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Why don't you move abroad?

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189 points orkohunter | 1 comments | 20 Nov 24 08:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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nordiknomad ◴[20 Nov 24 09:51 UTC] No.42192288[source]▶
well, below points are not matching somehow :

-------------------------------------- Just like many Indians of my generation, I spent my childhood in a single bedroom rented house. Every evening, my brother and I would sit in front of an oil lamp and study, mostly maths and science. -----------------------------------------

------------------------------------------------ My father has been a software engineer since the 90s and my brother is an absolute rockstar with computers. We didn’t have cartoons in TV back in our childhood but had our hands on keyboard ever since I could possibly remember. ---------------------------------------------

So you operated the computer / keyboard using oil lamp ?

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1. orkohunter ◴[21 Nov 24 12:16 UTC] No.42203563[source]▶
Poverty has many meanings. The State of Uttar Pradesh in India where I am from used to provide less than 8 hours of electricity per day when I was a child. Oil Lamp is for the times when lights were out. Inverters and battery lamps came very soon. The whole story is spread across my teenage years and of different times.

Thanks Sherlock.