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    Buying 10 yr old electronics and household items

    I have been renting a place for 5 years. The owner had provided us washing machine, fridge, one king size bed with foam mattress and one queen size bed with cotton matteress. Now the owner has sold off the house and has stopped caring for the items. The washing machine broke couple of days ago...
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    WTB Fire Stick 3rd Gen

    I want to replace my Android box with a simpler TV stick version. I tried the CRED coupon but it seems the wait times on that is too long. It is currently showing 15-20 days for delivery. So, if anyone is selling please let me know.
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    While we were not looking, India won some battles

    A call from a political party scare-mongered me into checking if my name had indeed been struck off the election list. A visit to the Election Commission site for Delhi told me that all it needed was an SMS to check if my name is on the list—I message at 7738299899, write EPIC space my voter ID...
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    iOS Owners Beware!

    Quoting the developer verbatim: https://twitter.com/niw/status/936804672735649792 Don't waste time in trying to restore etc as it wont work. Till now the solution are: a. Disable notifications (Duh!) b. Upgrade to iOS 11.2 beta 4 Mods, please change the section if it is not appropriate in GT.
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    Stayzilla CEO arrested

    I just read this and was wondering what is people opinion on this. Here's the story on his arrest by TOI (referenced later): http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/stayzilla-ceo-arrested-on-charges-of-rs-1-7-crore-fraud/articleshow/57641358.cms After his arrest, this story...
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    Credit Card chargeback in India

    I received a broken item from an ebay seller, ebay is of no help so now thinking of filing one. But everyone in my circle tells me India and customer protection don't go hand in hand. So chargeback might not work. How has everyone's experience with chargebacks been?
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    Ebay shipment query

    I just bought some stuff from ebay. Normally when the product is shipped, ebay sends out an email saying its shipped with the relevant tracking. This time around when I go to "my ebay" it does show shipped but there is no tracking number, just a link asking me to confirm delivery. I have tried...
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    Which company to choose from?

    I am helping out a friend and couldn't really think what to tell her :) So here's the problem, she has got multiple offers: 1. Akamai - She went through a lonnng series of interview (it would seem the company is famous for having longish interviews). Final offer CTC to CTC was 25%, there are...
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    Spare the rod, spoil the child

    So basically there have been two different cases of child being beaten over the past couple of days: http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/private-tutor-kicks-punches-and-hurls-three-yr-old-in-kolkata/article1-1243688.aspx...
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    Civil manners in India

    Given that we are on a roll while bashing India, I thought we could have one more new discussion. Here's what has been bugging me for years, one of the lessons I have learned in my sixth class was called civics. Not only did it talk about the general formation of LS, RS, PM etc, it also talked...
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    Big Data and Hadoop

    Recently I came across the terms - Big Data and Hadoop. Though I have a good grasp of what they are all about, I am yet to find any big data developer to talk in length about the career growth in this field. PS: This is for my future brother-in-law who recently passed out and has been bugging...
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    Amazon/Sns missing item - What to do?

    Basically I bought an iphone from amazon.com...got it shipped to SnS. Now as per SnS, when they did a routine opening of the box, the phone was missing. I emailed Amazon regarding this but they have not been forthcoming. I looked into their policies. My purchase which falls under the "Fulfilled...
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    WTB Wii Controller and Nunchuck

    I am looking to buy a wii controller with motion plus inbuilt and a nunchuck. HMU with your prices.
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    ICICI Bank Hold Help

    I was buying a X1 Carbon from Lenovo website using my ICICI debit card. Turns out Lenovo's site can't process these transactions. It gave me an error that transaction couldn't be authorised. Though the money was debited from my ICICI account. As per Lenovo, the money is on temporary hold and...
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    Car & Bike Panel Separation in car, Help!!

    I dint find any answer on google so posting here. Apologies in advance, car noob here. So please go easy on me. I own a Hyundai Eon. Yesterday while driving through a busy street got bumped by an auto driver. Now the panel near the trunk has separated out. There is no damage on the panel or...
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    Food security Bill

    I had opened a thread asking people why the INR was dropping so badly. Now day before yesterday, we heard the news of FSB being passed. And the INR, dropped some more. I didn't know what this bill actually was. So out of curiousity, I landed on the wikipedia page explaining the bill. What I read...
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    INR being killed in the FX market

    For the last few weeks, most mornings I keep reading how the INR is doing bad against the USD. Now it is getting absolutely killed. So I have been wondering - Why is this happening at all? Are our politicians/RBI good for nothing? Is there a price we are going to stop? already broke 65, so 70?
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