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by reactspa 5y ago
An alternative viewpoint from someone who has long experience with the rampant fraud in every level of Indian society. Nobody remembers it because it didn't exist. It may have been ordered by the British. And the contractors probably b
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BMI is a deeply flawed measure. It caters to a very specific body-type. Highly muscular people are usually classified as "obese" according to BMI. That such a deeply flawed measure achieved mainstream acceptance is quite the achie
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by reactspa 5y ago
Anki is great... however: ... having used it for the last 4 years to try to memorize vocabulary in certain languages (Spanish & French, recently started Chinese), I think it's a base layer ... (much like how Bitcoiners like to tal
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I'd be willing to bet that there's also tons of actual illegal stuff going to and fro in those mango boxes.
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by reactspa 5y ago
It's instructive that it took Senators from MN, TN and CT to bring this forward. Nobody from CA.
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by reactspa 5y ago
This article actually explains certain aspects of Crypto way better than actual articles that try to explain Crypto. E.g., I've been wondering why a certain Bitcoin podcaster, who is very popular, has never mined a Bitcoin. He/she
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by reactspa 5y ago
The whole article reads like a propaganda piece. The first para throws shade on the Russian vaccine because someone who took it tested positive later. As if this doesn't happen with USA's vaccines. Later, we encounter western-jour
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by reactspa 5y ago
The 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel (a well regarded channel that publishes visualizations of various mathematical and other processes) also uses Python to programmatically generate the videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel&#x
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by reactspa 5y ago
I like that my Xiaomi Max 2 from 2017 has a 3.5mm jack, can take an SD card, AND has an infrared port (and so works as a remote for my TV and DVD player). Xiaomi, if you're listening, please continue to make at least one line of phone
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Thanks -- good distillation of Taleb.
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Emails cost money to send. The money goes towards some good cause (maybe even towards internet infrastructure).
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>gave me a heuristic for thinking about long-tails and uncertain events If it's possible to summarize and share the heuristic in this forum format, I request you to please do. Am always learning from Taleb's books and ideas.
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by reactspa 5y ago
This is not new. It's been around for a while. E.g.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw5t6BTQYRU
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by reactspa 5y ago
It seems to be a chicken and egg situation. Enterprise software seems to be software that users can be forced to use (vs. software that they use if they like it). If users can be forced to use it, the creators don't need to optimize on
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by reactspa 5y ago
Just my 0.02: True, Microsoft has always had extensive documentation. However, during the Ballmer era, there was tremendous version confusion. It was no longer clear which version of software a lot of documentation referred to. I've no
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by reactspa 5y ago
In Hindi, the word "booti" means medicinal plant (seems similar to "botica" here).
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by reactspa 5y ago
I had never heard of the Chinese Exclusion Act until I read this piece. And I've lived in the US for over 20 years. Shocking trip down the Wiki entries. Thank you to the author.
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I can't think of a better thing the govt can do for the country's youth than to ban TikTok and it's similars.
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by reactspa 5y ago
Many urban Indians have no idea how bad the caste situation is. I'm a Northerner of a so-called upper caste (but not a Brahmin). I had to move to Chennai (a Southern city) for a year. I was shocked when apartment-hunting there. At ever
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by reactspa 5y ago
Western mainstream media loves it when Twitter censors conservatives, even the president of the USA. But Western mainstream media doesn't like it when a third world govt tries to suppress fake narratives that could lead to unmanageable
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by reactspa 5y ago
Recently there was news about India's push to incentivize chip-fab makers to start chip-production in India. I thought the threat to Taiwan (from China) was driving that. But buried in the news was that Tata was going to build a chip-f
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A possible confounding factor: - it may be that not the availability of these specific foods, but the easy availability of food that makes the mice stupider. Mental acuity, I'd imagine, is related to one's need to find food in res
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by reactspa 5y ago
I like consistency. For consistency's sake, the western media should prefix islamic-nationalist political parties around the world (that would be most political parties in all islamic countries) with "islamic-nationalist". Bu
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The evidence contradicts you. When PPP was in power, it never tried to re-designate Pakistan from an islamic-state to a secular state.
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Every single political party in Pakistan is an islamic-nationalist party. Yet the Western media never describes them so. Yet the BJP is always suffixed with "hindu-nationalist". Israel has preferential citizenship for Jews. Yet, s
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I work in a sensitive field, and was looking for alternative terminology. This article offers good ones for: > blacklist -> blocklist > master -> primary > slave -> secondary It doesn't offer anything for > whiteli
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I lived through multiple Congress governments. Elites (politicians, judges, friendly journalists, friendly businesspeople) may have experienced freedom and democracy. The rest of the country was very oppressed. I was in the latter group. Me
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Even if it were computer code, I think the Majority argued that use of 0.4 percent of the code can be considered Fair Use. In films, textbooks, etc., I think (though I'm not certain) there's precedent that up to 5% of the product
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It is fascinating that code is now being measured quantitatively. Number of "lines of code".
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by reactspa 5y ago
file under: feature, not bug.

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