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by kranner 4y ago
By this logic, you can't even use the word "Aatma" without in every instance defining it down to the nines since you can't be sure at first, even in a context of two Indians talking to each other, that both of them under
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by kranner 4y ago
No evidence is presented for the purported mistranslations (of pretty subjective things to start with) as deliberate . You’d have to show that Wendy Doniger knew what e.g. the painting actually represented, for a fact, and still published
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by kranner 4y ago
The video cited claims at 8:55 that the English word “student” comes from the Sanskrit words “stuti” (a text containing learning, according to the video) and “anta” (the final goal, according to the video). This is WhatsApp-level misinforma
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by kranner 4y ago
Do you have an example of a specific deliberate mistranslation by, let’s say, Wendy Doniger?
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by kranner 4y ago
They don't seem to translate prosody at all! The Indian accent comes through bright and clear in a few places, especially in: * "How are you today?" * "Please give me a minute to check on that." * "Let's s
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by kranner 4y ago
Fellow Blackadder lover here. Agree that the first season was not that great compared to the subsequent seasons. The big change was a smaller budget (indoor shoots only) and bringing in Ben Elton as a writer. Also of course the Blackadder c
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by kranner 4y ago
> Twitter doesn't allow for paragraphs, just sentences (and short ones at that). Paragraphs should have an internal cohesion to help the reader absorb the concept being presented. Once you have that, you can start chaining paragraph
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by kranner 4y ago
I don't know; "absolutely" can add emphasis. Advising someone not to use it because "agree" covers it anyway feels like trying to suppress their personality. We're communicating, not playing language golf.
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by kranner 5y ago
Not the same thing but related: https://debugger.medium.com/a-search-engine-that-finds-you-w...
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by kranner 5y ago
Doesn't match mine. The people I know who do this come across as insecure and defensive. I think it takes high self-esteem to not feel as if apologising for your mistakes would lessen you in any way.
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by kranner 5y ago
Yes, that was overly loose wording on my part. I wanted to convey that there are rituals and formalisms around wearing turbans.
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by kranner 5y ago
Thank you. I was trying to keep it understated, but it was the equivalent of seeing a Jewish-sounding name and depicting the person as a yarmulke-wearing Orthodox Jew without their consent. Anyone with a broadly shared cultural background a
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by kranner 5y ago
Sangeeth is not a Sikh name. In India people don't convert to Sikhism, or at least I'm a middle-aged Indian and I've lived here all my life, I've never seen it happen. There's a certain foreign subculture of America
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by kranner 5y ago
Thanks JadeNB. I'm pretty sure that renato_cassutt didn't mean any harm and that the testimonial is from a real user. The context that many are missing here is that a turban is religious headwear like a yarmulke. As a Sikh you hav
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by kranner 5y ago
Hi renato_casutt, I'm not offended at all and congratulations on launching. I only commented to point out that the turban+name combination makes the comment look inauthentic which may be an issue in the intended use of the comment as s
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by kranner 5y ago
I have some feedback regarding the testimonial from “Sangeeth”, whose Memoji shows a Sikh person. Did the user choose their Memoji? The two don’t go together well for reasons of odd cultural differences in the Roman/Latin transliterati
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by kranner 5y ago
I had an iOS speed-reading app at the time and considered integrating their API because users requested it. Not only would they have required individual users to sign in to their API via my app, IIRC their terms allowed them to track what e
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by kranner 5y ago
I was responding to a comment that spoke about employers who value employees as if this is always clear to employees, or even true in the long run.
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by kranner 5y ago
Hardly needless. Employers throw out faithful and dedicated employees all the time, even in ageist industries where it is difficult for them to find another job. I saw this happen to a close friend's father; their financial stability c
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by kranner 5y ago
Personally I agree that meditation isn't appropriate for everyone. But a specific issue about Vipassana is that it is marketed as a panacea, though historically it was developed as a practice to make monks out of householders. If it&#x
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by kranner 5y ago
Psychonetics discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28838445
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by kranner 5y ago
The paper you've linked to ( https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691617709589 ) points out methodological flaws in meditation-related research, ambiguities in the meaning of "mindfulne
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by kranner 5y ago
If it can be proved that it really would be just one bad day, e.g. if the animals don't figure out that their friends are disappearing one by one and the same is about to happen to them any day. Clearly the burden of proof is not on th
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by kranner 5y ago
Leaving out people with e.g. clinical depression, this is still only true for some people. The rest don't believe that they can simply choose to be happy regardless of circumstances, and therefore they can't. I don't think we
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by kranner 5y ago
> I've always said that there's no such thing as an ex-smoker; they're smokers who haven't smoked in a long time. This kind of absolutism may end up discouraging present-day smokers from trying to quit at all. It&#x27
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by kranner 5y ago
> Things feel good or they feel bad at a level far below anything resembling what they are. This primal good-or-bad feeling is known as Vedana in classical Buddhism. On an at-home meditation retreat two months ago I had begun to see this
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by kranner 5y ago
> Amazon's packaging and the delivery boy is pretty funny though. Googling 'site:amazon.in "delivery boy"': - There is no problem with the product,but the delivery boy charged extra 12 Rs,and said it will be adju
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by kranner 5y ago
Well the book is separate from the medium, and even just in paper/softcover there are possibly multiple editions available, some with better printing than others. Indian editions are typically cheaper and printed on inferior paper. Reg
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by kranner 5y ago
I don't know if this is common outside Amazon India, but for almost every book listing that has any reviews at all, there is at least one negative review solely for the quality of the paper, or the book not being reasonably priced, or
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by kranner 5y ago
I believe the new mixing algorithm is only available in the latest version of their desktop software Rebelle (version 5). This browser-based demo hasn't been updated since 2015, I think.

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