paapi__gudiya

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by paapi__gudiya 9y ago
What is the inherent value that lecturers offer anyways? All the material they teach in classes has been available online for the last 20 years. It makes sense (going by market needs) that they have been driven to such levels of poverty. T
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by paapi__gudiya 9y ago
Road-side merchants live hand-to-mouth and would anyways not contribute to tax because their incomes are so low. Every study out there suggests that demonetisation was a big blunder, causing a very severe blow to the Indian economy, includi
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by paapi__gudiya 9y ago
This whole episode has been so disgusting and shows how regressive and authoritarian the mainstream tech community is. People can't work with someone because he has a different point of view about injustice in the society and has the c
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by paapi__gudiya 9y ago
He/she is not exaggerating at all. US companies outside the Silicon Valley treat foreign workers pretty much like indentured (or bonded) labor.
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by paapi__gudiya 9y ago
So true. I got my CS degree at a top school in US, I work at a good startup and get paid very well. But I am so disillusioned with the United States, I feel like going back to India is much better than being an H1B slave.
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by paapi__gudiya 9y ago
CCTV cameras, my dog, my grandma.
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by paapi__gudiya 9y ago
Why is the Hacker News community up-voting these blatant PR pieces? This statement coming from Tim Cook seems like a joke.
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by paapi__gudiya 9y ago
I use vim 7.4 and it segfaults atleast four-five times everyday. I suspect it's some plugin that is causing it to crash but I don't really know. Does it happen to anyone else too? I have mapped Ctrl-C to ESC and I use it often. On