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Post by piva00 »

edouard-harris wrote: post #138
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'm a native-born Canadian, married to a woman who was born in Bangladesh. I'm blown away by how much this list reads like an exact point-for-point description of why she moved here. (Except for the part about the $5 wine.)

You can use almost the same description for Brazil. Reading it made me relate 90% to even the small issues (honking, respecting pedestrians on pedestrian crossings and so on).

I think it's more of a common theme to unequal and impoverished countries where enforcement of law is tenuous at best and people don't trust others. If trust collapses everyone only cares about themselves and their loved ones, if bribing a police officer will help your kid to get out of a DUI... So be it, you will be considered an idiot if you don't do what the rest of society does, whatever small corruption or abuse that is. Because people know they will get away with it so why hinder yourself for such a thing as moral and values?

I know it's a very broad generalisation of huge societies, unfortunately it's my experience growing up in Brazil and why I can't ever live there again.

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Post by sg47 »

damnencryption wrote: post #39

Here are the investors in the parent company, byjus: https://byjus.com/our-investors/ Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, Tencent, Sequoia Capital India, Sofina, Verlinvest, Owl Ventures, Naspers Ventures and others.

This is in line with how Facebook behaves and operates i.e. lack of ethics.

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Post by helmholtz »

hn_99 wrote: post #189
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"! >Life, and especially youth, passes by in an instance. Considering how you hate these phrases of "Indian English" so much, the grammatical error in your comment is quite ironic.

Hahaha guilty as charged, and now I'm outside the HN editing limits. That's what happens when you try to type at the speed of thought. Serves me right, I guess.

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Post by evgen »

wolfretcrap wrote: post #116
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.…

And Europe didn't get there without its share of troubles and problems. Today as we speak, the people are getting stabbed on the road (Cardiff) and in France islam extremists are responsible for terrorism. It doesn't seem like it will be stay the paradise for long.

For those not in the UK, the pearl-clutching here is about an incident where a bunch of teens had a fight in the 13th largest city in the country and four ended up stabbed. None dead (at the moment) and it is headline news here. I would invite the Americans in the audience to imagine a world where a gang fight that left four kids stabbed in Fort Worth, Tx was national news.

Yeah, let me tell you about what a dangerous shithole this place is becoming.... /s

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Post by DarmokJalad1701 »

ghoomketu wrote: post #88

This is nothing new. Another scammer called Ankit Fadia has been doing very similar stuff under the name of "Ethical hacking courses" for many many years now. He has been exposed many times (see his Wikipedia page) but most parents and students don't know much about the person running the business and fall for stupid ploys like "Employed by FBI to hack Osama" or some paid TV apperance and end up paying thousands of d…

Yea. I remember when I got interested in computers as a teen, I used to think he was some hacker genius after coming across his website ( https://web.archive.org/web/20020802033500/http://hackingtru... ).

I remember getting one of his books on "Ethical Hacking" and found it completely pointless.

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Post by codegeek »

helmholtz wrote: post #102
pulkitsh1234 wrote: post #59

I have had my personal stint with trying to "expose" an Indian startup (I am an Indian), also coding related which gained some traction on LinkedIn (around 500+ reactions, if they mean anything). This guy is in serious danger, trust me. I had to delete my linkedin post when my ex-manager called me to delete it otherwise the startup's employees will go crazy and try every which way to make my life hell. Unfortunately,…

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.…

my most hated "kindly revert back"

You have made some great points but stop shitting on Indian English. I don't like it either but you are coming off as an elitist shitting on people who are taught these phrases growing up.

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Post by pc86 »

anovikov wrote: post #126
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.…

Being European, that almost reminded me of the good old Soviet joke about Mukhosransk :D

Care to share?

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Post by pc86 »

mangamadaiyan wrote: post #187
shi314 wrote: post #156

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I don't want to sound rude but mob doesn't differentiate between refugees and legal immigrants.

The law, insofar as it exists, shouldn't differentiate between mobs and criminals either.

Assuming the mob is actually breaking a law, there is no differentiation.

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Post by pc86 »

helmholtz wrote: post #203
hn_99 wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>You'll never hear the words "do the needful" or "prepone" or, my most hated "kindly revert back"! >Life, and especially youth, passes by in an instance. Considering how you hate these phrases of "Indian English" so much, the grammatical error in your comment is quite ironic.

Hahaha guilty as charged, and now I'm outside the HN editing limits. That's what happens when you try to type at the speed of thought. Serves me right, I guess.

I wouldn't get too concerned over throw-away accounts getting their knickers in a twist over a throw-away line in an otherwise apt comment.

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Post by dang »

codegeek wrote: post #206
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.…

my most hated "kindly revert back" You have made some great points but stop shitting on Indian English. I don't like it either but you are coming off as an elitist shitting on people who are taught these phrases growing up.

I understand why that bit was provocative but please don't escalate into flamewar. It helps no one and just makes the thread worse. Besides, helmholtz already more or less took it back.
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