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throwawayIndian

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    Comment #13116839

    Dang! I see it now, the comment was intended only for the parent though. I guess it's better left like this only. It's only sad when developers sell UX gyaan on standards on one ha…

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    Comment #13116330

    You can choose not to use the library created by OP for your websites and not share it with your friends. Stop selling your hatred bullshit as some sort of a standard that the enti…

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    Comment #13090582

    > that the site was built by hunter-gatherers Hilarious, ha ha ha! And thus fodder continues… It's almost like the western linguists were there only yesterday: "people with no gran…

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    Comment #13090553

    > If we're going to argue that the Mahabharata is an account of nuclear war, we need to remember that it's extremely similar to the Irish Cattle Raid of Cooley. Correct! I would ra…

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    Comment #13090465

    How about a simple infographic timeline of estimated, claimed and measured history? Measure it along time and not some myopic view held by the west (or east).

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    Comment #13090311

    "Predating Stonehenge by 6,000 years, Turkey's stunning Gobekli Tepe upends the conventional view of the rise of civilization" Ha! It is hilarious to see west measure 'rise of civi…

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    Comment #13050599

    > Calling RSS alt-right, completely makes the whole article laughable. RSS is alt-right of India even if you think it isn't. Anyone who claims otherwise simply because INC or TDP j…

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    Comment #13050220

    Yeah similar to how columnists with alternative views are called "outside columnists" -- us and them -- or sometimes deshdrohis . Many Indians fail to see the reality in chasm of w…

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    Comment #13050206

    It's nice you mention the supreme courts of India here. Notice, they also discharged(?) Salman Khan of Bollywood for his 2006 road kills! It's almost a joke when you use SC to say …

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    Comment #13049495

    It is a fact that Modi encouraged killing of Muslim families to catapult himself at centerstage politics. One of his cabinet ministers is even a convicted murderer!, of his own col…

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    Comment #13049477

    > it's really funny to see outside columnists trying to paint broad generalizations of Indian politics. It is anything but funny. In ways similar to the rhetoric "Should everyone e…

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    Comment #13049467

    Oh man! The Big Lebowski reference is 200% accurate. On a serious note though, it feels almost certain that the Modi Government is going to lead India into another bloodshed, soone…

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    Comment #13037645

    Edited. I picked it up from the FFTF (Fight For The Future) email I got in my inbox today morning.

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    Comment #13037631

    > Wapo king of fake news[1] WaPo has been central to a lot of real news in recent history. Why do you say that it is fake? No matter which side you're on it is in our interest to n…

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    Comment #12995697

    > It already is possible to algorithmically deduce who people are voting for. YES, it is! Therefore, in all honesty, the foundations of democracy have already been eroded -- thanks…

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    Comment #12995643

    Absolutely! It is possible to deduce pretty accurately who somebody is going to vote for without even looking at the ballot or peeping into the booth box. All actions people do onl…

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    Comment #12995503

    One of the foundations of democracy is "secret ballot". If it's possible to algorithmically deduce who you're going to vote for, a tyranny can easily take you down or try to influe…

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    Comment #12995333

    > US does not have a democracy Hate to say this but I agree! At the moment I have following feelings: The Snowden moment is only but a point in time when democracy realized it had …

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    Comment #12926945

    Don't agree! I'd blame the democrats alone (the party, leadership, delegates, superdelegates and a section of voters + ~~liar~~ media) for giving away the presidency to Trump. For …

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    Comment #12855009

    ha!… and some defenseless individual from eastern Europe gets incarcerated while a joker security consultant gets federal protection in exchange for deleting 30k mails… only to fin…

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    Comment #12770893

    Elsewhere, a for-profit prison extended their contract[1] with Feds barely a month after the Department of Justice said it would end[2] contracts with private prison operators. [1]…