KrishnaShripad

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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
Thanks! I replied back from my personal address. Just took some extra time to formulate my thoughts. Hope you received it!
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
Yes I agree that Fly's PaaS is more comparable to DO's App Platform and definitely has better price model. However, I don't use DO's App Platform for exactly the same reasons as why I don't use Fly's PaaS. I li
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
Only issue stopping me from using Fly: bandwidth costs. I am spoiled by DigitalOcean's 1TB tier per droplet created (along with bandwidth pooling if you have more droplets).
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
> By the way, would you mind if I wrote you an email? I'm enjoying our conversation, and have some philosophical questions. I didn't want to post my address here, to connect this account with my real-life identity, so I won&#x2
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
Yep. They even have "Harvest Information Standards": https://hisregistries.org/ Documentation on how to collect demographic data: https://hisregistries.org/wp-content/uploads/filebase&#x2
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
> completely irrelevant to the scholars' interpretation which may have been correct in its own way It wasn't correct in the larger context. Which is why this line is important: "Sri Madhva accepted their meaning & adde
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
> To whom are Dharmic religions bleeding followers? Other religions or ireligion? Is conversion happening between the Dharmic religions? Any idea about percentages related to conversions? Mostly to Abrahamic religions. For Christianity a
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
> Please don’t add edits to your comments without marking them after someone has already responded. It is considered poor etiquette. I typically don't expect instant responses in Hacker News. You are responding within minutes of me
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
> Rajiv doesn’t get to decide whether someone is an insider or an outsider Rajiv is not deciding. It is Sanatan Dharma itself deciding. How do I say that? It is because we have a set of rules when it comes to expounding a Philosophy or e
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
> To me the problem seems more that Rajiv Malhotra either doesn't understand what "translation" is supposed to mean, or pretends not to. How? Quote exactly what Rajiv Malhotra said that makes you believe this? > The out
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
> By this logic, you can't even use the word "Aatma" without in every instance defining it down to the nines since you can't be sure at first, even in a context of two Indians talking to each other, that both of them
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
> About the latter ("considered to be one of the earliest universities in the world") and the revival of the university - I recently started reading a book called, The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek and
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
> I know almost nothing about the history of India, so it's been a fun educational journey. As another commenter pointed out, if you want to know the history of India, there is no better scripture than the Mahabharata. Indians learn
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
> About the latter ("considered to be one of the earliest universities in the world") and the revival of the university - I recently started reading a book called, The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek and
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
Dear Dang, Thanks for the clarification. You are right and I'll try to tone it down. > HN has a problem with Indian nationalist flamewars (as it does with other nationalist flamewars), quite vicious ones in fact, and I unfortunately
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
You are right that links to better translations are what I should link to. However, even here, you should be mindful that translations of Dharmic scriptures are tied to Philosophical schools of thought (or Schools of Vedanta). So if you are
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
> User name checks out. :) Joking aside, thank you for the correction. Haha no issues! > I did learn that there's a 19th-century play called Gayopakhyanam, where they almost fight. Yes there are many Sthala Puranas that have thei
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
I'm not even going to argue with Dang as I don't want to get banned over this. I'm used to this bias in all social platforms. It's not new to me. Cancel culture is the norm. If you are a square peg in a round hole you wi
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
Wow yeah it gets way too complex if you want to track the types of properties within the objects too! If that is the case, then I would just prefer to do this instead as it is much simpler: type Value = { a: string } const result = me
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
> Yes, individual English words don’t map 1:1 to individual Sanskrit words That is exactly why words of Sanskrit are "non-translatables". Because not all words map 1:1. Please look up the meaning of "non-translatables&quot
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
No they did not. Just one of many incorrect translations by Western Indologists. Note that I am being very polite in calling it "incorrect translations" as it borders malice. In fact, in the Mahabharata itself, while Lord Krishna
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
That is exactly what I find so inconsistent about the Aryan Invasion Theory. If the Aryans did indeed immigrate from Europe to India, why did Aryans in India invent the Brahmi numerals (which eventually became the Hindu Numeral System, and
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
Sure. You can check the article here with translations of few stanzas from Shatapatha Brahamana: https://indiafacts.org/the-world-of-wendy-donigers-translati... Even the translation by J. Eggeling is not completely accurate
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
There is no conspiracy theory in here. Like let me break apart the topic for the lazy ones. > "FeTNA is a US-based Tamil diaspora organization that finances Tamil chair in Berkeley and acted as a vehicle for ethno-political separati
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
Exactly.
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
Can we get over the love for Western Indologists who have, time and again, deliberately mistranslated our Dharmic scriptures? In particular: Wendy Doniger, Sheldon Pollock and their ilk. An example [1] and the complete talk [2] [1]: https:
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
Because you only want to merge two objects that have keys with string type. "object" is represented as Record<any, any>. That would mean, you can use any type as key. Here is an example: function merge< A extends
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
> And I don't know how to express the correct solution (i.e. where we actually assert that A and B are object types). You can do this: function merge< A extends Record<string, unknown>, B extends Record<strin
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
Should have clarified better in my original post. It is for accompanying video with documentation for my software. For those devs who prefer to watch a video over reading a wall of text (plenty have ADHD who prefer video over text). The pre
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by KrishnaShripad 4y ago
Thanks for your points. Very valid when you are demoing/presenting to a live audience. However, I think I should have clarified in my post that I am not presenting to a live audience. Rather, I just want to use a Presentation software

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