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by sometimes_all 2y ago
Kinda-sorta agree with your point, it's the HN headline that has been editorialized. The actual article mentions services as a whole, not big tech specifically, which makes it seem that the GP focused more on the headline, but even the
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by sometimes_all 2y ago
I agree on the part of people criticizing when convenient; I had the same thought when watching "The Social Dilemma" on Netflix. I read Careless People, and if I was in the author's shoes and if what she says was accurate, I
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by sometimes_all 2y ago
I was introduced to Poe via "The Cask of Amontillado". After that, I binge-watched The Fall of the House of Usher when it released, which is a mash-up of a lot of Poe's stories (the show didn't have the subtlety of the o
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by sometimes_all 2y ago
I've been aware of the ZIRP phenomenon and potential things that might happen when it ends since 2017. I prepared myself to slowly add more skills (finance, writing, management, etc). All this was while I continued to be a full-time de
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by sometimes_all 2y ago
They could, but its unlikely other people in their network will.
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by sometimes_all 2y ago
WhatsApp in India is inescapable, but also quite useful, primarily because of network effects. But you really have to be careful and sparing with it, else it becomes a nuisance. Thankfully they've done some work to that effect. Example
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by sometimes_all 3y ago
Many Indians also want to visit the EU/US for short days and tourism, or for other very valid and legitimate reasons. These can be with a long history of not breaking visa norms of other countries, and yet face delays of 2+ years. It&#
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by sometimes_all 3y ago
When I was in the US, certain companies (like Discover) had customer service which were a joy to interact with. An almost immediate connect with a human, who had the permissions to make a relatively large chunk of problems go away / ac
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by sometimes_all 3y ago
Yeah I felt that way too. Initially I thought I wasn't sure what I was missing, since the only difference is that the order of the checks is switched, and the function will still return the same true/false in both cases. Then I th
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by sometimes_all 3y ago
It makes little sense to buy a new iphone in India for most of the mid-to-upper middle class folks. Not only are they more expensive than in the US (any maybe Europe), there is very little official support for iPhones outside of the metro c
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by sometimes_all 3y ago
Oof my bad; thanks for pointing it out. I got a bit confused about what you were referring to, since I believe that GP didn't think of New Yorker as highbrow, given the quotes on "liberal intellectual". But yes, sorry about t
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by sometimes_all 3y ago
FYI: The New Yorker != The New York Review of Books, which your parent talks about. NYRB is totally different: https://www.nybooks.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Review_of_Books
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by sometimes_all 4y ago
Oh please. The comment was less about PayTM and more about tech companies being blasé about data privacy in general. If I had a friend or family member who was an employee of such a publicly facing tech company, I’d be grilling them about t
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by sometimes_all 4y ago
Interesting, thanks. The fact that PayTM doesn't guard sensitive personal data even when it's a local tech behemoth makes me not want to use digital payments and switch to cash.
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by sometimes_all 4y ago
Was this just Paytm's history, or all of your digital payments history (ie all transactions outside Paytm)? I'm guessing it's the former, but I'm just too paranoid to not ask...
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by sometimes_all 4y ago
Here in India most of the VC funded startups and large international tech companies are laying off people left and right. Most VCs are funded from international clients, who are fleeing with their money for good reasons; the grow-at-all-cos
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by sometimes_all 4y ago
Here in India we have to use horns twice a minute. If they want to sell cars in the developing world, they better make their inputs tactile or people won’t buy them.
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by sometimes_all 4y ago
When I was young, I used to play the tabla (Indian percussion instrument). Loved playing it, but to continue learning I had to give multipe written exams for at least 5 years dealing with the history of Indian classical music in a language
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by sometimes_all 4y ago
I moved back to India almost 4 years ago. I haven’t regretted it one bit; I have sacrificed nothing except maybe relatively cleaner air. Most of the smart folks (engineers or otherwise) who would’ve targeted the US don’t consider it any mor
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by sometimes_all 4y ago
For me, I can get all I want from LinkedIn (recruiter messages, contact lists, search for people/companies) and remove everything else from sight just by adding a few rules on uBlock Origin and making sure communication preferences are