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by aatharuv 5y ago
That was just for sale a few days back on the Kindle store (at least in the US). Not sure if it still is.
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by aatharuv 5y ago
Customers do pay more for organic food and non-GMO food that's certified.
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by aatharuv 5y ago
The name India literally derives from the Sindhu river (aka the Indus river), which became Hindu in Persian (S->H is a common sound correspondence between Sanskrit and Persian), and dropped the initial H when getting into Greek. It was a
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by aatharuv 5y ago
India has been used in the English language for over 1,000 years, and in Latin and before that Greek for at least 1,500 years before that, along with Indian and its equivalents in other languages. This was of course well before anyone used
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by aatharuv 5y ago
Hong Kong and Taiwan were explicitly excluded from the banned countries and political units.
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by aatharuv 5y ago
Yoga (Sanskrit) and yoke (English). Yoga literally means union and is derived from a prefix yuj meaning to attach, join, harness, yoke.
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by aatharuv 5y ago
Thanks. I was wondering why the sidewalk didn't show up on my Alexa app (I have an unsupported device, luckily.)
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by aatharuv 5y ago
That is a very recent change, post the Trump tax changes, which removed most of the impact of the AMT. Interesting to see the current numbers. But even before then, the AMT disproportionately affected California taxpayers.
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by aatharuv 5y ago
Andrew Boni doesn't sound like an East Asian name to many people, though it certainly could be. A quick google search indicates he also looks less East Asian than Justin Zhu. Edit: Since someone seemed to be irritated with my comment e
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by aatharuv 5y ago
The Alternate Minimum Tax was only supposed to affect less than 100 millionaires in the 1960's who were paying no taxes. Now, it is impacting 20+% of California tax payers most of whom earn under a million dollars a year and many of wh
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by aatharuv 5y ago
So I presume this is an attempt to create a new GNU/FSF grouping without RMS and his supporters?
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by aatharuv 6y ago
Most of their (30'ish) stores were in California, but they had a number of stores in Texas and the Western states. The SF Bay area had a few locations including Fremont, Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, and San Jose.
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by aatharuv 6y ago
I can beat that. A couple of years ago, I'd asked where their UPS's were (I'd bought one from a Best Buy more than 10 years back so I knew they had stocked them) and they told me there was a Fedex near by.
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by aatharuv 6y ago
People are driving far less in general, and I suspect fewer people are road tripping , so range anxiety, and rechargeability becomes less of a problem for those who need to buy a new car. But there are also more people replacing plane with
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by aatharuv 6y ago
The only time I ever interacted with ESR on fetchmail, I reported a bug for an issue I ran into (with Kerberos 4 IMAP), submitted a patch, and it was accepted without discussion in the next release. Admittedly, this was 19 years ago, and it
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by aatharuv 6y ago
> When Reed began farming in 2005, he paid $120,000 for his first new tractor, but fast-forward to 2020, and the equivalent tractor’s price tag now reads a heftier $350,000. The big question is why have tractor's tripled in price in
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by aatharuv 6y ago
2nd gen Indian American here. I've been working in Silicon Valley since 2004, and have never been quizzed about my caste. And my last name isn't a caste name or even caste associated name. And somewhere between a plurality or majo
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by aatharuv 6y ago
There's a lot of math that _everyone_ needs to learn, even if not college bound. Those who are college bound and interested in any quantitative major can certainly learn advanced versions of all of these. People need to understand basi
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by aatharuv 6y ago
Yup. When the Portuguese ruled Goa and surrounding parts of India, they were happy to keep caste prejudices -- for example, for a long time they only allowed Christian converts of Brahmin origin to become priests. Similarly, other Catholics
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by aatharuv 6y ago
Interesting (or really not so surprising) that Facebook's head of global affairs is Nick Clegg, former British Deputy Prime Minister (and head of the Liberal Democrats when they were in coalition with Cameron's Conservatives).
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by aatharuv 6y ago
Whether or not it's actually better, it gives leverage over China. Do better or else...
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by aatharuv 6y ago
The countries which have English as a second language.... were both British colonies until the 1960's. Malta had once even pondered integrating into the United Kingdom, though later gained independence and became a Republic. Cyprus has
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by aatharuv 6y ago
No, what happened is that Mitch McConnell refused to even allow a vote, and even Republican senators wouldn't have been able to vote for the centrist proposed by Obama.
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by aatharuv 6y ago
Asian Americans are Americans. It makes perfect to compare Asian American admits to Asian Americans in the American population
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by aatharuv 6y ago
Agreed, Winston Churchill's active hindering of efforts to ameliorate the Bengal famine of 1943, by exporting food from Bengal, and discouraging _sales_ of food from Canada, caused about 4 million deaths. At the very least, he's a
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by aatharuv 6y ago
Wow, their UI... insists I lived in a city I used to live in years back. There's no way to even just change my city for one search. (I tried changing my address elsewhere, but it just doesn't pick up the change.)
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by aatharuv 6y ago
Does anyone know if Google comingles items from various merchants like Amazon does?
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by aatharuv 7y ago
If you're not a fluent English language speaker, you might want to look at a dictionary before calling people morons. In addition to its original definition as "what the Eastern Roman Empire morphed into", it also means: &qu
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by aatharuv 7y ago
You still have to be at least upper middle class to afford the cheapest Tesla car. And I suspect their other products (power wall), etc, are more upper middle class, unless there are new apartment communities using it.
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by aatharuv 7y ago
The new apartment complex near the (old) Fremont BART station still had people actively working at it this morning. It doesn't seem to be on the essential list from what I saw from the official Alameda County order.

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