Arun2009

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by Arun2009 17y ago
> If you chose to work against poverty in India, what would you do? :-) See, my version of your question is: What would Gandhi (or Nehru, Bose, Azad, Bhagat, Savarkar, et. al.) do? I don't have an answer to that right now , I am afraid
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> Therefore I can't blame people, if they don't know any better. This sounds to me as patronizing. I refuse to think that Cameroonians "don't know any better". I was not really speaking for Cameroon anyway. My main target was India, whe
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I think the first step in overcoming poverty is for all of us to propagate a value system where citizens are held responsible for their countries. For example, if India is poor and backward, then I am responsible for contributing to its pov
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Possibly related: Impostor Syndrome http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
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Basics of the Unix Philosophy(faqs.org)
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In Praise of the Purple Cow(fastcompany.com)
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by Arun2009 17y ago
> But there is a social stigma at play here, my parents never know what to tell friends and family about what their son is doing LOL, I can totally relate to this! About 6 months ago I walked away from a fairly cushy job to try striking
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by Arun2009 17y ago
Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, you're free at last!
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by Arun2009 17y ago
You might enjoy this site then: http://foolsworkshop.com/reviews/ Also, a lot of stuff here: http://www.columbia.edu/~nvg1/Wickelgren/ But what may have influenced my life the most is this book: http://www.amazon.com/Your-Memory-How-Wo
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> What leverage does Google have? Consider that Google owns about 65% of the search market worldwide ( http://www.businessinsider.com/bing-who-google-worldwide-sea... ). In addition, they enjoy a tremendous amount of goodwill - they are
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by Arun2009 17y ago
> It's not that they can't--it's that they don't have the time in their lives to devote to practicing it. There is also the fact that most of us don't know how to learn efficiently . For example, how many of us really know the current
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by Arun2009 17y ago
IMHO, this is like saying, "I am not really beautiful. It's just that my face and features are symmetric and they just happen to confirm to traditional norms of attractiveness". A lot of what we take to be talent is "hard" work, except th
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The Grammar of Science(en.wikipedia.org)
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In 2040, the Chinese economy will reach $123 trillion.(foreignpolicy.com)
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Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don't Go(chronicle.com)
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Congrats! About time too! They're nearly 1/6th of mankind. It's just amazing how such a large number of people can pull themselves out of the most wretched kind of poverty. Indias and Africas of the world should take note.
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Upper Mismanagement(tnr.com)
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How to be funny(rinkworks.com)
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by Arun2009 17y ago
I too am reading up on Buddhism, primarily the works of Bhante Henepola Gunaratna. However, I think it's natural to think about the past and worry about the future. The key IMO is to do these productively , and not go about thinking or wor
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Tetrapharmakos - Epicurus's remedy for leading the happiest possible life.(en.wikipedia.org)
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Haven't you ever had wordless thoughts? I often find that wordless thoughts are much more efficient to work with mentally than wordy ones. When you need to communicate, or the thought is intricate or important enough to require a deliberate
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by Arun2009 17y ago
It's a neat idea, but a bit more awareness about grammar would have been nice. I tried, "Mathematics requires hard work" and it gave me, "Mathematics --(requires hard)-> work". Edit: Ah, I see that items can be grouped together using qu
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Schopenhauer - On thinking for oneself(ebooks.adelaide.edu.au)
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How Meditation Improves Attention(spring.org.uk)
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A successful academic faces lifelong debt(chronicle.com)
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The dude is not nearly as brilliant as he thinks he is. I've seen better.
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(Commenting here since the text doesn't seem to appear with the URL) I am a Hindu (but an atheist). I was reading a bit too much Vedanta recently and thought it might be interesting to give an atheistic twist to the idea of Krishna. People
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What kind of a thing is Krishna?(slideshare.net)
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Ask HN: What is the nature of deafblind people's and animals' thoughts?
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Reminded me a little of Diogenes ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_of_Sinope ). As Buddha said, suffering ends when our craving for material things ends. We don't have to be as extremely hardcore as the dude above, but following this

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