Karishma1234

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by Karishma1234 8y ago
> In the West we have a false sense of security that totalitarianism will inevitably fail. At the height of civil war the western classical liberal democracies looked weak and near collapse while Soviet looked too strong and awesome unti
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
A lot of those "right to receive" exist because of government regulations and not because it is something employees or employers negotiated. What matters is whether someone out there is willing to replace you for lower price or no
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
You call them sanctions when you talk about your enemies, you call them tariffs when you do it to your friends. The difference is nearly 0.
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
What is the point of political discussion on HN ? Isn't HN meant for quality technical discussions ? Nothing good can come out of these sort of flame wars here.
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
This comment is gold. Sample bias might be at play here and still that is encouraging. Poor people do not love to be poor and are actively looking to get out of poverty. One of the ways they do this is by taking unusual risks and imitation.
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
Just wondering why do these polarising news articles from Main stream media being allowed on front page ? I do not see how HN community can have a healthy discussion around this topic that did not happen in past.
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
What is this low skilled immigration ?
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
That quote pretty much sums it up. Under Obama democrats abandoned their stance on individual freedom and instead turned to extreme leftism. Conservatives as a response abandoned their fiscal and economic conservatism and instead turned to
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
Racism! They are just upset that Indians, Chinese, Koreans are doing better and the usual white control of everything is rapidly declining. The general young white population in USA itself is becoming more liberal and accepting of others. T
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
As an Indian person on H1B I welcome this move. This was a loophole for rich and corrupt in India used to buy their way into American citizenship. Around 500K Indians are waiting for decades to get their green card. It would be much better
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
Or they might start a Oil refinery or brothels in Amsterdam or a start selling aspirin ? Why do I care what they do. I am only pointing out that Comcast has huge operational and capital expenditure compared to Netflix. It is not some value
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
Not really. OP was arguing that there are no shortages, the companies are not willing offer more. I pointed out that if we were to accept that logic then we might as well stop using the word "shortage" as every shortage is likely
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
CEOs are replaceable but there is a risk in that replacement. The high salaries of CEO mostly reflects that risk. You have not understood my beef with the use of word "infinite".
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Yes. That is point I have been making.
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The point is : - Anti immigrant policies are loved by white conservatives. - White conservatives are happy to face loss of their own freedom and money just to spite others. - Immigrants barely get deterred by such moves but the proponents
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
A non-American can not tell Americans what should be the their immigration policy but will always point out the fact that the immigration policy is racist and mostly formulated by minority of white conservatives. Whether it is good or bad i
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
There is no value judgement in whatever I have typed. I have just stated what I have experienced. Also, it is not the Chinese or Indians who are suffering in the long run. Chinese-American and Indian-Americans are at top everywhere in USA a
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
No. Pay is always based on what it would cost to replace you. It never depends on what you actually do. (What you are willing to pay for X always depends on what is the cost of replacing X with the alternative).
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
I used the term extinct in a sense that bank tellers are pretty much extinct today because % of transactions going through real human tellers is very low. Most people use ATMs and online banking. You correct to say that a lot of things abou
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Why do you think that there should be any correlation between how better they are managed and CEO salary ? There may be there may not be it is irrelevant.
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
> What, exactly, is the point of commerce in the first place? Very good question. The point of commerce is that people be able to buy other people's time willingly for a rate they voluntarily negotiate. When you can buy someone else
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
CEO salaries are not infinite; they are huge but not infinite. If Tim cook continues to ask for more and more and more eventually he will lose his job. But CEO salary has nothing to do with the `Talent`. Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadel
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
Free market people understand these things pretty easily. I do not see why you are finding it hard. One obvious fallacy in your statement is that someone getting paid infinite money for talent. I have not seen any such examples so far besid
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By your logic entire concept of labour shortage is outrageous because any shortage will clear with high enough price. But for any job such as that of Truck drive the market value of that job is only X. Paying more than X would mean you shou
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
Other choice is to simply shoot dead the thickos. Just bomb the poor areas or force the poor and less smart people to undergo contraceptive surgeries. Yes, those are the choices even though most might abhor it. And to add to that bears shit
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Comcast makes $5 per subscriber in profits per month. Netflix with $12 per month revenue might end up making $5 in profits pretty soon. That is all that matters. Also Netflix is not a Comcast competitor. Healthy Comcast network helps Netfli
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
Comcast's net profits per subscription is $5 per month. So Comcast on an average makes $60 profit per subscriber. I will not be surprised if Netflix would hit that goal in next 2 years or so. After all profits is what matters and not n
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by Karishma1234 8y ago
I just saw a episode about Angkor Wat on Travel channel where the narrator totally misrepresented the purpose of temple and shiva-lingam. He made the Khmer look like some kind of savages beating slaves to build a the temple to gain supernat
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Western media does not get the eastern world. A BBC journalist said it is stupid and oppressive to ban cow slaughter in India. So I asked him if it is oppressive for USA to ban Cat and Dog meet when many people want to eat them. He was deep
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That is how it works out in most cases. So many women having fatherless children and then complaining that government is not giving them child care benefits. People not taking care of their health when young and then demanding government pa

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