KrishnaShripad

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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
> Government of India amended a bill to allow Indian citizenship. They added a list of religions but somehow excluded only Muslims from that list. Because Muslims obviously are not traveling to India fearing religious persecution in ISLA
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
> 6. Settling the Ayodhya Dispute: Is it done by Supreme Court or Government? Are you implying that Supreme Court is not independent and Government has a hand in Supreme Court decisions? The Supreme Court only resolved the title issue. T
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
----------------------------------------- Responding to 8.2 PM CARES Fund: > The total amount of funds donated and the names of donors have not been publicly disclosed, and the fund is privately audited False. It has been disclosed. For
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
Splitting into multiple comments as Hacker News is complaining that it is too long. I'll answer in the order of the most contentious issue you raised first. I will tackle the easy ones in the end. Responding to 8.3: > In response, t
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
How do I share "facts" on somethings that are fabrications by the Opposition? I'll attempt it: let us take the Rafale Deal accusations that was leveled against the Government of India by the Opposition Parties. They could not
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
> Note that this explanation is only one of the (many) incidents outlined in the (long) Vice post Where is this explanation? There is not even one mention of Nupur Sharma in the Vice article. Quote from the article. > the tweet was ov
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
1. Abrogation of Article 370 and removing Special Status accorded to Jammu and Kashmir, reintegrating it with India. This has been the bone of contention that has caused weakness in the Northern borders of India with Pakistan. Multiple Wars
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
This looks great! Thanks for the share!
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
> I know artists who are vehemently against DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, etc. and regard it as stealing, but they view Copilot and GPT-3 as merely useful tools. An example: https://twitter.com/DaveScheidt/status/15
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
> I think this is mostly about Twitter's refusal to censor on behalf of the Indian government; see eg https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d3bmn/twitter-censorship-in ... I'll explain the context behi
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
> I think this is mostly about Twitter's refusal to censor on behalf of the Indian government; see eg https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d3bmn/twitter-censorship-in ... Vice is part of the same Leftist M
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
When it comes to India, Twitter is typically at the forefront of mainstreaming propaganda and selectively applying rules. So my perspective comes from that (since this article concerns feud between Meta and The Wire which covers India). Whe
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
Because I have seen this bias on HN. I feel the need to call it out. Why is it bothering you? Can't I have my opinion? Or should I be forced to conform to everyone's opinion here? I'm no sheep. I have my own independent think
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
> "Actually no, you can't say we treat everyone equally, we're manually going in and exempting certain people from scrutiny, and that's entirely within our discretion." Isn't that literally what Twitter does
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
> Meta meddling in politics and turning a blind eye to those who used the platform to peddle misinformation isn't news. But Twitter doing the same is perfectly fine right? I see the hypocrisy in HN when it comes to how it treats Met
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
> can be presented without resorting to conjecture on your part about the motivations of the owners of the publication Why not? Are journalists different from politicians that we should not hold them accountable? We know these journalist
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
Because, believe it or not, plenty of Indians are satisfied with the current Government in India. We have had shit Governments for more than 70 years. So don't be surprised if Indians don't support Western media narratives on Indi
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
Video of the man playing saxophone during his brain surgery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAuAWaLG2_s
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
> Who gets to make the call that these risks are okay and are not as bad as the negative impact(s) we may face from climate change? Who decides that it is an acceptable trade-off to wipe out entire species and ecosystems and potentially
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
I lumped you in with propagandists. Some spread propaganda of there being "systemic slavery" while others say "What the other poster meant is that you'll end up hiring out of the upper castes and they'll display a l
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
Yes Indian state recognizes all castes. That is the core problem. For the system to be dismantled you need the Indian state to stop recognizing castes and implement US style Affirmative Action and only provide Reservation opportunities to t
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
Did I say it was you? I said "another commenter". If I wanted to say it was you, I would have said it was you.
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
> Most Indians do not interact with people outside their groups as most things are written in the languages they use What? At this point I think you are troll account. You have already made wild and ridiculous statements like caste syste
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
The only comment here that actually spoke the Facts as it is. Another commenter even said there is "systemic slavery" in India. Don't know whether to laugh or cry at the naivety of this individual. To think that 1.4 billion p
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
Is this to protect his account from being accessed by authorities and checking his DMs? Isn't it better then to disable access to his DMs rather than blocking public tweets/timeline? I don't see a point in suspending his enti
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
When you vote directly, you risk voting for an authoritarian whom you can never recall in case he doesn't work in your interest or turns into a Dictator. In a representative democracy, the representatives are more approachable to the C
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
> but how limited some freedoms might be for non Hindus. Where exactly is freedoms limited for non Hindus? Can you name some of these freedoms that have been limited?
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
> where Modi's administration basically admitted they were wrong It is not at all an admission of wrong but a forced retraction due to circumstances. The Farm laws were actually extremely progressive of all laws passed by the Govern
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
Okay this looks really cool! Thanks for sharing!
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
I am surprised people haven't brought up Maizzle yet: https://maizzle.com/

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