devdas

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by devdas 6y ago
Usually name, accent, dialect, food habits. It's not visible upfront, but a few minutes of conversation will get that information. There is a skin colour bias, but that isn't about caste (darker skin is a sign that you have to wor
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by devdas 6y ago
Hinduism has no concept of apostasy. You are free to believe in as many gods as you wish (Atheism is a legitimate school in Hinduism), so changing which god your claim to believe in isn't a big deal. The perceived threat is from the cl
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by devdas 6y ago
> Upper caste hindus have no problem seeing a converted christian as their equal, This isn't true everywhere. There is a fair amount of bias embedded in society, and caste markers will follow you around.
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by devdas 6y ago
Correct. No haldi, no ginger, no onions, no potatoes, no carrots, ...
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A number of people won't do anything to "promote" casteism in public. They do behave in that fashion though.
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by devdas 6y ago
1% is determined by wealth, not income.
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by devdas 6y ago
Yes.
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by devdas 6y ago
I believe that it on their TODO list.
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by devdas 6y ago
1.1.1.1 is Cloudflare. 8.8.8.8 is Google 9.9.9.9 is PCH/IBM as Quad 9. They all also offer IPv6.
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by devdas 6y ago
And then you have people who hate talking on the phone. If you don't respond reasonably quickly to IM, I'll make a ticket for you to write up documentation instead and mark it a blocker.
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by devdas 6y ago
Then there isn't much of a point in having a meeting, is there? Instead, send out a written proposal, require well supported written commentary on the ideas, and then then meeting is to take an actual decision.
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by devdas 6y ago
The Netherlands is densely rural. Actual high density would easily be 5x as much.
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by devdas 6y ago
Or the robots will evolve.
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J&K is a part of India.
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by devdas 6y ago
You also need the sun at a higher angle to get enough UV exposure (vitamin D creation is triggered by UV B exposure). More sunshine isn't enough.
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by devdas 6y ago
No, he's white. He might have been arrested at most.
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by devdas 6y ago
That is an anti-pattern and leads to burnout for ops teams.
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by devdas 6y ago
On-call will still rotate amongst the developers. They wrote the system, they know how it breaks and can fix it.
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by devdas 6y ago
Immigrants are not refugees.
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by devdas 6y ago
Refugees aren't allowed to work.
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by devdas 6y ago
That would be the minimum wage not keeping up with inflation. A UBI would reduce the drain on society that employers who underpay their workers cause.
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by devdas 6y ago
So working people will get higher salaries, and that is a bad thing?
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People whose other option is starving?
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by devdas 6y ago
I find it a lot easier to communicate with polygots whose first language isn't English. A lot of the body language issues go away because everyone actually uses words to say things.
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by devdas 6y ago
Or a wealth tax.
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by devdas 6y ago
The Jews were still allowed to do certain jobs. They certainly weren't the lowest paid jobs, with crappy education forced upon them. I am not aware that the Jews were enslaved for multiple generations while being denied education and c
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by devdas 6y ago
That would be the Mahabharat. The Gita is a single philosophical chapter from the epic.
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by devdas 6y ago
The KLM flight would have landed after the border closure. The presence of Indians on the flight had nothing to do with it.
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by devdas 6y ago
No, you have one generation of people who have suffered from external causes, not a series of generations who have repeatedly had their economic gains destroyed. At some point, the goal stops being growth and turns to survival.
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by devdas 6y ago
If the American group was people of colour, they would have a family history of everything being stolen or destroyed even if they actually did better. This is barely the third generation since the civil rights act was implemented, and socia

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