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Are there analogies to 10.x.y.z in IPv6?

Gosh I wish IPv4 -> IPv6 was just 10.x.x.x -> 10.x.x.x.x.x

Instead we went to some hex-colon-double-colon BS. Like instead of "ssh 10.0.0.1" I have to now do "ssh -6 :://::2001:db8:ffff:abcd::34ff:2e6f::49af:fdef::"? Fuck that.

The simple fact that I can't memorize IPv6 addresses makes me lazy to use it. Whenever I want to SSH into a machine in 5 seconds flat I just rattle off its IPv4 address and I'm in.

I'm also an upper caste male in Silicon Valley. While I largely agree with you in that most people state-side haven't heard of it happening here, that doesn't mean it doesn't subconsciously exist.

The main thing I think the article got wrong is this:

> they're often clever attempts to find out something very specific

I don't think they are "clever" attempts. People aren't that clever, in general. It's very possible that people are just used to asking these very normal questions out of habit (e.g. "are you vegetarian" is a perfectly normal question to ask before going to lunch with someone, to factor that in your suggestions of places to eat). It's just that they may be subconsciously deriving further biases based on the answers instead of taking the answers at face value. If, for example, someone not being vegetarian was originally just a benign question to go out to lunch together, but later subconsciously causes the manager to not give them that promotion, that would be discrimination, and I can't say for sure that that doesn't happen.

One of the things about Tamil Nadu at least is that a lot of people don't have surnames in the traditional sense.

My "surname" is actually my dad's given name, and my dad's "surname" is his dad's given name. So it changes every generation, unlike most of the rest of the world, where a single surname lasts through generations.

The point about caste differentiability by surname is still valid, though in a different sense, because the given names also have caste bias.

IMO the easiest way to break this cycle would be a widespread campaign to de-stigmatize inter-marriage between castes; that would solve the problem of correlation between name and caste within a generation or two.

I was born in India, am of Indian Brahmin (i.e. the "top" caste) blood, and all I can say is this:

The caste system is a disgrace to India and I fully condemn it as an Indian. I hope this kind of shit can be abolished not only in Silicon Valley but in India as well.