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It's not racist to acknowledge that countries have cultures that are different from other cultures and this results in different personalities on average. Every culture has its pros and cons.

That describes everything Jeetu is involved in. I'm very glad to have recently left Cisco.

I don't understand the outrage about filling out a form. It's not an argument from any principle. That the president could not exercise his will because someone down the chain didn't fill out a form that otherwise serves no real purpose and would be read by no one of import sounds like a Kafkaesque nightmare.

The common presumption that when the electorate expresses their will to change things, the elected will still not be able to change anything due to entrenched bureaucracy, and this is good, is one of the reasons Trump won twice.

I don't get how anyone actively using AI can believe this. Astra sucks ass.

Making your engineers use AI with little to no measurable improvement, but with very measurable high cost, is not delivering

So if I found a company and it becomes worth a billion dollars, thereby making me a billionaire, I get the guillotine or what? Where is the cutoff for me losing the fruits of my labors?

I don't see why that would happen. The money is being spent whether it's distributed to the masses and spent on food, or spent on a yacht. If anything it should be deflationary because the rich mostly don't spend their money, else they wouldn't be rich.

Buddy... It's purely economic factors. You are attributing malice to me.

Look we can just stop pretending that India isn't largely technically incompetent. We've all worked with offshore devs. Let's just be honest on the internet and stop pretending not to understand things.

The only time anything like this has ever happened was in Malaysia and now India, so...

Far away from the nearest technologically competent country where this would not happen

It's not about buying the thing or not but about inserting oneself as an unnecessary middleman who just raises the price, which only works due to the customer's ignorance. It's essentially deceiving someone into paying more than they had to. I don't see how it could be considered positive.

Reminder that a bunch of states tried to remove Trump from the ballot 2 years ago