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by reactspa 4y ago
I won't read it because caste is a trauma-inducing subject to me. I'll just leave my comment here so that the truth is available for anyone who cares. I'm a member of the so-called "upper castes", but not a Brahmin.
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by reactspa 4y ago
Thanks.
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by reactspa 4y ago
The article mentioned what to do during the "inhale" but didn't mention "exhale", so I wasn't sure if one still does the restricted breathing during exhale or not.
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by reactspa 4y ago
The article mentions that the device is used during the inhale. Doesn't clarify if it's also used during the exhale or not. (I just rolled-up my fist and breathed through it. And it provided lots of resistance. So it looks like I
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by reactspa 4y ago
Can someone please clarify for me what is the implication if Covid is airborne? Does it mean that masks and social distancing were actually useful? Or the opposite?
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by reactspa 4y ago
It's one of the most financially *exclusionary* concepts ever created. There's a territory. There was digital land-grab on this territory. A tiny number of people bought all the available digital-land. Now everybody else needs to
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by reactspa 4y ago
An unexpected thing I learned in a recent dive into learning how to make Tamales: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixtamalization This complicated process of preparing maize makes more nutrients bioavailable. The Aztecs
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by reactspa 4y ago
As a home-cook trying to create Indian dishes, it's always intrigued me that internet recipes call for yeast to make "naan" (leavened flat bread), but road side cooks in India can make amazing naan without any yeast (yeast is
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by reactspa 4y ago
Clarification needed please: What's "FCC"? Thanks.
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by reactspa 5y ago
Two questions if you'd oblige me: 1) Are the 2nd and 3rd layers free or do they cost? 2) Do you know the official nomenclature of these layer products so that I can google how to implement them? Thank you.
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by reactspa 5y ago
There is no alternative to Plaintext for me. That said, I have 2 long term issues: 1. I've never quite found a satisfactory bulleting / indenting experience with plaintext. Markdown helps, and isn't bad. But I'm still lo
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by reactspa 5y ago
Coming soon to India: "PM Modi urges farmers to go organic, says 'use cow dung, cow urine instead of chemical fertilisers'" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckVhz7gWLd0 That wonderful Indian cure-all: cow
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by reactspa 5y ago
> ruble halving in value in the space of a month Could you please clarify if this has a meaning other than the mathematical meaning? The ruble was 0.013 USD on Feb 7, and is 0.010 on Mar 8. Per my math, it has lost 23% of its value, not
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Ask HN: What's the significance that Senators used Zoom and not an American tech
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by reactspa 5y ago
Is this a case of P != NP?
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by reactspa 5y ago
Sometime back it turned out that Japan didn't actually have the number of centenarians as it claimed. Turned out that people died, and their relatives didn't report it so they could keep collecting government checks.[1] I wonder i
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by reactspa 5y ago
A lot of upper caste indians will tell you there's no caste system any more. I'm an upper caste indian and here's my experience looking for an apartment to rent in Chennai, India, in around the year 2000. I was repeatedly ask
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by reactspa 5y ago
Ah, you are right about "2". Thank you. "1" is debatable (it was US-backed).
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by reactspa 5y ago
In Thinking Fast and Slow, Kahneman describes a mental math exercise [1] which can turn on System 2. I love using it to warm up my brain sometimes. If anyone can share links to mental math resources that can be used instrumentally to improv
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by reactspa 5y ago
I wish each language, framework and library had a manual on HOW to read their docs. I have a very hard time with reading the official PHP docs. Very hard time. The official JavaScript docs are not bad, but they throw too much information ab
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by reactspa 5y ago
"Diplomacy": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion
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by reactspa 5y ago
Exactly. Why should we believe this Yuri guy? He'll say anything to excite the TV show's audience. Serious questions to anti-Putin Americans: if Mexico developed a cozy relationship with China and Russia, and, as a sovereign natio
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by reactspa 5y ago
> just experiening that someone was able to trigger this kind of focus in me, on a dreaded task, on demand, had a profound effect in me to go try it again Thanks. You realized what you're capable of.
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by reactspa 5y ago
What did you do different to get the 2.5 hours of uninterrupted work done?
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by reactspa 5y ago
I want to learn how to do Stick Figures. Sort of like the xkcd. Would "Making Comics" help with that? If not, if anyone has any resources for stick figures, please mention them in a reply to this post.
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by reactspa 5y ago
Thanks!
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by reactspa 5y ago
> 11/18: Complete beginner (A0) excluding basics like “hello, do you speak English?” OP: please clarify what the above means. When you say you did "A0", I'm presuming it's a level in the French proficiency measur
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by reactspa 5y ago
The Tanis site is one of the most interesting fossil sites in the world. It contains evidence of the Chicxulub impact (K-T boundary [now called K/Pg boundary], end of the dinosaurs) from 65 million years ago. It contains fossils believ
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by reactspa 5y ago
Would like to learn more details about your tech stack if you are willing to share. Especially about the internet connection speed.
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by reactspa 5y ago
When Dropbox updates itself, my work machine slows to a crawl for about 15 minutes.

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