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  • Don't transactions have timestamps? Or are you talking about paper cheques? Like I don't trust the big banks in my country either, but I'm pretty sure all transactions are logged in real time and can't be rearranged later.

  • This might work. Xiaomi used to lead the Indian market around 2015-20, but in the last 2-3 years their phones haven't improved significantly. And Moto is doing the same thing Xiaomi did before, releasing phones with good specs at low prices. The big drawback with their phones compared to Xiaomi is the weak SoC (and for power users the lack of official support for custom ROMs).

  • Rarely used stuff isn't junk DNA. It is still part of the genome, just expressed only under certain conditions (like stress).

    Viral sequences do get embedded in host DNA. Some stay mostly inactive, others keep jumping around (and shuffling our genes in usually harmful but occassionally useful combinations) and yet others actually become useful to the host.

  • Oh yes, DNA is more like a reference library than a blueprint. Proteins and other molecules decide what they want, then activate the appropriate genes. Also most of the DNA is stuff that isn't in everyday use - genes that are to be used only under certain circumstances, genes that were once functional but are now deprecated, random DNA that got in by mistake, and stuff that serves no discernable purpose but breaks everything if removed.

  • It is a multikernel OS. It can use the Linux kernel (usually on more powerful phones), or switch to a lighter kernel Huawei built (on weaker phones / IoT stuff). I'm guessing they are saying here that the lighter kernel is much more efficient, at least for the tasks it is optimised for.

  • OnePlus, POCO / Xiaomi and older Pixels.

    I was considering the Moto G Stylus or some Poco phone, but I haven´t been able to find a source of Roms for those.

    Note that Poco do not make their own phones, but licence and tweak Redmi phones. So you might not see ROMs for the Poco version because they are listed under the original Redmi version.

  • Many Android manufacturers actually have either their own store, or an app that acts as an interface to the Google Play Store. These are installed by default, and subtly pushed over the vanilla Play Store. So I'm guessing millions of users do end up using them.

  • I believe the chapters that sound stilted were deliberately written thus to give an air of being foreign or exotic.

    My favourite chapter in the book was the discussion on censorship. My country has a weird and completely unpredictable censorship system that depends on how many people got offended, who they know, which judge the case goes to, and how well the author can get the media interested in the case.

  • Linux servers often run for years before having to shut down. Linux can also update without restarting (except kernel updates), if you so wish. Needing to restart frequently is a Windows problem.

  • It was Kyoto Animation that was attacked. They have quite a few similarities in artstyle and themes to Ghibli, and you could maybe call them a spiritual successor. But neither is owned by, or a part of, the other.

    Ghibli recently released How Do You Live, probably their last film. With the last surviving founders retiring, Nippon TV will manage the studio and the museum.

  • That's the TTP, a small fundamentalist group in Pakistan. They do occassional terrorist attacks in rural northwest Pakistan, and those are of course horrible to those affected, but they aren't challenging the power of the state. They're also unrelated to the Afghan Taliban, with whom the Pakistan military has a neutral to good relationship.