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by hzay 5y ago
I felt very sorry when she said it's difficult to take deposits because payment processors are cruel, that she can't report a horrible client to police, that the govt refuses to acknowledge the work but takes the taxes, and all th
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by hzay 5y ago
I worked at FB and struggle with exactly this.
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by hzay 5y ago
V cool service! What metadata do you store btw? Can I use it to store nice dslr pics and later sort by ISO?
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by hzay 5y ago
> This is not so common today... It's happening in india today. It's very sad.
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by hzay 5y ago
The book says it's a simplified version -- the paper he put out contains hundred+ pages. I'll check out wiki & sources because the book is quite specific about the single vowel thing.
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by hzay 5y ago
My favorite linguistic/sound story is this: In 1878, a student called Ferdinand de Saussure proposed that PIE had only one vowel sound "e", and that all other vowel sounds in PIE languages came that single sound. How? He prop
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by hzay 5y ago
Hi. This is a full program by a famous bharatanatyam dancer -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl-BZzr-TKI#t=58m At 58:25, there's english explanation along with mudras. I hope that gives you some idea. This is how it
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by hzay 5y ago
> And truly master dancers and composers know how to tell two or more stories with one dance! Lol what? Can you please name a dancer who can do this mysterious thing? Ps - indian classical dancer here
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by hzay 5y ago
I searched "why men are stronger than women" in Google and DDG a few days ago. Very different results. Google seemed to be telling me I'm a bad person for thinking these bad things.
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by hzay 5y ago
We all miss the old internet. But what is to be done about it honestly?
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That's interesting because the person I spoke to also said that they've reduced the daily number of work hours. Not because productivity was high but because stress was high due to the pandemic & perhaps working conditions at
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by hzay 5y ago
This is a really important point that's not getting voiced much here. Numerically there are more ICs in a company/forum/world, so the managerial voices don't get heard in places where the numerical advantage matters. The
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by hzay 5y ago
Hunters & foragers went with their family. Both activities were group activities done with family & tribe.
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Zeta becomes a unicorn with $250M SoftBank-led funding(techcrunch.com)
5 points by hzay 5y ago|0 comments
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We started feeding pigeons at our 8th floor apartment in india. Above us is just sky where lots of Kites circle. Over time, the pigeons decided our house is their... hospital? They'd show up here when sick. We'd leave food and wat
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by hzay 5y ago
A lot of comments that appear neutral here are actually political btw. Saying that deaths are undercounted or citing foreign media is seen as "anti national" now within India.
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by hzay 5y ago
Hi. My state has a new chief minister who has been doing amazing work on Covid. A third wave is predicted in india in September and he's doing rapid work to buy 3.5 crore vaccines before it hits. I have great faith in his work. If you
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by hzay 5y ago
It's funny how freely the word pariah is used in english. When I was a kid my parents used to tell me never ever to say that word, and that I might get arrested if I do. I never dug into this to find out why but that's a super tab
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by hzay 5y ago
Indian classical dancer here. > Do not work on this section for more than twenty minutes. This is not something I've heard often in my field but I had to learn this over the years. Performers want to present a piece as if it was nev
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by hzay 5y ago
> It's fine, however, to eat nothing but meat and many societies did this for hundreds of thousands of years. Other than those who live in the arctic, which societies did this? You have sources? Thanks!
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by hzay 5y ago
Wow, I didn't expect to find you on HN. What do you work on in the factory?
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Yeah. Restated: Often, people who score high on TVI are a subset of people who have undergone trauma like PTSD. TVI is learned according to the author, not general trauma or PTSD.
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by hzay 5y ago
The article says TVI is learned, not PTSD.
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The kid who returned user's passed hash -- he could have simply learned more about better programming practices no? You make it sound like it's a crime and he's inherently flawed. But all of us did dumb mistakes in school&#x2
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by hzay 5y ago
> This is a western academic interpretation of yoga which is favorable to the idea that all good things, even from the ancient eastern traditions, have western inspirations. Have you read the two books I cited, or are you speaking from i
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by hzay 6y ago
Hey thanks for your comment. Just wanted to add -- if someone wants to learn more, "Yoga Body" and "Roots of Yoga" by Mark Singleton contain this information. I wish this was more well-known in indian yoga circles.
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by hzay 6y ago
Posting this because as an engineer who's worked for social media companies, I have no clue how this can be possibly counteracted. Hoping for a fruitful discussion on how technology can help against the spread of misinformation.
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Hate Factory: Inside Kapil Mishra’s ‘Hindu Ecosystem’(newslaundry.com)
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It doesn't seem to make sense logically, if you think of weight as mass * gravity. But hypothetically speaking, if the baby can do this -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5Wks63Ng0Y -- don't you think the weight
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by hzay 6y ago
> Tense muscles will exert more force on the things they're attached to like bones and organs, usually in opposing directions, which is what causes damage from otherwise trivial impacts. That's why, all other things being equal

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