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> For example, Samsara, a startup that formed in 2015

I wonder why you'd want to name your company Suffering?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa%E1%B9%83s%C4%81ra_(Buddhism...

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From their About page:

https://www.samsara.com/about

> In Sanskrit, "Samsara" is the eternal cycle of life and rebirth.

Yeah, but it really has the connotation of suffering, pain, etc. where the escape from Samsara is Nirvana, or the final cessation of suffering

Samsara/Sansara has the connotation of meatspace in Sanskrit and derived languages. Buddhist philosophy says that life in meatspace is suffering, but the word isn't limited to that.

In other words, eternal churn... It seems ironically appropriate.

From the Wiki article linked in the parent:

"the beginning-less cycle of repeated birth, mundane existence and dying again"

That certainly sounds like a lot of these trends in tech.

There are other connotations to Samsara - in contemporary Telugu and Tamil it is colloquially used for 'universe' and 'family' as well.

Aha, nice to know. But are they of the same etymology?

In Hindi too, Samsara means universe

Given most of the comments in this thread "IoT = universe of suffering" is not a bad name, actually.

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