KorematsuFred

When I had come to USA I had only heard about bald eagle and never seen one. San Diego Safari park had one caged bald eagle which had hurt its beak and wings so badly that it could only survive in Captivity.

It was a holy F** moment for me as the bird was damn majestic and lot larger and intimidating than what I would expect from a bird.

Garuda - the hindi word for Eagle, is often described as the vehicle of Lord Vishnu, one of the powerful Hindu Gods. Bald Eagle would be perfect match for that job.

- Google is a monoculture. It is just boring. - Promotions are hard and work is boring. - A lot of time is spent on red tape.

- Perks are excellent. While I despise the work that is the only thing keeping me here.

It is none of Apple's business nor American people's business. American people if their heart bleeds for Myanmar's people are more than welcome to send planes to give asylum to Myanmar's people in USA. Put your money where your mouth is.

They are supposed to be complaint with whichever country they are operating in or simply get out of that country. Anything else is basically white people projecting their virtues on other countries.

It is not apple's responsibility to fight totalitarian governments nor is the business of Americans to meddle into foreign governments.

For all we care the democratic government could be a puppet in the hands of CIA or PRC.

Not just blue screen but these new AI actors would do things that no real human being could do. One reason why Game of thrones had only 8 seasons is because crew got bored and kids grew up.

With deepfakes you can have peter pan like actors who will not age or even reverse age. everyone will have 8 pack abs and 36D busts (or whatever audience likes). In fact there could be A/B testing of how actors should look and behave.

Next obvious step is people like me volunteering to be that "extra" behind the key actor and engage in a bidding war. All I have to do is give my body scan and one of the zombies killed by Rick in walking dead could be me.

Bulbs did not replace candles, they created possibilities that candles could not.

$$ casts is no big deal. It also saves you cost of location and probably 100 other people involved in movies.

While the title of Tim's essay (which is not all matching with the title) is wrong so is your conclusion.

> Silicon Valley will never die.

Silicon valley is already dead in many sense. It has long stopped being the place where bunch of nerds could meet and make interesting stuff purely for the soul in the game. In last 20 years it is replaced by "i want to get rich" crowd who are building crappy products, VCs in suites who just get lucky every now and then, Big Tech which is a bog in itself, greedy and corrupt politicians squeezing people. The joy of building stuff is replaced with pressure of white board coding, and folks are large cos are not really solving interesting problems but haggling over promos and TC on teamblind.com.

SV of today is just another wall street where people spend their 20s and 30s doing back breaking work so they could get out of this place in their 40s. It is a soul less place.

I think SV will die eventually (so will NY, London or any other city) over sufficiently long period.

> I have seen about her in the last 2 weeks,so either some people is using her to "celebrate diversity" or she has a PR working efficiently to prop-up a future endeavor.

I think celebrating diversity for the sake of diversity is stupid and the piece is probably PR for NASA.

But let me highlight that these sort of stories play a very very big role in many remote parts of the world (I come from one). The fact that someone owns a car, a house and has plenty of food on table can also be an inspirational story for many and I am not exaggerating.

I remember in my school when teacher asked us what our ambitions were our answers were "getting a job". One girl said she wants to be a "graduate" and the whole class laughed thinking she thinks too much of herself. So let us not downplay her achievement as "middle manager", I hope her story inspires more Colombians and let us hope that it also helps us think better of Colombia as a country and its people.

These transactions may not be on the chain transactions. You basically buy Bitcoin from Visa, visa pays bitcoin to Merchants (which remains in Visa's wallet) and you and merchant will settle your accounts with Visa in future at which point you may have to pay a fee.

> struggling to survive demographic are the ones giving devices to their children.

You will be surprised. It is common for India to own a smartphone but not a toilet. IT is also common for the entire family to use the same smartphone and as the working dad returns home the kid jumps on his phone to play his/her favourite game.

Note : This comment is unrelated to the link posted.

While HDFC's IT systems remain a bit problematic (though not as bad as YES Bank) the bank itself is pretty good. There is a saying in Mumbai that if HDFC is funding your mortgage you dont really have to do due diligence about legality of the property. (It is common in India for a builder to sell the same property to two different people, sell properties with lien and so on).

