flangloria's comments

Well, if one is forced into labor, that is slavery, and slavery is bad. Therefore, forced sex i.e, rape is also bad.

This is not to say that I am completely comfortable with this thing, though. For someone like myself, this Sugar-daddy-baby thing feels like a 180 degree departure from the values that I grew up with, which society itself promoted as the right thing. Now I just feel lost and alone. Everything is depressingly transactional. In all honesty, I'm quite comfortable with that when it comes to most of my daily interactions. But when it comes to relationships, I feel shocked. Maybe I'm a hypocrite.

>But without government licensing and approval to back you up, a bunch of soldiers will arrive and simply rip out your gear.

This is the single most important obstacle here. Moreover, the bureaucratic procedures one has to jump through, to get such a thing approved, are extremely opaque.

In a country like India, where the government talks about stuff like "power to the people" all the time, when someone tries to implement such a network on the ground because it's really needed and helps fulfill the ruling party's election promises, they would be stopped by local authorities who would cite some vague law or seek some hefty bribe.

Either way, I appreciate that a company like facebook would spend so much time and money to do a nice thing like this.

Exactly. I feel this is being overlooked a lot.

This maybe a bit off topic, but hopefully someone can provide some insight.

Do Udacity nanodegrees fall under the same category as these bootcamps? What is the quality one can expect there?

Actually there are a lot of business opportunities. Certainly not enough to accommodate the whole population, but then again not everyone is in a position to take advantage of available opportunities.

What is really lacking, is access to information and in many cases people just dont want to pursue said opportunity. Everyone instead wants to do that one thing that made that guy rich.

You get to choose, but the people who scored better get to choose first. So depending on the engineering job market situation, your choices are limited by your score.

>It for simple reason that for vast majority of Indians (non-urban, big and small towns, villages etc.) there is simply no alternative if they want to buy a mobile or a SD card for mobile, or a particular book, or that latest Levis, sneakers, and so on… Heck even in big cities it is a struggle to find things.

This is so true. Even today. Moreover there is an impression of complete lack of transparency in brick and mortar stores, since you are never sure when a shopkeeper is fleecing you.

But sadly Flipkart has pivoted away from customer satisfaction to seller satisfaction as an end goal. As a result their quality of service has gone for a toss, whereas Amazon has always been single mindedly pro-buyer.

Brand inertia will help them retain customers for some time and this also helped because Amazon's android app is just not good enough, but eventually they will crash if they keep ignoring customers.

Oh please. This isn't the same. What these guys were trying to do, was to bully the state into placing their community above the rest.

I love cat based electronic projects. I've been trying for the last few weeks to come up with a real time GPS tracker, but I just can't seem to finalize the parts list. All gps chips I know of are too big and tend to overheat.

This is live!

I'm not talking about the average American or the average westerner. Most of them are cheerfully ignorant and also mostly welcoming and curious, just like the rest of the planet, and that is just fine. It is the academics who carry a pronounced bias, which is mostly the result of not bothering to visit the places concerned, or not talking to enough people. Which is what I said in the first place.

As far as the narrative is concerned, the main problems are the parts which deal with the motivations of the actors involved. The writer just basically goes about it as if writing a novel divorced from the facts and is just irresponsible.

This is so poorly researched, and so opinionated and so ignorant of the chain of events, it's hilarious. Moreover, it has a blatant anti Hindu bias, that is characteristic of almost all western academic works pertaining to the politics of India and the region. There is something so alien about the Hindu religion that is frankly unpalatable to a certain type of westerner. Either that, or they just get bamboozled by the local boondogglery, and all critical reasoning just goes out the window. Thanks to the works of "scholars" such as these, it's really no wonder why western understanding of politics and political motivations in the independent south Asia (especially pre 90s) is basically BS. And no wonder why they feel, they get taken for a ride by the governments in the region.

These commissions are set up here, only after someone from a global body like UN, World Bank, IMF etc complains about their absence.

Yes, but that would only work if you were forced by technological limitations and law to hire an expensive programmer locally.