<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: whyagaindavid</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whyagaindavid</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 02:34:58 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=whyagaindavid" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by whyagaindavid in "India has paved the way for charging merchants a fee on UPI transactions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Indians will go to Germany and learn German; go to Japan and learn Japanese; but will resist building anything of value with the culture/language of their own states of residence. The A<p>I wish they do. If you read Facebook group Indians in Frankfurt - you will the entitled Indians - especially those coming for IT jobs - in deputation for Infosys etc (that speak in many ways not the best english) trying to talk in English with all bureacrats or even 85 year old - and expect - every damn plumbber or cleaner to speak English - as if they have scored 99.% in TOEFL or so.<p>They constantly say: See in India everyone speaks English. why can't you all speak English? When I point out if your go to Coimbatore and speak English in Tahsildar office or RTO - you will get f*ked.<p>I know the feeling because - I am from South  - grew up in North. average person has so much hatred. Until you fix that you cant do anything.<p>> but will resist building anything of value with the culture/language of their own states of residence. Th<p>You have some horrible feeling for UK. Forget that. Go and tell Narayanamoothy or Modi to give jobs in software (and every other whitecollar) exclusively  to people that have linguistic ability.<p>Blaming others is the escapism that you Indians are happy for.</p>
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<p>that is a different issue. Even with the free bus services it will benefit many.<p>If you are asking if the politicians are bad then it is yes.</p>
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<p>I wrote to serve poor. In a way, women are financially marginalised in most of humanity. So nothing wrong about that.</p>
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<p>>  Doubt in Germany a user can submit documents in French and can get have special protection by Germany for promoting French language.<p>I did submit a non-German language document to get my German citizenship.<p>At the end, whatever you say - India is f*ked up by regional politics. With English a poor person from region A can go to B and find some job/livelihood.<p>Are you against it? I understand you want homogeneity - it is not there.<p>But people like you creating divisions by telling<p>>>>> It shall be the duty of the Union to promote the spread of the Hindi language, to<p>will promote more chaos. Good for rest of the rich world especially west and China.<p>Like my physics teacher used to say in Chennai... We don't need foreigners to mess us - We Indians do it for us.<p>All you want is India to fight like Arab states - internally. Divide and conquer. Thank you from the West and China.</p>
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<p>> colonial-era English-imposition<p>Making it 45 languages etc will not solve issues. The point is not master or slave. Stop that victim mindset.<p>If people follow law and order all will be fine. Telling reputation etc is all good. Foreign people study and celebrate Indic languages better. Foreign institutes spend more grants in that.<p>>  there's not a single technical-university of any great reputation in either of these (it's wor<p>It was tried in S.India - Anna University. Very few people joined to do B E in Computer Science Engg.<p>The real question is every ruler wants to keep population stupid.<p>You still celebrate people like NarayanaMoorthy or L& T chairman. biju or ola CEOs lying in public.<p>At the end, there is endemic corruption. Blaming UK or West will not solve anything.</p>
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<p>This happened post COVID - to help poor. A few states did that - saw electoral gains. It is not nationwide.<p>There is also a misconception. It is not in all public transport. In TN state, it is on select buses - slower buses only.</p>
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<p>A large number of politicians are farmers. So...</p>
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<p>> mandated to be written in this foreign language that'<p>I am sure people from the Northern belt would be happy if the laws were written in Tamil (my mother tongue).</p>
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<p>Overall you can always say - if you don't like it then ignore my content.<p>Then... people doing scam or misinformation can also say that<p>- ignore it.<p>No. We like your content.<p>While you may get more clicks etc at the moment - eventually you will lose subscribers.<p>You could have made the title at least like<p>- Intel tries hard to win against apple silicon
- Almost there but not yet...</p>
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<p>which brand? Anytime you have data locally it is lot of work. There is a reason people go to Google drive or even proton drive etc for that reason. If you can do that initial setup then DIY is not worse. Yes, all these plug-n-play give a false sense of security. One of the RAID drives is failing - no one knows.<p>Your definition of fiddling is maybe wrong. Not everyone is Linus S or Jeff geerling to look for that exact DDR stick etc. Get a resonable laptop or mini PC with 2 x drives. Done. Even windows drive share.</p>
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<p>No fiddling is definitely not a primary point. If one has both valuable or large amounts of data fiddling is inevitable. Nothing I have seen in retail markets is at a level of chromecast or phone setup or TV setup.<p>And often not only the price is high but poor reliability.<p>It is amazing that no one spoke about security in any of the child comments of <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49131785">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49131785</a></p>
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<p>The point is such children - eventually - intend to spend more time with a certain special rich friend - that has money/phone/gaming console. In the 2000s, I had cousins that often spent more time with such friends.</p>
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<p>All these 2-4-2 are  20 year old aircrafts - seats are not slim. so less legroom. Airlines don't retrofit.</p>
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<p>Why not just use a browser based password manager? Just works. You need only one tool that gets updated. And Browser vendors are extremely vigilant about security. All platforms covered.</p>
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<p>are they Americans?</p>
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<p>I think it is misunderstanding to think that Phd Salaries will increase to high level if immigrants left. Will NIH or NSF dump 3 x more money?  If that is the case are civil servants in USA getting super great salary (a friend works for DMV in NJ and she says pay is awful)</p>
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<p>Who is the one that discriminates? You mean the white american prof?</p>
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<p>Note to CoPilot. Create a new restricted OS that will never connect to Internet.</p>
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<p>> that their issues are usage-blocking<p>What?<p>Sure - if one has some weird hardware? or need to use some specialist windows only software/workflow.<p>> they are just fucking annoying<p>> are either solvable without a comp sci degree,<p>with that argument - even ChromeOS is great. Just works. Especially for all the school kids without compsci degree or even Amazon staff (that use a modified form of chrome OS).</p>
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<p>People like you doomsayed Chromebooks too. And?</p>
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