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by kranner 7y ago
I do think belief in God is irrational, but I don't dismiss people for being religious because I understand that such belief offers great emotional support. There is a difference between someone who holds personal religious beliefs and
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by kranner 7y ago
I didn't meant that at all.
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by kranner 7y ago
One of the OED meanings is still "appalling, dreadful, weird". I've seen usage meaning the same as "terrifying" in older texts but I can't find an example just now.
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by kranner 7y ago
No, I meant "awesome" but "awful" is an even better example.
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by kranner 7y ago
If we take archaic usage into account, there are many more words that now mean the opposite of what they used to mean, e.g. “awesome”.
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by kranner 7y ago
His answers such as water retaining emotional memories? Trapping spirits in boxes after Tantric rituals like Ghostbusters? No thanks, it's plainly nonsense.
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by kranner 7y ago
Kindles are awesome e-readers. They can read .mobi files, the battery time is in weeks and the e-ink display is very easy on the eyes.
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by kranner 7y ago
You could unpack the ePubs, edit the CSS and repack it; and then they would work with all readers.
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by kranner 7y ago
I have no commute as I’ve been fully remote for the last 8 years. But traffic is insanely bad in places like Bangalore and people just can’t choose to live in smaller places because 99% of the jobs in India are in places like Bangalore. The
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by kranner 7y ago
> I happen to like the side-effect on work-life balance. There's no problem with work-life balance while working remote. You can even have better work-life balance as you don't need to take half a day off from work to attend to
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by kranner 7y ago
> This will result in people making wherever they live better instead of just moving to a better city. Maybe in the long term. In the immediate future, it would lead to massive economic recession due to labour shortages in high-employmen
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by kranner 7y ago
https://outline.com/FP487e
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by kranner 7y ago
Ted Chiang's short story 'The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling' is very relevant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_of_Fact,_the_Truth_o...
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by kranner 7y ago
https://outline.com/mfkcE7
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by kranner 7y ago
You really should warn people you're talking about a cannabis-laced drink.
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by kranner 7y ago
Some of the oldest parts of Varanasi were demolished last year in a ‘beautification’ drive by the government. https://www.firstpost.com/india/varanasi-locals-unhappy-with...
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by kranner 7y ago
Could have retained the high-density layout for desktop.
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by kranner 7y ago
Wow, wow. This information is greatly appreciated, many thanks.
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by kranner 7y ago
You’re right, my sloppy remark was incorrect. Is there any reading you can recommend in this area, anything that may come to mind easily?
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by kranner 7y ago
That's why I said Pali, or something like Pali. Pali words seem like they are vulgarised Sanskrit words. Fire in Pali is 'aggi'. Seems a plausible link between 'agni' and 'aag'.
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by kranner 7y ago
Sorry, I didn't realise it was rhetorical. If we discount direct borrowings from Sanskrit, I guess there would be very little left. Something like Pali, essentially.
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by kranner 7y ago
> while completely ignoring all else that makes a language. What else makes a language? Syntax? Hindi and Urdu have almost identical syntax. There are more syntactical differences between Hindi and Punjabi than there are between Hindi an
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by kranner 7y ago
I've grown up in North India and have never word anyone speak the word "avashya" outside of a Hindi lesson. I can only assume your grandmother was using it as an exemplar for your benefit. Perhaps there are communities where
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by kranner 7y ago
Hindi and Urdu both. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9A%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AD%E...
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by kranner 7y ago
Even the Hindiest of the Hindi-speaking people, e.g. in Uttarakhand say "zaroor". You will only find someone like a Hindi teacher or a priest using a word like "avashya" when they're trying to signal that they are e
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by kranner 7y ago
Yes, but I didn't say there was no word in formal Hindi that didn't mean the same thing as 'zaroor'. I said 'nishchit' isn't that word. 'Avashya' is again a word you wouldn't be able to use
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by kranner 7y ago
Most people just use words in the former category. A lot of people wouldn't even recognise some of the words in the latter category if they heard them being spoken, as opposed to seeing them in writing.
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by kranner 7y ago
> Just because zaroor is commonly used doesn't make it Hindi. By this reasoning Urdu is the most widely spoken language of India. 'Nishchit' doesn't even by itself replace 'zaroor'. 'Nishchit' mean
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by kranner 7y ago
You may like ritual-X-ostensibly-to-facilitate-end-Y now , but surely when you first started following ritual X it was to achieve end Y, and not just to have a ritual you would eventually come to like for its own sake.
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by kranner 7y ago
Great!

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