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by kranner 7y ago
IMO that is an incorrect understanding of Buddhism. It is not about renunciation of all action. That's the kind of early Western misunderstanding by people like Nietzsche which has painted Buddhism as rooted in nihilism and inaction. Q
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by kranner 7y ago
> We can only take action and in the long run everyone is dead so why not take righteous action along the lines of what you are good at and thus fulfill your duty to society and God. If we're all dead in the long run, why bother wit
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by kranner 7y ago
Is it solely a W.E.I.R.D. view that women have the same agency as men and are not commodities to be protected? If it is, I'd like to think we're all W.E.I.R.D. now.
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by kranner 7y ago
> The Buddhist (and Jain, Ajivaka etc.) view is that results don’t matter because the actions themselves don’t matter—they are delusions. That is not the Buddhist view at all. The Buddha himself spoke about skillful action vs non-skillfu
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by kranner 7y ago
To be fair, the passages in question (this verse and the next few) do talk about equanimity towards results (very Buddhist) as service towards God. However, what God seems to want in the verses happens to be what would be good for society a
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by kranner 7y ago
That's just the mean. It's much more in the cities (because that's where the jobs are), which leads to demand for more construction, which leads to more scarcity, etc.
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by kranner 7y ago
> the rainy season hasn't even started and we've already got almost 6 months worth of rainfall for my city. I presume you're in Tamil Nadu because TN's rainy season is mostly due to the NE monsoon which hasn't st
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by kranner 7y ago
Any chance you could name those apps?
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by kranner 7y ago
> Do your work, don't expect anything in return. Because when you do, your work gets corrupt. This translation doesn't seem to cover the familiar, deeper meaning of the passage. The term कर्म (karma) can refer both to work&#x2F
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by kranner 7y ago
The first line of the article qualifies the title by adding [being born] "to white, well-off parents who lived in thriving communities and were able to send us to excellent schools."
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by kranner 7y ago
> It's not "from scratch" if it's using OpenCV, TensorFlow, and a web service to do all of the work. To be fair, the web service (for which this article appears to be inbound marketing) is optional and presented as an
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by kranner 7y ago
To save others the disappointment of expecting a 2019 update, this is a cleaned-up copy of the classic text.
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by kranner 7y ago
> The solution is to eliminate them entirely and stop creating such insane choices. That solution entails magically ensuring that no one else has such weapons or will develop them. If we had a way of doing that, we wouldn't even nee
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by kranner 7y ago
Apart from scarcity, I wonder what it was about dishes like Fugu[1]. Maybe every fish didn't kill everyone all the time, so the element of danger added to the intrigue, etc. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugu
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by kranner 7y ago
There still has to be a reason to keep experimenting with a plant that keeps killing your patrons. There has to be a belief that in the end it will yield a tasty, non-lethal dish that would be worth the trail of dead bodies the recipe deman
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by kranner 7y ago
That might work except for people who use iOS, for which Syncthing doesn’t have a client yet if I’m not mistaken.
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by kranner 7y ago
> c.) no "cloud" so you have to do your own (e.g., leave an iMac running 24/7 back at your house or something) > That problem has now been solved better, way more securely, and for free. You haven't accounted for t
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by kranner 7y ago
Highlighting Jewish heritage when it is not relevant in this context, thus insinuating that it is relevant in this context, is anti-semitism.
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by kranner 7y ago
This assumes different games are perfectly interchangeable. Would you make the same argument about books? Why does anyone bother to write a new book at all? My answer is that we're really all different: devs and players both. A game de
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by kranner 7y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the local cable network is ultimately owned by one of the local politicians. That seems to be the norm throughout India. But these are not the kind of small businesses I was talking about.
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by kranner 7y ago
You keep changing your comments after I've replied to them. Please mark any edits or addenda separately once someone has replied to that comment.
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by kranner 7y ago
Yes, that's true. There's all kinds of extortion by corrupt cops and government officers. But these shopkeepers are by and large not mafiosi who have to muscle out the competition.
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by kranner 7y ago
You should look at the population density of Indian cities, not the mean population density all across India. Metros like Mumbai and Kolkata are insanely densely populated. When all the good jobs are in cities like these, overpopulation doe
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by kranner 7y ago
> One even sold his hotel When I say 'small shopkeepers', I don't mean people who are rich enough to own hotels. I mean mom and pop grocery shops or the neighbourhood tea stall.
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by kranner 7y ago
> Where will the demand come from if population halved that means half as much demand for your wheat, rice, and all other necessities? How does it matter if there is still enough demand for these goods to be sold out? Remember prices are
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by kranner 7y ago
> Often the ones who have actual shops are sort of mafia types who won't bat an eye to burn your shop or murder you outright This is a bit of fanciful exaggeration. There are a lot of small shopkeepers in India. There is no reason t
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by kranner 7y ago
I don't understand why you think overpopulation is not a problem. If the population of India halved over night, there would be half as many mouths to feed; there would be much less unemployment people could afford to charge higher wage
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by kranner 7y ago
Those statements were made as part of a legal petition when he was a young lawyer in his early 20s, freshly arrived in South Africa, and one who'd had little contact with the Africans. He later came to publicly support African rights a
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by kranner 7y ago
But do most professional settings go to this extent to police their employees: > creating a team of moderators to monitor conversations on company chat boards
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by kranner 7y ago
Even white glossy paint gets the job done. My parents recently had the roof of their house painted white and the indoor temperature has dropped by what feels like at least 5 degrees Celsius. This is in super hot North Indian summer.

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