devdas

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by devdas 8y ago
I would default to rasicm first, since using race as a proxy is still racist.
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by devdas 8y ago
There's also the huge problem of vote suppression in the US, either via gerrymandering or by demanding IDs which most minorities don't have and are inconvinient for them to get.
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by devdas 8y ago
Bicycles, buses, trams and light rail. All useful alternatives.
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by devdas 8y ago
Then they really aren't morals, are they?
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by devdas 8y ago
> Foreign government hold US debt because it's a safe store of value. US debt is a safe store of value, because cheap energy can only be obtained by paying in US dollars. If you remove that motivation, the USD is just another fiat c
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by devdas 8y ago
Oddly enough, it is immoral but not illegal/criminal money.
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by devdas 8y ago
That sounds like a fairly large financial privilege to me. If you are working two jobs to just get enough food to survive, and your friends are in a similar situation, you don't have that opportunity or ability to take risks.
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by devdas 8y ago
I would be far happier working on weekends, and having my weekend in the middle of the week.
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by devdas 8y ago
> It's completely another experience when everyone else is down, than when 'just you' are down. It's stressful and not relaxing.
220.
by devdas 8y ago
Unless you need to do something on a Sunday which depends on other people being available (I was delayed checking out of a hotel because reception opened late, without it being mentioned, which made me miss my train, and then flight since t
221.
by devdas 8y ago
All divisions, subsidiaries and parent organisations lose all their copyrights for any false claim.
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by devdas 8y ago
Except that hardware fails, but software should stay reliably running in the face of that system. Think of software more as a neighbourhood, or even an entire city. Rebuilding any given building should not impact the running of the city its
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by devdas 8y ago
Software is the creation of the spec.
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by devdas 8y ago
Google is controlling profits from advertising and playstore sales by using Android to route traffic to those endpoints. The profit isn't from the direct sale of an Android device, it's from the system the device is a gateway to.
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by devdas 8y ago
Or just white men investing in other white men.
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by devdas 8y ago
Monsoons show plastic blocking sewer systems.
227.
by devdas 8y ago
That was a cost of living adjustment, really.
228.
by devdas 8y ago
Money and power. Technical tracks don't really have much of a growth path in India, and especially in service firms, where the work itself doesn't really add much to your technical skillsets. Often the challenging/interesting
229.
by devdas 8y ago
The truly good people would expect a significant fraction of the UK salary, not an average Indian IT salary.
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by devdas 8y ago
In poorer countries, getting an education is the easiest way out of poverty. All else is not equal here.
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by devdas 8y ago
Guns in the US.
232.
by devdas 9y ago
So you wear out four pairs in two years?
233.
by devdas 9y ago
The problem with changing anything from 32 bit would have run into the same issues. You have a whole new stack.
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by devdas 9y ago
Didn't the swing states also demand IDs which democratic supporters would not have?
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by devdas 9y ago
Or apartment blocks with their own enclosed playgrounds.
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by devdas 9y ago
It's not that hard, from what I can see on public transport.
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by devdas 9y ago
Or just chai
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by devdas 9y ago
Anything else is a herbal tea or tisane. Ginger tea in India is a sweet, milky tea with camellia sinensis and ginger for flavour.
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by devdas 9y ago
Welcome to serfdom.
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by devdas 9y ago
Oddly enough, cities are where I have found actual compassion andd community. Small towns and villages are stratified horrors, where being different from their norm is penalised.

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