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New comment by MPlus88 in "The paradox of India's global rise, its regional decline"

MPlus88 — Tue, 07 May 2024 04:55:19 +0000

The concept of ‘Akhand Bharat’ dates back to the 1930s and the map is displayed prominently in the newly built Indian parliament last year. So, it is not some fringe ideology,

New comment by MPlus88 in "The paradox of India's global rise, its regional decline"

MPlus88 — Tue, 07 May 2024 04:35:57 +0000

"The US withdrew from Afghanistan, but that is clearly Central Asia and not South Asia (unless it's defined differently in India?)."

India considers Afghanistan part of or ought to be part of India. It even has a map for it.

https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2022/09/30/bjps-akhand-bharat-dre...

New comment by MPlus88 in "The pro-Israel information war"

MPlus88 — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 21:15:36 +0000

I don't pro anything. I am against the ethnic cleansing and extermination of a people. In this case, the people are the Palestinian people.

New comment by MPlus88 in "Why Open Source?"

MPlus88 — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 20:58:07 +0000

How are you going to monetize it? Your site has no mention of pricing.

New comment by MPlus88 in "Elizabeth Holmes loses bid to stay out of prison"

MPlus88 — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 18:35:19 +0000

Exactly. Knowingly endangering the lives of vulnerable people is despicable.

New comment by MPlus88 in "Wilson's 3D-printed basketball is full of holes but never goes flat"

MPlus88 — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 23:03:00 +0000

My thoughts exactly.

New comment by MPlus88 in "How India’s caste system manifests in Seattle-area workplaces and beyond"

MPlus88 — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 18:13:54 +0000

The article says there are five main castes with thousands of sub-castes. To be precise the Dalits are not considered a caste. They are outside of the Caste system and lower than the lowest of the low, the Sudras. In practice however today's Indian has seven Caste, at least normalized in Western countries such as Europe and the US. In this revised Caste system, the Whites are at the top, higher than the Brahmins and Blacks are at the bottom, lower than the Dalits. I have witnessed firsthand how a Black colleague of mine was treated by his Indian counterparts in the IT industry. It is pretty disgusting to say the least.

New comment by MPlus88 in "Hồ Xuân Hương Introduction"

MPlus88 — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 22:35:10 +0000

Is Chữ Nôm part of the unicode?

New comment by MPlus88 in "Ask HN: Do you make decisions like its your company?"

MPlus88 — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 23:19:36 +0000

Has anybody made decisions or voiced opinions for the company's good, knowing that such action is detrimental to their career?

New comment by MPlus88 in "Tax raids at BBC offices in India enter second day"

MPlus88 — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 23:36:30 +0000

There is A LOT of dirty little things you don't know about India. And it is not just the usual oppression of the Dalits and Muslims. I will talk about it in due time.

New comment by MPlus88 in "Tax raids at BBC offices in India enter second day"

MPlus88 — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 23:27:33 +0000

"India as an entity has been dissolved and established multiples times in the history."

I found it interesting that Indians for some reason like to insist on this absurdity. There must be some benefits or advantages of making such claim.

New comment by MPlus88 in "Tax raids at BBC offices in India enter second day"

MPlus88 — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 23:23:28 +0000

Yeah, a pillar here and a coin dug up there and you can weave a whole story. It this is true I would assume the British would learn this history from the native people in the subcontinent instead of the other way. It would be like the Europeans have never heard of the Roman Empire or Julius Caesar until they learned it from Japan.

New comment by MPlus88 in "Tax raids at BBC offices in India enter second day"

MPlus88 — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 20:12:52 +0000

The Maurya Empire? Yeah right. You should thank the British for the Maurya empire. The so-called Maurya Empire was cooked up by a pseudo historian by the name of James Prinsep to instill a sense of one people for political purpose. The British at the time assumed the British empire in South Asia was forever and it was hard to rule a place when the people practically hate each other historically. This Maurya Empire thing is a way for the British to create some glue for their subjects. Called it a British duplicity if you will.

New comment by MPlus88 in "Tax raids at BBC offices in India enter second day"

MPlus88 — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 19:36:51 +0000

Until the British arrived the subcontinent was a mishmash of thousands of fiefdoms that were at each other's throat. That looks balkanization to me.

New comment by MPlus88 in "50% rejection rate for iPhone casings produced in India shows Apple’s challenge"

MPlus88 — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 22:51:08 +0000

Angela Saini in her book "Geek Nation: How Indian Science is Taking Over the World" bragged that India is a up and coming scientific superpower. That book was published a decade ago.

New comment by MPlus88 in "50% rejection rate for iPhone casings produced in India shows Apple’s challenge"

MPlus88 — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 22:32:47 +0000

The root cause is more than attitude.

New comment by MPlus88 in "50% rejection rate for iPhone casings produced in India shows Apple’s challenge"

MPlus88 — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 22:06:48 +0000

Indians software programmers are just as shoddy. The only difference is that it is much harder to see software quality than hardware quality. In hardware you can easily spot the quality by looking at the fit and finish and whether things fit together nicely. In software it's just code and the quality only manifest itself in buggy and hard to maintain software, which can be years later.

New comment by MPlus88 in "50% rejection rate for iPhone casings produced in India shows Apple’s challenge"

MPlus88 — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 21:37:35 +0000

"It’s likely that similar issues will arise with new Apple suppliers in other countries too."

Not at all Apple. Move to Vietnam and you can duplicate the success you have in China. Indians are only good at talking a good talk.

New comment by MPlus88 in "BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi documentary fallout"

MPlus88 — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 16:59:03 +0000

The Modi document didn't touch on India's other skeletons, which is even more repulsive. I am not talking about the usual suspects such as the Caste system and oppression of the Dalits and Adivasis.

New comment by MPlus88 in "India’s government wants total control of the internet"

MPlus88 — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 18:33:51 +0000

India has A LOT of skeletons in its closet that most people, not even Indians themselves know.

Outsiders' image of India is through the narrative of the media, which has no connection to reality. The Indian government is also actively engaging in fake news dissemination. Here is a tweet from Michael Kugelman, South Asia Institute Director of The Wilson Center and writer of Foreign Policy's weekly South Asia Brief

Michael Kugelman on Twitter: "The scale and duration of the EU/UN-centered Indian disinformation campaign exposed by @DisinfoEU is staggering. Imagine how the world would be reacting if this were, say, a Russian or Chinese operation." / Twitter