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New comment by amalag in "Cruise-line companies are building private Caribbean play zones"

amalag — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 13:14:16 +0000

I met a cruise ship worker from Bali who started staying in the USA illegally because it pays more than the cruise ship. He works in some restaurant and will just keep doing it until he is caught or he wants to get married. Then he will return to his home country. In the mean time he is sending money back home for his family and sister's education.

New comment by amalag in "Daydreams Shape Our Sense of Self"

amalag — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 13:11:10 +0000

Poor people buying lottery tickets live in the daydream where they have won the lottery and are spending their millions.

New comment by amalag in "India Shut Down Kashmir’s Internet Access"

amalag — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 18:30:00 +0000

If the majority of the state wants Sharia law, that will still not happen. India is a country of 1.3 billion with at least 10 different languages. There are so many sub cultures in India that the people of India do not think a few Kashmiri separatists deserve independence. It will never happen.

The state is called Jammu and Kashmir and it is part of India's cultural heritage. Integration efforts may take time, but the alternatives are not an option for India. There are many pockets of Muslim majority around India, Kashmir will be no different. Despite the border with Pakistan.

New comment by amalag in "India Shut Down Kashmir’s Internet Access"

amalag — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 15:48:59 +0000

Hinduism is/was the culture of the Indian subcontinent. Western society defined religion as a matter of faith. In India faith was not exactly part of your culture. That was in addition to your culture.

New comment by amalag in "India Shut Down Kashmir’s Internet Access"

amalag — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 02:22:19 +0000

Hinduism is secular. Where have historically persecuted people of the world gone? To Hindu India. Indian Hindus are why Zorastrian people still exists as a religion. They had to flee Iran and Islamic domination hundreds of years ago.

Hindu India has its share of casteism, which is a real problem. That I can agree with.

New comment by amalag in "India Shut Down Kashmir’s Internet Access"

amalag — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 02:04:42 +0000

I think its pretty clear you pulled that out of your fertile imagination.

New comment by amalag in "India Shut Down Kashmir’s Internet Access"

amalag — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 01:55:32 +0000

This is BS. Pakistani jihadis are not overcome with any kind words. The isolation of Kashmir was the problem and the government has taken the solution that the majority of the country agrees with.

The only people complaining are English language media who Modi has never cared about.

New comment by amalag in "India Shut Down Kashmir’s Internet Access"

amalag — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 01:48:06 +0000

Hindu Chauvinist party. Really? There are dozens of countries with Islamic constitutions. Do we call all their leaders Islamic nationalists? There is a serious effort to malign democratic norms in India unless it is only for Islam, which was the state of affairs for J&K. Hindus in Jammu and Ladakh which were part of the state of J&K were second class citizens. That has been removed. Property rights of females is also restored unlike the Kashmiri Sharia influenced constitution.

Kashmiri separatism is another in the line of Islamic jihadi separatism. It was co-opted by the Pakistanis because they only consider that Muslims can live ruled by Mullahs and Sharia and an Islamic constitution.

You will probably find 75% people in India or more in agreement with Modi's action. The whip of the largest opposition party quit his party because he agreed with BJP's actions. Remember that the resolutions passed parliament with 66% of votesin the Rajya Sabha and 84% in the Lok Sabha. That is greater than the numbers of the BJP so many other parties joined them in this.

India's 1.3 billion people will have no problem fighting another war with Pakistan if again attacked over Kashmir.

The international media might as well get used to it.

New comment by amalag in "Visa, Mastercard mull increasing fees for processing transactions: WSJ"

amalag — Sat, 16 Feb 2019 02:01:10 +0000

Yup a small chunk of off the book income which goes straight to cash is worth 10% to them

New comment by amalag in "What does WhatsApp’s upcoming monetisation mean for the company and its users?"

amalag — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 11:33:16 +0000

"It won't scale" means they would have to hire sales people to go after businesses.

New comment by amalag in "Doctors warn of alarming C-section 'epidemic'"

amalag — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 14:06:17 +0000

My mother was in labor for over 36 hours (maybe more, she told me but I forgot) in 1976. You know that would be a C-section nowadays. She had two more children after that. I don't know how long her labor was for those but I assume it wasn't as bad.

New comment by amalag in "Are SUVs Ruining Retirement Savings?"

amalag — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 15:48:09 +0000

A lease is a depreciation financing program. It only makes sense if you want to change your car every 3 years.

I think if they called it a Deprecation Financing Program they wouldn't get so many customers.

New comment by amalag in "Living with a best-selling Indian phone for 10 days"

amalag — Sat, 14 Jul 2018 16:21:12 +0000

Yeah the target audience will ask if it runs WhatsApp and maybe Facebook Messenger and that's about it.

New comment by amalag in "Roadmap to becoming a React developer in 2018"

amalag — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 20:18:38 +0000

Exactly what Sam Stephenson talked about here: https://youtu.be/SWEts0rlezA?t=6m36s

New comment by amalag in "Roadmap to becoming a React developer in 2018"

amalag — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 20:16:07 +0000

Absolutely. There are so few places where you actually need an SPA. And now with form_with doing remote forms by default and getting inline responses from the server it is a real stretch for someone to say they absolutely need some of these JS frameworks to get some simple non page load functionality.

New comment by amalag in "Home Depot stocked shelves with empty boxes in its early days"

amalag — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 13:08:49 +0000

So can you change an electric outlet? That means turning off the individual circuit (or mains if you are paranoid) then opening, disconnecting, connecting a new one.

What about installing a ceiling fan? Assuming the wiring is already there.

New comment by amalag in "Git vanity-sha: vanity hex prefixes for your commit SHAs"

amalag — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 02:36:20 +0000

Blockchain on git as a service

New comment by amalag in "Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2017?"

amalag — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 23:41:58 +0000

You can use a property manager, they will take 10% of gross rent. If the margins aren't good enough to support that, then the property isn't a good buy.

New comment by amalag in "Why SQLite Does Not Use Git"

amalag — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 13:01:13 +0000

Untracked files are not stashed, that is true.

New comment by amalag in "Airbnb’s Battle to Stay Private"

amalag — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 11:12:27 +0000

An insurance companies funds will be subject to government regulation to make sure they can fulfill obligations.