Earlier quoted context omitted.
They used to post here long back. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10661084
s/They/He it appears.
No, I meant the company when I said they.
Silicon Valley CEO Pleads ‘No Contest’ to Abusing His Wife
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#22She could call a police, instead of kidnapping children. >discriminate against Indians or any other particular group Except men...
Taking your children out of an abusive relationship is not kidnapping. If my wife were abusive, I'd leave and take my daughter with me. I'd fight for full custody in court.
> Except men...
Get over yourself. In this case the abuser was a man.
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#23What he did is really shitty, but is this article appropriate for HN? This feels much more like smut than articles I am used to seeing here.
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#24Though I don't claim this particular case is usual, it is sadly true that wife abuse is far more common in Indian culture than in the US. In a conversation recently between my wife and an Indian neighbor, it was mentioned in passing that a spouse would be jailed for physical abuse. The married Indian women looked rather worried and asked if it happened just once and that was it then surely no one would get in trouble…
This sounds like you're making a factual claim based on a single anecdote.
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#25Strangely, it appears the main reason this was not elevated to felony assault is because the DA in St Clara County avoided that because it could lead to deportation which the DA prefers to avoid, "Fein indicated that his boss, Santa Clara District Attorney Jeff Rosen, seeks to avoid such deportations". That seems odd. Not saying Rosen's decision is as malformed as Aaron Pesky's, but it deserves some questioning.
Gotta keep the H1B train rolling at all costs! Don't dare discourage it with any deportations...
Re: Silicon Valley CEO Pleads ‘No Contest’ to Abusing His Wife
#26She could call a police, instead of kidnapping children. >discriminate against Indians or any other particular group Except men...
Taking your children out of an abusive relationship is not kidnapping. If my wife were abusive, I'd leave and take my daughter with me. I'd fight for full custody in court. > Except men... Get over yourself. In this case the abuser was a man.
So she was worried someone gets hurt, but refuse to call a police?
Good luck with that. I tried. You may find that all those years you were "abuser" as well.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
He needs to be in Jail. I would highly recommend reading the entire article. This guy seems like a psychopath. He put that woman through hell.
Putting him in prison costs us - the taxpayers - money. Deporting him doesn't.
He's a criminal, and criminals should go to jail. Only after release they should be deported.
Cost is not the issue. The issue is letting criminals go unpunished, because their only sentence is getting a free ride back to their country (which, btw, is also paid by taxpayers dollars).
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#28Though I don't claim this particular case is usual, it is sadly true that wife abuse is far more common in Indian culture than in the US. In a conversation recently between my wife and an Indian neighbor, it was mentioned in passing that a spouse would be jailed for physical abuse. The married Indian women looked rather worried and asked if it happened just once and that was it then surely no one would get in trouble…
It's dangerous to justify a statement about a large group of people or their culture using anecdotes. It's the kind of reasoning that leads to racism, antisemitism, etc.
Here's a data point: 57% of a survey of young men in India said it's OK to beat your wife. http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-04-25/india...
The equivalent figure in the US is 10%. http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/03/18/39286028...
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#29She could call a police, instead of kidnapping children. >discriminate against Indians or any other particular group Except men...
There was no kidnapping. She had to take that first step to protect herself and her kids. In the end things worked out fine for everyone involved. It was a long time ago....
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#30I found this video very interesting. I always hear about the sexist tech culture, but I've never been a witness to it. Seeing this video helps me get a more complete picture. I can now see how an asshole like this would take his attitude to work and treat female employees in a similar manner.
Obviously this is not unique to tech, but hearing a guy beat his wife over a "bug", something I deal with and talk to people about at work daily, is really disturbing in a unique way.