paapi__gudiya

What is the inherent value that lecturers offer anyways? All the material they teach in classes has been available online for the last 20 years. It makes sense (going by market needs) that they have been driven to such levels of poverty.

The only value universities offer is that one can meet other like-minded and driven people at universities. If some other social structures can offer the same, i.e. a place where one can meet such people, universities will be obsolete too. The only question is when? And are there any organizations out there that already offer such services?

Road-side merchants live hand-to-mouth and would anyways not contribute to tax because their incomes are so low.

Every study out there suggests that demonetisation was a big blunder, causing a very severe blow to the Indian economy, including the death of 150+ civilians.

The real motive for demonetisation was to legitimize the black money of the ruling party BJP and eliminate black money of opposition parties.

This whole episode has been so disgusting and shows how regressive and authoritarian the mainstream tech community is.

People can't work with someone because he has a different point of view about injustice in the society and has the courage to voice it respectfully? They would resort to violence against someone because they have a different point of view?

If you can resort to violence against someone and get away with it, you're the oppressor in the society, not the oppressed.

Sundar, Yonatan and their likes are so privileged and delusional. These people have no issue with a war-criminal like Kissinger being invited to talk at Google but have such serious issues with a software engineer writing his views.

He/she is not exaggerating at all. US companies outside the Silicon Valley treat foreign workers pretty much like indentured (or bonded) labor.

So true. I got my CS degree at a top school in US, I work at a good startup and get paid very well. But I am so disillusioned with the United States, I feel like going back to India is much better than being an H1B slave.

CCTV cameras, my dog, my grandma.

Why is the Hacker News community up-voting these blatant PR pieces? This statement coming from Tim Cook seems like a joke.

I use vim 7.4 and it segfaults atleast four-five times everyday. I suspect it's some plugin that is causing it to crash but I don't really know. Does it happen to anyone else too?

I have mapped Ctrl-C to ESC and I use it often. One specific instance I have seen vim crash is when the cursor is at np.inf and I press Ctrl-C.