Karishma1234

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by Karishma1234 3y ago
Sometimes I wonder, when did HN went so wrong and is full of comments that do not further the discussion but purely result into flamewar and ridiculous homilies.
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by Karishma1234 6y ago
Sorry but this comparison does not hold. Australia or anyone else is more than welcome to ban Facebook and other companies but because of very nature of internet would needlessly waste resources. Few things to note: 1. Just because Facebook
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by Karishma1234 6y ago
Before jumping to conclusion me might have to hear the other side as well.
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by Karishma1234 6y ago
Some context here: Indian railways website is very slow and pathetic (so bad that there are lengthy discussion on HN about it. search for IRCTC). Given the shortage of tickets thousands of people try to book tickets at 7am when the window t
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by Karishma1234 6y ago
What truly impresses me is Orwell's ability to see through the propaganda and then engage in its meta-details. It was only after moving to USA I realized some things which I took for granted were basically propaganda and there are &quo
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by Karishma1234 6y ago
> The politics behind promoting Hindi is a religious one. It makes convenient to promote the varna system(modern caste system) You lost me there. Usual white man's burden speaking. BJP is not a "religious" party in any sen
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by Karishma1234 6y ago
It all depends on alternative. $100 is a lot of money for a kid in India, if the same kid can earn the degree while watching ads I think it does a great service to poor people because the alternative is not learning. Alternative to a proble
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by Karishma1234 6y ago
Surprised me as well. Milton Friedman's Free to Choose (book and tv) remains so much relevant reading in 2020. Hayek was very hard to comprehend because his writing is information dense. You have to read a sentence carefully few times
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by Karishma1234 6y ago
My app got suspended because my self publish ebook reader could be used to search for books one of which had a kid with a nerf gun on its cover.
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
I am unable to see any political arguments here. Need to take off your hippie glasses I suppose.
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
Old and irrelevant laws have always been dampeners on company growth. Hopefully a Chinese Company might come up with a classifieds website that US citizens will be able to use.
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
Essentially an archaic organisation using an archaic law against a modern ad delivery platform. What a travesty.
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
> why suddenly are people starving again because imperfect produce found a capitalist way to reduce waste? They don't. They wont. The article is nonsensical and ignores basic economics. Suffers from "we know better" attit
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
Twitter censorship is pretty extreme. My Libertarian friends and Islam critics get partially banned almost every week. It is pathetic and I think there is a larger market for more free speech. Twitter is probably becoming like SF, a shoddy
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Why HR392 is not enough(medium.com)
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
"Free" means someone else should be paying for it. Now, as an average income guy I will never earn as much as a Doctor and will vehemently oppose any move to pay for these would be rich people's education. If the degree is wo
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
The only gov system that sucks more than TSA is Immigration system. Imagine what TSA would do if there were no voting right to Americans. TSA is so despicable that I would rather drive 7 hours to Vegas than catch a $99 flight.
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
Who is disagreeing with that ? Does not mean you have to like the law or not work to repeal it. You could have used the same argument on blacks and claimed the law of the land allows slavery and hence they should willingly follow it. Let me
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
In USA too you get W2 and other statements that give you all the numbers. Things only get complicated when you have several streams of income.
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
I agree with you. The government spending needs to be drastically reduced. > People currently had any idea what they were spending on taxes. This is precisely the opposition to IRS doing your taxes for you. Imagine you receive a bill eve
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
I do not make any value judgement here about other people. I do not want money taken away from people without they explicitly agreeing to it (even though disagreement might mean jail).
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
It is not that simple and there are deeper issues. If buying out politicians was easy Google and Amazon would have easily raised H1B cap by now. Just like in immigration there are multiple forces at play in taxation too. The powerful anti-t
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
As a rule of thumb I would not trust IRS to do my taxes but I am happy if they send me a draft and I have to just sign or make corrections.
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
Clearly it works really well for politicians.
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
You can not win these kind of contracts easily. You need to have ex-classmates inside who will make the right introductions. You need to hang out with right people, please them and so on. Race, Sex also plays a big role. For example overwhe
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
USA is probably civilised only in last 60 years or so. Otherwise the country was far too overtly racist and oppressive to minorities. Uighur muslims are just a million or so and minuscule on larger scale. Also, it might be better to de-radi
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
> Post-slavery US behavior is far more favorable and accommodating to human rights than China today. Asking me to stop will not change facts. Slavery was abolished in 1865, let us see what other things happened after that and what China
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
> care about people? No. But I think Saudi deeply cares about Islamic demography in every country including USA. Saudi invests billions of dollars in countries like India to make sure Muslims remain radical and under the control of shari
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
Oh the western people are scarred of China's horrors ? China is not doing anything that USA has not done in past. Putting people we don't like in camps (Japanese Americans), conducting experiments on people we thought were less th
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
The interesting thing about whole this Chinese persecution of Muslims is the complete silence from their Islamic friends such as Pakistan and Saudi. I would expect America's friend Saudi to be very vocal critic of China's actions.

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