rajekas

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by rajekas 3y ago
Not about this book in particular, but I wanted to thank you for creating this amazing resource. As someone who obsessively bought every MIR title he could while growing up in Delhi, do take a bow.
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by rajekas 4y ago
I am a fan. Been using it for several months now and it’s my default reading location and I read a lot. Reading is essential to my life and work and I have been looking for a solution that solves all my information consumption problems. Rea
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by rajekas 5y ago
I agree with the thrust of this article, especially this line: "For a long time I felt somewhat unique in this regard, but COVID has made my longstanding reality the norm for many more people. Their physical world is defined by their f
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by rajekas 5y ago
Z-Y is a fantastic book, especially if you have a decent math education already. Soviet style math and physics education - if done well- teaches you how to think with math, i.e., mathematics as an augmentation of the human intellect in the
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by rajekas 6y ago
The crucial line in the 1914 report was 'the university is, indeed, likely always to exercise a certain form of conservative influence.' Not conservative in the political sense as I read it but in the sense of being slow moving, o
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by rajekas 6y ago
So much subtext about the undeserving poor. Except that it's not even wrong. To give just one example, rates of alcoholism are higher in South India - both in TN and Kerala [1] - where endemic poverty of the Madhya Pradesh kind doesn&#
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by rajekas 6y ago
To be honest, I don't know what it would mean to rehabilitate a twelfth century Archbishop. What kind of saint could he become? Surely not a religious saint when religiosity is declining and sainthood is suspect. Not a secular saint ei
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by rajekas 6y ago
I have used a Bialetti for the last twenty years and will not use anything else to make coffee. Forms meets function meets flavor.
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by rajekas 6y ago
1. He made $250K self publishing a book. That itself is worth writing a post about and such posts are routinely popular on HN. 2. From all appearances, he gave the money away out of generosity rather than the need for recognition. Didn&#x27
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by rajekas 6y ago
A little bit more Googling will tell you that Kirti Ambani, the man accused of ordering the hit, was no relative of Dhirubai, the Godfather. Nusli Wadia, the man he was supposedly getting killed, is the head of an important textile firm him
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by rajekas 6y ago
Makes me think that panspermia isn't so outlandish. 100 million years will get you from star system to star system with plenty of time to spare.
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by rajekas 6y ago
I want to talk about the opposite problem - I routinely get 'personalized' emails from the founder/CTO/VP for awesome sauce/ saying "Hey X, I noticed you were able to turn on the light saber but never signed up
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by rajekas 6y ago
1. Painting a very broad brush, as in half of Eurasian philosophy, check out Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad's 'Eastern Philosophy' [1]. 2. More technical, but a valuable introduction to analytic methods in classical Indian thought
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by rajekas 6y ago
Any article that mentions unbundling, disruption, bubble and tipping point in less then a thousand words deserves mention in the Malcolm Gladwell hall of fame. Here's the opposite argument: universities will eat bootcamps for lunch bec
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by rajekas 6y ago
"What remains uncontested is the product of his meditations, the Samkhya Sutras, which laid the foundation for the earliest “complete” system of philosophy derived from The Vedas. The system’s central axioms would be developed over the
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by rajekas 6y ago
When white people make a mistake they lose their jobs. When black people make a mistake they aren't allowed to breathe. Both are unjust but they are far from morally equivalent.
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by rajekas 6y ago
Wow, small world. I had a brief exchange with you when you were an intern at IISc in the summer of 2006 and came to a talk of mine. At that time you were interested in the cognitive abilities of bacteria, but looks like you took a different
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by rajekas 6y ago
Truly, despicably evil.
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by rajekas 6y ago
The most riveting piece of art criticism I have experienced in a while. Wow, just wow.
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by rajekas 6y ago
Thank you for your generous offer of help. We don't need additional support at this time but I will keep you in mind if new needs come up. Thanks once again.
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by rajekas 6y ago
I'm sad that so many of the top comments here are Notion skeptical. I have loved Notion from the very beginning and used it as a personal repository for a long time. More recently, we used Notion - where 'we' = a group of pro
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by rajekas 6y ago
Kerala in particular and South India more generally has also preserved other Indian knowledge traditions well - Ayurveda comes to mind. But despite my innate Indian nationalism I think the time has come to stop writing articles (or even hav
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by rajekas 7y ago
Simply not true. Vedic Sanskrit is quite different from classical Sanskrit. If you track the meaning of individual terms across texts from different eras - even famous ones like 'Dharma'- you'll notice that Sanskrit words are
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by rajekas 7y ago
From the context it seems clear that "imperial" refers to the Nanda/Maurya empire - seeing as Kapilavastu and more generally, the Terai are at the periphery of the Gangetic plain. Is it accurate to call Pataliputra based regi
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by rajekas 7y ago
I am vegan and in general very aware how mainstream society marginalizes vegan choices, but this strikes me as both frivolous and damaging to the vegan cause more broadly. It's a Burger King for god's sake - what do you expect? If
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by rajekas 7y ago
I grew up in Delhi where every landlord and most of my neighbors were refugees at one point. A good friend's father had a large hole in his forehead from having an axe taken to it during the riots. Unfortunately none of them thought of
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by rajekas 7y ago
Might be good insurance policy to spend $50 million or more and fail to become president - and damage the prospects of anyone from the progressive wing of the Democratic party while doing so- than having Warren or Sanders become president a
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by rajekas 7y ago
Others have pointed out in this thread that greenery may be a reflection of wealth which strikes me as true. I wouldn't discount state power either - in many cities the greenest areas are the ones inhabited by bureaucrats and soldiers.
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by rajekas 7y ago
My dystopian mind thinks it's only a matter of time when a deepfake launches fire and fury across the globe. Imagine the Cuban Missile Crisis with deepfakes. Yes, I know there are layers and layers of safeguards, but....
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by rajekas 7y ago
It wasn't called MIR for sure. People's Publishing House or some variant sounds about right. I am amazed that it's still there - does it occupy a cavernous space in the heart of the circle? Edit: it's quite possible that

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