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Comment · 5 years ago
This nation is extremely divided. I don't think you can run any organization that is political effectively.

Even completely political organizations will have to control political discussions at workplace. US Government is moving into that direction and we are seeing a far less political Senate and Congress that is rarely focussed in any discussion as a joint entity. The two teams in legislative bodies rarely 'talk' to each other on political topics. Most discussions are now procedural and political debate in almost all public forums is completely dead.

Comment · 5 years ago
There is not a single country in the world where largest bank is not a bank based in that country. Like money, data is something sovereign nations want to control.

EU, China and India all have areas where they want US based firms to store data in a specific way. This isn't changing anytime soon.

Comment · 5 years ago
I finally know who my spirit animal is!
Comment · 5 years ago
Modi is responsible, but not due to rallies and religious festivals. Surge in cases weren't related to these events.

The trend lines were rising a month ago and government was waiting for someone sort of miracle to change its direction.

No one really knows why cases in India fell to such low numbers and why they increased suddenly.

Comment · 5 years ago
There is a lot of criticism of the government on social media right now. I'm not saying this government isn't trying to control criticism on social media, but these are small drops in an ocean of tweets and fb posts on this.

ResignModi has been trending on Twitter for days now. My FB feed is full of people angry at the government.

There is no 'censorship' of 99% of such posts. You can't really censor stuff in India, its way too big to control narrative that way.

Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
Yes, that is a scenario I'm talking about. Splintered internet where conspiracy theories will be common.
Comment · 5 years ago
TV News channels kept on aggressively fact checking Trump, I just don't know if it had any impact on the real danger of people believing his lies.

These moves would eventually lower trust in Big Tech among conservatives to a point that more conspiracy theories will rise.

This makes methink we are about to see a Golden Age of conspiracy theories. Something that makes 'Q Annon' stuff look like peer reviewed paper in science.

Comment · 5 years ago
John Oliver is also focused on a sub-segment and is also at least misleading at times.

There are no sources of information that are credible with more than 45-55% of US Gen pop. We really need a source that can at least be relied upon as accurate source by 70-80% to avoid total collapse of democratic order in US.

Comment · 6 years ago
Chetan Bhagat is like a low brow JK Rowling of India. Most Indian authors in 90's wrote with aim of trying to win a Booker by writing needlessly esoteric prose and themes which appealed to Western readers, he wrote books in simple English with Indian urban characters. He is probably the most popular author alive in India right now.
Comment · 7 years ago
So, one of the three things will happen

1- Companies will start hiring citizens and pay them higher salaries leading to shortage of skills and re-skilling of people with other skills into IT.

2- Companies decide to forgo lower NPV IT projects and invest money elsewhere. Accept products without customization. Demand for labour and wages remain close to where they are.

3- Remote work for even project management takes off. It is successful enough that wages actually fall further.

Which one is most likely or will it be a combination of three?

Comment · 8 years ago
For a low income developing country, India has relatively higher freedom of speech that you'd expect.

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