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So what facts did you glean from that comment? > Comments like these give proper context to foreigner like me who don't know how inclined the Indian government

So what facts did you glean from that comment? > Comments like these give proper context to foreigner like me who don't know how inclined the Indian government is to follow through on their promises You do realize that India is a Democracy and that there is no one "Indian Government" but successive Governments that set their own policies right? Just because it was the case some 10 years ago doesn't mean it will continue to be so in the present or the future. Governments change. Policies change. That is Democracy for you. What promises are made by the Government to the people, if not kept, will be voted out.

gpm 6y ago
> So what facts did you glean from that comment? That there is not a culture of following through on promises like these. That doesn't mean that they won't this time, but it also means that I shouldn't be surprised if they don't. > You do realize that India is a Democracy and that there is no one "Indian Government" but successive Governments that set their own policies right In systems like India (and my own country, Canada), we re-use the word government to mean two different things. One is the entity which controls the state, which is constant over elections, and the other is the group of people currently in charge, which frequently changes with elections. I was using the former usage.
- wobbly_bush 6y ago
  I get where you are coming from, but the original comment gets old very fast. A government not fulfilling its promises is something very common across most developing countries in most situations. After the first couple of occurrences, it just promotes low effort comments instead of nuanced discussions. Check out places like r/India or other forums online, and see the difference in quality of discussion versus HN (on topics which are native to western countries) to get example of impact of the low-effort comments.

gpm 6y ago

> So what facts did you glean from that comment? That there is not a culture of following through on promises like these. That doesn't mean that they won't this time, but it also means that I shouldn't be surprised if they don't. > You do realize that India is a Democracy and that there is no one "Indian Government" but successive Governments that set their own policies right In systems like India (and my own country, Canada), we re-use the word government to mean two different things. One is the entity which controls the state, which is constant over elections, and the other is the group of people currently in charge, which frequently changes with elections. I was using the former usage.

wobbly_bush 6y ago
I get where you are coming from, but the original comment gets old very fast. A government not fulfilling its promises is something very common across most developing countries in most situations. After the first couple of occurrences, it just promotes low effort comments instead of nuanced discussions. Check out places like r/India or other forums online, and see the difference in quality of discussion versus HN (on topics which are native to western countries) to get example of impact of the low-effort comments.