throw13579

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by throw13579 5y ago
they could have won the war in 2 years instead of losing the war in 20. all they had to do was target the taliban leadership in pakistan instead of their foot soldiers in the vast mountains of afghanistan.
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by throw13579 5y ago
This. I think the best way for you to ensure funding is to have revenue traction. One thing that trumps ageism (and all --isms) is greed. If you show revenue growth and traction, these greedy VCs will swallow all their rhetoric and blog pos
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by throw13579 5y ago
The Hindu mathematicians Baudhāyana certainly discovered the theorem before Pythagoras [1] and Bhāskarāchārya independenly proved the theorem [2] (though the latter seems it was after Pythagoras). It is also possible to discover mathematica
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by throw13579 5y ago
Agreed with ummonk. This is not a pre-colonial issue. This is an issue of colonial-era politics. The dating of many Indian texts was performed by European indologists who were funded by then-colonial governments in a then-colonized India wi
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by throw13579 5y ago
Here's some evidence: "The Baudhāyana Sulba Sūtra states the rule referred to today in most of the world as the Pythagorean Theorem." "The Baudhāyana sūtras are a group of Vedic Sanskrit texts which cover dharma, daily r
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by throw13579 5y ago
A lot of math theorems might have been stolen / 'appropriated' from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala_school_of_astronomy_and...
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by throw13579 5y ago
Colonized Indians need to take control of their history like the Chinese did. Otherwise the appropriators will continue to have a field day.
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by throw13579 5y ago
True. HN isn't the right place for this flame war.
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by throw13579 5y ago
'Indian' is the same as 'Bharatiya'[1], which is as old as human civilization gets. And I agree with OP that Sanskrit should be revived in India like the Jews did for Hebrew in Israel. [1] https://en.wikipedia
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by throw13579 5y ago
you're just upset because the LTTE terrorist organization was wiped out.
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by throw13579 5y ago
exactly. HN threads about india tend to take a warped eurocentric view. which makes sense.