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by bgdam 4y ago
In a lot of cases you don't need to ask "what caste are you", you just need to ask "what's your name". For a vast majority of Indians their last name gives away their caste.
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by bgdam 4y ago
While I am in favor of generic anti-discrimination laws, I don't think they can be generic and target caste based discrimination. Let me give you an example: A hiring manager, gets two resumes. Both are equally qualified. He glances at
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by bgdam 4y ago
It wasn't banned. It was one of the side effects of the popular Self Respect movement which saw most people switch to patronymical last names from caste-based last names. Ofcourse the Iyers and Iyengars wouldn't switch because the
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by bgdam 4y ago
Unfortunately, it has to be. If you want to decrease the effects of centuries of oppression, the oppressed have to be given a giant helping hand. Which is done by both the union and state governments in India in the form of reservations for
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by bgdam 4y ago
> Edit: Curiously, based on the last name of the person (Soundarajan) whose talk got cancelled, I would actually have guessed that they were upper caste (Brahmin - the highest). This is most likely because her parents/grandparents c
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by bgdam 4y ago
> There is a law and public debates for castes and how to address the (no doubt existing even outside India) problem. That's kinda part of the problem. In India there are laws dealing with caste based oppression and discrimination (
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by bgdam 4y ago
My friends and I invented the 'Joint Venture' ruleset precisely because of this reason. Under these rules, you don't need to own a monopoly to start building on it. Instead you can form an agreement with the other owners, a J
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by bgdam 5y ago
Should we also start spamming US phones about Yemeni kids? Perhaps send a picture titled: "Here's the kid we killed today"? Snark aside, I don't understand what purpose this kind of spamming serves. From reports, most Ru
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by bgdam 5y ago
And this is why I am so thankful to Periyar and the social justice movement in the 60s in South India. The only state where it caught on with a fervor was TamilNadu, and thanks to the vast majority of the population opting to shift from cas
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by bgdam 5y ago
To put parent poster's comment in context, the Japanese committed unthinkable atrocities on the Chinese civilian population during WW2, a lot of which they haven't even bothered to apologize for to this day. Ergo, a lot of Chinese
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by bgdam 5y ago
Trademarks are use it, protect it, or lose it. AI not acting on blatant trademark infringement might see them losing their trademarks.
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by bgdam 5y ago
And how do you differentiate between a request that is sending over tracking data and a request that is sending over data required to fetch the page you requested?
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by bgdam 5y ago
As an Indian, the US is by far one of the hardest countries to get into long-term. There is constant uncertainty about when you'll be kicked out. This is why when I had the choice, I picked Germany over the US. Because I know that no m
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by bgdam 5y ago
As an Indian, your path to staying in the US without worries about being kicked out is to get a Canadian citizenship. It can be done as early as 3 years, and then as a Canadian, you can cross over to the US as and when required.
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by bgdam 5y ago
This whole exercise would be moot, because the clock cannot be started by just entering the country. Specific paperwork has to be filed and then approved. The clock only starts after the approval.
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by bgdam 5y ago
Or you could stop waiting and living for an uncertain future, and just move to a country which values your skills more than the place you were born. A lot of them are even better than the US (except for the pay).
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by bgdam 5y ago
If it doesn't work without Javascript enabled, then it's not a CSS solution. I was quite excited by the title, but alas the project doesn't live up to the title.
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by bgdam 5y ago
Similarly it says I would spend 76.3% more money on healthcare if I were in Germany rather than India. While the comparison is between healthcare spend per capita, the inference drawn is completely wrong as for most procedures I would be co
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by bgdam 5y ago
> See if it's already being solved, if not I pitch the idea to few people. And how do you find these 'few people' to pitch to? You would have to find the right people with skin in the game, who are actually impacted by thi
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by bgdam 5y ago
The same 'Forwarded' tag can be easily attached to a message that is copy-pasted verbatim (atleast from another whatsapp message). Anecdotal evidence suggests that 'Forwarding' is just way too easy as compared to copy pa
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by bgdam 5y ago
Can the search feature of ente become comparable to Google Photos? AFAIK, ente does E2E encryption, which means that unless they index the EXIF data on each single device, and also run the image recognition algorithms on device, the search
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by bgdam 6y ago
Gotta second this. The first few times I used the self service counter, I spent quite a while double checking to make sure it got it right, simply because I couldn't believe it could be that easy.
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by bgdam 6y ago
Way less frequent. I'm usually jumping between Germany and India and whenever I'm in Germany it feels like I'm always getting a popup on every site I visit for the first time. A lot of the same sites don't bother to thro
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by bgdam 6y ago
Considering that this seems to have been code accidentally left in while copy pasting from a tutorial, it's very hard to say, without doing the exact same investigation the Wikimedia team did. There are a lot of apps that have launched
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by bgdam 6y ago
Have you seen the privacy policy for this service? Clearly not GDPR compatible. Simply using this means you cannot service the EU. Also, if your issue is that owning your user passwords is difficult, then I'm sorry that's just the
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by bgdam 6y ago
I am actually astounded by the number of people on here who think this is a great product. I mean as a product it might indeed be quite good, but it also comes with the huge risk of you funneling your users into a third party company, who c
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by bgdam 6y ago
Last Thursday, I had an hour long call with a recruiter, during which I realized that the opportunity was not at all what I am looking for. The job description the recruiter had forwarded me made me go for the call, but upon asking some of
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Show HN: Tired of unproductive calls, I made a recruiter screening tool(recruitmemaybe.com)
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by bgdam 6y ago
As always for any polarizing topic in India on which the current ruling party has strong opinions, it's better to disregard Indian media, since they always carry a biased, pro government narrative.
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by bgdam 6y ago
I don't understand how banning beef has anything to do with Indian women being treated as chattel. You can prevent the latter without dictating my food habits. Also, if you're so intent on saving the cow, why is India still the wo

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