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Our leader is not an extremist nationalist. Next.


This is not a way to respond on HN. Please be respectful.


May be its just me, but I think calling a democratically elected leader of the most diverse country in the world, an extremist, is more disrespectful.


Its a first world thing.

They can overthrow a democratically elected government in Iran, and install a dictator, wage a war against Vietnam for more than a decade, meddle with south american nations wholesale, rub hands with despots like MBS of Suadi Arabia

and then come to the oldest civilization in the world, one of the most diverse, culturally rich society that has survived 200 years of Imperialist rule, an even more years under Islamist rape and plunder and looting, and then claim the democratically leader emerging from one of the biggest and universally agreed free and fair elections as 'extremely nationalist'.

If the leader of the country reflects the average joe of that country, I would gleefully point to trump.


The BJP and the RSS are literally nationalist.


Well Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $50 billion, is the son of Dirubhai Ambani. Like father son too has all political parties in his pockets, be it the congress or BJP or other parties in India. Word is since Modi didnt coorperate in something with Mukesh, he literally sabotaged an alliance they had in the state of Maharashtra, to screw Modi's party over and stiched up an alliance of political rivals.


It's one thing of accusing him of cronyism. It's another to accuse him of swaying elections for political convenience.


Practically everyone would believe this story in real life. Such is the image of Mukesh Ambani in India.

He is not Warren Buffett type of billionaire, that is for sure.


Dhirubhai Ambani practiced Jugaad, something which was necessary in license permit Raj. Even average Indians understand the nuance in this and how difficult it was to conduct business in that era.


Let’s not call it jugaad. It was corruption and a lesson on how stupid laws force people to find an illegal way to do things that should be legal.

The reason reliance gets shit though is not because of corruption - Reliance is fundamentally a predatory firm.


So i have been looking at architecture and security lately. Is it a thing that you automatically start noticing what is not right in a sight? For instances first thing i saw in that link was that the site runs on http not https.


>While I have little doubt Amazon's internal auditing and access control are better than Twitter's.

You underestimate the power of stupidity of these people.


My thought exactly.The web is now a place to sell. That means you will have variations for all sorts of people.


Some cultures in South India simply have the place from which they are from as their surname. Most of the south Indians have their father's name as surnames as well


recursion overrated imo.


I disagree. To consider something overrated, its value has to be little in comparison to the effort to learn it.

For some problems, recursion is vastly superior e.g. for recursive data structure like trees. And coincidentally, often those structures are much better at delivering high-performance solutions than their naive loop-based counterparts.

Granted, it isn't easy to learn, but also not that hard. Overall, I think the gains easily outweigh the effort. And it is not like I am writing recursions all day long. Most of the time I write loops, but you should know when using recursions is the better way to go and for those times you should know how to handle them.


Note that using function-call based recursion is a programming mistake in most common programming languages, as they have a fixed sized stack.

This includes many "functional" languages like Scala. Even Haskell had a default stack size limit until some years ago, and many Haskell based parsers crashed on large inputs due to that.

If you write programs that are supposed to process arbitrarily large inputs, you cannot use function call recursion in most cases.

(Of course this says nothing about recursion as a concept, which is fundamental and unavoidable unless you're programming, say, a traffic light.)


> recursion is overrated imo

Right up until the point where you have to traverse a nested data structure.


Recursive algorithms are a natural fit for recursive data structures. Recursive Fibonacci is contrived. </cliche>


iteration gets repetitive.


recursion is full of itself, though.


iteration gets more repetitive.


And knowing Pakistanis both are equally possible.


How are social stereotypes relevant to this? The same could be said for India, Germany, the US...?


I think OP is implying talking to natives familiar with the culture confirms that the situation is not incredible. It's got nothing to do with stereotypes.


I'm Pakistani, would you say you know me well enough to judge whether every account I post online is truthful or not? If your answer to that is negative, then how can you make the same claim for the author?


couldn't it be named in order to indicate cloudflare uses cloudflare just in a different way.


happened to me in Delhi. My couch started shaking on its own. Thought my sibling was playing. Turned out to be an earthquake.


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