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541.
by kranner 7y ago
> if they can shift their consciousness to a form of duality with a virtual agent by sufficient sensory override. Can you explain what you mean? It seems we already have this with naïve use of consumer VR devices on most VR experiences.
542.
by kranner 7y ago
But they're resilient as a group! Unless you could flip them all at once.
543.
by kranner 7y ago
It is not a myth though that they have been around for 320 million years; that is resilience.
544.
by kranner 7y ago
Try soaking overnight and rinsing thoroughly before cooking (if you don't already do).
545.
by kranner 7y ago
I'd love to move everyone in India to the other side of the world so they can pick up better cultural norms and such, but it seems an unrealistic proposition.
546.
by kranner 7y ago
Obviously. Except when there are four two-wheelers tailgating you and braking would cause them to collide with you , or at least slow down all the traffic behind you so that everyone is now honking at you. It's probably hard to unders
547.
by kranner 7y ago
No one is justifying impatient honking at traffic lights. My "excuses" as you've put them are situations that occur everyday on Indian roads where honking is an alternative to colliding with and running over people and animal
548.
by kranner 7y ago
> I've been to Mumbai (and Delhi and a few other cities for that matter), and it is not for the safety. I live in India, and a lot of times it is for safety. It's not always about people crossing the road. There are people walk
549.
by kranner 7y ago
The von Neumann story is apocryphal. I've read it before but it was Nikola Tesla instead of von Neumann in that version. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/know-where-man/
550.
by kranner 7y ago
Angel Tax was not 'ended'. There are still many conditions under which it is still applicable, governing both who can invest in a startup and how the startup can spend its money. [1] A bigger issue which is still applicable today
551.
by kranner 7y ago
5% (up to 15%) of the amount to be refunded, which for exporters is all of their GST, which can be up to 28% of the gross value of goods sold. Just a twitter search for "GST refund bribe" will show a lot of examples.
552.
by kranner 7y ago
https://inc42.com/features/the-curse-of-angel-tax-travelkhan... In addition to incidents like these, corruption is widespread in India. Exports qualify for GST exemption or refund, but in practice refunds are hard to g
553.
by kranner 7y ago
Which Indian languages are these? In Hindi it is just "ध्यान देना", i.e. "giving attention".
554.
by kranner 7y ago
I'm not sure I see the pain point of being a non-employee Indian developer for someone who's already working for a foreign employer. As a consultant, a developer can file their income tax return under 44ADA and save a huge amount
555.
by kranner 7y ago
It's really "Shavasana" or (in IAST [1]) "Śavāsana". It is a spelling mistake to omit the acute accent from the initial Ś- or not spell it Sh-. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Al
556.
by kranner 7y ago
> Where do you actually find good mental health practitioners in India? There's this crowdsourced list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pzckT6ns2H1IlmwYwJa8...
557.
by kranner 7y ago
> On the contrary, nothing in science is ever proven, only disproven. Sure, but science is a specific case and I was talking about the all-or-nothing nature of the meaning of 'proven' itself.
558.
by kranner 7y ago
> At this point wasn't it logically correct to say that's scientifically proven? Ah, I see. Yes, at that point it would have been correct to claim that it was proven.
559.
by kranner 7y ago
> I usually mention that's kind of proven to help scientifically (at least in some papers) and empirically but avoid saying its efficiency is a strict fact. All good but I must disagree with “kind of proven”. Things can be either pr
560.
by kranner 7y ago
Fair point, but may I ask if you feel there is an improvement intuitively, or if you also measure it in some way (other than the game score itself).
561.
by kranner 7y ago
It is still controversial whether n-back games improve working memory outside of the game context. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-back : > Two studies published in 2012 failed to reproduce the effect of dual n-
562.
by kranner 7y ago
Game 3 (All you can E.T.) which I just installed is 267.7MB on iOS, for what looks and plays like a flash game. The Android version is 39MB, so they should probably compress their textures or something in the iOS build. Looks like it was bu
563.
by kranner 7y ago
> By analogy, when you are being attacked by a hater, like many famous people, I don't think social planning is your first order response. Much like if someone were to hold you up with a gun, your immediate response wouldn't be
564.
by kranner 7y ago
> not being reborn was rebellious to the status quo where rebirth was seen as natural. The Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita from the Hindu traditions primarily discuss liberation from rebirth and various paths to it. [1] At least some of
565.
by kranner 7y ago
> The author I felt fell in the same trap Goenka does of criticising Gunaratne. Author here. Goenka didn't criticise Gunaratane, or even mention him or any other Buddhist teacher by name. The most specific he got was when he was exp
566.
by kranner 7y ago
Author here. I've had similar or more reduction in food intake on intermittent fasting regimens over extended periods. They didn't seem to nudge my sense of smell much, if at all.
567.
by kranner 7y ago
These would ruin the joke.
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Adventures at the Vipassana Enlightenment Factory(karanvas.com)
42 points by kranner 7y ago|34 comments
569.
by kranner 7y ago
Flooding and drought are both problems in India. Water table below the reach of submersible pumps is likely to become a huge issue as millions who depend on farming will lose their livelihoods (on top of the debt that many are already under
570.
by kranner 7y ago
> If a patent clerk is confused by the patent, then it should be rejected not granted. I think GP means so confused they don't know they're confused.

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