mohanmcgeek

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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
I see you countering a bunch of right wing talking points which I have not even made. I was referring to GP's overt arrogance in justifying YouTube's intervention here. People can generally duduce for themselves what the truth is.
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
Everything that you, or the YouTube moderators at California, disagree with is not misinformation. And the COVID situation showed how bad it was. I can't imagine why someone would think it works "well enough"
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
> the 30-40% of YouTube users who don't have that skill, Who are you or YouTube to make this judgement? More often than not, the "I'm smarter than the average person" types are the ones making the worst decisions.
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
> If they specifically state they look for people in EU timezones they'll receive anyway 100+ CVs from India or other countries. If they state EU _timezone_ and they receive applications from India which is *ahead* by 3.30H or Niger
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
You can read the document again. It's the minimum eligibility in the test they're taking not their high school scores. > the cutoff for reserved category students being 60% of that of general category ones It is not that off an
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
Then this is probably news to you. Search for Minimum eligibility on these https://pib.gov.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=147623 https://indiankanoon.org/doc/93076753/
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
> This means someone scoring 95% would not get get an admission offer while someone else scoring 15% would. Sounds entirely made up. All these exams generally have a minimum clearing criteria at 60-65%
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
> However, in case of South Asia/India, the argument is positive discrimination now to correct for negative discrimination in the past. I don't think India makes this "penance for primordial sins" argument. There&#x27
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
Considering the fact that my food ordering apps and e-commerce apps are all PWAs, I would say they definitely took off. Maybe you're on iPhone AND that's the problem?
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
You can't find somebody's caste from knowing where they're from. But last names generally are associated with their caste. For this reason, my state got rid of surnames ~50 years ago. It sure is inconvenient in some places: I
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
And people who emigrated 20-30 years ago would all be from the same part of India for Socio-economic reasons of that time.
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
Might as well transfer your domains right now even if you're not from Russia because now that this precedent has been set, we don't know when they'll cancel your country.
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
https://www.thunderclient.com/ This one's great. Like postman, but a vscode extension. Although my muscle memory still automatically goes to postman when I want to make requests
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
Just refuting your statement that the world sees one side as evil. We, the rest of the world, have no horse in the race. > they didn't vote in favor of Russia, did they? In a resolution like this, abstaining is effectively the same
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
The Nazi's certainly didn't think of themselves as evil. They called the other side evil/Jews evil. Same with Stalin's USSR. > The whole world thinks that Russia is doing an evil thing 100+ countries abstained from vo
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
Probably because just being one of a kind doesn't make it valuable during a war when they have to evacuate more important assets
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
Answering "why are you cheering for one side?" With "cuz the other side is evil" is stifling debate. But this is geopolitics we're talking about: There isn't a good side and an evil side.
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
> Calling the other side evil is what tyrants thrive on
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
Again, from my unparticipating 3rd country vantage point, both are either dictatorships and democratic countries depending on your standards. From another comment here I learnt that there were targeted attacks on Russian population inside U
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
This isn't a sentiment. The simplistic version of the Nazi's rise to power is that they did so by labelling Jews and other minorities as evil. That reinforces my point. Doesn't it? (And were the British any better? See: Benga
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
I mean, Russians would have definitely called the West and Ukraine as evil in their domestic channels. No? There's no good vs evil in international diplomacy.
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
Calling the other side evil is what tyrants thrive on.
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
> A test case watched by China for a possible invasion of Taiwan I saw this as a headline from several news websites already. So are you sure you weren't influenced by that? Reality is that the Taiwan situation is very different fro
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
Does hackernews take part in cheering a side in every other war too? Like the Azerbaijan Armenia war that happened last year or the Saudi Yemani war sometime ago? I'm really wondering why this one is different.
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
From my equally uneducated perspective, I understand that this started with the 2014 revolution that the Russian government calls a coup. A conventional war several thousand kilometres away shouldn't affect me regardless of the outcome
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
> Also, you can look at my comment history if you think I'm pro-russian It's a sad state of things where someone asking a legit question has to add this disclaimer. As someone in an uninvolved third country, I don't unders
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
> with full reserve banking. If banks make any loans at all These are contradictory. The banks with full reserve banking can't make loans from easily withdrawable deposits. They can do that only with term deposits that can't be
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
> Is this really the way we want it to work Yes. This is not a technology problem. This is how banks have been working for the last 400 years. You can't get rid of banks because banks are what create the money. The crypto people hav
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
> That is true Is it still true though? The Fed averted this through QE by buying assets of questionable value at the face value from the illiquid banks and providing them with enough cash.. didn't they?
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
Isn't that what blocking them on SWIFT actually is? Or do they have another way?

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