nonamechicken

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   by nonamechicken 6y ago

   Regarding acid attacks, a 2013 report says that 45% of victims are men. Some stories from recent times: https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/2018/apr/30/k... https://www.deccanh
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   by nonamechicken 7y ago

   The twitter link posted by abhshkdz ( https://twitter.com/jslaternyc/status/1144483586042548225 ) took me to this article: >"Dear BBC, Bengaluru isn’t running out of water soon. Here’s why!" http:&#x2
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   by nonamechicken 7y ago

   This is what typically happens to h1bs: if someone comes from India to work at the client location (Boeing office in this case), and if the customer is not happy with them for whatever reason, they get send back within a month or 2.
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   by nonamechicken 7y ago

   I don't like Indian IT companies because they pay us less and some managers exploit us a lot. But one thing they deeply care about is the customer. They would go to any length to keep the customer happy. There is no way they would risk
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   by nonamechicken 7y ago

   Why would anyone pay $120-$150 per hour for .net code in India? Most American firms pay $25-30 per hour to the Indian companies. Also, do airplanes run on .net? >You’d see .NET code with a single class that has a few thousand lines of c
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   by nonamechicken 7y ago

   I really doubt 737 Max's failure has anything to with outsourcing to India. Usually, most of the work outsourced to India are low value work (what I call as 'near brain dead' type). I don't think Boeing would outsource a
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   by nonamechicken 7y ago

   I was working for an Indian IT company back then. According to my colleague, they offered really good health insurance (I never pay attention to such things, so don't know how good it was compared to others). I got a dental cleaning an
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   by nonamechicken 7y ago

   I recently tried to buy Office 365 from MS India. It just kept on failing with my India debit card even though it accepts both debit/credit cards. The error message was not helpful and finally came to know from customer care that it wa
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   by nonamechicken 7y ago

   Remittance from the US to India make up about 0.02% of the total GDP. UAE is at the top with $13.8 billion, US at second place with $11.7 billion, Saudi at third with $11.2 billion. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rem
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    by nonamechicken 7y ago

    Chennai got decent rain today after 196 days. Good rain is expected for 6 more days https://m.timesofindia.com/city/chennai/chennai-rain-after-1...
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    by nonamechicken 7y ago

    Thanks for the link. When I typed "Even if pay is half or one third", I actually was thinking of savings. I am past the edit window now. But please read it as "Even if the money I can save is half or one third".
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    by nonamechicken 7y ago

    Its easier to get vacation in US compared to India. Managers in Indian IT companies have a target that x% of their team must be billable at any time (or at least that's what they tell us), and use that as reason to deny our leave reque
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    by nonamechicken 7y ago

    I don't know much about this topic (finance). But since I see news reports regularly of Indians depositing black money in foreign banks, I am posting this. I am not really sure if this 'financial data must stay in India' requ
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    by nonamechicken 7y ago

    Even if pay is half or one third, I prefer India (saying as someone who was an h1b in US for 6.5 years). India has a lot of problems-bad infrastructure, crazy traffic, poor air, bad policing and so on. Life in India is basically like playin
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    by nonamechicken 7y ago

    I am also getting way more captchas at least since the last 6 months. Exclusively using Firefox with clear everything on exit, multiple profiles, fingerprint flag on, some addons etc. No VPN. I get captcha almost all the time, even for Goog
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    by nonamechicken 7y ago

    I am from India, not using VPN. Except for storefronts, everything I get looks like from US-traffic lights, cars, buses (including yellow school buses), cross walks etc.
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    by nonamechicken 7y ago

    I am not sure if it's the same technology, The Weather Channel App (Android) has an option for mesh network based alerts. https://weather.com/apps/ibm/meshnetworkalerts
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    by nonamechicken 7y ago

    Delhi based BluSmart taxi services already launched a fleet of electric taxis using Mahindra eVerito: https://youtu.be/AVHHMOxRQ94 , https://youtu.be/pWYBDbxlx_c There are some electric cars already availabl
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    by nonamechicken 7y ago

    Regarding public bus, many states are currently testing electric buses. I have seen 2-3 in my city, though recent reports indicate the state run transport company is not that happy with the buses since they don't make enough profit or
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    by nonamechicken 7y ago

    Some more info: >EV sales in India grew three-fold to 3,600 in the year ended March but still account for about 0.1% of the 3.3 million diesel and gasoline cars sold in the country over the period, industry data showed. China's elec
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    by nonamechicken 7y ago

    This is a big fear for many h1bs (atleast those who I know). What if they travel to India, and then the visa officer decides just like that to deny. What will happen to their stuff in US, their apartment, car etc? These people have done not
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    by nonamechicken 7y ago

    I am not sure if this is true. This is from my state (which is in South India) this year (March-April) when the temperature was in the 35-40 degrees range. Highest recorded was 42 degrees I think in a border district. I don't think Sou
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    by nonamechicken 7y ago

    The students who come to US for MS spend 2 years of their studies. They are not going to magically follow American culture all of a sudden. If one goes to any Hindu temple in US, you will find a huge number of these students. Another thing
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    by nonamechicken 7y ago

    I don't think they were blaming the government. Just citing it as one of the issues in their quarterly shareholder report. One of the main ways these companies retain people was this: give the employee promise of onsite deputation if y
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    by nonamechicken 7y ago

    Considering that 93 percent of the approximately 100,000 H4 spouses are women from India, its clear at whom it is targeted. And the changes in h1b seems to be working as indented. >The US is no longer seen as a plum posting by senior IT
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    by nonamechicken 7y ago

    I once reported a bug in Visual Studio community edition. One or two weeks later, a developer (I think) remote logged in to my PC to troubleshoot what was happening. The next update had a fix for the issue.
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    by nonamechicken 8y ago

    Can't reply to 'highlyskilledimm's' comment below, hence adding here. Not sure if level 4* h1b's fall under highly skilled, here are a few wondering why they get RFE for their visa extensions: https://www
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    by nonamechicken 8y ago

    Two of his videos are not available in India any more. https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/high-court-orde... https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Delhi-High-Court-banned-PewDie...
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    by nonamechicken 8y ago

    I think the ban is not because of defamation. >It must be noted all the claims put forward by PewDiePie to T-Series were false. Pewdiepie in his Congratulations video talked about tax evasions, relation of T-Series with mafia, and a very
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    by nonamechicken 8y ago

    Depends on the area. Some areas are clean, some areas are filthy. The city I live in is successfully reducing the usage of plastic. They banned plastic bags that are at a certain thickness (the kind you get in grocery stores). Everyone uses