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Modi's BJP is a power hungry party unlike anything I have seen. I doubt they care about anything (nation, economy, welfare).

The way it has been going on is that government announces something or passes some bill because they have to do something on a particular topic (say black money, taxes, Covid). However, they are incompetent or don't have the willingness or interest in actually carrying it out. So, these changes turn out to be catastrophic. They take toll on economy as well as anyone impacted because of the decision making.

Agriculture reforms are much needed in India. However, the government did it in hurry by-passing rules and without consulting farmers. I guess, they just want to do something so that they can let the marketing take care of the rest (that the goverment has done something for farmers - doesn't matter what or irrespective of whether it really helps them).

With these bills, the concern is that it will let private players take over and exploit farmers because of insufficient provisions to take care of farmers' interest. And then nobody will care (very much a risk because no one raises voice of oppressed which might show government in bad light because of the sold-out media). And the government will push narrative that they did the "reforms" (backed by fake data which is a hallmark of this government).
> Deloitte doesn’t usually hire dummies. IME it’s always the client being a total swamp creature.

This has not been my experience, which is really to say that the world is big enough that you can find any combination of blame imaginable somewhere. Once you have misaligned incentives no part of the dynamic can be relied on not to cause problems.
> What's "white privilege"? A secret spell that a white dude from a trailer park can pronounce to summon wealth?

Unfortunately, it doesn't confer any mana. However, the white dude's stats for "culture fit" during interviews get buffed (+2 Luck), medical staff tend to believe him when he says he's in pain (+1 Health), and if he's ever in front of a judge, he gets a lighter sentence than those with darker complexions (+2 Charisma).
> I remember it as one of the most productive periods of my life

> so after 3 weeks I had to pack it in.

Since it was for such a short period of time it's possible you just had sleep deprivation, which can be used to treat depression and cause a big uplift in mood.
There's way too much nuance here than what your post suggests. Your post is a theoretical evaluation of the new laws, without looking at the on-the-ground happenings or the fallout effects from the new laws. Granted, the old mandi system is extremely broken, but the new laws aren't any much better. On the contrary, they facilitate the gradual takeover of control from the APMCs to government-tied cronies. These farmers already know it (and aren't "uneducated" as the Indian farmer trope goes) and they saw through the government ploy pretty much.
Probably referring to their recent high-profile spat over publishing the legal name of a blogger contrary to their wishes, or perhaps appointing Sarah Jeong to the editorial board after her unethical revelations concerning Noami Wu (which were a violation of the agreement with Wu).

I’m sure you can find other ironic examples of NYT disregarding the privacy of vulnerable people for their own interests.
I am not going to do the work for you. You don't wanna believe, thats fine, your choice, uour opinion, your freedom.

You asked Who is wishing, I gave you tweet links, now if you want, can click through those profiles. Them profiles have photos of Gandi & Jinaah with Text Dividers. Savarkar as Veer. Modi as Best Prime Minister in world as per UNESCO. That's how I made the connection that they are RSS or Supporters. Because many of them are in RSS Uniform.

& search Indira Gandhi on twitter.
r/India is an anti-Modi partisan sub. The last I checked they were expecting Biden administration to interfere in India's internal matters. Not a surprise since we still have a good number of Mir jaffers and Jai chands in the country. The unfortunate thing is that's the first place where foreign redditors will go whenever they want to see something India related.

All that aside, it's still a good place to see some meltdowns.
:D I did write in jest, but would love to learn if there is a barrier of age where something is considered worthy (?) of archeology, or worthy to be labeled as archeology.
Unless things have recently changed, I have never been able to search on a specific branch of a given repo. I want to just search in a feature branch, but the default search doesn't do that and I have not seen in the UI on how to change to a different branch. Additionally, if there are many pages returned for a given repo, it is very hard / slow to navigate through the results if you don't get a hit on the first page.
I didn’t say anything about corruption, didn’t imply anything about corruption, and I am now clarifying that I am not referring to anything about corruption.

Children are fed lies about their role in this society and spend a lifetime acting surprised that their ideas never happen. We could also just stop doing that. Its not corrupt that we don't have a direct democracy, we just dont have a direct democracy. And the system we do have has different rules, which simply don't include the capability of “the proletariat” to have the same effect as immortal organizations with enough resources to maintain focus.
The project management part, which I agree is the hard bit, could be made tractable too. Other orgs manage this all the time and build sophisticated software which continues to improve.

This is a booking management system for appointments, the initial problem statement is trivial, the difficulties lie in interfacing with other systems, simplifying UI, getting data in and out, providing some customisation but not too much, etc. These are all things you don't know how to do till you start using it.

