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by sachdevap 5y ago
Is having an abusive family grown up a real lifelong challenge? Is having poor brain chemistry leading you to making decisions you don't "want" to make a real enough challenge? Is crippling anxiety that prevents you from doin
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by sachdevap 5y ago
The 40% in a vacuum does not really complete the picture for me. Is it possible to get the same book at a lower price somewhere else? If it were the case why would there not be other retailers undercutting Amazon? Maybe I am missing some mo
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by sachdevap 5y ago
Sugar is not fundamentally toxic. This is a very poor conclusion to draw, and even more so when, as someone else suggested, expanding this to all carbs. Glucose is used in IV drips, and in emergency conditions, providing someone with glucos
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by sachdevap 5y ago
Can someone please guide me on how to check this leak to verify if my info was leaked?
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by sachdevap 5y ago
But parent is not talking about calling out people for having social media accounts. He/She is talking about those having a social media account judging those not having one as paranoid. You've just propped up a straw man here wit
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by sachdevap 6y ago
One amazing use of symbolic integration: https://github.com/johnbcoughlin/calctex Create latex equations in calc! :D
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by sachdevap 6y ago
I have not looked at the underlying study, but that article definitely does a terrible job of being clear on the caveats of the study. E.g. this nugget was left for the last paragraph of the article: "Our exercise intervention was a si
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by sachdevap 6y ago
You're very right. I am guilty of not being familiar with Middle-Eastern contributions to Science, although I am familiar with extensive mathematics contributions. I'll look through this. Thank you!
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by sachdevap 6y ago
Thanks for the sources. I'll be sure to go through them. I am quite familiar with how Western history tends to misrepresent contributions of the East. It is rather unfortunate, and certainly extends beyond the realm of science.
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by sachdevap 6y ago
This article really short-sells Sushruta: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushruta The Sushruta-Samhita covers hernia surgery, C-sections, prostrate removal ... a huge range of topics.
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by sachdevap 6y ago
FYI, typo: you wrote "insulation" instead of "insulin".
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by sachdevap 6y ago
FYI, that is the wife/doctor's account you replied to.
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by sachdevap 6y ago
I asked straightforward questions. I wasn't aggressive in what I said. I did call him out on his self-professed disappointment with the state of affairs which seems to be blaming the tech talent out of India for not working on solving
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by sachdevap 6y ago
Is someone else supposed to work on solving the local issues while you personally reap the rewards of working in the tech domain? Is your work pushing against the status quo of any of these fundamentals you talk about?
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by sachdevap 6y ago
This is a big myth. Wealthy people are not going to just get up and leave America. Where do you think they would go?
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by sachdevap 6y ago
And how many steps is your reasoning removed from "Taxation is thievery"?
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by sachdevap 6y ago
If there are large spreadsheets documenting this, I would be interested in seeing some sources on this. Could you please provide some?
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by sachdevap 6y ago
Says who? If history is any proof, I highly doubt this will happen.
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by sachdevap 6y ago
I am running Emacs on macOS, and it only takes 43 MB barebones, and my regular setup takes about 81 MB. Both opening the same org-mode file. Point being that it really depends on what you choose to run on Emacs, and it does not have to be a
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by sachdevap 6y ago
>>What makes you say that? I don't think this is true. >the same thing that probably made you say this : >>I can't imagine greybeards programming in rust. Guilty. I clearly had a blind spot there.
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by sachdevap 6y ago
Guilty. I clearly had a blind spot there.
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by sachdevap 6y ago
> I should also add that Elisp is an absolutely terrible programming language when compared to more modern alternatives. This is a commonly seen complaint, and I do not completely disagree with you. But really, if there were better optio
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by sachdevap 6y ago
magit is just superb. You are bound to love it! And the developer is extremely responsive too!
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by sachdevap 6y ago
> I guess most of the core emacs devs are greybeards who started programming in the 80s or earlier, so what happens when they grow too old? Who will replace them? What makes you say that? I don't think this is true. Not among the pa
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by sachdevap 6y ago
Is revenue per employee some sort of standard measure in the industry?
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by sachdevap 6y ago
I don't think employment insurance concerns him. He has earned way too much money for that to be a problem.
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by sachdevap 6y ago
Location: Vancouver, BC Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: 3D simulation, computer animation, numerical simulation, optimization, biomechanics, VR. Languages: C++, Python Degrees: PhD in Computer Science (Focu
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by sachdevap 6y ago
Not a state that can sway Republican, unlike Florida. [0] [0] https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/4/3/21206170/us-emergency-st...
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by sachdevap 6y ago
More like some states only, like Florida. The Governor of Florida, if I might point out, had been declining calling for a lockdown/quarantine well into need, but Florida still has a much less sever case than NY, which has been asking f
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by sachdevap 6y ago
I guess it is meant to be used by federal agencies where they "feel it's needed" for better chance of re-election, yes? Case in point, Florida [0]. [0] https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/4/3/2

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