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WhiteHat Jr’s founder files $2.6M defamation suit against critic

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Post by mangamadaiyan »

ra7 wrote: post #165
helmholtz wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haha, fair enough, you mentioned it twice now, so I concede that I might be kinder, but I'm still not kind per se! I suppose I was burnt by a youth spent yearning to escape and hence the reactions. I promise I'm pretty harmless in real life :)

Again, I hear you and relate to a lot of things you said. As I get older though, those things seem trivial and I’ve learnt not to idolize one culture/lifestyle over others. You realize that’s just the way people are in that part of the world and it’s not due to malice.

I wouldn't be too sure about it not being due to malice. All too often, what is plentiful is treated with contempt and not respected. One thing that is available in plenty in this side of the world is human capital. I'll leave you the dots to be joined.

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Post by astatine »

BonnieBrown wrote: post #139
helmholtz wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm an Indian abroad. Do it. Come here to Europe. The baseline level of self-awareness in people here is off the scale when you compare it to the typical Indian. People actually queue, instead of creating a melee at every counter. You're never worrying about people cutting you in lines. Cars stop at zebra crossings to let pedestrians cross. No one honks! They nod and smile "bonjour!" as they cross you on the street.…

I am an American in California working as a Project Manager at a small ~30 person eCommerce "engine" startup. One of my new colleagues on the PM team is a very nice Indian girl and she always says "do the needful" in JIRA tickets and in general email communication. Before she joined the team about 2 months ago I never once in my life heard anyone in America say "do the needful". I am American and have lived here my e…

It's a perfectly cromulent phrase!

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Post by helmholtz »

fractalb wrote: post #160
helmholtz wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm an Indian abroad. Do it. Come here to Europe. The baseline level of self-awareness in people here is off the scale when you compare it to the typical Indian. People actually queue, instead of creating a melee at every counter. You're never worrying about people cutting you in lines. Cars stop at zebra crossings to let pedestrians cross. No one honks! They nod and smile "bonjour!" as they cross you on the street.…

> You'll never hear the words "do the needful" or "prepone" or, my most hated "kindly revert back"! I don't have issues with the rest of your post, but what is wrong using these Indian English words?

Eh, in hindsight, maybe I should have left out that part since it detracts from my other point. It's just an aesthetic thing. For instance, I really don't like the word 'purposely'. I never saw it used before the internet came about, and 'purposefully' and 'on purpose' worked perfectly well for me. I'm sure it's correct, but it just rubs me the wrong way.

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Post by puranjay »

fractalb wrote: post #160
helmholtz wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm an Indian abroad. Do it. Come here to Europe. The baseline level of self-awareness in people here is off the scale when you compare it to the typical Indian. People actually queue, instead of creating a melee at every counter. You're never worrying about people cutting you in lines. Cars stop at zebra crossings to let pedestrians cross. No one honks! They nod and smile "bonjour!" as they cross you on the street.…

> You'll never hear the words "do the needful" or "prepone" or, my most hated "kindly revert back"! I don't have issues with the rest of your post, but what is wrong using these Indian English words?

I think OP is referring more to the sort of work culture associated with people who use language like that - bureaucratic, brown nosing, inefficient.

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Post by renewiltord »

avadhesh18 wrote: post #168
rainingcatndogs wrote: post #167

Their videos got removed from LBRY as well: https://old.reddit.com/r/india/comments/jsuows/all_my_videos... I had no surprise when I heard youtube suspended him. But I'm very dissapointed that a platform like LBRY, marketing itself as a censorship-resistant youtube alternative( https://lbry.com/faq/censorship-resistance ) deleted a whole bunch of videos which were clearly fair use and for public good.

I still can't figure out how they got lbry to remove the videos.

They just DMCA'd them. Lbry then changed the listing. You can go get everything from the blockchain if you put in the work. They just made it so you have to put in the work.

This is usually the case with most of these censorship resistant things. They have to comply with the law so they can never live up to the dream.

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Post by AkshitGarg »

2Gkashmiri wrote: post #43

Khan academy is a wonderful resource and for free. People falling for this utter bullshit is directly attributable to one word. Marketting.

There are a lot of quality resources, be free or paid. Falling for this utter scam is beyond my mind

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Post by 2Gkashmiri »

AkshitGarg wrote: post #176
2Gkashmiri wrote: post #43

Khan academy is a wonderful resource and for free. People falling for this utter bullshit is directly attributable to one word. Marketting.

There are a lot of quality resources, be free or paid. Falling for this utter scam is beyond my mind

there can be paid alternatives taught by actual harvard professors but the genius of khan academy is that its the very best in education, anywhere in the world at a staggering cost of zero. no paid offering can beat that

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Post by thr0w__4w4y »

damnyou wrote: post #152
BonnieBrown wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am an American in California working as a Project Manager at a small ~30 person eCommerce "engine" startup. One of my new colleagues on the PM team is a very nice Indian girl and she always says "do the needful" in JIRA tickets and in general email communication. Before she joined the team about 2 months ago I never once in my life heard anyone in America say "do the needful". I am American and have lived here my e…

Not sure exactly what its origins are, but it's standard Indian English. It's a legitimate dialect of English, just like standard American English has its own unique idioms like "grandfathered in" (a term that has extremely racist origins).

I'm always learning. I truly thought that the term was probably centuries old and had something to do with family legacy, old rules being followed to keep tradition, etc. You live, you learn.

I often hear people use the phrase "call a spade a spade", thinking it's saying "if a card shows a spade, call it as a spade (when showing the hand)", but I've heard for a long time that phrase is also racist. Not growing up around anyone who ever used that phrase, I would have had no idea.

Makes me wonder how many other phrases out there in every day use don't have a happy meaning, even though at first glance they might seem innocuous.

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