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by shripadk 6y ago
This is what happens when you live in your own bubble and don't even bother to talk to Trump supporters and look past the memes and trolling. The memes and trolling were a necessary part of "waking the sheeple" discourse from
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by shripadk 6y ago
Exactly! And what makes it worse is that Silicon Valley is ideologically inclined to the left (and some extreme left). This is largely overlooked but is a pretty important discussion to have. Because moderator decision making is increasingl
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by shripadk 6y ago
In this case, the Delhi High Court hasn't even asked Twitter to ban the account. Instead it "rejected" a plea to ban the account. Twitter definitely censored Sci-Hub on its own volition. Quoting from the article: "In Dec
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by shripadk 6y ago
But reading from the article it is at least clear that the Courts "rejected" a request to ban Sci-Hub and instead gave time to the Scientific community to figure out a way forward. I don't see where you get that the Court in
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by shripadk 6y ago
Thanks for saying this. I'm glad I am not the only one feeling this way after all! I literally said the same thing yesterday to another comment in another post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25672161 This sort o
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by shripadk 6y ago
> One could argue tech companies have a monopoly problem but you’re just saying a private company should allow anyone to say anything on their platform and throwing a ridiculous slippery slope out in front of it. It is not as simple as y
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by shripadk 6y ago
A historic event for whom? The United States right? Social Media operates in 100+ countries. What happened in USA is historic for you maybe. Not for us. USA is not the World. Regimes fall every now and then. Coup attempts happen all the tim
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by shripadk 6y ago
> This will go down as a very important day in American Internet history. A very important week in American history. The day Censorship was made valid with hordes cheering them on. A very bad and sad precedent. This is going to backfire
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by shripadk 6y ago
George Orwell was right. He just got the year wrong: 2021 instead of 1984.
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by shripadk 6y ago
I'm sorry I did not get what your comment implied. Yes and no regarding what?
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by shripadk 6y ago
> If you are not a fan of the Trumpists then I retract the shame ;) Haha no worries. I am not a fan of Trumpists. I am just trying to balance the narrative. I explain it here as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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by shripadk 6y ago
> rather than examples of him not being an authoritarian Well can you give me a way to find examples of him "not being" an authoritarian? That very question shows how weak your argument is. That you have to clutch at straws to
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by shripadk 6y ago
> The United States was some sort of imperialist throughout much of its history (even at the time when that imperialism was confined to the American continent) and yet solidly democratic throughout that period. True. But doesn't sto
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by shripadk 6y ago
> Shame on you; you should be ashamed of yourself. Shame on me? I am no American. I don't need to be ashamed of the mess that USA has become. By the look of it you voted for Obama. So you should be ashamed of a President who had the
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by shripadk 6y ago
I haven't come across an imperialist who did not end up becoming authoritarian or wasn't already an authoritarian. History is witness to what colonialism/imperialism can do to subjects it ends up gaining control over.
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by shripadk 6y ago
> Trump IS an authoritian Yes you are absolutely right! Trump bombed innocent kids in Syria after receiving the "Nobel Peace Prize". Trump dropped 26,171 bombs in 2016. Trump launched multiple Wars, invaded foreign countries an
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by shripadk 6y ago
> it's not because they aren't fair to Trump. You must be living in an alternate reality but whether you like Trump or hate him you can't deny the fact that the media was completely against Trump from the very beginning. N
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by shripadk 6y ago
> * You can not compare goods across two countries by simply taking the exchange rate, you need to normalise to account for different factors like disposable income This is where you are wrong. You have to take exchange rate when calcula
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by shripadk 6y ago
> It means that the value of Harley Davidson in India in US$ would be equivalent in the US when the price is 21.3x You lost me here. Can you elaborate on this more please? When it came to data comparisons you literally did multiply 21.3
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by shripadk 6y ago
> We are not comparing data usage, we are comparing the value of two different currencies. The value of 100 US$ in India is different from that in the US or the EU. In order to normalise the value between two currencies, PPP is used. It
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by shripadk 6y ago
> At that rate I am guessing the network doesn't have to deal with rain or snow or customer issues cause obviously the budget for all that is not required because how can it even exist? There is no such issue that ISPs are unable to
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by shripadk 6y ago
PPP makes no sense when it comes to comparing data usage between countries. Data is not based on same supply/demand characteristics as physical goods. It is quite literally arbitrary. Much like most software you buy/subscribe to.
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by shripadk 6y ago
> But the fact that it only costs 9 cents a GB is amazing. It has now reduced to 4 cents per GB for Jio Fiber. I'm sure local ISPs have reduced prices even more just to compete with Jio (in some places you can get 3.3TB for 10$)
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by shripadk 6y ago
I am sure it is Mbps not MBPS. Same here with Jio Fiber [1]. Get 100 Mbps with 400GB data per month at at 699₹ (approx 10$) per month. [1]: https://www.jio.com/fiber/en-in/plans
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by shripadk 6y ago
Really? That deserves a Nobel Peace Prize in this day and age? Is that what we have reduced the Prize to?
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by shripadk 6y ago
> i will consider the whole "Nobel Prize" system to be a complete tool and sham. What was Obama given the Nobel Peace Prize for?
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by shripadk 6y ago
> I didn’t say anything about Biden dude Yes you did not. I am not saying you did. But I made an observation on how Biden was given a free pass when he literally not just passed racist statements but passed bills that incarcerated tens o
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by shripadk 6y ago
Radicalize? Trump has pretty much said he condemns KKK even after winning the 2016 elections (30+ times and counting). I am sorry to say but your hatred seems to blind you to the facts. > Trump was also a Democrat prior to Obama’s electi
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by shripadk 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-9Yv6ahORs See what Trump said about KKK and David Duke in 2000s when he aborted his Presidential Campaign (Reform Party).
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by shripadk 6y ago
I know you are getting downvoted and I know why! But everything you said is the truth. You have my upvote!

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