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by alex_smart 6y ago
India already has a very large and ambitious food subsidy program, which targets over 800 million beneficiaries and has cost running over 2 trillion dollars. The idea that Indian government can significantly expand its social security net i
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Indian people are very selfish in general unfortunately. Living in a resource-starved environment would do that to you.
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>In a representative democracy, you wouldn't lock down and force people to starve - you would lock down and provide income/food/capabilities for people to live regardless of their social/economic status. I didn't
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It's called Cred.
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I can't speak for Poland, but for India the primary reason such services can't exist is - culture. India is basically a "low trust society". People in general have a mindset of "scarcity" and at every stage of
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> You can have your cake and eat it too. Can you get gpu accelerated video playback in Firefox/Chrome? For me these days, "having your cake and eating it too" means running linux on a virtual machine.
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>Why not just run the file? It's faster. That's the point of using a REPL. >To be more specific, I get a lot of value out of Ruby, Elixir, and JavaScript REPLs because I can type right into them to try stuff out in one long,
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That's why you write code in your editor, and just ask your editor to send code to the REPL.
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I do use REPL-driven development even for Python. (And why not? Like Norvig says, Python is basically lisp with traditional syntax.) > How could you ever know things would actually work?! Eventually you would run the project from beginni
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Have you not heard of the caste system? We in India created an entire social order and religion based on keeping high quality jobs for a certain group of people based on identity and lineage. And karma was the justification given to lower c
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>the court system You're assuming the existence of a functioning court system where you can hope to get justice in a reasonable time frame. Given that this happened in India, that is a very bold assumption indeed.
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> However, in India, the law is completely absent at best and an active tool of your enemies at its worst. Cries in Indian. :'(
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by alex_smart 6y ago
How many lines of vimscript have you written? No, copy-pasting config lines from someone's dotfiles doesn't count. How many times have you opened the source code of some vim plugin you are using and tried to modify what it does? I
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by alex_smart 6y ago
Vim user for 12 years, Emacs user for 5. I prefer and mainly use Emacs after I finally "got it". My previous attempts at learning Emacs weren't as successful because I was too biased about what a good editor should be like be
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It is ignorant because the concern stems from ignorance of the fact that many languages that are used by billions of people in the world treat the aspirated and non-aspirated versions of consonants as completely different consonants.
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Erm, I think you are confusing retroflex consonants with aspirated consonants. "Kha" is just the aspirated version of "Ka". English doesn't have two different alphabets for these two different sounds and which one i
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wq writes the current file and closes the current window (which quits vim if you happen to be on the last window). The command to close the current buffer is :bd(elete). If you want to return to the previous file without closing the new f
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>To avoid mistakes I always do “lsblk” Even this is faulty solution. By default, it only lists the devices with their "/dev/sd*" names.
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To add to this, most of the farmer organizations protesting these reforms had themselves been asking for them for years. Just one example: https://twitter.com/BKU_KisanUnion/status/110167401066691379...
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How many cellphone towers from JIO have the protesters destroyed till now? It was over 1500 last I checked, but that was like end of December. Destroying private property based on arbit FUD propaganda. Oh so peaceful.
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There is plenty of propaganda floating around from both sides. If you dislike muddy waters, I would recommend staying out of Indian politics. It is a clusterfuck. To add to your top comment, these events - protestors attacking police person
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To add to what the other user said, just because you can do something with one tool, doesn't mean we shouldn't promote other tools that are easier to use and that make it easier for you to do the job without accidentally shootin
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>Using sda is fine if you're experienced and know what drive has what name Not even then. The prospect of making an occasional mistake, while low, is clearly much higher than when you are selecting the disk using its name. Being exp
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It pains me very much to see unfortunately that food being grown in India is also moving very much in that American "large, beautiful, homogenous, easy to store and transport but bland and tasteless" direction. As an example, the
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Have you even taken a look at their source code? I have read plenty of open source projects and suckless's code is about as unspaghettilike as it gets. I find their approach to programming a beautiful contrast to the piles of garbage u
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I am about zero percent surprised that this is named after something that happened in India. Our entire country is built with layers upon layers of incorrect economical/political stimuli and their unintended consequences. Example: Some
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>I can only think of free high-quality education by government as a solution to this aggressive game-the-system and FOMO mentality so deep rooted here. I am also from India and I am really perplexed and pained by this. Why is it not poss
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Why?