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by higerordermap 6y ago
> her work on bias in facial recognition technology etc.. etc.. Make me doubt whether these people were producing any new research or just re-copy-pasting whatever is already known, or some relatively trivial surveying thing. You know, t
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by higerordermap 6y ago
Savarkar had faults, but his "Hindu Atheist" ideology was compelling and pretty progressive IMO. But today's RSS/BJP is not that, with all that Mandir politics, moreover they are as much or more corrupt than INC and just
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by higerordermap 6y ago
For what it's worth, Mauryan empire didn't rule the entire south India, which had different culture. India makes more sense as a subcontinent, not a unified culture. It's a spectrum of cultures.
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by higerordermap 6y ago
I am a Hindu and definitely against the expansionist philosophies of these religions. But isn't the mainstream nationalist narrative too pushing the same Hindutva-Hindi homogeneous propaganda? And diversity is not only about religion e
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by higerordermap 6y ago
Not him. * People start to believe propaganda which they want to believe - spread of nationalistic feelings helps this. People value these feelings over science. Boomers were reading whatsapp forwards and thinking "Ayurvedic" hone
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by higerordermap 6y ago
There are valid reasons, besides propaganda from both sides. Farmers can be rightfully afraid that they will eventually lose MSP guarantees, with Modi only giving lip service to MSP and not putting any regulations in place. Given the govt&#
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by higerordermap 6y ago
Their fear is mostly about MSP (Minimum selling price) and lack of ability to negotiate with corporate buyers. There are indeed some monopoly dangers. And govt is hesitant to do anything about MSP but pay lip service. This combined with Mod
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by higerordermap 6y ago
> sum(map(lambda s: len(s) if s.startswith('a') else 0,['abac','bced','asdasdf','lkjkl','assadf'])) I'd rather have comprehensions than map and filter that can't fit i
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by higerordermap 6y ago
Stroustrup is what?
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by higerordermap 6y ago
Using exceptions for control flow vs using control flow for exceptions. Who will win?
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by higerordermap 6y ago
I bet that interface loaded faster than a modern website tho..
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by higerordermap 6y ago
Servers side rendering for SEO purposes I guess.
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by higerordermap 6y ago
I could access Sci Hub from India a few days ago, from Jio, for what it's worth.
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by higerordermap 6y ago
At least they could reduce it to 5 years or something, and make silly patents penalizable.
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by higerordermap 6y ago
Dignam from "the departed"
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by higerordermap 6y ago
Because C-suites end up getting most money in any industry.
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by higerordermap 6y ago
Again that's for less than 2% of people right?..
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by higerordermap 6y ago
so, interface{}
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by higerordermap 6y ago
"webshit pride"
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by higerordermap 6y ago
He was sarcastic
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by higerordermap 6y ago
I'd prefer something like printf(condition? "YES": "NO"); than something like if (condition) { printf("YES") } else { printf("NO") }
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by higerordermap 6y ago
As an Indian, I'd say this kind of "SJW" rhetoric serves no purpose other than causing a reactionary change -- of more normal people favoring extreme right wing instead, and leaving a bad impression about the total social jus
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by higerordermap 6y ago
A shared Google sheet works well for most people.
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by higerordermap 6y ago
Golang.
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by higerordermap 6y ago
This needs a wikipedia entry.
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by higerordermap 6y ago
While people can argue swift could be Golang, it's built with focus on iOS ecosystem. You have to manually handle reference cycles. The language is quite complex as well, and compiler is among the slow ones. Copy-on-write is generally
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by higerordermap 6y ago
Among new languages, zig aims to make all allocations obvious.
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by higerordermap 6y ago
Sir, you deserve a honorary MBA.
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by higerordermap 6y ago
Windows will turn into one big fullscreen candy crush. React OS IS THE end game.
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by higerordermap 6y ago
> My worry would be that this is happening because Amazon, Google, and Microsoft want control over the foundation. (They are writing the checks, so no surprise they'd want to control how that money gets invested…) I find this attitu

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