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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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