Yeah. Government banned the existing ₹500 and ₹1000 notes. The stated purpose is to tackle counterfeit money and black money as people hoard undeclared income in high valued currency notes. The impact won't be much because only some some people like small traders, small businesses hold black money as cash. Rest of the people have parked their black money in the real estate sector (which is a big growing bubble) or in tax havens. Also government is issuing new ₹500 and ₹2000 rupee notes, which will make hoarding black money easier in future. So this exercise is only like cleaning a small part of the house once.
But this action is ham handed and has resulted in suffering of millions of poor people who don't have credit/debit cards or even a bank account and who are paid in ₹500 or ₹1000 notes by their employers. Many small grocery vendors are not able to conduct business as many people don't have legal tender now. For one week they are going to suffer a lot.
More than half of the nation has chosen a xenophobic, sexist, racist, authoritarian, isolationist, superstitious bigot that encourages violence and foreign espionage while rejecting facts and producing lies to manipulate the people. He has proposed unconstitutional policies such as bans on the basis of religion, and caters to white nationalist ideals. He advocates torture, and the murdering of families of terrorists. He wants to pass libel laws to silence the press, and wants to censor the Internet, calling people who cite free speech as "foolish people".
I could go on, but I hope that all those that voted really think that appointing this man to the highest office in the world is worth the "change" they're hoping for. This broad, shotgun term---anything but the status quo. We'll get change. But anyone who thinks it's the change he's promising is foolish, naive, or struck by their own desperation.
It is sad that I have to describe our President elect as a "bad man" to my children, and tell them never to speak or act as he does. And the world is watching too.
So: let's see this grand vision for America. Let's see what it means to Make America Great Again.
@clacke I used guix before; it worked great. I'm sure it's only improved since then. Now that I think of it, I hope there's some synergy between the two managers and I can apply what I've learned/packaged via Zeroinstall to also make some guix packages!
I like the idea of having a directory of a problem an being able to move it here and there saving all the data in one directory. backups are easy, if you update it it remains in the directory... uninstallation is easy... i will definitely build things from source more often. I agree the dependencies is a dumb... I think including them in a lib/ or a simple readme.txt with apt-get 0 1 2 3 4 could do the job. Of course you specifies the package with the distro.ly if you also compile and install all deps. At that point you could keep an image of /usr/local to take with you whe
@spaceman1 Quite the opposite; it's simple and satisfying! I could live without dependency hunting, though. Methinks they should also package the deps they developed against, and maybe even distribute them with e.g. Zeroinstall. Nowadays I usually skip the make install step and run from build. Make usually installs to /usr/local and you kind of customize your OS that way, especially if you also compile and install all deps. At that point you could keep an image of /usr/local to take with you when you re-install or use a different PC, or I suppose you could fork and distribute a custom OS using your packages. However, I've been keeping track of how my OS works out-of-box with user-installed apps, which means keeping system packages from piling up. Furthermore, I've been working with Zeroinstall to make portable versions of apps, and running an app completely in unprivileged user-space is part of that pipeline.