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by eshvk 13y ago
If the current people are not to be blamed, I would argue that itself renders the apology meaningless. It would be like you going on a murder spree and then me announcing that I apologize for a random stranger's murder spree. If they a
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by eshvk 13y ago
> the islanders on the other hand have deliberately chosen isolation rather than having isolation forced upon them by any external agent. There is an implicit assumption that they are a democratic society where a decision was taken with
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by eshvk 13y ago
Yes, they discriminate against a different class of people. Immigrants. They are different yet they are the same. Learning from your mistakes means minimizing discrimination wherever it exists. Apologies are empty otherwise. To emphasize my
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by eshvk 13y ago
Does it really? It seems like more of a "I apologized, now hurry up and accept it" kind of gig. A true apology is one where people learn from it.
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by eshvk 13y ago
Are these symbolic apologies, pardons any good practically? They keep coming up especially in the colonial setting where governments apologize for what happened a few decades ago. It feels like a zero cost (apart from parliament costs i.e.)
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by eshvk 13y ago
> Shouldn't it? Specially in an article where uncontacted people, literally, kill people to avoid being contacted? What now? Are you trying to say that someone being of Italian ethnicity makes them more ready to contact other people
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by eshvk 13y ago
> looking at this island (looks huge!), am I the only one who feel so sick and tired of what the US government does to its people and our land, that I want to fill up my jetski and just head that way? Only if the tank was large enough...
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by eshvk 13y ago
> thousands of years of war, famine, plague, slavery, and endless grinding inequality (still haven't quite fixed that one it seems) to get where we are now? Are you trying to tell me that these "noble savages" didn't
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by eshvk 13y ago
Why leave them alone? (I have my own reasons why they should or shouldn't be left alone. I am just curious to figure out why you are so insistent that they be left alone.)
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by eshvk 13y ago
I am curious. What is the purpose of your comment? > How long do we think this Indian protection of this island will last? Is this a rhetorical question? A call to arms so that someone "more responsible" takes over the island a
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by eshvk 13y ago
> This also extended to remembering events/conversations/etc in my own life, and they often became "intrusive thoughts." Was anybody hear ever picked on in 3rd grade? Imagine reliving that incident, in photographic de
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by eshvk 13y ago
"generally decry"? I am curious. We are talking about a country which calls itself a democracy, yes? If there is a majority that has a problem with what the government does, it is not clear to me why said majority doesn't tak
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by eshvk 13y ago
> Then we'll see how happy the recruiters are to talk to you if you've been an arrogant arse in the past. Really? We are arrogant because the following behaviours appear to imply arrogance on the part of the recruiter: 1. A rec
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by eshvk 13y ago
There is a human reason for it. People identify with their tribe. Everyone is guilty of it. It is easier to think of foreigners as silhouettes, mere background material for your own play. The Israelis doing it with the Palestinians. The Ger
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by eshvk 13y ago
From what I understand from skimming the site, Dev Bootcamp teaches people RoR and a few other web technologies in 9 weeks. All that tells me is that you know one programming language, it doesn't tell me whether you are a programmer, w
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by eshvk 13y ago
The same people who think myfitnesspal should be a social network? The kind of people who think a fitbit is a competition to see who walks the most? Without putting my tin foil hat on, there is a reason this shit operates the way it does.
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by eshvk 13y ago
I would be more intrigued how Hyperloop would play as a competing technology vs Tesla for short range commutes say SF to San Jose. Would hyperloop be discouraged for such "short-range" routes because Tesla could then pick up the s
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by eshvk 13y ago
A good point; I never joined Google the first time around. I simply assumed that that data would have been discarded. It is quite possible, they have all that data in their system every time they call me for interviews or whatever.
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by eshvk 13y ago
> Google is one well-known example that used to require a minimum GPA, even for people with years of experience: Google asked me for my grades when I was fresh out of school; after that, they never have.
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by eshvk 13y ago
I have spent time in educational systems outside the U.S., I don't think it is a U.S. centric problem. Math and the sciences are extremely cumulative, this means that you have to keep at it. That in turn either requires passion or a sy
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by eshvk 13y ago
The first time I came to India, I sucked at their grading system and it broke my bubble of being a precious snowflake who always did well. I think that was a good thing really; it got me used to the idea that grades could go fuck themselves
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by eshvk 13y ago
I am personally incredibly skeptical of eastern religious practices so getting in mindfulness was a big step for me. So the way mindfulness works, it definitely forces you to become more aware of the world. Self-compassion is a big compone
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by eshvk 13y ago
The HN demographic overlaps with a huge demographic who have spent quite a bit of time reading through and analyzing different health based lifestyle choices. It gets annoying to hear the same damn story repeated again, except under a prett
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by eshvk 13y ago
> 1. You lose weight by eating less calories than your body uses. (As a corollary, you almost definitely consume more calories than you think you do. Get a calorie-counting app.) True. For those who find it a pain to use one, I recommend
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by eshvk 13y ago
> Hmmm - but: military pilots are also known (especially in some cultures) for an over-strong respect for hierarchy, resulting in a willingness to go along with dangerous instructions. Also, at least some military pilots are trained to h
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by eshvk 13y ago
My ex once asked me what I would miss the most if my house burnt down. I immediately said it would be the documents. I would probably worry about this even after I got an American passport.
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by eshvk 13y ago
I don't think it is deliberate.From my friends who joined over the past three years, I think the problem is that burnout as well as incredibly dysfunctional teams is the reason people quit after two years or so. They have been trying t
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by eshvk 13y ago
This is exactly why all this attention on him is distracting; he is human like everyone else, probably has a few skeletons in his cupboard, is probably going to make some bad moves in the future. Rendering this whole issue into one of the d
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by eshvk 13y ago
It could be a cultural thing also. I watched the movie in Africa as a kid. AIDS was everywhere, the reference in the movie immediately jumped at me.
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by eshvk 13y ago
> Someone who notices both her AIDS and her left-wing behaviour will likely be a tiny bit more confident that one causes the other. So just because some people are woolly headed, artistic endeavours should show only one-dimensional chara

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