The process you describe of getting 'domain experts' in a room to decide on a spec without contact with the real users then throwing it over the wall to build is fundamentally broken. You won't get to even 50% done without real users - that's the problem, and it sounds like that's what happened here.

You simply can't build a system like this without frequent contact with real users (old people booking appointments, volunteers entering data in a hurry, pharmacies who need to add extra info for patients), experts on the other hand will often add negative value unless they are trying to use it.

If there was a will within the org commissioning the work to appoint one project lead and then get out of the way apart from demanding weekly builds from week 1 onward this would be tractable. Collect feedback from real users and deliver every week. This is not rocket science and a small team could and should do it if allowed the space to do so.
Humblebragging: A Distinct–and Ineffective–Self-Presentation Strategy [pdf]
I definitely concur there is a broad distribution of dishonest behavior and it can't be monopolized by a certain caste.

The practical issue I'm concerned with is around the ability of a minority of people to afford 6-8 figure legal and PR bills and avoid accountability for all manner of issues. When you can tie up courts for years to play financial triage and get the best reputation money can buy, you aren't likely to be held accountable.

I know a person who drove their car into a wall while drunk and high in college. Their parents paid $5000 to an attorney and their DUI charge was eventually dropped. Another friend's life took a different course when they got their DUI under similar circumstances but without an attorney, and despite their earnest efforts it's been hard to overcome within the job market.

I'm arguing that the defacto disparity of legal budgets is quite damaging to the fabric that holds our society together, which is equal treatment under blind justice. It means an equal distribution of dishonesty is punished disproportionately according to familial wealth.

I think you'll find this definition of privilege quite in line with OP's meaning:
https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Priviledge
>A particular benefit, advantage, or Immunity enjoyed by a person or class of people that is not shared with others. A power of exemption against or beyond the law. It is not a right but, rather, exempts one from the performance of a duty, obligation, or liability.
Racism is discrimination of a different race based on the belief that your own race is superior. Systemic racism doesn't exist in the United States. There are racists in the United States, but that doesn't mean institutions are inherently racist. Also, racial stereotyping isn't necessarily based on racism and not all bigots are racists. You can make an argument for systemic discrimination, but not on racial superiority.
If your interest is not institutional or working in finance, I will suggest to pick one retail accessible instrument, such as equity, ETF, options, futures, commodities, currency and dive into reading anything and everything about that instrument.
>are you not in the same position as you were before without the UBI?

No, now you are dependent upon the government to pay for your inflated rent. Naturally, when $500 is eaten up by price inflation, UBI proponents will demand a commensurate increase. It is easy to see how this could spiral into total dependence.
Michael Burry is also a famous short-seller, who bet on the failure of the mortgage market while it went through one of the biggest crashes of the century. It shows how superficial most of these narratives are as they change from a value play in 2019 to turnaround/holiday runup in 2020 to occupy 2.0 by 2021.
Thanks for responding with that extra background information.

I feel like I have a lot in common with you - high empathy and awareness of systemic economic disadvantage. I have worked from home for decades in sw dev and pub, so I had the choice to smoke pot and I found it insulated me from what I didn't like about how society is organised. Like you, I found pot helped me to concentrate on work, and liberated me with creative endeavours, although managing it isn't so simple as flicking a switch by any means.

I don't have a family history of alcohol use - the opposite. But I ran into endless legal problems 6 years ago when a major customer stiffed us for a lot of money, then 3 lawyers in a row exploited us while I was off caring full time for a relative. All the money we were owed went to lawyers fees. I ended up drinking just to get away from this awful feeling of being subjugated to injustice by the legal system.

Then 2 years ago, we sorted out the legal problems and I no longer had to dwell on it. I stopped drinking for a while, but so much of my old life had disappeared, I was left with a void. I was happier, but I started drinking again, happily.

After another year I just wanted to stop, but that was difficult. It is hard to change habits, but not impossible. I read about this subject, and learned some techniques, but my experiences taught me about the role that underlying stressors can play in the need for habits, which is why I asked you the question which you kindly responded to.

I actually quit everything 7 months ago, and soon noticed how much I love the clarity. The sobriety is like a new drug. I really dig it.

I do wonder how much the ayahuasca I imbibed in South America a few years ago has contributed to my newfound ability to appreciate sobriety, and to move on from my bad feelings about exploitative lawyers and my economic losses. I don't have any bitterness left. It's all reframed, by looking from outside myself. My empathic abilities can be applied to the lawyers who cheated us in a way that enabled me to move on. I can just see them as actors who did what they did in a way that isn't personal to me, and let it go.
1440p at 27" with no scaling is perfect for my desktop. I wish it were more popular, because it's a great compromise between quality and performance for gaming.

