...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleanest_cities_in_India

[3] http://www.tribuneindia.com/2013/20130407/cth1.htm#5

However you are looking at the advantages of villages as a visitor with a point of view towards being closer to nature. There are other problems in villages that you probably won't encounter unless you live there on a day to day basis. Finally, grass is always greener on the other side (holds true for both villages & city dwellers).

> A large number of people need to die due to cancer for it be taken seriously

Cancer isn't uncommon in villages and city pollution isn't the only cause.

Is that a hypothesis or are there statistics on accidents & fatalities to back it up. Curious, not denying what you say. I don't have statistics either.

I was hoping that the discussion here would consider the outcome of autonomous vs non-autonomous cars in totality instead of having an emotionally charged outburst against a big corporation.

Yes, maybe this is not the right time for Tesla to go all defensive but that's expected & that's how almost any company would respond. Why waste all the energy discussing that only.

Yes, people will get careless with autonomous cars, but don't they do it with regular cars too ? Cellphone, coffee, makeup, etc. So I disagree that autonomous cars have to be perfect.

An automobile is like a weapon in the driver's hand. If they aren't careful, they can hurt someone including themselves. Autonomous systems are there to help reduce the chances of mundane accidents due to the driver being distracted or less than capable. They are not their to replace a human yet.

My point of view is that if a human can't avoid a collision, don't expect the autonomous system to fill the gap. It's their to catch "some" of the errors that a human might make, it's not a foolproof safety net.

As a side note, it makes me wonder that with all the brainy AI, it's we who are still learning computer's language instead of the other way around. I hope that'll change in the next 3-5 years, where we don't have to memorize the syntax & limitations of voice commands.

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What's different about this one ? It looks like an MVP but without a mention of how it stands out.

Here are a few from the endless list ...

https://www.diigo.com/

https://hypothes.is/

http://annotateit.org/

https://annotary.com/

https://www.scrible.com/

http://genius.com/web-annotator