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by rajup 4y ago
Pretty relevant no? If more people realize it’s not sustainable and is a energy wasting scam, the less people trading leading to less fees.
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by rajup 4y ago
> Our only guess as to what could have caused this is that a week or so before the ban she received a spam message sent to a giant group and marked it as spam. Hmm that's mildly concerning if that's the reason. My acquaintance
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by rajup 4y ago
> it takes surprisingly little people to overthrow a dictator, so counterintuitively dictators have much higher support than democracies. That’s a very unique perspective I never thought of it that way. I wonder though if some or most of
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Larry Ellison's Hawaiian billionaire playground pushes out locals(bloomberg.com)
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by rajup 4y ago
Oh the delicious irony...
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by rajup 4y ago
Sadly this story could have happened with any big cloud provider. Ideally there would be more regulation around the ability of big tech companies to shutdown your digital life through a mindless algorithm, with close to zero recourse. Unfor
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by rajup 4y ago
I mean hypothetically all the money given to a school could be used to build a giant statue but does that actually happen? In your example, are we sure giving teachers a pay rise does not make them more motivated and hence leading to better
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by rajup 4y ago
Well how should it be measured then?
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by rajup 4y ago
> what is the story from their side of things? That crime is going down (but see grand-grand-grand parent's point about less prosecutions). That these policies actually help the homeless or reduces crime(initial evidence does not lo
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by rajup 4y ago
> lol, that's pretty easy to do when you just stop prosecuting people. Same way graduation rates increase if you just stop failing people. Or the way COVID cases drop when you stop testing!
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by rajup 4y ago
I agree with you, but this is more a matter of linguistic convenience than lack of education or perspective imo. The people who call chesa far left in the USA know perfectly well what they mean, other people have no trouble understanding it
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by rajup 4y ago
Even in the USA it seems to depend on the length of stay. For 28 days or less, the search pages has a per-night rate AND the total next to it, that includes cleaning fees, taxes etc, i.e the exact price you would pay. For monthly or more st
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by rajup 4y ago
As a corollary, I imagine this also probably means the dangers of nuclear power are overblown.
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by rajup 4y ago
> Or it can be is as simple as saying a caste system is dumb Agreed. And this ironically is the crux of the problem: most Indians find it dumb, don’t care for it and hope it dies out soon. But some groups would like to keep using it as y
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by rajup 4y ago
What you said makes sense, thank you!
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by rajup 4y ago
Systemic? I just pointed out the rights and privileges guaranteed lower castes in the Indian constitution. How much more un-systemic does it get? The past and inherited poverty: for how long? It’s been 70+ years since India’s independence…
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by rajup 4y ago
> I’ve had 4-5 instances when these Bigots found me because I was eating chicken and they had to lecture about my sin. Oh haha that has happened to me as well, I’m an “upper” caste fellow and eat meat on occasion and have been lectured b
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by rajup 4y ago
> Ofcourse they would. They are mostly those whose parents (or themselves) were privileged enough to make it to the US. I keep seeing this thrown around, but I am yet to see anyone respond exactly what form this "privilege" tak
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by rajup 4y ago
> Something like 90% of the Indian immigrants in the US are high-caste (big surprise, lower-caste Indians are less likely to be able to get work visas and travel), so of course this is a minority problem. Why do you think this is the cas
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by rajup 4y ago
> You'll do whatever you can to maintain the fragile worldview that you haven't been the beneficiary of a class-based system that discriminates and gives you an unfair advantage. I find this POV extremely fascinating outside In
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by rajup 4y ago
Godwin’s law strikes again. All Brahmins are nazis. Excellent.
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by rajup 4y ago
Well, most religions are inherited and (as of today at least) identifying as religious does not automatically make one <insert-favorite-identity>-ist.
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by rajup 4y ago
> I know but all Brahmins wear the sacred thread. False. I may have only anecdotal evidence, but even one counter-example renders your statement incorrect.
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by rajup 4y ago
> You show that you care about tradition. “Caring” about tradition (whatever that means) is equivalent to being complicit in social ills. Ok got it.
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by rajup 4y ago
Many Brahmins I know don’t wear it. So how is it a caste marker? Heck I wear it only during certain ceremonies. So the point the gp was making about people wearing the sacred thread condoning the caste system and discrimination is patently
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by rajup 4y ago
> It doesn't matter what reasons you have. What matters is the consequence of your behavior, namely, it is visible difference between castes, which makes discrimination easier and avoiding discrimination harder. Not unless I go runn
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by rajup 4y ago
We seem to be on the path to it for sure :)
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by rajup 4y ago
Wrong, I wear the thread the same reason a Sikh wears a turban or a Muslim woman wears a niqab/burka. Wearing a sacred thread has about as much relation to condoning/accepting caste discrimination as wearing a niqab has to terrori
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by rajup 4y ago
How exactly is this flamebait?
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by rajup 4y ago
If it's a pretty big index it's unlikely a company going bust here or there is a big deal.

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