drieddust

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by drieddust 4y ago
To be fair if responding to nationalist and religious comments is considered flamewar, then I do not care that you have banned my account.
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by drieddust 4y ago
If that's your measuring stick then Adolf should get the credit for creating the right condition. European colonial power would have never left if they hadn't got into war of attrition with Hitlar. British left their biggest colon
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by drieddust 4y ago
She and her family is responsible for a lot of atrocities around the world. Yet a lot of people here are eulogizing as if she was a saint who taught art of living to the people. To me this is a demonstration of power of conditioning and med
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by drieddust 4y ago
Two old yet alive Indian languages Sanskrit and Tamil have hymns even older. I wonder why Sanskrit and it's rich collection of hymns completely gets ignored. Nasadiya Suktam[0] from RigVeda[1] ponders the questions of our origins in sw
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by drieddust 4y ago
> India as a whole didn't even exist back then... Vishnu Puran composed circa 400 BCE to 900 CE says. उत्तरं यत् समुद्रस्य हिमाद्रेश्चैव दक्षिणम् | वर्षं तद् भारतं नाम भारती यत्र सन्ततिः || Land that lies north to the sea and
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by drieddust 4y ago
Thanks, but that's such a narrow definition of the concept. Shukla Yajurveda[0] conservatively estimated to be written in 1200- 800 BCE period in 17.2.20 constructs powers of 10 upto a billion by names by adding shunya successively to
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by drieddust 4y ago
Isha Upnishad[0] was written in 1st half of 1st millennium BCE as per the conservative estimates. Its Shanti Mantra(wishing peace to all living beings) of says: ॐ पूर्णमदः पूर्णमिदं पूर्णात्पूर्णमुदच्यते । पूर्णस्य पूर्णमादाय पूर्णमेवावशिष्
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by drieddust 4y ago
IMHO idiomatic defensive coding is very hard.
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by drieddust 4y ago
> It is also true that in many countries, covering populations much larger than that of the United States, hemp production was never made illegal and continued unabated ... Only India and China are more populous than USA and it's il
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by drieddust 4y ago
Bill Gates mother having a seat on IBM's board was not a factor in IBM giving him such a sweet deal?
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by drieddust 4y ago
> No, I don't have any example of any king in Europe... Kalinga deaths are recorded to be 150000. I will suggest reading about the crusades and others religious wars to find how many were killed. Please also read about how Bible was
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by drieddust 4y ago
After Kalinga war Ashoka renounced voilence as per the teaching of Buddhism. Do you have a parallel example from Abrahmic kings? Having said that every civilization have had destructive infights. People fought for money, power,fame etc. But
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by drieddust 4y ago
Yep ancient civilizations have thought about these concepts for a long time. Some got destroyed by floods, some by famine, but horrific destruction have happened when Abrahmic religions came on the scene with "holier than thou" p
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by drieddust 4y ago
Hindus were thinking about time ranging from nano seconds to billions of years[0]. As far lost knowledge is concerned Indian civilization have faced numerous attacks especially on its knowledge system and wealth. During one such attack Nala
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by drieddust 4y ago
Hindus imagined this thousand of years ago. Uncountable universes(multiverse) are born when Supreme consciousness Vishnu breathes out. Inside each universe God Bharma is born with the responsibly of managing the affair. Brahma lives for his
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by drieddust 4y ago
I think ancient people have gone through same struggles and came up with similar answers and they also exchanged ideas. > enamored by the results of your action Bhagwad Gita is poetry and philosophy but it also reasons from the first pri
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by drieddust 4y ago
Unattached action is the central message of epic Hindu text Bhagwad Gita.Two shlokas (verses) I find extremely comforting are [2.47] and [3.5]. Verse [2.47] says: 1) Only rightful action is in your control. 2) Fruits of your action is never
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by drieddust 4y ago
> Here’s a story from the early days of Amazon Web Services: Before writing any code, engineers spent 18 months contemplating and writing documents on how best to serve the customer. Amazon believes this is the fastest way to work—thinki
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by drieddust 4y ago
That also depends upon the fact that how much of that $500 billion was the upfront investment made and how much was actually due to pure speculative pricing. Isn't it more like wheat produced at a cost of $100 was selling at $500. But
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by drieddust 4y ago
Nopes move fast and break things. Only issue is that Earth is not a software system which can be fixed with upgrades.
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by drieddust 4y ago
Exactly just a few decades ago CFC was a non issue, Lead caused no harm, smoking was good for health, and cocaine was a refreshing drink. Yet here we are again so full of ourselves that asking the question is unsettling.
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by drieddust 4y ago
That interesting, I have a question though. How do you come up with memory places distinct enough that you don't confuse them?
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by drieddust 4y ago
Thanks for investing so much energy. I regret to be the source of emotional conflict. :)
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by drieddust 4y ago
I will get down voted for saying it. But Newton most likely didn't invent Calculus. Circumstantial evidence suggest that Kerala School of mathematics passed the knowledge to the Jesuit missionaries who in turn might have passed it on t
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by drieddust 4y ago
While I want to execute the idea I am always put off by the essential administrative stuff such as user management, payment gateway linking, subscription management. Are there any open source plug and play options available out there which
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by drieddust 4y ago
So they might be paying 2x-3x. Does that justify professional player analogy?
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by drieddust 4y ago
Professional players gets paid millions for a few years and then ends up into retirement. For analogy to work Netfix should pay that well. Seems they were bonkers from the start. Why they thought competition will not catch up with them? Wha
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by drieddust 4y ago
Absolutely meditation is just one part of 8 part Hindu Yoga system objective of which is to be one with the ultimate reality and live a good life no matter what. Person grown with strong Abrahmic values with find it confusing any strange. A
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by drieddust 4y ago
India have this very well figured out with its Universal Payment Inferface (UPI)[1]. Payment of any amount small or big is possible online as well as offline. I use the same interface to transfer 100k+ to my trading account and also to buy

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