GE discovers that industrial IoT doesn't scale

Re:GE discovers that industrial IoT doesn't scale by spraak on Saturday September 02, 2017 @12:26PM (#15156808)

> For example, Samsara, a startup that formed in 2015

I wonder why you'd want to name your company Suffering?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa%E1%B9%83s%C4%81ra_(Buddhism...

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Re:GE discovers that industrial IoT doesn't scale by justinclift on Saturday September 02, 2017 @02:31PM (#15157474)

From their About page:

https://www.samsara.com/about

> In Sanskrit, "Samsara" is the eternal cycle of life and rebirth.

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Re:GE discovers that industrial IoT doesn't scale by userbinator on Saturday September 02, 2017 @07:17PM (#15158763)

In other words, eternal churn... It seems ironically appropriate.

From the Wiki article linked in the parent:

"the beginning-less cycle of repeated birth, mundane existence and dying again"

That certainly sounds like a lot of these trends in tech.

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Re:GE discovers that industrial IoT doesn't scale by spraak on Saturday September 02, 2017 @03:18PM (#15157725)

Yeah, but it really has the connotation of suffering, pain, etc. where the escape from Samsara is Nirvana, or the final cessation of suffering

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Re:GE discovers that industrial IoT doesn't scale by devdas on Saturday September 02, 2017 @08:58PM (#15159102)

Samsara/Sansara has the connotation of meatspace in Sanskrit and derived languages. Buddhist philosophy says that life in meatspace is suffering, but the word isn't limited to that.

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Re:GE discovers that industrial IoT doesn't scale by vkrm on Saturday September 02, 2017 @06:20PM (#15158527)

There are other connotations to Samsara - in contemporary Telugu and Tamil it is colloquially used for 'universe' and 'family' as well.

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Re:GE discovers that industrial IoT doesn't scale by patkai on Monday September 04, 2017 @03:55AM (#15166493)

Given most of the comments in this thread "IoT = universe of suffering" is not a bad name, actually.

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Re:GE discovers that industrial IoT doesn't scale by rajeevk on Sunday September 03, 2017 @12:41AM (#15159725)

In Hindi too, Samsara means universe

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Re:GE discovers that industrial IoT doesn't scale by spraak on Saturday September 02, 2017 @06:36PM (#15158590)

Aha, nice to know. But are they of the same etymology?

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