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New comment by enitihas in "The global fertility rate is falling"

enitihas — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 05:41:39 +0000

Political will quickly arises if there is loud public demand for it.

New comment by enitihas in "The Khmer Rouge: Genocide in the Name of Utopia (2016)"

enitihas — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 21:25:31 +0000

The USSR pushed hard for science which could improve the nation's global standing, like space missions.

The USSR was no less anti intellectual in other fields like biology:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism

New comment by enitihas in "The Khmer Rouge: Genocide in the Name of Utopia (2016)"

enitihas — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 21:19:25 +0000

Almost any country which tries full on communism sadly ends up in a similar scenario. See USSR, Mao's China. In Mao's China, it was well apparent that the communal farms weren't working and even the people's daily wrote a story on it. The then high ranking party officials also opposed them. But Mao still got rid of them all and continued, causing several famines.

New comment by enitihas in "TikTok Agreed to Buy More Than $800M in Cloud Services from Google"

enitihas — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 21:14:16 +0000

Unlike Huawei, TikTok doesn't have critical production dependency on the US (specialized semiconductors). Huawei also won't have been too impacted if just their imports were blocked in the US. TikTok will be hurt without US customers, but they are too big in China that they will easily survive. And will easily compete worldwide against any US company.

New comment by enitihas in "Manager Can’t Code? They Shouldn’t Be Your Manager"

enitihas — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 21:09:37 +0000

I don't think a manager should be coding at all, but Unless they did enginnering work in the past, it is hard to see them providing effective management.

New comment by enitihas in "Manager Can’t Code? They Shouldn’t Be Your Manager"

enitihas — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 21:08:29 +0000

Yes, and there the software managers normally report to non software executives. Engineers reporting to non software managers who are not at a director or VP level is a bad idea.

New comment by enitihas in "How Late Zhou China Reverse-Engineered a Civilization"

enitihas — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 20:57:46 +0000

Ancient China has a very fascinating history. I think the world would be very different if the voyages started under the Prince of Yan would have been allowed to continue. China would have discovered the new world before Europe, and history would be drastically different. They really had impressive boats very early on.

New comment by enitihas in "Bringing the print statement back"

enitihas — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 20:51:54 +0000

This sounds like a bad idea. It creates more ambiguities in the language, and will require people to remember a lot more. It works in ruby because in ruby you can't assign a function to a variable like

A = len

But you can in python.

It seems python is adding more and more implicit stuff in every new release.

I think the day we can import braces from __future__ might not be far away.

New comment by enitihas in "Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027"

enitihas — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 16:59:31 +0000

Your arguments lack context. India isn't ruling out Muslims from citizenship. While the CAA is a very bad step forward, and has several problems, it is about what criteria satisfying refugees are available for quick citizenship, and doesn't apply to citizens of the country. India is certainly not running anything close to the camps China is running for Uyighurs.

India is actively trying to fix disparities caused by the caste system. It took the US 200 years to get civil rights, India had affirmative action from day one, and one of the biggest examples of affirmative action at that. The caste system is horrendous, but social change can never be brought so quickly ( atleast in a democratic way, we certainly don't want Stalin or Mao style quick changes)

The caste system, while bad, isn't in any way worse than color discrimination in the US. To quote just one example, India has very strong laws against caste based violence.

India has it's own shares of issues, but it's still an order of magnitude better than the Chinese Government.

New comment by enitihas in "Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027"

enitihas — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 13:28:57 +0000

You aren't helping your case by citing the Supermicro article, which was denied by both Amazon and Apple, led to widespread criticism of Bloomberg, and no source came forward.

New comment by enitihas in "Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027"

enitihas — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 12:56:29 +0000

The comparison with India is wrong, or you don't understand the scale of what is happening in China. For starters, India is not re-educating anyone.

New comment by enitihas in "Google to Invest $10B in India"

enitihas — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 17:30:32 +0000

What can any packet inspection do over https, since that's where the majority of the important traffic is,not to mention that a lot of apps use certificate pinning, so even MITM can't help analyse the packets. And all this is before eSNI becomes mainstream.

New comment by enitihas in "I Know What You Download on BitTorrent"

enitihas — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 17:21:36 +0000

I think the irony is that someone on HN will jump on this thread saying copyright needs to be abolished, and you didn't lose anything as the user wouldn't have paid for it anyways, with the irony being that a large majority of HN either earns money via tracking ads(which is far worse than any copyright), or works money by writing paid software.

New comment by enitihas in "Google to Invest $10B in India"

enitihas — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 16:18:25 +0000

That will not work that well. Average Indian right now doesn't really have that much disposable income for such services to be very profitable. It will have to be the very long run. I doubt either google or Facebook earn a lot from India right now, and they are very well established, and their compute costs are as low as they can get. I don't see how Jio is going to be able to follow the strategy of the biggest tech companies.

I hope India does grow at a large enough rate for such services to be profitable.

New comment by enitihas in "Google to Invest $10B in India"

enitihas — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 15:14:03 +0000

It has been about 3 years atleast since Jio has paid plans, and things are still way way cheaper. Even if the prices double, they will be way cheaper than what they were.

New comment by enitihas in "Pulsar – an open-source distributed pub-sub messaging platform"

enitihas — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 15:10:46 +0000

Ok so it will sacrifice some throughout when a new node is added, as reads and writes need to jump a bit.

New comment by enitihas in "Google to Invest $10B in India"

enitihas — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 14:38:36 +0000

Ironically, the prices are far lower than they were in those insanely competitive days.

New comment by enitihas in "Pulsar – an open-source distributed pub-sub messaging platform"

enitihas — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 14:32:13 +0000

How do bookkeeper nodes handle addition then. AFAIK, if you add new storage nodes, whether bookkeeper or Kafka, there has to be some repartitioning, or else how will the new node be useful at all?

New comment by enitihas in "Google to Invest $10B in India"

enitihas — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 14:27:36 +0000

I think you misunderstood the parent poster's point. They are talking about India the nation, while you are talking of India the concept. India the concept existed. But India the concept is similar to America the concept or Europe or Africa the concept, not Germany or France. Also, before the British, the last empire to rule over almost all of modern day India was Ashoka, more than 2000 years ago.

New comment by enitihas in "Google to Invest $10B in India"

enitihas — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 14:24:26 +0000

It can't grab the Chinese shares without angering China, and anyone in the whole wide world would rather anger any billionaire than China.

> Under what pretence would they grab Ambani's property?

If there is no existing law, government can make laws. I mean the government did nationalize so many banks at once right? The government is sovereign. The amount of power it holds over it's own people, even the richest ones, is far far higher than what it holds over another strong sovereign state.

Anyways this was all about power. There are so many other reasons for ensuring someone in the country holds the wealth rather than your competitor.