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by throwawayIndian 10y ago
Dang! I see it now, the comment was intended only for the parent though. I guess it's better left like this only. It's only sad when developers sell UX gyaan on standards on one hand and screw the same standard with things like re
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by throwawayIndian 10y ago
> that the site was built by hunter-gatherers Hilarious, ha ha ha! And thus fodder continues… It's almost like the western linguists were there only yesterday: "people with no granaries, no specialists, no taxes or central auth
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by throwawayIndian 10y ago
> If we're going to argue that the Mahabharata is an account of nuclear war, we need to remember that it's extremely similar to the Irish Cattle Raid of Cooley. Correct! I would rather measure up 'rise of civilization&#x27
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by throwawayIndian 10y ago
How about a simple infographic timeline of estimated, claimed and measured history? Measure it along time and not some myopic view held by the west (or east).
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by throwawayIndian 10y ago
"Predating Stonehenge by 6,000 years, Turkey's stunning Gobekli Tepe upends the conventional view of the rise of civilization" Ha! It is hilarious to see west measure 'rise of civilization' against some dumb set of
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by throwawayIndian 10y ago
> Calling RSS alt-right, completely makes the whole article laughable. RSS is alt-right of India even if you think it isn't. Anyone who claims otherwise simply because INC or TDP jokers did something wrong elsewhere is either stup
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by throwawayIndian 10y ago
Yeah similar to how columnists with alternative views are called "outside columnists" -- us and them -- or sometimes deshdrohis . Many Indians fail to see the reality in chasm of words.
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by throwawayIndian 10y ago
It's nice you mention the supreme courts of India here. Notice, they also discharged(?) Salman Khan of Bollywood for his 2006 road kills! It's almost a joke when you use SC to say that your PM/candidate doesn't have a qu
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by throwawayIndian 10y ago
It is a fact that Modi encouraged killing of Muslim families to catapult himself at centerstage politics. One of his cabinet ministers is even a convicted murderer!, of his own colleague in office: research on home minister Haren Pandya.
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by throwawayIndian 10y ago
> it's really funny to see outside columnists trying to paint broad generalizations of Indian politics. It is anything but funny. In ways similar to the rhetoric "Should everyone else go to Pakistan?".
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by throwawayIndian 10y ago
Oh man! The Big Lebowski reference is 200% accurate. On a serious note though, it feels almost certain that the Modi Government is going to lead India into another bloodshed, sooner or later. I hope not but that sinking feeling just doesn&#
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by throwawayIndian 10y ago
Edited. I picked it up from the FFTF (Fight For The Future) email I got in my inbox today morning.
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by throwawayIndian 10y ago
> Wapo king of fake news[1] WaPo has been central to a lot of real news in recent history. Why do you say that it is fake? No matter which side you're on it is in our interest to not let net neutrality go down without any resistan
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Donald Trump could dismantle net neutrality(washingtonpost.com)
162 points by throwawayIndian 10y ago|237 comments
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by throwawayIndian 10y ago
> It already is possible to algorithmically deduce who people are voting for. YES, it is! Therefore, in all honesty, the foundations of democracy have already been eroded -- thanks Obama/Osama/Bush/Clinton/Trump/
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by throwawayIndian 10y ago
Absolutely! It is possible to deduce pretty accurately who somebody is going to vote for without even looking at the ballot or peeping into the booth box. All actions people do online like sharing a newspiece on their Facebook walls, likes
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by throwawayIndian 10y ago
One of the foundations of democracy is "secret ballot". If it's possible to algorithmically deduce who you're going to vote for, a tyranny can easily take you down or try to influence* you in ways you shouldn't be.
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by throwawayIndian 10y ago
> US does not have a democracy Hate to say this but I agree! At the moment I have following feelings: The Snowden moment is only but a point in time when democracy realized it had been subverted. The "act" of takeover happened
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In 63 days Trump will inherit mass surveillance from Obama(unplugthensa.org)
38 points by throwawayIndian 10y ago|21 comments
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by throwawayIndian 10y ago
Don't agree! I'd blame the democrats alone (the party, leadership, delegates, superdelegates and a section of voters + ~~liar~~ media) for giving away the presidency to Trump. For free, literally. How is Peter Thiel or anyone else
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by throwawayIndian 10y ago
Elsewhere, a for-profit prison extended their contract[1] with Feds barely a month after the Department of Justice said it would end[2] contracts with private prison operators. [1] https://twitter.com/i/moments/789
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by throwawayIndian 10y ago
Incidentally, this is exactly what hollywood and other big publishers want. Supporting surveillance is a really cool way for them to take control of the web, undermine it even more and then reap profits without worrying about all those bill
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by throwawayIndian 10y ago
> how will "going nonprofit" be more motivating? It may not!, but usually healing others is also self-healing. One has to figure this path for themselves. > I think you need to fix the depression issue first. Absolutely! How
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by throwawayIndian 10y ago
Dude, I can understand what you're saying here! Those who haven't lived through a depression will never understand your plight and obviously not be able to "see" the challenges you face -- how oddly suppressed your voice
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by throwawayIndian 10y ago
> hiring fun people… Absolutely! This is super super important. Fun to work with, not annoying to waste time with. > know nothing about computers It's sad that you think this way of people who couldn't answer your questions
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by throwawayIndian 10y ago
> It would be like an accountant not knowing what the number 4 is. It's a hypothetical no-go! Every person, even the fourth grader knows the number 4. So why ask a question that measures their ability to remember 4, say 4 or show th
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by throwawayIndian 10y ago
> "Could you write out what an HTTP request and response looks like on the board?" Why should anyone remember what an http request or response should look like? Statically typed vs. dynamically typed language? Fuck. Are these e
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by throwawayIndian 10y ago
Worry not, 'Murica! Hillary is considering to drone this guy as well. So that you can be safe. :-)
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by throwawayIndian 10y ago
> dreadful DVD player apps of yore, that mimicked physical DVD players, making us push the same inconvenient buttons we hated on the physical devices too. Yes! But you see those were "bad designs" even in physical world and tho
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by throwawayIndian 10y ago
I agree with you mostly. Not with the anti-skeuomorphism tirade however. That is pure propaganda. Anti-skeuomorphism picked up momentum only after Apple's iOS7 update -- around the time when Tim Cook took over and Apple (and its fanb

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