You don't want to indentify as an Indian or a person of Indian origin. Yet you couldn't keep yourself from commenting on this thread.

> If you are a guy (or worse a girl) who insists it’s not that bad in india, then you grew up with extreme privilege or are extremely clueless about realities of life in this country.

What kind of argument is this even? "If you disagree with me, you're clueless"?

There's definitely some "I'll shit on my birth country to win Western approval" energy here..

> There's definitely some "I'll shit on my birth country to win Western approval" energy here..

Stop projecting.

India taxes petroleum that much not to generate more revenue -- for they can always raise the sales tax rates -- but to reduce consumption and keep the balance of payments in check.

Digital arsonists who do it for the attention

> The movement towards free and open source software was created in no small part do to activists with a very strong ideology

They did have a strong ideology and they worked towards building the world they wished to see. Not by breaking existing things to virtue signal their support for "the current thing"

And then all of the effort spent on "building the world they wished to see" gets used to also build a world that goes against everything they wished, against their ideology. Due to openness of their efforts they also don't have an option on influencing that, unlike commercial products who can simply stop doing business with precise companies/people/territories. What if the very idea of open source gets used against itself? What would you advise those people to do? Shut up about "the current thing"?

Yeah, but that means the problem is in fact protestware and not "ideology" in some vague sense.

> eager to default at this point as doing so could cause financial damage in the West.

What about Russian banks and Russian bond holders? External debt is generally only a fraction of the total debt

I'm sure they'll prioritize internal debt-holders of debt denominated in rubles. It's the debt owed to external entities that's denominated in other currencies that will be defaulted on.

> The vast majority of thinking here is not very sophisticated about these types of topics

Oh it's the classist "I'm smarter than the average person in my country" crowd again.

Why do you assume you know better? Perhaps they know what they're trading and perhaps it's worth the cost.

But now with the benefit of hindsight, we do know how it turned out for c++. right?

> Google was better ten years ago because search was an easier problem to solve back then

Has anyone considered the possibility that all this Machine learning and AI models is what made Google and YouTube searches worse?

I strongly suspect that's a very large part of what is making everything worse. Or, at least, there does seem to be a correlation in time between the implementation of ML and the degradation of the quality of results.

I wouldn't call it so much the implementation of ML but rather from when they decided they were an AI/ML company.

The Amazon recommendations engine, the poster child of ML in 2014 isn't any good at recommending products that I actually want to buy either.

> Somewhat ironically, the only way to avoid this is to query via Google (site:youtube.com [term]) where you will get a much larger set of results.

Even more ironically and many here would have experienced this themselves: the best way to find something on YouTube is to use Bing

> the best way to find something on YouTube is to use Bing

Weirdly the same is the case for reddit.

What I really want I guess is, a search engine, where i can provide you sites to index, and when I am searching, I only search through those sites. That's it.

What about discovery of sites you don’t know about. The whole purpose of he internet is that we’re all connected, but you seem to want only an extended private network.

A surprsingly large amounts of time I use Google, is to mainly to search on either reddit, stackoverflow, hackernews etc. Even searching for other sites is helpful using those sites i.e. searching for developer blogs gets far better results if I add reddit to it.

I think Google has it's place. However, I also think that an additional search engine like the one I described would be a very nice and useful tool. At least for me.

Google fails miserably over there too.

First page is full of results from a handful of sites.

> a whole new level of the entire world trying to game their search

I think their #1 problem is their product managers trying to do "something" to add said something to their resume and making the product horrible to use in the process

Examples include: - Grid view tab switcher in Chrome Android - Removing dislike count on YouTube