It remains one of the healthiest banks in India, displaying good growth and trust from consumers.

> Justifying the actions of cow-vigilantes who go around killing people over cows.

This is just ridiculous claim and you are projecting your own thoughts on the media. Cow smuggling in India is very much real and cows are stolen and killed and their legs broken and put in car trunks. This is a real problem that has lead to very unfortunate lynching of cow smugglers. This is sad and the article is only expressing this view. At no point the article of media has justified street violence.

> "What does a ‘Hindutva laboratory’ where Muslims live in perpetual fear of Hindus look like? Does it look like a place where a minor Hindu girl jumps into a well to kill herself after months of gangrape by a neighbouring Muslim family? Where her father is found hanging from a tree on the day she is scheduled to give her statement in the court? Where the local police is found to have sided with the Muslim perpetrators and mistreated the Hindu victims?"

And tell me what is wrong in taking the side of the girl who killed herself due to gangrape ?

> "The almost fully Muslim-populated Nuh district is where most cattle thieves in Palwal enter from. It’s a notorious hub of cattle-smuggling besides many other organised crimes."

And again what is wrong with this reporting ? It is just factual. Since majority of India does not eat beef, it is often the Muslims who are in this business and also in the cow smuggling business.

> "Mohammad Nizam, who is sitting beside Singh and belongs to a tiny population of Muslims in Sondhad, agrees. 'We eat chicken. We cannot think of touching cow meat,' says Nizam."

If at all the article is actually trying to balanced and going against your very claim.

Sorry, your horse is not high enough here.

I think you are confusing OpIndia with Swarajya.

> Swarajya and why it is blacklisted by Wikipedia as a source

Wikipedia is barely a gold standard of anything. It is well known that it has left wing bias and especially much more prejudiced attitude towards pagan and and non-western cultures.

> Western conspiracy

I do not think there is a conspiracy at all. There is just bias. Bias that things that do not conform to certain views held by certain factions of western left leaning people are all false.

India practically invented idea of "Hawala", so there is no need to be surprised that millitant groups active in Indian border region might be using bitcoin.

The article provides very little useful information. The militants might also be using can of coke, Toyota cars and Gasoline from Shell. It is an irrelevant point.

As a person writing regularly in Swarajya, I should flag this comment for not adding any value to the discussion and engaging in flamewar.

Swarajya is a classical liberal magazine (like USA's Reason Magazine) with a long history and to their credit consistent criticism of all kind of politics.

It is surely right leaning but comparison with Breitbart is ridiculous.

I do not know about 2021.

But few years ago this was definitely a problem and especially in border towns of Texas and Arizona.

But not just about brith certificates. You can look at legal immigrants. A lot of them are forced out of job because USCIS is taking their own sweet time of 24 months to approve their work permits. This means these legal immigrants have to quit their jobs, they can't drive as their driving license is expired and so on.

This is sheer caprice enabled by a hostile administration.

I am not against Americans having tighter immigration. Pass whatever tough laws you want and enforce them to hearts content. But when you have an admin that can be hostile to specific groups you have to be really suspicious of all government powers.

> mostly american concept

True. It is an American experience.

Different admins have harassed different Americans at different points in time. Jews, Blacks, Chinese, Indians (India) and so on. Donald Trump showed us just how much evil US admin can get on matters of paperwork. Since he could not legally stop legal immigrants from working, he changed rules and created such a long backlog that it takes now 24 months to renew some work permits which use to take 15 days 4 years ago. Immigrants were deeply hurt. He also adopted several tactics which can be called "voter suppression". He used ridiculous logic such as "extreme vetting" to deny visa approvals for 4 year old children of an already approved immigrant.

Trump admin harassed a lot of Hispanics born in border towns of USA, refusing to use their birth certificates as evidence of citizenship.

>it feels really weird to see people describing what a dystopian future American would become if it did that thing we do right now.

USA is much much larger and far diverse than France. It also does not have the groups who hate each other as Americans have. I highly doubt if there are any French politicians who bear certain hatred for specific groups.

I am not at all denying that centralized IDs are bad for everyone, but for Americans it is going to be pretty bad.

This only gives more power to government to harass people whom they don't like and who are poor minorities.

