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Re:Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster ... by dymk on Thursday March 24, 2022 @01:12PM (#30792692)
Maybe, but Sangeeth is not here to tell us if they are Sikh or not, so it's hard to say.

I think it's unfortunate that (at the time of writing) the comments about the product and its effectiveness are ranked lower than this discussion about the _possibility_ that a non-Sikh person has been represented as Sikh.

If Sangeeth themselves had popped up in this thread to comment on the choice of emoji, then sure, but it's just somebody making some assumptions based on a 't' vs 'th' cluster in the name.

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Re:Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster ... by kranner on Thursday March 24, 2022 @10:24PM (#30798047)
Sangeeth is not a Sikh name. In India people don't convert to Sikhism, or at least I'm a middle-aged Indian and I've lived here all my life, I've never seen it happen. There's a certain foreign subculture of Americans converting to Sikhism, but then they take on Sikh names. It's extremely improbable that Sangeeth is a Sikh person.
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Re:Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster ... by DiggyJohnson on Thursday March 24, 2022 @05:20PM (#30795472)
Oh I agree, the lesson learned should be: let's not spend our attention on race and identity because it leads to these bizarre situations among many other things. I barely understand how we ended up like this.
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