chakde

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by chakde 15y ago
Personally I don't think there's any doubt that Google's search quality has fallen down over the last few years. There have been a few instances where what I was looking for was not found on Google and I gave up looking for it. Later (after
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by chakde 15y ago
My point is that it is culture that affects happiness, not merely internal or material well being. So taking into account cultural variations is meaningless when what I'm interested in measuring is the end result.
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by chakde 15y ago
Well what gets measured gets improved. What's subjective to you is pretty objective to me - the health impact of unhappiness, for example, will reflect in healthcare costs. Which btw makes up 15% of US GDP. Now is that even real GDP or just
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by chakde 15y ago
Well comparing GINI across similar sized countries: India (36.8), Russia (39.9), US (40.8), China (46.9), Brazil (49.3), India is the lowest of the group. While its true that most european countries have slightly lower GINI, they also have
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by chakde 15y ago
Sustainability and environment count for something. Perhaps a lot. Self-reported happiness obviously counts for a lot. GDP does'nt take any of that into account.
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by chakde 15y ago
This is quite true and surprising. A european once mentioned that one problem is too many fat people in the "developed countries". See the distribution of worldwide obesity here - http://wiki.medpedia.com/Image:World_map_of_Male_Obesity,_
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by chakde 15y ago
Well props to you for truthfulness. I don't think anyone is rubbishing the PM personally. I was reading the Progress Principle today. It makes the point that setbacks have an outsized influence on one's mental makeup - much more than progre
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by chakde 15y ago
I'm sorry but you sound very presumptuous - you could'nt bring yourself to stay a single day in situations where people have stayed their lifetime - or clean the toilet yourself - and you presume to dictate what is best for them ? About the
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by chakde 15y ago
What he is actually saying is that people are supporting Anna without necessarily understanding the reasons why - then he proceeds to lay down the reasons how we got to this situation after 43 years of the bill and the recent increase in pu
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by chakde 15y ago
Have you seen this or not ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CHcKlIsvAQ It is not adding another layer, it is refactoring the system based on good evidence that this has worked before. People talking about real cause and root cause are wel
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by chakde 15y ago
Corruption exists for historical reasons and because the Govt has not had the spine to go after pilfered assets and corrupt officials as it was perceived as too big a problem. Similar problem existed in Hong Kong and was solved using simila
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by chakde 15y ago
25% is about right for indian gdp around mughal period. http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/08/history-of-world-gdp/ these early wins were against muslim rulers who did not have that much support of their majority populace because of taxa
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by chakde 15y ago
The greatest good for the smallest number ?
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by chakde 15y ago
Re: most benevolent structure ever to have existed here's a reference on internal tariffs from R.C.Dutt since it is very hard to locate online. "The transit duties became more oppressive under the British Rule than they had been under the
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by chakde 15y ago
None at all. But the whole fascination with idol and temple breaking which Indians can't fathom about Islam turns out to have its origins in the Judaic story of the golden calf.
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by chakde 15y ago
It's not the discovery of america, it's the fact that India was actively deindustrialized by the British railways which had a negative feedback loop on Indian industry, whereas in America the railways had a positive feedback loop in manufac
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by chakde 15y ago
1. yes it's not the sole cause. the bigger cause perhaps was the discovery of the americas - an entire continent almost the size of asia lying undiscovered right next to the europeans for 15000 years since the last ice age, until Islam's ki
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by chakde 15y ago
While it is true that India tolerated a variety of cultural norms amongst its many people before the British, practices like those you mention were fringe practices and by no means mainstream. It was Indian reformers like Ram Mohan Roy who
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by chakde 15y ago
A few points 1. There is a much bigger correlation with India than you suppose. You can a. build universities and schools to train people b. create favorable tax and corporate structures to foster industry c. capture markets to make a an
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by chakde 15y ago
There are entire generations of british historians since WW2 dedicated to the PR propaganda of how good the british were for the colonies and until very recently the western opinion has been entirely shaped by this propaganda - almost any b
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by chakde 15y ago
Answer: Probabaly higher than yours because only only low class people ask crass questions. Here's the book to actually understand India:- "Late victorian holocausts and the making of the third world". http://www.amazon.com/Late-Victorian