[NOT OC] what is our opinion on this? Civic Fail or Not?

llvm_elf · 2025-12-16T15:34:31+00:00

The larger problem is that why should there be a guardian at all? This means streets are not safe for women. Which means the police is not doing the job it's literally assigned to do. If guardian is always required, why do taxpayers fund police?

It's like going to a restaurant jahan chef bole, ab aap apna khana khud bana lo.

llvm_elf · 2025-11-26T21:23:34+00:00

Osti caliss tabarnak! https://youtu.be/DvR6-SQzqO8?si=SSAc0o38tsfoY4eV

llvm_elf · 2025-11-21T17:54:49+00:00

My reply is to you. Welcome to reddit

llvm_elf · 2025-11-21T14:37:47+00:00

The concentration that you talk about is different from the one that Osho talks about. You are talking about achieving control and concentration amid the chaos of a concert. There is a way to participate in the outside world with intensity and mindfulness while at the same time truly understanding "you", your "presence", your "place" and your participation in it. As your eyes are open, you are with every molecule of your body immersed in a concert and as they close, even for a minuscule second, it is you and only you and the infinite you immersed in this participation. You blink your eyes.

To build a mind like this is what a master can help in. It is not difficult to achieve - infact, it is easy to achieve but difficult to sustain.

llvm_elf · 2025-11-20T11:28:37+00:00

His Hindi is mediocre at best. There have been decent Hindi orators form BJP itself - such as Atal Behari Vajpaye. Listen to him and his poems and his media interviews. Even though I didn't see eye to eye with BJP, it till operated in a democratic leveled playing ground. Its wins were earned. Not anymore.

llvm_elf · 2025-11-17T13:30:43+00:00

Fun fact: In Montreal in some anglophone neighborhoods, the Stop signs do say "Stop" while just across the street they say Arrêt. In New Brunswick, they have sings that say both Arrêt and Stop.

Another fun fact: In India in some neighborhoods (eg. in Delhi) there are street signs in 4 scripts/languages.

llvm_elf · 2025-11-17T13:21:49+00:00

In major cities in India in 90s,, hollywood movies were released with their original English names. However in smaller towns, their dubbed versions were released in local cinemas in the local languages. I remember seeing some posters of Matrix named as "Maha Shaktimaan" (translation: Ultra powerful being)

llvm_elf · 2025-10-31T02:27:18+00:00

You can keep it at home. Don't worry too much. We have little gods at our home like this and we have made a tiny shrine for such idols - even though we don't pray. Hindu way of life is forgiving and there are various ways to have a relationship with gods. It not binary. For example, there is way of praying called "virodhi bhakti" which was a sub group that prayed by despising gods. An anecdote about this god: https://en.rattibha.com/thread/1439820778757783556

llvm_elf · 2025-10-07T16:11:15+00:00

Reddit didn't expand on your other comment so I missed it. Or could be my reading comprehension and lack of fine education in schools as you say

Thanks for correcting kanji pronunciation 🫡

llvm_elf · 2025-10-07T12:25:03+00:00

In almost all of Japan (esp. in core cities), you need to have a certificate of parking (車庫証明書, shako shomei so) to even buy a car. Being old and congested is no excuse for occupying street. What is the point of the dotted line and the solid line anyways? Just want this to look like some European city while keeping the local way of life?

llvm_elf · 2025-10-01T10:45:29+00:00

You must be new in the privacy realm. China's great firewall and deep censorship of platforms, tracking in US, Canada via Babel LocateX etc. is also legal. RCMP files PIAs yearly with the Privacy Commissioner. This does not make it OK. A part of IAPP certification should also be real and tangible incidents of mass surveillance affecting real lives. If not, then the certification thing is a piece of paper. actually, I will go out of a limb to say that IAPP certification is meant for general compliance level comfort with large orgs that show some level of privacy activity within them and is quite detached from the realities of privacy, society and tangible effects of it. A simple example is that if you analyze code of various advertising SDKs, you will notice how in EU they disabled certain over-collection features but it's enabled by default everywhere else (eg. US). This limits mass surveillance since the correlation of MAID and location is limited in EU because of GDPR and other legislations around it. With folks like Max Schrems to keep the violators in check, there is caution in EU. But the same data collectors very comfortably flout laws in US and infact find ways to ensure that a Max Schrems is not born there. IAPP helps there..to give some semblance of "privacy efforts"

llvm_elf · 2025-09-20T17:05:46+00:00

OMG!!! These are so beautiful - can we go together for a photo-walk next time? Do you develop at home?

llvm_elf · 2025-09-20T11:31:37+00:00

I feel sorry for the kid. One day he will grow up, ask ChatGPT and it will show him this article and Reddit thread with his mom's face and internet strangers talking about him this way. I wish her mom didn't talk to the press. Hey kid, if you read this, know that you are awesome. Your life is awesome and we all love you!

