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by dhruval 4y ago
Let me preface by saying, America is a sovereign country and can do as it pleases with regards to immigration, college admissions or anything else. But to me this is basically 'de facto' discrimination against immigrants born in A
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by dhruval 4y ago
The failed Biosphere 2 project was one such attempt. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2
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by dhruval 4y ago
I have had a lifestyle business that pretty much allows me to work whenever I want for several years. After a lot of experimentation I notice I roughly settled on a 9-5 weekdays + maybe an hour or so weekends (just to make sure things are r
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by dhruval 4y ago
Almost none of those people speak English.
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by dhruval 5y ago
For larger spreadsheets google sheets is far less performant than Excel, even the cloud version of Excel.
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by dhruval 5y ago
The dice roll thing reminded me I wrote a small multi dice roll visualization in flash that took (x) repetition of (y) dice rolls and added them together in bar charts for each repeated sum of values. I was stunned how it was flat when ther
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by dhruval 5y ago
To achieve an educated population the core problem of wildly inflated cost of college education needs to be dealt with. Otherwise you have to repeatedly forgive the debt. The message you are sending is to consume without regard for prices o
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What are some interesting use cases of cryptocurrencies and NFTs?
6 points by dhruval 5y ago|22 comments
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by dhruval 5y ago
This is partly because of the 10:1 stock split google announced.
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by dhruval 5y ago
Good point. I wonder what the environmental impact is of high density housing in cities vs low density (earth houses). I think it probably does make sense for rural communities.
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by dhruval 5y ago
Reminds me of 'Earthship Houses' that are completely off grid, recycle their waste water to grow crops, are built using repurposed car tires and grow their own food. There is a community in New Mexico https://www.youtub
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by dhruval 5y ago
There is a popular YouTube personality based out Korea who I suspect has a similar disorder. https://youtube.com/channel/UCfpaSruWW3S4dibonKXENjA A 90lb woman who regularly seems to eat 10lbs of food in one sitting. Ha
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by dhruval 5y ago
Pens aren't my thing, but I am impressed with the quality of the article considering its part of a commercial website. Compared to the low quality content marketing most companies put out this was a breath of fresh air.
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by dhruval 5y ago
Well happiness and material wealth are two very separate things. People can be very content and happy with very basic necessities. Some of the happiest people on the planet are renunciate monks and nuns based in brain scan research (for eg
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by dhruval 5y ago
Seems like you are talking about social inequality (a zero sum game) vs poverty (a non zero sum game) The idea that no one was expected to own cell phones so they didn’t enrich our lives is clearly false. Can apply this to any technological
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by dhruval 5y ago
A “very poor person” in an Indian context doesn’t own a car. A lot of people in India use scooters and motorcycles. The transition to electric scooters is happening. There are a few local companies in the space. They tend to be a lot easier
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by dhruval 5y ago
I think you are taking about moo.do?
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by dhruval 5y ago
Indian fertility rates are also at near replacement levels. In many states below. It is not just a developed country issue. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_union_ter...
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by dhruval 5y ago
Gotras are purely patrilineal, the mothers gotra doesn’t get passed down to the child. There are other “rules” as well. But it really depends on the region and community. There are some communities (for eg. Nairs) who traditionally have mat
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by dhruval 6y ago
Indira Gandhi declared an emergency and used the emergency powers to amend the Indian constitution in a way that benefits her ideology. That’s in a completely different league when it comes to authoritarianism. The current PM just keeps wi
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by dhruval 6y ago
Interesting question these aren’t in any particular order, just wanted to see how many I could think of... 1. Technical Education / Skills 2. Core soft skills (for eg. Negotiation, selling, connection, etc.) 3. Developing Classic virtu
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by dhruval 6y ago
Nice, and surprisingly runs smoothly on my phone!
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by dhruval 6y ago
Your intuition is correct, at least in the product categories that I have experience with. Anything over 2% returns to me generally indicates to me that something is wrong with the product or the product description is not clear enough. In
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by dhruval 6y ago
I have been following some News stories in depth recently and honestly you can find more neutral coverage and better analysis on some random YouTube video or reddit thread then you do on professional print / tv journalism (which given
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by dhruval 6y ago
Many Canadians have known about this for a while, here is what it looks like... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I_K6wAARLio
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by dhruval 6y ago
Bank of Canada has a similar free API https://www.bankofcanada.ca/valet/docs
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by dhruval 7y ago
Being free of "any inner disturbance" is a high standard, and hard to achieve. Most Hindu sects would consider Aghori practices to be too extreme and too focused on death. But here is a very visually stunning documentary on Varana
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by dhruval 7y ago
I dont think this is the oldest in the world, but easily verifiable because it is in Mumbai and quite famous (beats Haus Hiltl by 50 years)... https://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/food/the-story-of-mu...
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by dhruval 8y ago
>No. But your experiment involves "you with a pencil and a paper" where "you" is conscious. Ok if it was mechanical computer, or an electronic computer what difference would it make ? At what point does the computer s
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by dhruval 8y ago
Sure, we can distinguish the difference between computation and electricity, or computation and atoms etc. However somehow we conflate computation with consciousness. I think this is primarily because the human brain 1) performs computatio

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