aatharuv

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by aatharuv 7y ago
Many universities (but not MIT) are on a quarter system. I honestly don't know which one is more prevalent.
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by aatharuv 7y ago
What dorms don't have kitchens? Certainly when I went to MIT, most (if not all) dorms at least had kitchenette's, 20 years back. Shared, of course, which is the main problem.
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by aatharuv 7y ago
The real question is what percentage goes to pay administrative staff, and how that's increased to other parts of college costs.
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by aatharuv 7y ago
I dropped by the Fremont Fry's the past weekend to see if the "inventory issues" I'd seen in September had gotten any better. They were worse. From 2004 till about a year ago, I'd never seen any inventory problems a
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by aatharuv 7y ago
On at least one occasion, the CC says a person is speaking in city speak, but the language is a Semitic language, probably Amhara.
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by aatharuv 7y ago
I'd never heard of Tsunami Democratic. Now I've heard of it thanks to the Spanish State.
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by aatharuv 7y ago
That's not the PPP multiple -- that's the PPP exchange rate. From the chart you stated. Total, National currency units/US dollar, 2000 – 2018 I.e, in PPP terms 18 Rupees is one US Dollar. In real terms, about 70 Rupees is one
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by aatharuv 7y ago
More like $30-$40 billion not $200 billion. The current PPP multiplier is somewhere between 3 and 4. PPP is most useful when looking at domestically manufactured items and services. When looking at anything that needs to be imported, normal
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by aatharuv 7y ago
The "Neonazi" country you refer to simultaneously had a head of state and a head of government who were Jewish until a couple of months back.
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by aatharuv 7y ago
Andrew Yang has thought of this (like seemingly everything else). He's calling for amongst other things matching federal grants for helping repurposes dead malls (and the 300 malls he says will likely close over the next 4 years) for o
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by aatharuv 7y ago
People assume that people going to a college have a minimum level of competence, where $$$ is not one of the elements factoring into that competence.
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by aatharuv 7y ago
In David Weber's Honor Harrington series, the original settlers of one of the planets (Grayson) found the soil was too polluted with heavy metals that they needed to create purified soil of their own for growing food. So amongst other
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by aatharuv 7y ago
UV reflective film on the windows seems to be helping one room in my house which was consistently 10 degrees fahrenheit warmer than the others. Alternately, but a little uglier, taping white kitchen paper towels to the window solved the pro
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by aatharuv 7y ago
Just by staying there, the Amazon is a natural resource. The lungs of the planet. "We just need to figure some way for the Brazilians to make money off of it." If Jair Bolsonaro is sufficiently Trump or Kim like, he could call it
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by aatharuv 7y ago
Huh. On the freeway (CA-84) in the SF Bay Area, I keep on seeing an ad for some seminar on H1-B to EB-5 (with Bobby Jindal headlining as a speaker). I wonder if it's related, other than (presumably) being a conduit to invest in Louisia
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by aatharuv 7y ago
There are lots of people without green cards or citizenship who actually can live in houses they buy. -- People on H1B visas -- People here as students. Okay, they'd have to have rich parents, but some times it makes economic sense --
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by aatharuv 7y ago
I wonder what the violation of privacy law was for the apps taken down by Kuwait (and Saudi Arabia)...
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by aatharuv 7y ago
Mercury doesn't keep the same side to the sun all the time. So you'd need to either bury everything deep enough (obviously not possible for solar cells), or keep them such that they're always on the terminator. The latter has
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by aatharuv 7y ago
Interestingly enough, Sanskrit is an official language of India, both at the national level, and in at least one state (Uttarkhand).
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by aatharuv 7y ago
They called their currency a dollar. If they had called them "freedom rounds", they would have been fine. Or if they had been owned by Disney for that matter...
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by aatharuv 7y ago
Harassing people into giving out their personal details by claiming they're from immigration, at least according to some articles on the subject.
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by aatharuv 7y ago
Theft would be more accurate.
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by aatharuv 7y ago
Pidgins and Creoles are on a continuum -- once pidgin's get native speakers and a stable grammar, they're creoles. But Yeah, I didn't mention that.
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by aatharuv 7y ago
India's definition of what is and what is not a language is highly politicized and highly idiosyncratic. Hindi and Urdu, by any reasonable linguistic definition are not separate languages. The official standards for both Hindi and Urdu
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by aatharuv 7y ago
Mumbai Hindi is not a creole by any definition of linguistics. It is actually a dialect of Hindustani with Marathi and other languages mixed in. A Creole specifically occurs when two languages (usually unrelated) suddenly mix together, usua
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by aatharuv 7y ago
What language do you speak that's a creole?
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by aatharuv 7y ago
The website hasn't been updated for at least 2 years though. (Under America, it still lists Barack Obama as the President.
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by aatharuv 7y ago
Cool. For an older implementation of programming using a natural language, there's Lingua::Romana::Perligata http://users.monash.edu/~damian/papers/HTML/Perligata.html Unfortunately for probably most peo
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by aatharuv 7y ago
Is there any chance that the half-life of Xenon-124 is lower than previously thought?
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by aatharuv 8y ago
The thing to note is that India is enroute to negative population growth. India's TFR is still > 2.1 (2.33), but is fast approaching replacement fertility. Large parts of India (especially in the South), are already below TFR, so wh

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