dhruval

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by dhruval 4y ago
The word swastika itself is culturally appropriated from Sanskrit (India) by the British who had colonized the country during WW2. Hakenkreuz (hooked cross) is the German term.
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by dhruval 4y ago
Interested in the process for fine tuning gpt3 for this
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by dhruval 4y ago
Wow 1962 seems ridiculously late, for abolishing slavery. But it checks out.
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by dhruval 4y ago
Buddhism is not mentioned by GP, but there are many big differences between vedic religion and modern hinduism. for eg. animal sacrifice vs vegetarianism. These ideas probably gain traction from the Sramana traditions which also gave rise t
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by dhruval 4y ago
Ambrosia Apples are top tier. Cant take this list seriously.
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by dhruval 4y ago
Not sure why this is getting downvoted. This is called the “Hindu synthesis”.
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by dhruval 4y ago
Not super knowledgeable on this but Decentralized exchanges exist why are they not more widely used by the crypto community?
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by dhruval 4y ago
Decentralized exchanges like dydx still don’t seem to have taken off. Seem like an actual good use case
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by dhruval 4y ago
I can relate to your last sentence regarding trust. Happens alarmingly often when I read popular takes on things I know a fair bit about. Which makes me wonder about the extent to which I can trust popular takes in things outside my wheelho
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by dhruval 4y ago
I have been trying to upload some information they asked to verify my business account. For a new business account I opened I already have 1 business and 1 personal account which is their limit and got permission from PayPal to open this on
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by dhruval 4y ago
There is a tax deferral advantage to shareholders (esp. ones in a high tax bracket) from stock buy backs vs dividends. For investors with a low income (retirees for eg.) they can actually receive a good amount of dividends “tax free” (the c
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by dhruval 4y ago
I think it is still a great resource for non controversial subjects. For eg. The math explanations are amazing
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by dhruval 4y ago
Very interesting read I donate every year as I get tremendous value from Wikipedia. I am still inclined to continue, but will allocate more to other not for profits this year, as the foundation is just wasting money that can be better spent
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by dhruval 4y ago
Space X engineers are working on Tesla
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by dhruval 4y ago
Tesla can bill Twitter for the work at a fair market price.
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by dhruval 4y ago
Should be fairly straightforward to create some sort of subreddit type functionality and let each community set its own rules and self moderate.
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by dhruval 4y ago
Skeptical of this data for the following reasons: 1. Ireland - has high GDP due to it being a tax haven, yet the light data is spot on. 2. Every developed country has correct light data, but none of the developing countries do. (doesn'
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by dhruval 4y ago
“ Those who seriously plan ahead are a minority, and don't control the ballot box.” Sadly true. And sometimes this reduces the benefits of planning ahead. If the fed money printer will bail is out every time then it makes financial sen
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by dhruval 4y ago
Sorry for in advance for the dumb question... Are red dwarf planets over represented due to detection methods? Or is there some sort of astrophysics related reason red dwarfs would be more likely to have super earth class planets in orbit?
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by dhruval 4y ago
You perhaps, not me.
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by dhruval 4y ago
Tired of this argument. There is certainly a right to discuss the social impact of a business’s practices. And complain about unfair denial of services.
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by dhruval 4y ago
I just just reading this Bloomberg story about a Chinese spy who was busted. It’s mind boggling how sloppy even state backed malicious agents are at information security. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/
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by dhruval 4y ago
The latter
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by dhruval 4y ago
When a woke / inclusive show gets reviewed poorly, what fraction of it gets chalked up to audience bigotry ? There are excellent shows that are woke / inclusive (Arcane) and they are universally liked by much of the same audiences
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by dhruval 4y ago
The original claim was that the senate was bypassed (non-democratic). A majority in the Senate is democratic if democratically elected etc. Whereas increasing the power of the executive as is the trend in the USA by bypassing the house &#x2
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by dhruval 4y ago
You are confusing economic profits (which includes things like opportunity costs) with accounting profits (which only includes explicit costs). Under perfect competition the economic profits would approach zero. But you can still have unlim
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by dhruval 4y ago
Europe has record inflation as well. The ECB is lagging behind US federal reserve in tightening monetary policy. (They are just about to implement their first rate hike in 11 years)
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by dhruval 4y ago
I don’t believe in free will,(although we have a sense of free will) so I think we are a DFA. But we clearly have consciousness, if you don’t believe me try poking a needle in your arm. But you can have a DFA that is non-conscious right ? A
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by dhruval 4y ago
There is something it is like to be me. Can a system of sticks and stones capture that ? It is not clear how consciousness emerges from non-consciousness or whether it does at all. The hard problem remains intractable.
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by dhruval 4y ago
The people who think AI is conscious without any definition or measure of consciousness. Conflate consciousness with computation. The only reason we do this is because our computation organ seems to also be our consciousness organ. We don’t

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