I for one am happy that they were only able to ban Telegram (and by the looks of it, they weren't really successful because there are reports that the app continues to work). Nothing of much consequence happens due to this, and the government ends up looking like clowns, which they are.
As the internet becomes more critical for work and education, they're finding out that they cannot impose shutdowns for too long without hampering everyday life and commerce, which would make people angry.
The more the people in power get repeatedly shown up like this, the faster things will improve.
Funny, when I was in the US, my Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese, Mexican, French, British, and 99% of the American coworkers had absolutely zero issues with my Indian accent, except that one American guy who would ask me to keep repeating even though the rest of the room had already understood and processed what I said.
The problem likely lies deeper than just the accents; and by the way, the English requirement (including a verbal test) is already set in place for most of the workers. The regular halfway-decent ones will likely already have TOEFL scores hovering around at minimum the high 100s, and in the non-university hiring pipelines I have seen, the English/ESL tests seem to be common if you are not from an English-speaking country, so if you are seeing people where nobody can understand what they are saying, you need to take a better look at your employer's hiring practices.
Minor nit: Fastest ever recorded ball bowled was 100 mph. I believe you were thinking 150 kmph.
Also, if we're talking about street/amateur cricket, or even higher-level cricket a couple of levels removed from international, you are rarely going to have rockets hurled at you. Most will be 120 kmph tops.
The extreme steps some of the people took according to the article is really sad. But it makes me wonder what they were thinking?
I left the US a long time ago after only a few years of work because I felt it didn't make sense that it should take me decades to get the right to live stress-free in the country (or marry an American or somehow hack through for an O1 visa) even if I did everything right and more, but only two months to get a new job in case I lost my previous one, or pack up and leave. Why would I make a major financial/life decision that keeps me rooted to the US with this in mind? And this is not a recent happening; this imbalance has been going on for many years now, across different federal administrations.
Yes, you earn a lot more in the US, and the QoL is better. But the risk-reward ratio has been steadily declining for Indians, probably for decades, to the point where it's probably underwater. I can definitely empathize, but it's a bit difficult to back anyone who bought a house in such scenarios without at least a green card or a solid exit plan in mind.
I agree the 1TB is a good deal. But our phones are Apple and our email is Google, so it’s all wonky sync via OneDrive (and when you have a lot of OneDrive the forced syncs to your windows login takes a lot of cache space).
Wish there was an open interface to use cloud storage, like a mount point, so Gmail or iPhotos could just write there rather than the hand carrying of data. But probably vendor lock-in is too compelling
There used to be a time when it was just accepted that most of the good conferences/gatherings would be in the US, and it would either be important to go to, or be relatively straightforward to reach and attend (especially for Canadians), and nobody would think twice about it.
Now you have some very talented/consequential people just refusing to visit the country. Regardless of any qualms about the "content and logic", this should set off alarm bells for any American. Plus, this would've been a whine if he'd complained and had gone anyway. But he is not going, and has explained his decision. That makes it more of a statement.
I'm sure you do. But your real life experience is not everyone else's real life experience, so there's no really need to make blanket statements about people.
Oh wow, you went from one place to some totally different place at the drop of a hat. Where did me "coming" to Western Europe come into the discussion about racial stereotyping about Indians? I'm not in Western Europe, and I don't plan to live there, not sure how you got that impression.
I think there's no reasoning with someone who only wants to deal in absolutes. Have a good day.
There is some bias in some teams, but it's not universal, and such a bias for one's ethnicity really exists in teams of all ethnicities. You just see it more because there are plenty of xxxx in IT.
> sure Americans tried prohibition and all that but its not gloom and doom
> Why can't you voluntarily try to influence your alcohol consumption by paying a "alcohol tax"?
Gujarat in India is a dry state. UP has an alcohol tax of 69%. Hasn't stopped people at all, in fact such rules have backfired - loopholes, alcohol tourism, illicit production causing all sorts of havoc.
> I mean I have never consumed and never will so why is it that your society finds it acceptable?
Neither have I. But the problem lies exactly where you're heading. I've had a ton more pressure to drink in India where teetotalism is considered ideal, than in the western world where drinking is considered a lot more acceptable. Funnily enough, the more "taboo" or "socially less acceptable" something is, the more the people who partake also force you to do it.
As the internet becomes more critical for work and education, they're finding out that they cannot impose shutdowns for too long without hampering everyday life and commerce, which would make people angry.
The more the people in power get repeatedly shown up like this, the faster things will improve.
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