India’s Biggest Competitor In Software Outsourcing

The USA.

For some reason, I see a lot of good coders from the USA. And by good coders I don't mean people who write obfuscated black box that does stuff in O(log log n). In fact that never happens. I have yet to see a O(log log n) coder who writes spaghetti code.

Wrong Philosophies Of India

1. Anti-Conceptual Mentality: Just do it! We don't need principles, theories and so on. Example 1: Safety systems? Why do we need them? It is only necessary for the paranoid people in the western world. Besides I get to keep the money if I charge fake bills for safety systems I did not implement. Why care about future reputation when everything fails? I will be relaxing on a private island before that. Example 2: We don't need optimization, or better organization. Just use rules of thumb. After all there is no time to optimize or organize. Optimization and organization are for the people of the west. We don't need it. Our rules of thumb and instinct are better than theirs.
2. Fatalism: Aww something went wrong! What can we do? Shit happens when the Gods will it! Nothing can be done to change it. Did you hear about that Mr. Ambitious, who tried to change his fate? God smote him to teach him a lesson.
3. Confusion between metaphysical vs. man-made: If you really wish it you can even violate the laws of reality like gravity and fly by intense meditation. But you can't fight the city hall so don't try to change man-made laws and customs.
4. Subjectivism: Everything is just a figment of our imagination. We can know nothing for sure. Even when you fall into a pit you did not see and break your bones, reality did not really affect you. You are merely imagining it!
5. Collectivism: Individual productivity, ambitions, rights are non-existent. Only groups have ambitions, rights and productivity. And my group has the right to take away the rights of your group. Hindus vs. Muslims, Poor vs. RIch, Lower caste vs. Upper caste. etc.
6. Confusion between correlation and causality: B happened with A or after A therefore A caused B. That guy failed after he told everyone what he was upto therefore, you can jinx success by telling other people about it.

Lefties in the Bourgeois

Having mingled with the Bourgeois I see a lot of left leaning folk on this side of the fence. They are often driven by the need to be politic. They believe if they pander to the sentiments of Robin Hood they will be left alone. A very few of them are driven by a sense of guilt which they do not deserve.

You can hear them speak at Davos now. As always the bourgeois that shows up at these meetings are of course from ex-socialist and ex-communist countries like India and Ukraine. Their fear of the vox populi is understandable as they themselves were victims of it once in their homeland.

Unfortunately these rich folks are mistaken about the true intentions of the Left. The Left does not intent to merely re-distribute wealth. Theirs is a fundamentally different perspective of reality and it is not good.

My New Cult – Church of the Fixed Point

Upon mediating about the holy mysteries of fixed point combinators, second law of thermodynamics, purpose of sentience in the universe, choice to live as the better choice and so on, it has been revealed to me that the entire universe is merely a giant fixed point function and that sentience & choice to live are merely means to make this function succeed in creating the answer: i.e. itself. I will be here doing this again in the next version of the universe, if this quine comes up with the same result. Secretly I wish that this quine comes up with a slightly different and better result.

P.S. It's the coffee. My delirium will pass. Please ignore it.

Here is why no government wishes to take away your privacy completely

The people of the western world, and their eastern imitators are excessively concerned about privacy more than their other rights. They are obviously influenced by Orwell's 1984, which they think is all about invasion of privacy and nothing else. Let us talk about what Orwell really meant later.

The fact is, the same mechanisms people use to maintain privacy are used by the government to do their clandestine work. The government relies on the same companies, services, technologies that provide privacy. For instance consider, Domains by Proxy , the infamous registrars of the domain pinged by the infamous Stuxnet worm said to be targeted at Iranian nuclear enrichment centrifuge controllers. It is the elephant in the room when it comes about closest link to makers of Stuxnet. Do you really think, the government will ban such anonymous domain registration companies? Perhaps the conspiracy nuts among you might think Domains by Proxy is in bed with the U.S. secretly relaying information about you to their preferred clientele. Unfortunately this is a logistic nightmare: Since IT employees are an unmanageable lot, they will publicize any attempt by Domain by Proxy to relay private information to the government.

So it comes down to the government trying not to take away your privacy completely. You will always have some of it left.

Conviction is a luxury for those on the sidelines.

I don’t know jackshit about biology or agriculture, but I have strong
opinions about how famers should grow crops that feed billions without
famine.

I don’t know jackshit about how medicines work, but I want to ban and
regulate them.

I don’t know jackshit about very bad pain, but I want to ban
painkillers that are safer than my car.

I was vaccinated, so I don’t know jackshit about third world diseases,
but I want take away that luxury from my child.

I don’t know how doctors work and think, but I want to be able to tell
them what to do.

I don’t know jackshit about the financial markets. Since I don’t know
what they do, and since they make money, they must be evil. Therefore,
I want to the power to tell them what they can and cannot do.

Being the First

Being the first to do something does not automatically guarantee
future success. That is one of the things I learnt the hard way.

It is fun to say – Been there, done that.

But happiness ought to be sought in the achievement and not in how
many of thy colleagues have not made it.

Daniel Dennett – Free Will & Determinism are Compatible

Chosen vs. Unchosen Obligations

There are two philosophies about how we should behave towards others.

1. Doctrine of duties: This one says, we have unchosen obligations towards others.
2. Doctrine of rights: This one says, we have chosen obligations towards others.

The only way Doctrine 1 can be implemented is by denying everyone the inalienable freedom to live for one's own sake, act for one's own sake and pursue one's own goals.

The only way Doctrine 2 can be implemented is by protecting everyone's inalienable freedom to live for one's own sake, act for one's own sake and pursue one's own goals.

Both of these are mutually incompatible. While we can pretend to have both, but we cannot do so for long. Either we stick with unchosen obligations or we go for chosen obligations. If we try to implement both we will have to progressively take away the freedoms of individuals so as to make them do their duties towards each other.

See what philosopher Auguste Comte (who coined the term altruism) had to say:

All honest and sensible men of whatever party should agree by a common consent to eliminate the doctrine of rights.

[Doctrine 1] only recognises duties duties of all to all. Placing itself as it does at the social point of view it cannot tolerate the notion of rights for such notion rests on individualism. We are born under a load of obligations of every kind obligations to our predecessors to our successors to our contemporaries. After our birth these obligations increase or accumulate for it is some time before we can return any service. Where then in the case of man is the foundation on which we are to rest the idea of rights. That idea properly viewed implies some previous efficiency. However great our efforts the longest life well employed will never enable us to pay back more than a scarcely perceptible part of what we received And yet only on the condition of complete payment could we be authorized to require reciprocity of services. Rights then in the case of man are as absurd as they are immoral.

Government which implement Doctrine 1 will gradually take away the rights of its citizens so that they can be forced to perform their unchosen obligations.

By the time Americans elect Ron Paul

he'd be to old and possibly even dead due to old age.