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by kranner 8y ago
This is a really unproductive class of response to criticism. It's unreasonable and pointlessly limiting to restrict criticism to people who can potentially replicate the results. Also the ad hominem aspect really sours the mood.
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by kranner 8y ago
Serial number works too.
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by kranner 8y ago
I think GP means they don’t need a 350 sq meter rooftop home in Oslo to be happy.
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by kranner 8y ago
Aren't mice already projections into our dimension of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings?
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by kranner 8y ago
Even if that were true, that there is no sentient/intelligent life other than us to recognise beauty and harmony, it still wouldn't give us the right to destroy it. At least until we have the knowledge and ability to recreate all
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by kranner 8y ago
vos Savant's article on this that lists highlights from the letters: http://marilynvossavant.com/game-show-problem/
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by kranner 8y ago
There was the Vietnamese Buddhist monk who self-immolated in public. He appeared to remain calm throughout. Searching for "the burning monk 1963" will turn up images and videos, though I won't link to them here. https:/
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by kranner 8y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the thesis of Bad Blood just that Theranos simply had no groundbreaking new technology? (and of course that Holmes and Balwani lied and bullied their way into an insane valuation for blood-testi
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by kranner 8y ago
I don't know if you know what constitutes 'evidence'. Saying you know a few people to whom it happened does not make it evidence of any sort. I also know people who stopped getting construction work, and shopkeepers who had d
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by kranner 8y ago
This is false. According to the Income Tax department's own admission, it could only get ~1100 people to pay such a penalty between April and November 2017. I've cited a source for this in another reply to you above. Most people w
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by kranner 8y ago
Or you had priority access to the newly issued notes.
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by kranner 8y ago
> The money is back in circulation after people paying at least 50% tax if their cash was unaccounted for, but could range up to 200% penalty if the accounting was particularly shady. Which is why you see such a high deposit rate. People
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by kranner 8y ago
> Most US media outlets want to feed the stereotyped view of India and jump at any chance to do that. You have no way to prove this. > Most people who cry against demo are those who do it, just because they dislike Modi as a person (n
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by kranner 8y ago
Yes it did succeed in rigging the UP elections in favour of the BJP.
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by kranner 8y ago
That demonetisation was a huge negative for the Indian economy is not up for debate anymore. Your anecdotal accounts of people getting paid in advance count for nothing against the millions of people who didn't get paid for past work a
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by kranner 8y ago
> But the main -ve point of this whole process is that one round of demonetization is not enough. 1.5 million jobs were lost during the first four months after demonetisation. And you'd like to see it repeated a few times for the s
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by kranner 8y ago
> The generic किताबी कीड़ा insult is largely for nerds with awkward interests and lifestyles. No, it's a literal translation of "book worm". I've never seen it used for people who just have quirky interests and don&#x2
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by kranner 8y ago
I think that there can be an "inordinate amount of time" you can spend reading is the anti-intellectualism here.
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by kranner 8y ago
I’ve noticed this pattern in myself that I like to call Automatic Pointless Resistance which is especially active when I’m anxious. I overcome it by completely ignoring my feelings and getting started on tasks regardless of how little I wan
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by kranner 8y ago
That’s 25 degrees Celsius. Hardly too hot. With the right clothing, most people should be able to adjust.
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by kranner 8y ago
This passage from Death's End by Cixin Liu really gave me pause to stop and wonder about what the experience of seeing extra dimensions might be like (here translated to English by Ken Liu): -- A person looking back upon the three-dime
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by kranner 8y ago
What is the tradeoff/downside to namespaces? Other than their being cumbersome, but that is upfront, so I don't see the Faustian-ness there.
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by kranner 8y ago
Not GP, but hell yes, worth continuing.
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by kranner 8y ago
Unless you've also seen the South Indian headshake, you might not know exactly what I meant by the culture shock. No Punjabi would do a long, slow sweep of their head to say "yes".
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by kranner 8y ago
> Not talking about the Indian head wobble is just unnecessary hair splitting. It's an interesting phenomenon which is spread widely enough in India and throughout the Indian diaspora that you can call it that. I don't know if
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by kranner 8y ago
Ditto for “Indian accent”. There are hundreds of Indian accents.
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by kranner 8y ago
> When they're used to indicate a separate larger than a comma but less than separate sentences, an em-dash works just a well without any of the pretense It is a kind of snobbery to impute pretense to the use of semicolons over dash
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by kranner 8y ago
Relevant short story from Ted Chiang et al: http://supercommunity.e-flux.com/texts/the-great-silence/
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by kranner 8y ago
Minor disagreement? This was a series of tweets related to an AMA. The other person made some perfectly civil remarks pertinent to the discussion that could have been engaged with, or could have been ignored. Instead the employee went on an
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by kranner 8y ago
> But a smart assistant can just listen to the customer and decide this automatically. But the customer will not start speaking before the system prompts them to speak or asks them a question. And since it has to do that in one fixed lan

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