The relatively common use of "2k" to mean 2560x1440 has always struck me as confusing though, since it's not half as wide as 4k.
Words mean whatever people agree they mean, but I feel like "2k" is too ambiguous.
Docker on Mac and Windows is so slow when used for a development environment but there are enough differences that it makes it worth using. It’s more portable than VMs (vagrant and such) and if you’re using your CI pipeline to build an image then deployment is a snap.

I much prefer building a Docker image and pushing it somewhere compared to tarballs of the repo or repo access. I would rather build rpms or debs than just push the repo around. Container tooling makes that kind of stuff nice in my opinion.
If I recall correctly the UK digital govt is leveraging Camunda, which has some mindbendingly good pieces.

Camunda is not as well known in North America, it will be interesting to see what emerges in the digital transformation/rpa space.
I mean most normal brokerage accounts clearly show you when you are buying on margin and exactly how much settled cash you have to trade with. This is not unreasonable, and as far as I am aware is the status quo.
> On the contrary, they facilitate the gradual takeover of control from the APMCs to government-tied cronies

That's oft-repeated claim that lacks serious backing. If that were true all farmer associations must have opposed the laws which is not happening[1].

1. https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/who-are-shetkari...
What if the government had an internal technology division to build things like this
Freelancers and Agencies: Think Niche
That last dynamic you described is exactly what I saw at a very well known university: upper management knew they weren’t getting the accurate details through the middle management filter, but shied away from fixing the cultural problems. Instead, a major consulting company was charging a considerable amount per hour to have 24 year olds with expensive suits interview the actual workers, summarize what they’d been telling their management for years, and present it directly to the senior level. Fixing the system would have saved millions but required fights they weren’t constitutionally well suited for.
This article is solely about positive feedback loops (even though the author never says "positive.") If positive feedback loops were the whole story every stock that rose a little would take off like a rocket. Clearly that doesn't happen, and it's because there are also negative feedback loops, like noticing that a stock is overvalued and refusing to buy it until the price comes down.

What makes the future difficult to predict is that negative feedback loops and positive feedback loops are often fighting each other and you never know early on which will ultimately dominate.
When billing hourly it is more profitable (and not always ethical) to hire average people than top performers in every role.

This is true, too often, in poorly run and ineffective consulting firms who optimize best practices to mean what is best for them.
That's the reason why the protests lacks large-scale support across the country.
I reconcile that by the fact that the same unifying culture is and has been present for centuries in the whole subcontinent.
>>> with engineers directing the process

This is usually not the solution. You have to understand the requirements/know your actual users. Engineers don’t necessarily do this well. They build with the latest tech but as you see in this example, the primary users are older people who can’t use latest tech
You agree that Docker is "so slow" and point to its benefits for preventing differences between dev and prod. But you don't mention what those differences are. What are they?

I also don't see why you'd use a CI pipeline for simple projects where you are typically the only developer. Run tests locally, if everything is fine push to prod.

I use git with a small script to roll out to production. When I execute the script on the server, it stops all services, pulls the latest code from Git, applies Django migrations, and starts everything up again. I use desk [1] to make this as simple as a single `release` command in my local shell.

[1]: https://github.com/jamesob/desk
Absolutely, but this is essentially saying "We're okay paying a 2-10% tax on our revenue, forever."

I think that's the reason you tend to see these unhealthy dynamics in extremely conservative, quasi-monopoly industries (government, financial, healthcare), where there's no real question of if they'll be a going concern. And no real rewards / attempts to outperform at the cost of increased risk.
They aren't planning on offloading to the bigger fools, but rather to institutional short sellers who will eventually be forced to cover by escalating interest payments. I don't know if that will actually work, but apparently that's the plan.
This is not correct information that the new laws adversely affect the interest of farmers.

It hampers the middleman more than the actual farmers. North part of India has two states which have significant contribution to farming in India - Punjab and Haryana.

New laws allow the farm owner to directly sell the crop to the corporate without any middleman. In the above two states the trade is tightly controlled by middlemen. Hence the issue. In other states, very few people are protesting.
I just told you why Ebay's situation is different. Uber was defrauded and wasn't a failure of advertising.

Advertising can be complicated, but part of the value of these giant networks is helping to run those campaigns effectively. I'm not sure why you think everyone has to put in similar amounts of effort. That's not necessary at all. You have tools from simply setting the budget and targeting lookalikes of people liking your posts (what most small businesses do) to running your own bidder stack (for larger brands that have entire agencies working for them).

