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I admire the conviction, but I think you're underestimating the social inertia that platforms like WhatsApp benefit from.

The unfortunate reality is that most people won’t follow you. Not because they don’t respect you or your concerns, but because the cost—in effort, friction, or just breaking habitual patterns—is too high. Social coordination is fragile, and it leans heavily on lowest-common-denominator tools. WhatsApp has become that denominator.

What’s likely to happen is this: group chats will move on without you. Events will get planned. Conversations will unfold. People aren’t going to message you separately to accommodate your principled stand—not out of malice, but out of convenience and momentum. You’ll be increasingly left out, not because anyone wants to isolate you, but because ecosystems don't fracture easily.

After a few months of being disconnected and missing out, there’s a strong chance you’ll reinstall WhatsApp—not because you’ve changed your mind, but because opting out of a near-universal platform means opting out of modern social participation.

This isn’t a defeat of principle—it’s a reflection of how network effects work. The only way to realistically challenge something like WhatsApp is if a critical mass moves at once. Individual protest, while noble, often just leads to isolation unless it becomes collective action.

Can you provide some additional details? In what ways has it helped you? Would you have gotten the same benefits had you done a immersive meditation session outside of that structure?

Based on our initial analysis with RAGAS a few months ago, it didn't provide the results that our team was expecting. Required a lot of customisation on top of it. Nevertheless a pretty solid library.

Except when it is not. With Ally customer service - I was once on hold for more than hour before I could speak to an agent. Not the ideal scenario - and their backend systems were not even able to resolve my issue even after multiple calls.

Also take a look at the Python modules that Simon Willison has made available for interfacing with local LLMs. They make it much easier and effective.

How important is fluency in Japanese?

It wasn't accidentally created. It was deliberately designed that way as an alternative to IQ tests and aptitude tests.

Agree about the syncing - its not just you. I click on "Continue Watching" for a TV series that I have been watching - only to realize about a minute or so into it that I had already seen the episode the previous day. This has happened to me so many times that I would have wasted close to an hour just moving back and forth between episodes.

These are great suggestions!

I had always been the organizer in my friend group organizing trips, meetups and would spend initiating conversations and discussion even in the group chats.

Due to certain life circumstances I had gradually stopped and the entire group actually fell apart except a few friends who lived in the same cities.

Your post actually gave me an impetus to reach out to a lot of the older groups and reconnect. Thank you.

Is it an addiction to the taste of meat?

If your objection to killing animals is strong enough there are millions of purely vegetarian recipes that are delicious and much more tastier than fake meat. Why not switch to those?

Most countries don't. American immigration is a mess with unknown delays and archaic processing techniques. Just because the employees get a 2x multiplier in earnings doesn't mean the immigration pain is worth it.

In a land of immigrants - having such a poor immigration process for highly skilled employees will only mean that the best and the brightest talent will no longer be interested in moving to the US when they could get treated much more fairly in other countries. The result will be the workforce will be filled with mediocre and sub-par talent who are willing to go through the painful delays in the immigration process.

I think this is dismissive of their talent, relative to other people who might try doing the same.

I believe those who are popular content creators are also better at marketing and sales. Getting their work recognized means that their marketing talent is good and not necessarily their programming skill relative to other people who are doing the same.

When looking from that perspective - are you optimizing for hiring people with good programming skills or those with good marketing skill?

Some conference rooms have good video conferencing facilities, so no headphones in the same room though. But I get your point, it is a pain to commute all the way to be on zoom calls.

So your suggestion is to just become a content developer and start marketing yourself online? Getting your work in front of others and getting the amount of reach that you have is also a lot of luck. Not everyone can get the same amount of reach as you have - I've seen hundreds of developers shouting out into the void without any recognition.

My guess is that the increase in number of posts related to ADHD could also be attributed to a form of astroturfing by YC Companies (Inflow - one that I had seen being recommended a few weeks back).

Does Paylocity do visa sponsorships or H1B visa transfers for those who are already working in the US.

We live in a democracy! Hope you understand that if you and enough people around you want changes in your neighborhood/community it is totally possible.

Start making changes and influencing people instead of saying its futile. Change is always possible.

Love this idea! As long as they last though. For me, by the second year - they are unusable.

As more people start wanting to walk, there will be more sidewalks. Start demanding for it and you will get it.

I am not sure if you are responding with actual information or just anecdata. There are hundreds of thousands of students who actually want to work in the US but are unable to (and are sent back) because of H1B Visa lotteries and archaic green card processes.

This comment comes from a position of privilege and power. Not everyone can afford iPhones and neither is a value-for-money at those prices. If all your international friends are also using iPhones, then you are definitely in a very special bubble.

Its not a vocal minority from my experience. I live in a safe neighborhood in Southern California and there are hundreds of people like that here. I have seen people posting photos from their door cameras and posting warnings about seemingly normal things.

Isn't is super expensive even at the deep discount that you mention?

Well. I am from an NIT in India and upper caste groupism is super common there. Of course to an outsider it seems like these are guys from the same high school and same hostel hanging out, but in reality it is mostly upper caste Brahmins in those high schools as well who end up continuing their groupism and favoritism in college and beyond. The same groupism exists even today - decades later. You see the same upper caste brahmins hanging out in the US together still in their close knit groups.

Well if Surnames are banned, why is the name Pichai still used? Genuinely asking. I also see tons of engineers from Tamil Nadu in the US with last names Iyer and Iyengars.

This sounds really fascinating. Are there any resources that you'd recommend for someone who's starting out in learning all this? I'm a complete beginner when it comes to Machine Learning.

The training of fresh immigrants is true. As a Master's student we were trained to be afraid of the cops and that they can shoot you if you make any unwanted movements.

America lives in constant fear of everything and it only seems to be getting worse.

The solution is just to have refillable liquid dispensers at the hotels. The whole point of this is meaningless.

America lives in constant fear of everything.