lake99

36 ms·

301.
by lake99 11y ago
Anand Ranganathan wrote a good response to this article [1]. The TL;DR of it all was that the NTY article is too alarmist, and cites scant and old data, and that India still needs to needs to conduct more research on this issue. Edit: for b
302.
by lake99 11y ago
Thousands of kids are already sent from one place to another in India. It's usually kids from cities who are sent off to boarding schools in more isolated locations, usually because the parents have jobs that make it inconvenient to ra
303.
by lake99 11y ago
You're right. It seems that jsudhams is exhibiting a kind if ingroup bias. People of lower classes can believe that the upper classes use their wealth to strongarm people, and people of upper classes can believe that the lower class pe
304.
by lake99 11y ago
> doctors are bribed to break laws about giving information about the sex of an unborn child I have written on HN several times about corruption in India, but this is one of the kinds of corruption I have never seen. I have several fri
305.
by lake99 11y ago
I see. Thank you for the clarification. I was hoping you'd tell me that there are quite a few active users who are developing cool stuff for Plan 9.
306.
by lake99 11y ago
I can't offer a rationale, because I have no say in the matter, or even a preference, one way or another. I asked out of mere curiosity. But if you were to tell me that the Go team dropped support for Plan 9, for the same reason they d
307.
by lake99 11y ago
I was surprised to see Plan 9 still supported. Are there any core Go developers who still use Plan 9 as one of their primary work machines? Is Plan 9's userbase growing?
308.
by lake99 11y ago
Positrons are way more common than that, i.e. only in the early universe, black holes, particle accelerators. They are emitted in a kind of radioactive decay, and are the basis of PET scanners.
309.
by lake99 11y ago
> Reason.com is a libertarian/conservative-leaning publication that has a bias in this game. No, that was an article by one of their religious-leaning members. Other atheist-leaning members often write articles that are more friendl
310.
by lake99 11y ago
> You're not really disputing what I said: Mercurial is much, much slower than Git. Yes, I am. And I gave a reference for it. > Facebook forked it and managed to make it faster but they never released their fork so nobody can act
311.
by lake99 11y ago
> The fact that Mercurial is written in Python has a big impact on its performance, and git is running rings around it as a result. When you run tens of commands every day, it adds up. This wasn't the case at all. In their early yea
312.
by lake99 11y ago
> If someone made an Arch installer that automatically set up networking and persisted the setup, as well as partitioning/mounting, I would be on board. Netctl gets bundled in the install images because it is small. But after you ha
313.
by lake99 12y ago
"Peeing Calving" stickers are way too common in India.
314.
by lake99 12y ago
I welcome all kinds of socio-economic experiments. If people were free to try out various scenarios, we'd have a much better understanding of socio-economics. > I'd much rather have no man's land, than have a land owned b
315.
by lake99 12y ago
I wish more articles were like this, a general-interest article written by academics, and linked to a published paper. From the article: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/04/08/1418878112.abst..
316.
by lake99 12y ago
Not only that, it takes away an avenue for companies with large coffers from doing charity. For example, Google might want to make all of Khan Academy available via 'zero bandwidth' to Indian customers, by footing the bills themse
317.
by lake99 12y ago
Also for people new to NetHack, don't expect to last more than a few minutes if you're not using the net. There are websites, forums, chatrooms to help you get started. You can start with a community-made beginners' guide ht
318.
by lake99 12y ago
Yes, but at the end of it all, you have a fully supported distro with Arch. And by "supported", I mean that there are regular updates for your packages, very good instructions to learn stuff, an excellent support forum, etc.
319.
by lake99 12y ago
Not only does it censor, it gives some people undue power. A few days ago, I commented on a now flagkilled post. Within a couple of hours, some 15-20 other people had commented on it, and each and every post, except mine, was grayed out fro
320.
by lake99 12y ago
I was hoping that this report was some April fools' prank, but it seems to be corroborated by a source that's better for all things Stanford. http://www.stanforddaily.com/2015/03/30/graduate-student-
321.
by lake99 12y ago
Neil deGrasse Tyson and Brian Cox (not NASA, of course) have been doing a great job, and things will only get better, with more discoveries, and better ways of communicating those discoveries.
322.
by lake99 12y ago
Mods, can you please replace the above link with a direct link to the file hosted on the Indian Supreme Court's website? http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/FileServer/2015-03-24_1427...
323.
by lake99 12y ago
I have read Godel-Escher-Bach, and that's how I discovered Bach's music. A few years later, I came across BBC's Discovering Music series, and one presenter gave a very good talk on the Goldberg Variations. He had a player wit
324.
by lake99 12y ago
Thank you. They are exactly what I was looking for. I'll spend a few days on these :)
325.
by lake99 12y ago
Thank you. I'll read it, of course, but later tonight. What I had in mind was something more specific to the WTC pieces. I've heard them, and I like them. But I want to learn a greater degree of appreciation for each of the pieces
326.
by lake99 12y ago
> So while J.S. Bach didn't invent well-tempered tuning, the 48 was his major, if not defining contribution to making it popular, as the 48 was pretty much The Music Theory Bible for generations of composers. Could someone point me
327.
by lake99 12y ago
While technology and politics have rendered many of his answers obsolete, a few of his answers would be considered quite outrageous now: 134. Who discovered the Pacific Ocean? Balboa. And what of the people living by it for millennia? (From
328.
by lake99 12y ago
Thank you for taking questions. Can you give me a rough idea when you'll have the bitbucket migration tools in place?
329.
by lake99 12y ago
I agree that there was no actual SWATing in Cernovich's case. He has been reported to the LAPD (probably several times) for harassment. However he has been doxxed, and I don't know how you're saying none of it was done by Qui
330.
by lake99 12y ago
How about shedding light on the matter with actual information rather than trying to score with empty rhetoric? I'm sorry if I'm asking for too much.

More ›