pavanky

I am in the same boat with you on the number of tabs, but I love the new redesign. I am not sure how this is enough of an issue for anybody to jump browsers.

Because we are faulty creatures with faulty institutions. Let us work with what we have. Authoritarianism is mostly never better than democracy. Absolute democracy isn't always better than authoritarianism. And in this case it is largely irrelevant because the government is not the one censoring people.

The arguments about if and when companies can exercise these rights are good to have otherwise we may end up in one of the extremes.

Spam filters worked plenty fine over email.

You say this while half the country believes random people on Youtube and Facebook, refuse to wear masks in a pandemic that is killing people by the thousands.

I was young and believer in open internet once (and still am mostly) but the society as a whole has underestimated how much people are susceptible to being deceived and the cost differential between spreading and refuting false information.

I don't see this as anything other than an extension of anti-spam over email efforts of early 2000s.

Yes but its cheaper and battery life is great and the user doesnt have to worry about upgrades.

If you want to get a Linux based laptop for casual users and dont want to maintain it, just get them a chromebook.

It is also a good everyday machine I can use to ssh into my desktop for real work.

I use keepass + dropbox for syncing. You can replace dropbox with another syncing mechanism of choice, but this works out great.

I originally got youtube premium because I was already paying for Google music.

But I'd say 90% of my youtube consumption is on TV.

I think this can potentially affect startups who may want to hire H1bs at a lower than prevailing wage for their area(even if they are paying their American colleagues the same amount).

Other than that, the biggest issue might be to IT consulting companies (mostly based in India) that tend to have their employees work at a lower rate than tech companies.

I am on H1B (bay area last 4 years, Atlanta 6 years) and my total compensation is significantly higher than that.

This is idiotic.If this was true, Humans wouldnt share 90%+ genetic similarity with great apes (depending on which genes you count) which would go against every scientific consesus.

And you are claiming humans share no genes each other over a span less than 100K years.

I am guessing you havent been on the internet 20 years ago when Indians were barely on the internet and email spam and forwarding was a huge thing.

The issue was solved by Google (and others) stepping up their spam detection game. The spam problem can and should be stopped with the technology, but I am not sure if Facebook has the motivations to do this.

He is not from a disadvantaged caste.

Unfortunately the largest demographic always gets demonized even if spam is not just limited to a particular group.

Through sheer scale, spammers of Indian origin may be more noticeable than others and thus reinforcing the stereotype.

One anecdote that struck me was that a cousin, someone a couple of decades older than I am and spent time in US since 1990s, openly admit to me that he was more open minded in India and became more caste conscious once he moved to the US.

I am not sure if he sounded regretful or just was sharing a fact of his life, but that really was weird.