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by kranner 6y ago
It is the government's job to protect responsible citizens from irresponsible ones. Only the government has the legal authority and power to prevent irresponsible citizens from acting out and putting everyone else at risk. If the gover
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by kranner 6y ago
Several countries only allow a stay of up to 15 days for visa on arrival. For instance, Malaysia and Thailand for Indian visitors.
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by kranner 6y ago
As a developer in a third world country, I have to disagree that it is a reliable way for everyone. Not everyone has the programming skills, communication skills, confidence to reach out and negotiate for jobs above cost-of-living wages,
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by kranner 6y ago
There really can be no objective universal king of breakfasts. Tastes are set in childhood and vary across the world. Speaking subjectively as a South Asian person, there is not a single thing I find appealing about the Full English, visual
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by kranner 6y ago
Ah, no it doesn't. कढ़ी comes from the verb काढ़ना, whose past tense is कढ़ी (हुई) [1][2], which in this context means something which has been thickened/reduced over heat. Curry leaves have nothing to do with the etymology of कढ़
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by kranner 6y ago
Curry and कढ़ी are false cognates, AFAIK. According to Wikipedia [1]: "Curry is an anglicised form of the Tamil word kaṟi meaning 'sauce' or 'relish for rice' that uses the leaves of the curry tree (Murraya koenigii
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by kranner 6y ago
De Botton does not write about things he cannot know about. He has not proposed a Grand Unified Theory of Physics or a mechanism for how matter becomes conscious. He writes about things everyone can relate to, which means he can relate to t
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by kranner 6y ago
> I also agree with Nassim Taleb, who says that you should try to read the works from people who have actually done something (opposed to modern pseudo-philosophers like Alain de Botton, who is just trying to capitalise on the religion-s
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by kranner 6y ago
Another Logitech M720 user here. I had to uninstall Logitech's Options app on Mac because I found (via opensnoop) that it was capturing Cmd-Alt-Shift-A and Cmd-Alt-Shift-S (which I was already using with Moom). I couldn't find out
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by kranner 6y ago
> I have (my legal name)@gmail.com and I occasionally get mail for people with the same name. Same here. In the last few years, I've had a Toyota dealer send me quotes for new cars ("as per our meeting yesterday"), I'
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by kranner 6y ago
Fair enough, thanks for clarifying.
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My comment was about asking for sources, which is not mentioned in the guidelines specifically. "Assume good faith" is about how comments are to be interpreted, presumably when there is ambiguity. I don't see that it applies
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No, it's totally welcome AFAIK. But the comment made an inaccurate claim regarding the Taliban (which is not relevant in any way related to Covid infections in India) and neglected to provide any sources for their own claim while deman
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by kranner 6y ago
The Aurangabad branch of the Bombay High Court has quashed cases against members of the Tablighi Jamaat (which parent seems to be confusing with the Taliban) and said that they were made "scapegoats". [1] In any case, large gather
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by kranner 6y ago
The Unreliable Narrator is an old trope. [1] Gone Girl has stellar writing. I don’t think commercial success in fiction has much to do with being first to market with a novel idea. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un
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by kranner 6y ago
Being wealthy or just having enough in savings to not have to work for a while seems the obvious alternative.
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I alternate between a Herman Miller Embody and a wooden dining chair. The wooden chair is good for meditation (when I need to keep my back straight and unsupported) and for when I want to be more mindful of my posture for a few hours. The E
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by kranner 6y ago
Relevant (about "Sherlocking"): https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/06/06/developers-talk-a...
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by kranner 6y ago
On Mac, there is Karabiner-Elements. https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/
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by kranner 6y ago
Not a good analogy. The human soldier driving the knife is the agent here, unlike the trigger or tripwire on a landmine.
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by kranner 6y ago
Have you evaluated the latest version of Tesseract (developed by Google)? They added an LSTM-based OCR engine starting with version 4 and the improvements over version 3.x are startling.
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Not GP but if I may also contribute: greater metacognitive awareness (I get sucked into binge YouTube/Reddit sessions much less; I'm much more aware that I will probably regret saying something I'm about to say and can just n
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by kranner 6y ago
> That is why during serious meditation retreats (like 10 days vipassana) some people freak out and they aren't able to finish the retreat. It's perfectly normal and usually has positive effects in the long run. To be fair the
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by kranner 6y ago
I don't see how even a minimally-feeling self necessarily involves something immaterial. I'm convinced there isn't anything immaterial or magical about my brain being able to feel things. It's how the feeling self arises
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by kranner 6y ago
I wonder if the solution will turn out to have too many components to be satisfyingly understandable by humans, i.e. something like a 200-page proof that only a proof checker can validate. That may be a situation to confound both the myster
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by kranner 6y ago
You've made a huge leap from there-is-no-hard-problem-of-consciousness to there-is-no-consciousness. Consciousness is the experience of being something. I know it exists, because I'm experiencing it right now. The experience is co
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by kranner 6y ago
I agree, I drive a RHD VW Polo and have to lean forward and to the left so I can peer over the A pillar to check for oncoming traffic while taking right turns. That's not to mention the glaring reflections on the windscreen while drivi
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by kranner 6y ago
There is also his Dogs of War [1] which is about uplifted dogs. [1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35827220.Dogs_of_War
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It also has oats, though only 10%.
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I have a 2nd-generation Paperwhite that I haven’t used in a couple of years because it keeps slowing down a few weeks after booting. It also slows down immediately if I sideload more than a handful of e-book files. I switched to an iPad Min

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