_jgdh

10 ms·

31.
by _jgdh 7y ago
Tell me Young Techie, how do you tell the difference between someone who is alleged to have spread rumours and someone speaking the truth? And when you say you totally support it, do you support everything the BJP has done?
32.
by _jgdh 7y ago
I don't think this is true. Some of the most educated and wealthy people support the BJP, fascist though the party may be. Look at the vote split in the recent Delhi election. All upper caste voters flocked to the BJP by margins of 20%
33.
by _jgdh 7y ago
You can use VPNs in other parts of the country, just not in the areas where internet access has been banned. While this is an egregious abuse of power and a gross violation of the rights of Kashmiris, it is not happening in the rest of the
34.
by _jgdh 7y ago
For Americans, this is identical to when Sen. Joseph McCarthy was branding people "Unamerican". The BJP have succeeded in establishing their brand of hatred and stupidity as the only valid form of patriotism.
35.
by _jgdh 7y ago
So now your solution is for them to leave and go elsewhere. That's fine, it's workable. I just objected to this idea that they should work on their interestingness and that doing so would somehow solve the problem of them finding
36.
by _jgdh 7y ago
How are you not getting this? This is not a problem of interestingness. This is a problem of skewed gender ratios. In India and China there are way more men than women. That means that some men will remain without partners regardless of wha
37.
by _jgdh 7y ago
I’m going to guess they won’t have an answer to your question of how single men in the Bay Area working on themselves and “becoming interesting” will suddenly make tens of thousands of single women materialise in the Bay Area. It was merely
38.
by _jgdh 7y ago
Increasing global trade leads to better outcomes for those producing those goods. The greatest alleviation of poverty and creation of the largest middle class in the history of humanity happened in China starting the early 90s and that was
39.
by _jgdh 7y ago
Small nit - a person can learn Hindi (the language) or Hinduism (the religion) but not Hindu.
40.
by _jgdh 7y ago
That's a false choice. It's not a choice between paying banker bonuses or giving minimum wage workers an increase. Also, while I agree with the premise that it's better to increase the minimum wage could you explain why folks
41.
by _jgdh 7y ago
$18k is a fantastic sum in India. The top 20% of fresh computer science grads are lucky to get that much. I would have no trouble living on that much income (+adjusted for inflation) for the rest of my life if I lived in India.
42.
by _jgdh 7y ago
Not really a helpful or fair comparison. Global shipping emits more carbon dioxide than India, but that's literally apples to oranges. It might be easier for the shipping industry to reduce it's emissions, or it might be easier fo
43.
by _jgdh 7y ago
For India specifically? The wikipedia articles for each metro, perhaps. They provide a timeline when each was constructed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chennai_Metro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
44.
by _jgdh 7y ago
All other things being equal with 2 programmers who have perfect knowledge of their market worth, the better one will cost more. But this premise is proved false trivially. 1. People don't have a good sense of their market worth. It&#x
45.
by _jgdh 7y ago
> Japan blamed SK for taking action. According to the article you linked Japan blamed China and Russia, not SK
46.
by _jgdh 7y ago
.
47.
by _jgdh 7y ago
> one of the only countries I live in Europe. I wonder what my Chinese landlords (who've lived their whole lives in China) would say if they read your comment.
48.
by _jgdh 8y ago
There are no laws against knocking on doors in India. If you don't want folks knocking on your doors, you would employ someone to prevent them from doing so.
49.
by _jgdh 8y ago
For what it’s worth, Japan is not unique in using different calendars in different contexts. There are several calendars in India, all based on the moon. In my state within India everyone uses the Gregorian calendar for most things except i
50.
by _jgdh 8y ago
> well-known in the security community as not being good practice The folks in charge of making decisions don't understand security. I'm not criticising them, it's quite reasonable that a layman would think that security b
51.
by _jgdh 8y ago
> India could never be authoritarian Don't get complacent. The man in power has never lost an election, so I don't know if he knows how to lose with grace. What's more, he has very authoritarian tendencies, like intimida
52.
by _jgdh 8y ago
Definitely the best movie I watched in 2018. I think it did a much better job of depicting life in India than any other movie I've ever seen. I recommended it to a couple of European friends who watched it with subs and they enjoyed it
53.
by _jgdh 8y ago
I emigrated to Europe but I have about 20 friends who are on the H1B living in the US. I think folks on the H1B put up with awful treatment and don’t even know how awful it is because they haven’t seen a country that’s actually welcoming to
54.
by _jgdh 8y ago
I don't mean that Modi personally signed the order banning PUBG. I meant that Modi and the BJP have ruled and continue to rule over a state where policemen think they are a law unto themselves. They think they can ban perfectly lawful
55.
by _jgdh 8y ago
Haha, Modi fans are downvoting you for pointing out that the obvious. This incident took place in Gujarat. Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat for more than a decade before becoming Prime Minister of India. The BJP has now been in power
56.
by _jgdh 8y ago
India is playing with fire because Pakistan doesn't have such a policy. If the situation appears dire for Pakistan, the Pakistani Army could resort to using tactical nukes.
57.
by _jgdh 8y ago
I've only read a couple of history books about India, one by William Dalrymple and the other by Ramachandra Guha. I'd highly recommend both of them. In case you want to know about the last decades of the freedom struggle, Gandhi A
58.
by _jgdh 8y ago
I second Tao of Pooh. It’s genuinely insightful and I plan to read it again. However no one I recommend it to seems to take it seriously. They think it’s a parody of some sort because it seems unlikely that a “serious” text would involve Wi
59.
by _jgdh 8y ago
* Factfulness and Thinking Fast And Slow. The latter helped me internalise that my thinking, like most humans, is biased. Even being aware of those biases doesn’t always help. We need to go above and beyond to overcome our biases. Factfuln
60.
by _jgdh 8y ago
This is untrue. The list of documents that are valid as proof-of-address when applying for a passport [1] include electricity bill, water bill, telephone bill, gas connection, election ID, rent agreement among many others. If you're re

More ›