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Post by gavinray »

heavenlyblue wrote: post #226
richbell wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Likewise. Another common expression that may seem strange is referring to questions as "doubts". e.g. "I have a doubt about installing Java"

“I am doubting installing Java” “I have doubts about Java” is valid English though

The way "I have a doubt" as an Indianism is used more accurately translates to "I don't believe I fully understand/there are things that are unclear to me about "

At first I thought it was a simple grammatical thing, but I started seeing it so often that I looked it up.

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Post by exikyut »

starik36 wrote: post #128
bragr wrote: post #11

There's a reason wikipedia classifies IMDB as an unreliable source. Apparently Michael Madsen has a real problem with people adding him to films in production in an effort to get financing. https://www.cinemablend.com/new/Why-Michael-Madsen-Hates-IMD...

I was an extra in an indie film because a friend asked me to help out. Lo and behold - I now have an IMDB page - presumably the film producer added me. Fast forward a year and now there are 5 films credited to my name. I had nothing to do with 4 of them. I am unclear how and why this is happening.

Sounds like a great conversational icebreaker if you ever talk to an agent!

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Post by ck2 »

quantumduck wrote: post #178
ck2 wrote: post #175

BTW since India makes a great many of medications and supplements for the USA and the world, and those factories are never inspected or products tested, do you think this "cheating" / "hacking" attitude doesn't spill over into each and every industry? Webpage is one thing, how about things you consume?

What is the basis of your statement that the factories are never inspected or the products are tested? I interned at a pharmaceutical company's factory in India for the summer that used to regularly export medications to it's subsidiaries in the western world including United States. The standards are super high, we literally threw away millions of medications due to small uncertainty in a Quality control check. Besi…

There is clear documentation that the FDA rarely/never inspects overseas factories.

Sometimes once when they are opened and never again. There's just no funding because that's how our political forces fight, they defund things.

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/723545864

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Post by irthomasthomas »

IncRnd wrote: post #190
marak830 wrote: post #134

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"The company was incorporated as Tesla Motors, Inc. on July 1, 2003, by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning.[13]" No, it doesn't.

"It was started in 2003 by Martin Eberhard, Dylan Stott, and Elon Musk (who also co-founded PayPal and SpaceX and is the CEO of SpaceX)." [1] [1] https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla%2c_Inc%2e

PayPal was launched by a Tiel owned company that also bought another company that Musk didn't start, zip2. Musk became CEO of PayPal, and was fired a month later for incompetence.

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Post by gamblor956 »

hackernewds wrote: post #55
UIUC_06 wrote: post #18

Poor boys from India game a system that was set up by Rich Tech Bros in Silicon Valley to fund their "family foundations" and 20-room houses in Atherton? I don't call it Outrage; I call it "Slumdog Millionaire: Part II"

You're using "Slumdog Millionaire" in the same context that Indians here despise the movie for. Using it as a pretext for focusing on the poverty in India as almost a fetishized poking from the West (ironically by the British)

My family back in India loves Slumdog Millionaire. It's a relatively accurate portrayal of poverty in India.

The American equivalent was Hillbilly Elegy. The book was well reviewed (though the movie adaptation was not), and friends who grew up poor described it as relatively faithful to the general experience of growing up poor in rural America.

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Post by gamblor956 »

BeetleB wrote: post #153
UIUC_06 wrote: post #145

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+1 on the Hollywood trashing. Whether something is a "good story" is hard to be objective about. It depends heavily on whether the actors sell it or not. Why do you say Slumdog is a poor story? "Poor boy makes good" is the plot of a zillion movies and books. The audience knows going in that he's going to get rich and/or get the girl. It's how that either works or doesn't.

They story had many interesting arcs that could have been richer, but halfway through it was clear there wasn't any interest in developing them, and that it was just about finding/connecting with the girl. Also, the fact that the trivia questions always seemed to align with his accidental experiences was just not that interesting. A story about a poor boy making it big by things other than "always being lucky" would…

We must have watched a very different movie...

He wasn't lucky. In fact the point of the movie was that the totality of his crappy life experiences before the trivia game ultimately led to him making it big. Essentially, it was a metaphor for karma.

(Spoiler: he almost died several times, his mom and brother died, his friend was sexually abused and he only narrowly escaped similar fates by running away, and he was working as an entry level food cart guy at the present day of the movie. He was beaten by the cops after his initial success at the show. What part of this do you consider lucky? )

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Post by cubancigar11 »

theamk wrote: post #176
cubancigar11 wrote: post #131

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Right. We can achieve heaven if we just punish every sin. Not trusting almighty Google's algorithm is just too much sacrifice the good people are making. Promoting publicly editable database as authoritative is high bar we must achieve at the cost of just banning juvenile behavior.

No, "we can reduce reduce bad behavior if we punish for it". This stuff actually works -- if we don't punishing bad behavior, we get more and more of it over time (which is kinda what happened with internet) I am not sure why you keep bringing up Google here -- no one cares about it, it is megacorp and it can take care of itself. We want to protect entities like IMDB and Wikipedia. It does not matter why it was vanda…

Dude. This is not public database. This is for profit multi-billion dollara corporations spending more money on marketing than security and selling a product which promises notability based on publicly editable no-oversight database.

You defending thia is really just telling more about you. Amazon sits on a domain called "international" movie database where they don't have anyone to verify the biggest block-busters of the biggest movie makers in the world. With your logic you should be out on the streets demanding criminal proceedings against this "fraud".

Nothing else for me to say. Vote me down all you want.

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Post by wyrm »

jwilk wrote: post #22

> the edits are not reviewed effectively either But when I tried to fix typo in the cast list of a movie, my submission was rejected: > Your contribution has been declined. We have been unable to verify your contribution. Unfortunately we were unable to accept your submission as we were unable to verify the information provided.

Well, that wasn't very effective, was it?

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Post by known »

walterbell wrote: post #192
underlines wrote: post #169

I'm a Swiss working in Bangkok (I'm fluent in Thai). So I'm quite a bit acustomed to people cheating in many situations of life. When we started hiring a couple of Indian coworkers for management level as well as data science roles, I became close friends to the whole group. Whenever we discussed frauds like that, I always said that we shouldn't think people (or Indians in particular) wanna game the systems and not e…

> Humans will game systems if the circumstances are right. Systems where caste and societal roles are constrained at birth?

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