lagolinguini

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by lagolinguini 3y ago
We are often told that the conflict in WW2 was a conflict between a clearly good side and a clearly evil side. While it's true one of the sides was certainly the a much greater evil, it would be disingenuous to hide the short comings o
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by lagolinguini 4y ago
> If you see the pictures. There is no concept of privacy. I feel like you are looking at this from a western perspective. Normally Indian families have a much more communal culture. Lots of significance is given to common and shared are
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by lagolinguini 4y ago
Labour is much cheaper in India. Labour is the most expensive part of maintaining such houses. Given India's median income is much lower than the west, this price is still very expensive for most Indian families.
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by lagolinguini 4y ago
> How would you intend to enforce this? Declare a law that no banker must be paid more than than the current highest government salary? Salaries of government employees and public officials are already dictated by laws in most countries,
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by lagolinguini 4y ago
why?
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by lagolinguini 4y ago
> If you want to justify your position, I would suggest highlighting the positive changes you _did_ make, rather than the positive changes you _intended_ to make. Imagine where the world would be if bell labs didn't invest all that
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by lagolinguini 4y ago
I am talking about the split between West Pakistan and East Pakistan (Bangladesh). My point is that the Idea that Pakistan could be a united country based on a common religion failed based on the fact that the Bengalis found their Bengali i
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by lagolinguini 4y ago
It's also important to understand that less than half of India speaks hindi/urdu as a native language, and less than a 10th of the country speaks/understands punjabi (which this song is in). There are more speakers of Punjabi
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by lagolinguini 4y ago
It's also important to understand that less than half of India speaks hindi/urdu as a native language, and less than a 10th of the country speaks/understands punjabi (which this song is in).
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by lagolinguini 4y ago
Exactly. See my other comment explaining the nuances.
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by lagolinguini 4y ago
This is a false understanding of the differences between the two countries (actually 3, Bangladesh is also part of this shared culture). It's not 1000s of years of history being opposed to each other but 1000 years of shared history
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by lagolinguini 5y ago
Arguably the United Kingdom was not a true electoral democracy until the 50s and until decolonisation. In the early 20th century the United Kingdom governed much of the world and non of those people had much say in the government that gover
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by lagolinguini 5y ago
rif made it so much more bearable to use reddit on mobile. But since I switched to ios I have not found an app that can compare to rif.
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by lagolinguini 6y ago
I really enjoy Tantacrul's videos on UX. I hope that he finds time to do some videos on Gnome or KDE someday.
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by lagolinguini 6y ago
Everybody gets a public key certificate, possibly since birth. There needs to be some way of establishing that which keys belong to which person, perhaps via some government registry, and a way to invalidate old/compromised keys. Overk
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by lagolinguini 6y ago
> personal attack on this woman with the intent to humiliate and embarrass her professionally. This is exactly what it feels like to me.
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by lagolinguini 6y ago
It's been particularly hard interviewing during the pandemic. In usual times, at least you would visit the office and meet some real people in person. Not saying you can't get scammed in person, but it's definitely harder to
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by lagolinguini 6y ago
Nidhi Razdan gets a lot of hate, particularly from the right in India.
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by lagolinguini 6y ago
They are certainly biased to the left. But they are definitely better than any of the alternatives in India... Have your seen what kind of garbage is reported by Indian news channels? There was the entire bullshit non issue about Rhea Chakr
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by lagolinguini 6y ago
Yeah, I understand what you mean. I just wanted to point out that often this aspect is also overlooked when it comes to immigration in America. The social aspects mean nothing to me when I could never be certain about my status in the US. I
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by lagolinguini 6y ago
While this might be true, this is not what I've experienced. I lived in the US for 7 years. I went to school there, worked there and paid taxes. But I had to leave because I didn't get the H1B visa. So while people couldn't t
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by lagolinguini 6y ago
A follow up question to this. What do people feel about relocating to the EU. Both this question and the question that OP is asking have been on my mind a lot lately. But I don't really have much choice in the matter, because of my sit
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by lagolinguini 6y ago
> mass-memorizing words as if they're an Asian studying for a chemistry test. Is this appropriate language to use?
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by lagolinguini 6y ago
I think the point was that CentOS was one of those distros maintained by people who had a life... Maybe Cannonical won't be around in the future either.
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by lagolinguini 6y ago
I'm curious to know from you why you think the idea of globalisation is bullshit. As an immigrant such as yourself, I can't say I agree with you. Or perhaps our definitions of globalisation are not the same. In any case, I would l
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by lagolinguini 7y ago
Would you say सफ़ेद, गरम, अख़बार, वक़्त, मुज्ररिम, इलज़ाम, ख़त, etc are not Hindi words? Would you rather say श्वेत, ऊष्म, समाचारपत्र, मुजरिम, आरोप, पत्र? Most people use them interchangeably.
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by lagolinguini 7y ago
Devanagiri script has one drawback for non-native speakers though, which is identifying the schwa syncope rule. All Devnagiri consonants always carry an implicit schwa unless otherwise modified by a diacritic. However, in Hindustani, this s
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by lagolinguini 7y ago
This isn't really a difference in pronunciation between Hindu and Urdu as much as it is a sound change that has occurred in some dialects of the Hindustani language. Both Hindi and Urdu have the consonant /z/. However in part
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by lagolinguini 7y ago
As an international student who went to a top US university, I'm faced with a similar situation when it comes to H1B. I understand I have no inherent right to be here, and that part of the reason why H1Bs are difficult to get is becaus
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by lagolinguini 8y ago
The man said nothing, absolutely nothing during the Balakot event. Which is fine, because the whole thing was a cockup anyway. That didn't stop his base from celebrating the event. (Disclaimer: I don't support Pakistan, but you ha

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