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The biggest motivator for cars and wide roads are weekend getaways; there are good options for commute and long-distance travel. Maybe, if you ban private car purchases and have good rail connectivity, people'd get by on rentals.

I am a ... fan ... of social ecology etc. But I feel such theories are difficult to apply in today's large-scale politics. Even the path to trying out any such theories in practice probably starts with trying smaller changes like liquid democracy (that is already proven in the corporate shareholder world).

These theories might go through massive changes if they meet reality. Remnants of past "experiments", say the basis of Liedloff's continuum concept, are not quite as neat as these untested theories.

I am a ... fan ... of social ecology etc. But I feel such theories are difficult to apply in today's large-scale politics. Even the path to trying out any such theories in practice probably starts with trying smaller changes like liquid democracy (that is already proven in the corporate shareholder world).

These theories might go through massive changes if they meet reality. Remnants of past "experiments", say the basis of Liedloff's continuum concept, are not quite as neat as these untested theories.

I sympathize. Using a neovim GUI should make things just work. Terminal and graphics never played well together, although you found nano to behave well.

That is what Delta Chat and Monocles do on different protocols, with WebXDC. https://webxdc.org/

I don't know how it is in never-colonized countries, but here, local bodies don't get much by way of taxes and infrastructure spending is by state or national government since all income and business taxes go to them ala colonial administration. Locals don't have leverage over infrastructure projects, and local body politicians have no pressure from locals over their handling of non-infrastructure funds.

Anything from djb can be expected to be good 👍

The simplest tool I had come across was memoize.py (and others like it). Given a build script, it uses strace on a from-scratch build to figure out dependencies. On future builds, it rebuilds only what has changed. It naturally captures edge cases like, rebuilding everything if the compiler changes! But also the typical case, of include files etc.

On a lighter note. There are Git experts? ;-)

All good points. I mentioned their lakhs of employees, because that bill keeps rising and probably faster than income. It is the public sector - they will waste money on unnecessary things - but they need to keep up with the personnel bill additionally. That combination means they need to generate money from somewhere.

I think government funding patterns have changed, and ministries have been looking to generate funds rather than be funded by the exchequer. Think BSNL, NHAI. So too IR?

That's what you meant? Got it. Absolutely, messing with aesthetic durable structures is irresponsible on IR's part.

What are you going on about!

haha. The Congress is not left-wing? The party that decreed we were a "socialist," secular republic? Is the current government doing anything that is not a continuation of what previous ones were doing?

We happen to have a public-sector-only rail system, with low ticket prices on most trains. I don't know how much it costs to keep the majority of routes, subsidized as they are. Maybe the vanity projects with high-ticket prices will help with that. I believe the bigger expenditure perennially has been on personnel, as IR has lakhs of employees. That can't be wished away.

The metro rail projects are separate entities, I guess IR only provides oversight.

Rail is only about a century old. I didn't know we had historic stations. More like Mughal-era and British-era holdovers.

Prefixing left- this and right- that to anything detracts from focusing on it.

You'd be even more shocked that left-wing politicos, who were in power thrice as long, were equally bad and created the mess that has to be managed.

The votes on the other 2 points will tell whether your mentioning Singapore was "engagement" to begin with.

Oh, and. Now I don't need a separate bookmarks app, a separate notes app, a separate todo list app, syncing mechanisms for them, or a mechanism to search through all of them.

I never liked the fact there is a contacts app which other apps can tap into.

I have started using an org-mode file with entries that have tel: or callto: properties. I lose vCard exportability, but I can use the file as-is instead.

Open-source

Yes

Android, Web, and (if necessary) Linux and Windows clients

Emacs on larger devices, Orgzly on Android

Stores contact info locally (i.e. self-hosted)

Yes

Stores contact info securely (encrypted)

Unencrypted, but if you don't allow apps other than syncing apps the permission to access all files, it may not matter as much

Can store in a cloud location (e.g. Sync, Dropbox)

I just have Syncthing set up to sync those files too