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by chanakya 4y ago
If it was "the slickest con artist of all time", that would be an achivement of Artificial General Intelligence that the AI community can only dream of.
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by chanakya 4y ago
That because of about 1500 years of strict endogamy. It's only in very recent times that inter-caste marriages have become more common.
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by chanakya 4y ago
The blockchain continues to be a solution looking for a problem.
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by chanakya 4y ago
What Pirsig said about the analytic knife is philosophy.
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by chanakya 4y ago
As a work of popular philosophy, I think Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is unequalled. I think it got many people (including me) to an interest in philosophy where they had previously thought it to be boring hair-splitting. I t
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by chanakya 4y ago
We did exceed 50, though it took a while. We produced about 75 of them all together in a batch, and then took 2-3 years to sell them.
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by chanakya 4y ago
Wow, this brings back memories! Around 1986, I used to work for a state government electronics company in India, and we tied up with Convergent to build their Unix servers in India. We chose the MightyFrame, bigger and more powerful than th
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by chanakya 4y ago
The attitude which results in this kind of extreme rhetoric and unjustified bashing of institutions will lead to the decline of the US. For a civilization to remain strong and flourish, it has to have some confidence in itself.
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by chanakya 4y ago
> Companies moderate haphazardly and improvise and they care about their bottom-line and to extinguish shitstorms. Yes, after they've helped create the shitstorms in the first place with their escalatory like and recommendation mo
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by chanakya 5y ago
So the real question to ask is: what ideas and vision gave Rome that coordinated energy in the first place, and one that lasted so many centuries before it got tired and lost its ability to energize people? A related question: how much long
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by chanakya 5y ago
I think those looking for deep causes for the decline of the Roman Empire are looking for the wrong thing. Like entropy, the presence of dynamism, coordinated energy and cohesion in societies is the exception, and the natural state is a sor
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by chanakya 5y ago
Most greenhouse emissions are already from non-western countries. That will be much more true in the decades to come. Even if western countries were to stop all emissions today, the net impact in 2100 won't be more than about 0.5 degC.
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by chanakya 5y ago
An illusion can only happen to conscious beings, so saying that it's an illusion doesn't add anything explanatory to the mystery of consciousness.
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by chanakya 5y ago
2.6 million different book titles . Not total sales of books online, which is about 500m, I believe.
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by chanakya 6y ago
To say that propaganda is part of the art of persuasion would be stretching the meaning of persuasion beyond its general usage. Persuasion implies a respect for its recipient and their rational faculty and trying to convince them by reason
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by chanakya 6y ago
This is mostly clickbait. The only evidence that's presented that the govermnent is practicing "socialism for the rich" is the statement of an investment banker, of all people. He also says that government intervention "
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by chanakya 6y ago
We don't know that, no one has counted. There were tens of thousands of people there, how many were Nazis? We don't know how many of them are there in the US, for that matter. What we do know is that they have no real cultural inf
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by chanakya 6y ago
There are all sorts of dangerous people out there. Of the 16,000 people murdered in the US every year, how many are by Nazis? No, it's a political statement, which is fine, politics is good. The workplace is just not the place for it.
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by chanakya 6y ago
There's detail missing, so it's hard to be sure, but this just seems like HR incompetence more than anything else, and it's right that the head of HR left. Companies shouldn't have political discussions in work forums, s
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by chanakya 6y ago
I don't think the problem is money, at least for now. They are either running in a datacenter and can't add capacity fast enough, or have a scale bottlenech in their design, and just weren't designed for this scale.
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by chanakya 6y ago
I work for a large Valley software company, and they don't require pronouns or even recommend them, but I do see a few people put them in their signature, mostly in HR/recruiting. I have two reasons why I don't like the idea
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by chanakya 6y ago
ok. Perhaps that's what he's trying to do. If someone wants more evidence that current racism is a significant force in determining outcomes in society, where should they look for references? What convinced you to move past questi
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by chanakya 6y ago
Thanks. So it's not related to Einstein's General Theory? In discussions around the cosmological constant, static vs. expanding universe and energy of space, it feels like the expansion is a consequence of the General Theory, and
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by chanakya 6y ago
Can someone explain why the universe is expanding at all? I've heard it said "it's the momentum from the Big Bang". That sounds reasonable, but then we're told that it's not that the galaxies are flying apart
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by chanakya 6y ago
I didn't mean his books on history. In the last 15 months or so, he's also published 3(!) books on racism in contemporary society.
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by chanakya 6y ago
I'd go even further and say that just because America has a history of racism and racist ideas does not mean that racism continues to be a major factor today. I've read Kendi, and he offers scant evidence that it is.
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by chanakya 6y ago
India's ill-defined laws about things like "terrorism" and "sedition" are truly horrendous. Rules let people be held in jail for years while the police "investigate", and a pliant court system refuses to c
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by chanakya 6y ago
The family separation program is implemented by a democratically elected government. If it's illegal, the courts are the place to challenge it.
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by chanakya 6y ago
Not to speak of cases where there is an inaccurate perception of discrimination, perhaps because of a real family history of it happening in India.
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by chanakya 6y ago
It's either a cop-out by HR departments, or a false claim that HR departments do this. Knowing the cultures in large Bay Area companies, it's hard to imagine someone going to HR to complain about discrimination or harrassment, and

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