Dharmakirti

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by Dharmakirti 2y ago
Touché. Such radical takes are always a hit on HN because they are essentially playing to the gallery. Leaving social media is futile if you don't take efforts to maintain contacts with your friends and families in other ways.
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by Dharmakirti 4y ago
You do understand that Twitter is not a representation of the society in any meaningful way, right?
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by Dharmakirti 4y ago
Indias software sector is so starved of talented resources that they have already started tapping into rural areas. e.g. navgurukul.org
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by Dharmakirti 4y ago
> hate for capitalism is pretty old in certain parts of the world. I would like to have a different take. India has a strong merchant class since aeons and market economy was never a taboo culturally. You can see that in the entrepreneur
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by Dharmakirti 4y ago
> One of my first memories is waddling along to the ration shop (cheap subsidized government shops) with my mother to buy rice and kerosene for cooking. Man you just rekindled those memories. I still remember the dusty ration card book (
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by Dharmakirti 4y ago
I can tell my personal story if that matters. Background: I come from a non-UC, rural yeoman farmers family. I grew up in rural India and used to spend my summer and winter vacations working on our family farm along with my cousins. I was t
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by Dharmakirti 4y ago
My apologies that this discussion got heated and turned into a slug fest. Caste is a sensitive topic for me as I've personally seen it's ugly manifestations in several occasions. You seem like a well-read man albeit with a one-sid
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by Dharmakirti 4y ago
It’s telling that you skipped the real criticisms about your toxic empathy and lack of solutions to the casteism problem. Grovelling in firanghi forums and seeking gora validation by finger pointing will not help eliminate the problem in ru
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by Dharmakirti 4y ago
> extrapolation and generalization from personal experiences leads to biased perspectives. I agree, biases should be avoided. My point is that GP had a biased view of casteism which doesn’t help in eradicating it from the roots. He seem
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by Dharmakirti 4y ago
No we should definitely discuss and eliminate casteism, no disagreement on that. But you don’t comment “White male privilege” in all the other posts, right?
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by Dharmakirti 4y ago
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. There are tons of posts by Indian women, Muslims and Dalits that show that they’re also ascendant, but if you only look at -ve aspects you will always find dirt. I grew up in rural area and I’
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by Dharmakirti 4y ago
Thus is a dog whistle for casteism. This is a standard modus operendi of a certain section of opinionated people to drag caste into any discussion about India. Caste is a complex topic but this discussion has nothing to do with it.
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by Dharmakirti 4y ago
the deracination in this comment is astounding. I grew up in rural India all my life and this cartoonish casteism is no longer part of the mainstream Indian society. There will be isolated cases, but I’ve seen times and again people freely
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by Dharmakirti 5y ago
> they have been succesful in maligning him as a racist for speaking the truth. This comment is so full of intellectual dishonesty. Razib Khan's controversy is a result of his so called cancellation by Left-liberal media like NYT&#x
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by Dharmakirti 6y ago
> Every topic about India I comment on, not only it gets downvoted pretty heavily Playing a devil's advocate here, would you think there's another side to the debate? India is no binary system like US and is a thriving and func
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by Dharmakirti 6y ago
> India really needs a stern kick in the back from the West Didn't take long for the racist colonialists to crawl out of the woodworks, did it?
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by Dharmakirti 6y ago
> close Huffpost by finding evidence for those claims. HuffPo closed operations on it's own, the India Govt didn't force them to do so.
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by Dharmakirti 6y ago
> You've implied multiple times that there's something spooky going on without evidence Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. HuffPo is no saints and in the world of global info warfare, I wouldn't be so quick to
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by Dharmakirti 6y ago
What a coincidence, I literally saw the comment on the Supabase thread about PostgREST yesterday. I wonder how does this handle server side tasks like sending emails etc?
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by Dharmakirti 6y ago
Looks cool. This combined with the release of the new RasPi will be a great era for lightweight computing on small devices.
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by Dharmakirti 8y ago
That's more or less what I had in mind. Thanks for the detailed write-up, I think I'll need foot on the ground approach, and get in touch with them directly.
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by Dharmakirti 8y ago
That's an interesting point, thanks for the tip. I'll try to contact the POS vendors/startups in Berlin and see if they could help.
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Ask HN: How do I approach German businesses?
11 points by Dharmakirti 8y ago|4 comments
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by Dharmakirti 10y ago
As a Fish user since it's inception, I humbly disagree. Oh-My-Fish[0] is the preferred and popular plugin framework for Fish. The guy behind Fisherman abused DMCA to discredit OMF, which was a pretty shady tactic for an open-source pro
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by Dharmakirti 10y ago
I'm really sorry for being a Debbie downer here but I find the lack of such initiatives for Turkish (or similar) blasts in past week appalling. Were the lives of the non-European victims not worth FaceBook/HNs attention? Is this s
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by Dharmakirti 12y ago
Loved it! Feels nice to see the pioneering spirit at HP is still alive. A cursory look at the SDK shows that it's mainly WPF and C++ (QT?) which might make it easier to develop apps. Looks interesting.
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by Dharmakirti 12y ago
Zoho also hired and trained people who were usually out of normal companies radars' (like college dropouts).
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by Dharmakirti 12y ago
Ghostery blocked 14 trackers on the site and the editing was really offputting.