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by rocknor 5y ago
That is what really matters because we can't really do much about population. We could talk about population if we had unusually high birth rates, but that's not true. A high birth rate was the default state of all humanity pre-
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by rocknor 5y ago
So? Consumption CO2 per capita is what really matters. https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$model$markers$line$data$fi...
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by rocknor 5y ago
Nope. Look at the consumption CO2 emissions: https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$model$markers$line$data$fi...
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by rocknor 5y ago
This is probably the biggest reason, they are building products used by virtually everyone on the planet, they cannot afford mistakes that could arise just because their employees only represent a small percentage of human diversity. If all
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by rocknor 5y ago
Disagree. Let's assume 25% of a graduate SV salary is $25k. That's €20k. With this salary you can only hire bottom of the barrel graduates in Portugal (cheapest country in western europe) since most graduates leave to other EU cou
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by rocknor 5y ago
True, other large non-G7 nations like Australia and Saudi Arabia that also have very high consumption-driven emissions per capita should also be called out. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-per-capit..
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by rocknor 5y ago
This does not counter what I said in any way.
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by rocknor 5y ago
This generalization that happens every time "outsourcing" and "India" get mentioned in the same thread needs to stop. The culprit here is your employer who is probably hiring graduates in India at 5-10% of SV salaries, w
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by rocknor 5y ago
Logical fallacy. The average competence of an engineer in a pool does not imply that the number of the talented devs in that pool is small. The global pool of talented devs will probably be several times the size of the US pool simply becau
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by rocknor 5y ago
I'm not advocating making any particular dialect universal. I'm simply asking people to look at the big picture instead of hating the person that you're talking to because of how they talk. We have the Internet now, IMO it&#x
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by rocknor 5y ago
No it's not. My point is that "do the needful" is not a proper representation of Indian English, as the parent comment implied. There are a lot more pecularities that makes the dialect what it is, but people are just not awar
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by rocknor 5y ago
Then you need to learn more about it, Indian English is more than just that one phrase. That's like saying, "if there is one phrase that, to me, defines American English, I think it would be "Howdy".
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by rocknor 5y ago
> In the 1950s you could afford a nice middle class lifestyle, own a home, raise multiple children, all on a single income and no college education. This was a unique situation, only in the US, which was a small fraction of the world pop
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by rocknor 5y ago
I really hope en-IN moves to American spellings and gets rid of the lakh/crore numbers and use million/billion instead (more scientific). Then it basically becomes en-CA with nice things like ₹.
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by rocknor 5y ago
Only in the short term. Lifting people from extreme poverty drastically reduces birth rates, accelerating demographic transition [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_transition
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by rocknor 5y ago
Shocking how even on HN people are not aware that the world population will NOT grow indefinitely. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBT5EQt348
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by rocknor 5y ago
I wouldn't say there were deep ties, but there certainly were some. Only older people remember those ties now. You will find comments by such people on Youtube clips of old Hindustani songs. Not just Russia, they come from other ex-Sov
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by rocknor 5y ago
Sounds like you're just bitter about jobs moving overseas. The global talent pool is much bigger than the SV talent pool, and no, they are not just "typists" (that was unbelievably arrogant btw and reflects ignorance). And
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by rocknor 5y ago
You're on HN and it's supposed to have somewhat better discourse, don't bring the quality of this site down. Next time try googling the population (!), per capita income, rates of English profiency and technical know-how, int
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by rocknor 5y ago
Because of your stupid statement about it being ingrained in the culture. It's more like a combination of unemployment, English know-how, ineffective/overworked police because of underfunding, the existence of this attack vector a
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by rocknor 6y ago
Ah good one, will check it out. "Factfulness" by Hans Rosling (from the links I posted earlier) also makes the same point.
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by rocknor 6y ago
What's your point? The birth rates are already reducing. Do you want war and genocide to reduce the population faster?
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by rocknor 6y ago
Actually, it's your viewpoint that's stupid. No one wants more humans on the planet. We only need to account for humans that are yet to be born, before we hit the peak around ~10B. And before you start blaming countries for high b
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by rocknor 6y ago
That's a dangerous anti-science viewpoint. No, the problem is the exact opposite - we as a species are not scientifically advanced enough yet to satisfy our relentless hunger for energy with renewable resources.
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by rocknor 6y ago
Agree with the point about quality of Netflix flicks. Most of them are cheap, cater to the lowest common denominator, optimized to maximize profit. IMO it also negatively affects society, because that's what most people consume. It&#x2
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by rocknor 6y ago
> If the captain was a European or American national he'd be all over the news. Citation needed. HN is going down the drain with low quality comments like these. Identities are probably hidden to prevent Western media from spinning
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by rocknor 6y ago
Pretty stupid thing to say. UN predicts 11B humans at peak. Certain new studies predict 9.7B. Global average birth rate is already close to replacement levels. The earth population that can enjoy life is not fixed at 2B, that's very my
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by rocknor 6y ago
It is rightfully unpopular, because it's not based on facts. The earth could easily sustain 8B+ people if certain countries do not over-consume as they are currently. But you are right, people are selfish, especially these over-consume
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by rocknor 6y ago
What an ignorant comment. It just shows a failure of supposedly "superior" Western education, your citizens are deliberately kept uninformed in a desperate attempt to hold on to the power that was unfairly acquired by exploiting m
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by rocknor 6y ago
Yes. If you hire someone for an excessively cheap rate, it is likely that they might not perform well. For example, assume the salary of a graduate salary in bay area is $100K. You can usually hire an equally skilled graduate in India at li

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