> having a central ID for each citizen at birth, and then a way to prove that you match that ID

This seems a trivial and no-brainer and yet you will be surprised how many Americans will be simply denied this sort of service after birth. Racist law makers would put severe restrictions on people they dont like. If they don't get this ID soon after birth they don't get anything. They will be illegals in their own country.

Entire song and dance around illegal immigration, e-verify and all that crap was needless if there was no concept of SSN.

While the intentions behind this could be noble, these sort of heavy handed moves are anti-minority and hurt some of the poorest people.

Lawn and Gardening jobs are mostly done by immigrants and other minorities in and around Oakland. For these cash strapped individuals it is going to be a major burden to replace all their equipment with battery operated devices, not to mention, it is going to be a problem to charge the batteries as these people often work around the clock and can't afford to keep the equipment idle. Some of these people will go out of business, or will have to seek loans from loan sharks or pay expensive fines to the city.

Not sure Oakland can even make a dent it CO pollution in the world with this law but surely will destroy few more lives of city's minorities and vulnerable people.

Just to put these claims in perspective using the paper you have quoted.

> In 2011, approximately 26.7 million tons of pollutants were emitted by GLGE (VOC=461,800; CO=5,793,200; NOx=68,500, PM10=20,700; CO2=20,382,400)

To quote other sources:

CO emission in the United States in 2001 was 120.8 million short tons, of which 74.8 million came from on-road vehicles.

Fair to say around 3% of total CO in USA today is being generated by GLGE (Gasoline powered lawn and garden equipment).

I think state of PA tried to ban automobiles by saying they were too dangerous. They said in order to drive a car it should be manned by a driver, a mechanic, one guy to run in front of the car and one guy to walk behind the car and god forbid they see a horse rider they must disassemble that car and hide the parts in bushes until the horse has passed.

>daily drive autopilot on city streets when it's ready

Please note that it is not real autopilot and be safe.

I can understand not being scared of automatic vehicles but Tesla isnt self driving yet.

Oh no. Moleskins are pretty bad for fountain pens. I use rollerball jel pens mostly.

I am not even white and I find this sort (slide content) of claims purely racist. Based on my experience if you normalize this for one group they are going to go after other groups soon.

Workplace inclusion is not about being less or more of anything but just making sure we are able to embraces diversity and work in a away where everyone is productive and satisfied.

If you have an item to sell and if people are willing to pay for it more than the price, if you do not increase the price someone buys it cheap and simply sells it to the highest bidder making a profit.

This is a bit like low cost government subsidized housing in bay area. Joe gets it but then rents to Kumar and continue to live as homeless. Now you have subsidized Kumar. It is dangerous in a sense, it assigns virtue to bad economic sense, creates incentives for needless middleman and prevents goods from going to people who really need it.

Grammar is not rigid, it is just well defined. You can write a sentence in a dozen different ways, it is just that the meaning can be derived by a formal process.

Imagine you had to pass down a Java program (through oral tradition) to sort numbers and you had a Java Language Specification that remains unchanged. Now compare that to say English language where and you write an essay on sorting numbers. If both things are passed down orally over few dozen generations which one is likely to keep its form ?

Buyers do not have a choice. It is either wait or don't buy. However if you create an auction system, you would know how much these people are willing to wait.

> why is this dangerous?

Economic inefficiencies lead to wastage. In this case people might put themselves on waiting list only to buy them for $150 and then sell it to someone for $500. The democratic virtue here is thrown out of the window and you have needlessly now employed a middleman who adds no real value to the process but as a remedy to the virtue signaling of the manufacturer.

Reminds of all bad things that happened when US government tried to subsidize baby formula.

> Especially in the realm of luxury items.

Especially for luxury items, it makes sense to keep the price pretty high and supply limited (like Ferrari).

I am from India and $150 is pretty low for the market he is targetting. For example I routinely purchases Moleskin notebooks for around $30 in India and this was not even a rare item. A doctor, a judge can easily afford to pay $500 for these pens.

> There's a democratic quality to waiting

What does that supposed to even mean ? There is no virtue in needlessly waiting for something in a line. Assigning virtue to such inefficiency is dangerous.

I am pretty sure people who are buying his pens would find their time lot more valuable (2 years in this case) than more price.