kamakazizuru

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by kamakazizuru 13y ago
except for the flawed assumption that this happened due to some class problem - I agree with your argument.
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by kamakazizuru 13y ago
sure - apps dont have a resale value. but that doesnt mean video games in general dont. You're just providing an exception to a rule that's all. Also - you're defying your original point of something being a good. Angry birds
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by kamakazizuru 13y ago
except they do have a resale value.
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by kamakazizuru 13y ago
I still dont see your point? I'm the first person to accept that you cannot generalize india - but that does not exclude the reality that if people could find better paying / more meaningful income - they'd go do that rather
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by kamakazizuru 13y ago
because that's living in big cities unfortunately. Taking Bombay as an example - where in some areas the cost per square foot of an apartment is easily as high as 1600 USD (100000 INR) - even a shanty is a luxury for many. Also you hav
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by kamakazizuru 13y ago
not that. the caste system has nothing to do with it AT ALL. my cook was a higher caste than my family was. Caste system is yet another concept people from the west who've watched a couple of documentaries about India like to throw ar
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by kamakazizuru 13y ago
right - then maybe the US should take a look at California where Mexican agricultural workers are severely underpaid. That's just one example. But then again - someone has to harvest those avocadoes right?
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by kamakazizuru 13y ago
eh... Bombay is Mumbai - and since the author referred to her life growing up in Bombay / Mumbai - the comparison applies. That said - Bangalore, Delhi, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Chennai - are all comparable to a reasonable extend to Bombay.
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by kamakazizuru 13y ago
while I respect what your mom did. I think the point the OP is trying to make is that - there were people willing to work for the amount of money that his mother could afford to pay for them to do it. Its really not any different from when
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by kamakazizuru 13y ago
just like the US - or pretty much any latin american country - and a lot of parts of africa and europe and the rest of Asia. Your point is? Humans have a class problem.
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by kamakazizuru 13y ago
right - but released shortly after - and never strip searched.
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by kamakazizuru 13y ago
except they arent slaves - and if they could find better paying work - there would be nothing stopping them from going after it. It is a free market at the end of the day.
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by kamakazizuru 13y ago
such as?
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by kamakazizuru 13y ago
Yes - this is my point too - from an elitist western perspective it maybe exploitation - but the servants are not indentured slaves who dont have an option to go find better paying work! They are earning what the market is ready to give the
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by kamakazizuru 13y ago
actually people would still hire them - on the black market - with lower wages - just like most of the agricultural sector in the US with mexicans. You cant stop the free market.
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by kamakazizuru 13y ago
yes it is very much a cultural thing (see my longer comment) & often just makes economic sense. The argument that they are underpaid is relatively flawed. Servants in cities make much more than they would make if they stayed in their to
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by kamakazizuru 13y ago
the "caste crap" has increasingly less to do with people being "servants" - its more an income and education thing. In fact - being from a "lower caste" in India - actually makes getting into the IITs (best eng
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by kamakazizuru 13y ago
The author shows a complete lack of understanding of India - and brings up completely unrelated topics (casteism?!) to support her already weak point. In fact - bringing up the Diplomats caste is her being racist (casteist? - dunno the rig
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by kamakazizuru 13y ago
let's hope this doesn't go the way french breast implants went in the not too distant past!
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by kamakazizuru 13y ago
so ... oLance then?
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by kamakazizuru 13y ago
Appropriate title "How A Company that makes paper, changed its raw materials".
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by kamakazizuru 13y ago
You're assuming that they'd a few struggling bacteria - and that all of mankind wants to quit earth and spread as far and wide as possible. Both of which is basically bullshit. If anything - our population is heading towards its
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by kamakazizuru 13y ago
I dont see your point apart from trying to sound as nasty as possible? Just because they arent tribes means they're irrelevant? They are indigenous species and should be protected in the interest of science if nothing else. You dont e
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by kamakazizuru 13y ago
I think they put out regular press releases of anything interesting they find. HN just has a taste for certain types of articles is all..
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by kamakazizuru 13y ago
right, this is pretty much the attitude with which colonial powers approached new continents. The universe was not built for humans alone - if there is life there - which in its current form is unable to protect itself - it is our duty to p
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by kamakazizuru 13y ago
this (kinda) happens already - algorithm would be along the lines of - take existing DNA - splice with added DNA code - run PCR - insert DNA into a host cell with minimal own DNA - allow it to Grow. The Craig Venter Institute pioneered thi
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by kamakazizuru 13y ago
this guy really needs to go speak to a bioinformatician. Having studied the same myself - I can safely say that he is at best drawing vague analogies - the goal of this exercise however is very unclear (especially ending with all the Dawkin
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by kamakazizuru 13y ago
really? I think they were obligated - in the interest of not losing face among the hacker community after Shubham's post. If anything this was just a PR move more than anything else.
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by kamakazizuru 13y ago
for what excel is intended to do - the current formula language is actually perfect - I wouldnt trade it for anything else (being someone who does a lot of work in excel - but also spends plenty of time hacking python & js) - if you rea
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by kamakazizuru 13y ago
Yes, and they keep getting flack from various regulatory authorities for things like that. Facebook or anyone doing something that isn't legal doesn't make it legal.

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