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Re:On (My) Caste on Thursday August 31, 2023 @03:50AM (#37333821)
"Why don't people just change their names to the caste they want to be"

most people don't see themselves as lower caste, they have extreme pride in their caste and ancestry, people aren't ashamed of that

ground reality is different from stuff you see online

im not buying it, did a little research on this guy and he seems to be full of shit
I used a tampermonkey script to do this.

They don't deserve any of it. Hope this puts and end to the site and their greed

Re:I wish GPT4 had never happened on Saturday April 08, 2023 @12:38PM (#35495015)
Author seems to optimistic about technology adoption in places India, riddled with bureaucracy

Highly unlikely situation.

They have stopped prosecuting repeat offenders, and reduced the size of the police force

People are slowly realizing that it was a mistake, but its gonna take some time to fix the situation.

Firearm related injuries went up accross all ages post pandemic.

Is there any info on how many of them were school shootings? how many of them were gang violence related death?

Re:Bitcoin is a solution looking for a problem on Sunday March 26, 2023 @11:03AM (#35315176)
>vile super-rich goons?

Reddit moment

Reddit moment!!
Reddit moment!
I was told ai was taking away our jobs, was that a lie?
Re:Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @06:32PM (#34239682)
its actually not blocked, it works just fine for most ISPs here
Re:Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @06:29PM (#34239661)
cloudfare + OpenDNS .

works like a charm

Re:Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @06:23PM (#34239593)
as an indian in india, its working just fine in my ISP

BJP isnt trying to "censor" "dissent" here, its just one ISP blocking it for some unspecified reason

its not that deep, everything you see on reddit isnt real, you can calm down.

Re:Twitter Suspends PG's Account on Sunday December 18, 2022 @05:21PM (#34044290)
Turns out, running a consumer social company is a lot different than building rockets.

a part of me still had some hope. "Maybe he has better plans, maybe he knows what he's doing"

But nope. I was wrong.

Re:Promotion of alternative social platforms policy on Sunday December 18, 2022 @02:12PM (#34041581)
Instagram doesnt allow links in posts.

this isnt a lot different from that imo

Twitter honestly isn't big enough for regulators to give a damn, only like 20% of Americans use it monthly

Re:Mighty is shutting down after 3.5 years on Sunday November 13, 2022 @01:38PM (#33585962)
have you even used it? Why are people here acting more and more like reddit users

Insufferable

Re:Mighty is shutting down after 3.5 years on Sunday November 13, 2022 @01:37PM (#33585948)
it's not ai generated "social media"

The social aspect was just added as an extra feature

It's more like a Photoshop + canva type project

Re:Mighty is shutting down after 3.5 years on Sunday November 13, 2022 @11:28AM (#33584545)
This happens to literally every startup tho
How will this affect the future of FTX Arena?
Re:“Deeply depressing to watch Twitter employees” on Thursday November 03, 2022 @11:31AM (#33452572)
Parag was great leader, but this has to be the worst thing hes done to twitter
>You had the momentum generations of high caste privilege and high caste education focused culture in India that let you achieve that.

still not a reasonable justification to misdirect talented individuals to mediocre colleges and waste their potential.

On a long term, this negatively affects scientific progress, and indirectly the national security.

lightning network will never scale as big as paypal sadly, this isnt it
As they should!
Re:Reddit’s disrespectful design on Saturday June 26, 2021 @12:25PM (#27643233)
makes sense.

Also if anyone doesnt like the new mobile redesign they should probably try using "i.reddit.com"

(which is a light mobile client)