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Re: Ask HN: How are you holding up?

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Post by t0ughcritic »

sbmthakur wrote: post #332
champagneben wrote: post #292

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This isn't meant to be a provocative question: What's the messaging from India been like?

We are still in a semi-lockdown and daily cases are still increasing. It's definitely a bad time to go for a war and the government knows that. More efforts are being put into decreasing the nation's reliance on Chinese imports. Previous tresspasses by the PLA were addressed through diplomacy and the results were good. Same approach is being tried now too.

India is seen as too soft by us in the West, for good or for worse.

Re: Ask HN: How are you holding up?

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Post by tandr »

dang wrote: post #352

Would you please stop the karma-farming spam schemes? You're wasting your time. We ban such accounts and the sites that they try to promote here, and karma doesn't help. The comments in this thread are fine.

Dang, I feel like I am missing something and cannot make much sense out of your comment even after rereading it multiple times. Is this about the submission itself? Or something else? Would you be kind and expand a bit on it?

Re: Ask HN: How are you holding up?

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Post by WCityMike »

tandr wrote: post #372
dang wrote: post #352

Would you please stop the karma-farming spam schemes? You're wasting your time. We ban such accounts and the sites that they try to promote here, and karma doesn't help. The comments in this thread are fine.

Dang, I feel like I am missing something and cannot make much sense out of your comment even after rereading it multiple times. Is this about the submission itself? Or something else? Would you be kind and expand a bit on it?

Op is new acct (5/15) with 'digital marketing exec' as occupation

Re: Ask HN: How are you holding up?

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Post by exdsq »

WCityMike wrote: post #373
tandr wrote: post #372

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dang, I feel like I am missing something and cannot make much sense out of your comment even after rereading it multiple times. Is this about the submission itself? Or something else? Would you be kind and expand a bit on it?

Op is new acct (5/15) with 'digital marketing exec' as occupation

What’s the point of farming karma though?

Re: Ask HN: How are you holding up?

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Post by sbmthakur »

t0ughcritic wrote: post #371
sbmthakur wrote: post #332

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We are still in a semi-lockdown and daily cases are still increasing. It's definitely a bad time to go for a war and the government knows that. More efforts are being put into decreasing the nation's reliance on Chinese imports. Previous tresspasses by the PLA were addressed through diplomacy and the results were good. Same approach is being tried now too.

India is seen as too soft by us in the West, for good or for worse.

That's fair. For decades we did not have enough will to retaliate against our adversaries. The result was there were terror attacks in almost every major Indian city. It's only in the last five years that the leadership has shown some resolve to irradiate terrorism. The perception of India being soft will take some time to wear off.

Re: Ask HN: How are you holding up?

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Post by jmnicolas »

CalRobert wrote: post #228
jmnicolas wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I have been trying to find liberal democracies with arable land in cool climates with a credible national defence, and have found none. I think Switzerland checks all your points. IMO you're way over dramatic about the climate. But even if you're right, why worry for something you can't change ?

Could they repel China? Russia? I think the best hope is NATO becoming meaningful again.

Fwiw even Hitler didn't dare to invade Switzerland.

But China and Russia don't have the will nor the capacity to invade Europe anyway.

NATO is the one threatening, bombing and invading countries (Yugoslavia, Libya, Syria etc).

Re: Ask HN: How are you holding up?

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Post by dang »

tandr wrote: post #372
dang wrote: post #352

Would you please stop the karma-farming spam schemes? You're wasting your time. We ban such accounts and the sites that they try to promote here, and karma doesn't help. The comments in this thread are fine.

Dang, I feel like I am missing something and cannot make much sense out of your comment even after rereading it multiple times. Is this about the submission itself? Or something else? Would you be kind and expand a bit on it?

There's a ring of spammers posting things like this. It's pointless because we just ban their shit anyway. Does that answer your question?

Re: Ask HN: How are you holding up?

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Post by whalabi »

MivLives wrote: post #194

Not great. I spend 22 hours of my day in the same room, split between ten hours laying in my bed and twelve in my chair. I had just moved to a new city before everything, started a new job. I don't know anyone, it's impossible to really meet new people. My roommates all disappeared to larger living spaces in the middle of March. They're paying rent but I'm alone, and even when they were here I have nothing in common…

It sounds like your house or apartment isn't a good fit for you, is it an option to move? Somewhere with people who you have lots in common with.

It doesn't always work out but sometimes it does and can be great.

That, and it sounds like the space isn't great for you to be cooped up in

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