While attribution will never be perfect, it's not guessing either. Ecommerce only makes it easier as you can track all the way from exposure to checkout, and in some ways can be more attributable than other businesses expenses.
This was Ford's own narrative when they announced it. Almost every article written about it in Nov of 2019 shared that narrative.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/11/heres-everything-we-kno...

https://www.motor1.com/features/382783/ford-mustang-mach-e-b...
It's not a bad article, though there's things that he handwaves (like why exactly $GME falling back to its pre-WSB prices would cause lay-offs). The newer guest article is more recommendable imo:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25970538

That said, both are poor responses to the righteous anger that people feel, and one of the comments on the first article gets it right:

> The tone is that of Jeb Bush lecturing Republicans on why they need to elect an establishment, responsible republican. In and of itself it might be true, but it not only falls on deaf ears, it actually reinforces why people were inclined not to do so in the first place.
Allow me to offer a counterpoint.

Docker is useful for reasons besides scale. It allows you to (kind of) declaratively define your environment and spin it up in any number of different scenarios.

It allows you to ship all your dependencies with your app and not worry about getting the host machine properly configured beyond setting up Docker and/or Kubernetes.

Have other apps you want to host on the same set of machines? No problem.

When you you pair that with something like alpine Linux, you’re getting a whole lot almost for free.
You appear to be just repeating the claim I'm challenging.

We've automated away all the simple jobs many times over. Almost all of agriculture, for example. Almost any job in the first industrial revolution. Practically any job that is embedded in a last name: Smith, Potter, Cooper, Mason, Taylor, Wright, Fletcher, Ward, Weaver, Chandler.

But again, look around you: is this a world with nothing left to do?
Agencies are less likely to be competent in non core areas. This should not be surprising. There is no career path for you doing software in an agency like the CDC run by bio science people. Same for the Air Force, which is run by fast jet pilots, the Congress by lawyers and liars, Commerce by thieves, etc. Even banks and trading firms, who live and die by software, are run by accountants and economists.

Unless an organization recognizes the core importance of software and carves out a specialisation stream and C level ownership of it, they rarely achieve more than brief or isolated competence.

This is the reason why SV is so appealing -- nowhere else do SWEs hold sway over entire companies and industries.

Govt can do excellent software if it becomes a priority, they could pay competitive wages (there are special pay scales for doctors and lawyers), but they choose not to because of risk aversion from politicians, who mistakenly believe they can outsource the risk.

For something like this, paying Eventbrite to do it wouldn't have been a bad place to start. But the fat cat consulting firms never have domain expertise beyond getting Govt contracts.
Do you think that creating such laws magically solves the problem? You don’t think people will just adapt to accomplish their goals within the technicality of the law? Cyberbullying was a huge problem when I was growing up and laws were constantly being passed. Did cyberbullying somehow become less prevalent or their criminals easier to punish? It seems like the problem has only gotten worse.

The reason is one of organization. Gab/Parler was intentionally trying to organize white supremacists. That is the entire goal and motivating raison d’etre. Cyberbullying like this is not some shared idealogy but a personal vendetta. As such it’s impossible to solve with the legal system or technology - at best you get a punishment effect a small fraction of the time for such a small expense that punishment is reserved for extreme cases that devolve to real-world altercations as an add-on multiplier as it takes a significant amount of time and effort to convince authorities whose the party telling the truth. Slander and libel are already things but people can’t seem to acknowledge that you can’t legislate away the fundamental problem that communication is now cheaper and more widespread than ever. Imagine if you could anonymously distribute pamphlets in multiple cities with minimal effort with very difficult ways to trace it back to you. The problem here is people fail to recognize that there’s nothing technology can do to solve a fundamental human failure mode here. People get pissed off at each other, and one party starts slandering the other. The legislation needs to focus on making it easier to deanonymize. But such legislation is actually bad for the internet and doomed to fail anyway since technology makes it easier than ever in ever increasing ways. From a social well-being perspective, anonymity is critically important for those who legitimately speak truth to power (eg sources for reporters).
there’s literally comments of people who say they only have 40 in their bank and they are spending it on meme stocks instead of gas to get to work. not sure what to say
Bitcoin is not a stock and has no fundamentals; GME does. There's no objective value metric for Bitcoin so it can float freely. But because GME is at least loosely tethered to the value of a real company, I'm confident that will bring the price back to reality.
And the government can own the code, publish, and as the site finishes up, that team can proceed to apply all they learned and built to other pressing tasks.

A decade of that, and a whole lot of government would be awesome.

Of course, these arguments have been made many times. Money in politics prevents it.

I have presented them. I have watched large donations and a couple nice dinners make the whole idea go away.

:(
Methyline Blue is tricky to test because it really does turn things super blue.
Interestingly, this is sometimes used as a powerful placebo in other studies, since it sure does convince people they aren't taking a sugar pill!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylene_blue#Placebo