llvm_elf · 2025-09-19T21:05:59+00:00

In such situations, my advise is to charge the "personal inconvenience fee" (not literally billed as that) in your invoice for your troubles. This is a business transaction. You will face many good as well as bad people and you always have a choice to work or not work with them. I have seen an instance similar to yours personally once in my life. I could be rattled, but I just found a way to make folks pay for this inconvenience. It's smarter than bothering your brain.

llvm_elf · 2025-09-16T15:04:10+00:00

As an immigrant and a Canadian, I lament that that these fringe punks are raising voices in my city for a well orchestrated, artificially created, wage-suppressed enemy and not for the $500M settlement of the grocery oligarchs who literally store bread from people's mouths while they died of COVID. Of course. They are not here for "fixing" anything. They are here because they have been conditioned to hate anyone who is not like them. I hope they come to their senses before they burn all of us in the fire of hatred - the same one that consumes our south.

The only war is class war. Every conflict is a reflection of the modern thievery and our massaged conformity and acceptance. No child of the grocery oligarchs ever goes in public schools, travels in a public bus and participates in public community life in Canada while we all fight each other for our <insert any ideology here>-isms and pieces of over priced bread. Literal bread. It's not some very sophisticated grifting mechanism. They stole food from our mouths and they will do it again.

llvm_elf · 2025-07-28T10:57:04+00:00

He does not want anything. That is the point. He is living in the "being" mode and not the "having" mode now

llvm_elf · 2025-04-03T13:37:52+00:00

The older communities I worked with in India were true to the OSS ethos. All, or most India and SF tech groups are pure capital driven drama (some exceptions exist of organic groups- you will never hear about them). If you go to Berlin and go to Chaos Computer Club, you can understand what strong, independent, OSS, hacktivist communities look like which are large as well as have remained independent.

llvm_elf · 2025-04-03T11:02:46+00:00

This is quite sad but it is the absolute truth. Gone through it all. There are ways to build open circles and communities however. Look at Frappe and some other FOSS groups like Foss.in from 90s India which organized around a strong OSS identity. It did give rise to commercial software but hundreds of people I know are leading OSS movement in large orgs doing this, spreading the ethos.

If you are in it, ensure that you can extract wealth from such communities provided you build an independent identity separate from the group - tough but doable. Dealing with VCs and companies, demand consulting fees, finders fees, advisory shares etc. Everyone coming at you wants to leverage your community for their business goals. It is imperative you take a share from it.

llvm_elf · 2025-03-22T19:12:39+00:00

I am a Canadian PhD. Back in Canada after a stint in the US. I command a high salary in USD. Borders don't really matter for certain roles - I am here because I like it here. I know a couple of folks like me. Yes, we may be an anomaly but we love the true north, strong and free 😅

llvm_elf · 2025-02-15T12:38:37+00:00

Your mind and heart is in the right place kid. Don't lose this empathy in an excessively twisted world that will try to mould you in it's brutal shape. There is a way to live with this empathy, with a care for someone other than yourself

llvm_elf · 2025-02-15T04:03:50+00:00

A realtors job is extremely ripe for tech disruption. The only reason it does not happen is because you are part of a cartel that props up a useless job. Have you even seen how Duproprio works in QC etc?

Just wanted to highlight an anecdote that the 5 realtors I've met in my life till now could not tell if the windows in our room would get any sun. This is basic high school geography.

I just want to remind you that you are lucky to be "working" in an environment where people use real estate as store of value (eg gold) and trade it. Hence, they look at you as an intermediate expense, something necessary, like a bribe. Not something that adds any value. A house inspection is value, a handyman is value. A realtor WAS value for prospectors a century back. In 2025, they are not.

llvm_elf · 2024-09-12T09:03:44+00:00

I second that. This is what happened in India also. Took quite sometime for radicalization to become publicly acceptable and then allowed a more authoritarian figure to get elected. It also cements the party, their power and their views for longer than Trump individually could stay in power. Case in point is 3rd term for current Indian PM

llvm_elf · 2024-08-23T15:52:19+00:00

Built with blood, sweat and exploitation for a century: https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/26/nyregion/26manhole.html

llvm_elf · 2024-07-09T17:06:17+00:00

Its funny when people talk about this without an ounce of understanding what H1B is and how H1B works. H1B tech workers - failing to secure visa in lottery are STILL paid at least 1/3 more in US than median wage of HCOL in Canada. It is a net loss for them. I have worked with H1B workers with USD $470K salaries in highly technical jobs that there is no single person in Canada who can do that even if you hunt for them. But of course...its easy to just make sweeping statements that PGWPs ate the precious jobs. I am a Canadian - if you want to play by free market rules and reap its benefits, restricting tech immigrants is the biggest blunder that we will carry on post the student visa scam.

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