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by aatharuv 4y ago
Yup, google translate only talks about Ukraine's position on the Russian-occupied Kuril Islands.
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by aatharuv 4y ago
That's interesting. The decoding of Linear Elamite _may_ help in the decipherment of the Indus Valley Script. One of the theories behind the Indus Valley Civilization, is that they spoke a Dravidian language, related to modern southern
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by aatharuv 4y ago
Agriculture is required. We gotta eat food. Having big lawns with water guzzling lawns isn't needed. Of course, we need incentives for efficient use of water by ag too.
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by aatharuv 4y ago
Oh, I didn't notice the "we" there. Thanks for the info!
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by aatharuv 4y ago
I believe that Harlan Ellison's "A Boy and His Dog" was also a major influence behind it.
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by aatharuv 4y ago
For obviously fake characters, a Unicode proposal for the Egyptian Hieroglyphics Extended-A block managed to include a hieroglyph for an ancient Egyptian holding a laptop. (Note that this is a proposal, and has not yet made it into the stan
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by aatharuv 4y ago
Things might be different because of Elon Musk's announced acquisition attempt of Twitter.
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by aatharuv 4y ago
Your brick and mortar and online savings accounts are your savings account up to the maximum insurable amount. Your company stock is an investment that is part of your compensation. Your retirement account has (mostly) investments, at least
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by aatharuv 4y ago
Agreed. Depending on how Twitter does things, if the employees got RSU's, taxes due (federal, state, etc.) got correctly deducted on vesting. Unless people deliberately reduced their tax deducted from their RSU's (which may not be
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by aatharuv 4y ago
The humorous part of this is from 1991. https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html
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by aatharuv 4y ago
Here in the US, I can go to many grocery stores, and have my choice of kefir. As an actual Hindu who has lived in a Muslim majority Middle Eastern country, I'm not the tiniest bit offended, because a fermented yogurt drink happens to h
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by aatharuv 4y ago
The original link, https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/06/21/crypto-regulation-ust-l... doesn't work. This link does https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/06/21/crypto-regulation-ust-
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by aatharuv 4y ago
My car made by Toyota never had to go to the shop for anything serious for several years. Sure, I needed to get tires replaced multiple times, but internals took 7-8 years, and I finally sold it off at the 12 year mark, after having replace
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by aatharuv 4y ago
Your employees have deliverables. Maybe they're customer facing. Maybe they're not directly customer facing. But the incentive structure may prioritize getting their deliverables done over doing patching at least in the short term
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by aatharuv 4y ago
I wonder what the net carbon impact of this is. Use of _reclaimed_ Carbon Dioxide, that could allow for trains to not do a start/stop which uses large amounts of fuel (or even just electricity that might have been generated using fuel)
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by aatharuv 4y ago
What I wonder is the breakdown of sources. Solar? Hydro electric? (I wonder if roof top solar is included here). Also, note this was over a very short period of time. And there's still night time, when solar doesn't operate, excep
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by aatharuv 5y ago
The page states pretty much the opposite. If you read the link, they state how, amongst other things: Good SAT scores can help find students from poorer high schools who didn't have the opportunity to take as many advanced classes in h
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by aatharuv 5y ago
Maybe we need more "Speakings", as described by Orson Scott Card in his book, "Speaker for the Dead". In that book, a Speaker for the Dead would speak all the truth about the deceased, good and bad, warts and all.
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by aatharuv 5y ago
Yup, See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system In Indian English, for large numbers, especially in financial contexts, lakh (100,000), Crore (10 million) are generally used, often multiplicatively (e.g
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by aatharuv 5y ago
One comment -- in India, there is theoretically the concept of the "creamy layer", sufficiently rich individuals cannot benefit from reservations, though in practice I don't know how well that is implemented. Another thing is
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by aatharuv 5y ago
Sanctions can certainly cause inflation. They just cause less inflation if the government (Iraqi Kurdistan) isn't printing any more paper, or more inflation if the government (the rest of Iraq) decided to print its way out of debts. An
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by aatharuv 5y ago
This is the exact same thing that happened in Iraq after the first Gulf War back in 1991. The northern part of the country, defacto-ruled by the Kurds had their own version of the Iraqi dinar, known as the Swiss dinar, as it had been printe
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by aatharuv 5y ago
Any chance this is at least partially deliberate? If more people were to use GNU Radio, the manufacturers of said hardware would get sued until they were forced to lock down their hardware.
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by aatharuv 5y ago
I wonder how these social media posts were being uploaded due to a loss of internet connectivity. Satellite internet, or has internet been restored already?
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by aatharuv 5y ago
For context of non-Indians and Indians: Sanskrit is used to refer to several different languages. It's often ambiguous which one people are referring to when they say Sanskrit. Classical Sanskrit is the only one which wasn't spoke
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by aatharuv 5y ago
So short summary: This paper from the 1980's, by a researcher then associated with NASA Ames Research Center basically states that the Sanskrit linguistical and grammatical traditions had mechanisms for describing words and their relat
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by aatharuv 5y ago
Not speaking English, doesn't imply they don't understand English words or phrases that have gotten into what languages they do speak.
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by aatharuv 5y ago
It would hardly be goodwill -- this would be compensation for emitting enough carbon to cause their country to be drowned.
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by aatharuv 5y ago
See also, Mobile vendors change the gun emoji to a picture of a squirt gun. Are you sending someone a death threat or telling them to cool off with a super soaker? https://www.inverse.com/article/44132-google-gun-emoji-
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by aatharuv 5y ago
They adopt. There are plenty of children in the foster care system or orphanages depending on the country whose lives would be greatly improved if they lived with parents regardless of the combinations of genitals or gender identity of thos

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