Hacker News: teatree

New comment by teatree in "Americans duped into losing $10B by illegal Indian call centres in 2022: report"

teatree — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 16:36:51 +0000

Is there any way to coerce the Indian government to take action on this? Looking at YouTube videos where these scammers literally run corporate offices to steal from old and financially vulnerable people is heartbreaking.

New comment by teatree in "Indian Air Force inducts natively developed light combat helicopter ‘Prachanda’"

teatree — Sat, 05 Nov 2022 14:10:58 +0000

>It's the same, until one day India will discover that Russia is useless against China and the US and the West are not. And then there will be a realignment. When it happens it won't be about any fancy ideals, it'll just be interests realigning.

This binary choice of aligning and then trapping oneself into being subservient to one sides is exactly what India is trying to avoid.

Ukraine may be fending off Russians with help of the west and may even push Russia all the way back, but their families, cultural & human capital, infrastructure are all being eroded, significantly. Future generations of Ukraine will have to pay this debt.

India voluntarily making a choice which would bring it in the cross-hairs of China or the West would be a catastrophic failure of imagination.

New comment by teatree in "Meet HN: HN Bangalore Meetup"

teatree — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 15:11:44 +0000

Why WhatsApp and not something that does not make the attendee's phone number public?

New comment by teatree in "Apple Made $6.5B USD by No Longer Providing Accessories with New iPhones"

teatree — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 13:51:35 +0000

>Apple had the margin to make these quality: you can get better earphones but not better chargers.

Are Apple chargers really better than those shipped with Android devices?

New comment by teatree in "Ask HN: Why aren’t there more third party retina screens?"

teatree — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 19:33:47 +0000

It appears Dev and other such productivity users are a byproduct sales category for most display manufacturers. Gamers don't want 4K+ because their GPUs can only handle 1440 at ultra pro max quality, and TV customers are not interested in smaller displays because, you know, what she said.

Looks like we'll have to wait till GPUs can do 4K@120 to enjoy good monitors :)

New comment by teatree in "Ask HN: Why aren’t there more third party retina screens?"

teatree — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 18:55:01 +0000

AFAIK, LG's 5K monitors are their UltraFine series which have very bad reviews from actual buyers.

New comment by teatree in "Tell HN: SWIFT is not a payments transfer system"

teatree — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 17:02:28 +0000

The assumption here is that Chinese banks operate with only a profit movie. Things don't work that way in China, the CCP could compel one or more Chinese banks to co-operate if it serves their geopolitical interests.

China would be keen on establishing and testing an alternative to SWIFT & CHIPS, the US stranglehold on financial systems, as they know the US would use it serve her geopolitical interests.

Looking at the number of countries sanctioned, there is no dearth of customers.

This reminds of Borg from Star Trek, more you use your weapons against them, faster they adapt.

New comment by teatree in "Tell HN: If You Are in Russia"

teatree — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 16:12:58 +0000

I relate so much to this. Star Trek shaped a lot of my world view. I wish we had more TV shows like that today.

But then, looking at some comments here cheering suffering of others and passing judgement reminds me of the episode 'encounter at far point', maybe Q was right after all.

New comment by teatree in "Tell HN: If You Are in Russia"

teatree — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 14:46:13 +0000

Are Baltic countries still importing natural gas from Russia or has is completely stopped?

New comment by teatree in "Namecheap: Russia Service Termination"

teatree — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 04:01:05 +0000

Did the Europeans stop buying natural gas from Russia?

New comment by teatree in "Namecheap: Russia Service Termination"

teatree — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 03:16:25 +0000

+1, this decision has made me rethink my anti crypto stance.

New comment by teatree in "Namecheap: Russia Service Termination"

teatree — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 01:12:14 +0000

Where was your conscience when innocents of other countries were being killed? - Didn't the US kill innocents in all its wars? - Didn't the Saudi's kill innocent journalists? - Isn't Israel killing innocent Palestinians? - Isn't China killing innocents in Xinjiang? - Even innocents have lost their lives in my own country in the name of religion.

I have been donating to Ukraine's cause since this war started, but I will gladly move my business away from your company.

New comment by teatree in "How old are democracies across the world?"

teatree — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 19:35:41 +0000

This reminds me of Shashi Tharoor's [0] speech at Oxford Union.

It is a bit rich to celebrate UK's democracy as 102 years old when they were practicing colonization and slavery less than a human lifetime ago (75 years), isn't it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7CW7S0zxv4

New comment by teatree in "Indian teen chess grandmaster beats Magnus Carlsen in online rapid tournament"

teatree — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 12:11:04 +0000

It has nothing to do with religion IMO. Education is given a lot of importance in southern India, that could have helped a tiny bit, but apart from that I don't see how it is relevant.

Dr Abdul Kalam is widely revered in India for his contributions to rocket propulsion, pretty sure he was good at math & physics as well.

New comment by teatree in "Estonia, allies to trigger NATO Article 4"

teatree — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 08:34:10 +0000

I am not aware of Russian / European geopolitics so pardon my ignorance, but isn't NATO reaching Russian borders a threat?

Hypothetically, wouldn't the US would have serious concerns if Mexico decides to join a Chinese alliance.

(I am not justifying a war, just wondering what could have been done on both sides to prevent it)

New comment by teatree in "Google Search Is Dying"

teatree — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 05:37:17 +0000

Could you share some of those emerging alternatives?

New comment by teatree in "Google Search Is Dying"

teatree — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 18:07:19 +0000

India is a young country with a 1.4B population, with a lot of engineers. I know the quality can vary from gemstones to tombstones but there is an active tech community.

>This might sound elitist but it's probably a good idea that C2C apps get their first batch of users and community leaders from high income countries before branching out to the rest of the world.

Why?

New comment by teatree in "Ask HN: Is anyone working on “downloading” knowledge to the brain?"

teatree — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 16:44:20 +0000

Wouldn't it be easier to understand how the brain works and transfer intelligence and consciousness into silicon (by emulation?) rather than try the reverse?

We know our bodies age and die whereas sustaining a computer for 100s of years via a part replacements is quite doable.

New comment by teatree in "My First Impressions of Web3"

teatree — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 14:02:57 +0000

In conventional web wasn't the same war fought as 'net neutrality' ? All packets are equal. Pardon me if I am wrong, I don't understand web3 or crypto much but what you describe looks like a capitalist version of Internet where processing of every request depends on one's ability to pay. If this is the future, history has already taught us that it is bound to fail.

New comment by teatree in "What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922)"

teatree — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 07:18:30 +0000

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