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by lake99 13y ago
I'll clarify. I'll make no comments about medicine - I know nothing about education in this field. The bachelors programs in the IITs are great, by global standards. IISc does some cool work too. Leaving those aside, a BS in engineering (ca
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by lake99 13y ago
I agree that nationalism is ruining India. But, this article paints quite a one-sided picture. You can see that in this sentence: "Indian students are taking their useless Indian liberal arts degrees and going abroad to get real ones that s
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by lake99 13y ago
I know that's what was intended in the joke. We can't just assume the variable with respect to which it was integrated. I gave a counterexample.
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by lake99 13y ago
The joke about the integral of 1/cabin is wrong. Integral with respect to what? Integral[1/cabin, x] = x/cabin + k
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by lake99 13y ago
Mercury[1], a derivative of Prolog does away with these cuts. So I guess that these declarative short-circuits in Prolog are just a fault that arose because some things were not thought through in the creation of Prolog. [1] http://mercury
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by lake99 13y ago
I looked at http://www.vim.org/maillist.php and came across https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/vim_use . I came across plenty of tips there, but that's mostly in QA form. If you want to read just tips, try http://vim.wik
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by lake99 13y ago
Quite odd that in the last two polls on editors, it turned out that HN has about half as many emacs users as vim users. And still, we have this disproportionate barrage of vim tips, vim tricks, vim productivity boosts, and what not. Isn't t
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by lake99 13y ago
> And there's maybe 20-25 mathematics professors at each university. Yitang Zhang is not a professor, he is a lecturer [1][2]. A quick seach on Google Scholar reveals that people with that name have published extremely few papers in mat
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by lake99 13y ago
Ron Paul and Rand Paul are vastly different from each other. I wouldn't ever talk about them as if they have similar principles. I am not trying to defend Ron Paul or Rand here. I will tell you my own views on your list of things. Perhaps t
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by lake99 13y ago
Sure, the private-property solution can work well, as can active governmental protection. In this case though, Belizean laws made the destruction easy. This monument was on private property, but the monument itself was under government "pro
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by lake99 13y ago
I hope Belize and other such places learn their lesson from this about leaving important places unprotected. For instance, if someone can blow up Giant Crystal Cave of Mexico, just for the fun of it, someone will, eventually. It's not a
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by lake99 13y ago
India does not have a big problem with food production. It has a problem with the storage and dispersal of food. The problem is not with the tech, but with management (in turn, with corruption). Power: The only tech that can fix it is cost-
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by lake99 13y ago
> As for searching, try Wikipedia. It will get you to the labor laws in question and from there the laws of the land. All I see is, "Wikipedia/Google. Therefore, I am right." I know contract workers are not entitled to pensions from cli
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by lake99 13y ago
> The burden of proof is on you; For what claims of mine? > People can't be fired Ha! I have seen people getting fired all the time! Did you mean blue-collar workers can't be fired? > I can corroborate everything ... With anecdo
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by lake99 13y ago
I don't know what actual article you are referring to, other than the one at the link posted. > but it does state the numbers behind its assertions. I mentioned the lack of some specific numbers for some specific assertions. Can you dir
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by lake99 13y ago
> Well do you have any figures to back your clam that this is an idiotic piece? The article was arguing for "How India is throwing away the world’s biggest economic opportunity". I don't need data to show the arguments were weak. I
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by lake99 13y ago
I have the impression that the landmass of India is insufficient to sustain its population. Let's say the food supply is managed perfectly (it isn't) and no one is going hungry. How about the fact that 60% of the population does not have ac
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by lake99 13y ago
Words, words, and more empty words! > But the likes of Bharat Forge and Mahindra & Mahindra prefer to employ sophisticated machinery rather than abundant labour. Surely, it employs labour. Why does the author claim that machines are
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by lake99 13y ago
Yikes! This has been a revelation. I had never realized that such a large portion of the edits are malevolent. Within the first couple of minutes of using it, I saw someone replace a useful citation URL by a link to Facebook, a few instance
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by lake99 13y ago
Over here, on Linux-land, I used to have PS-envy whenever I thought about the PowerShell. You cured me! Though I don't use Trash/Recycle myself, to contrast, I like the simplicity of rm -rf ~/.local/share/Trash/info ~/.local/share/Tra
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by lake99 13y ago
Geoffrey Pullum is a reputed professor of Linguistics. Yet, the article comes off as written by an awfully ignorant person. Forget pragmatics. There won't be a generic (cross-domain) solution for that any time soon. What happened to Powerse
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by lake99 13y ago
I agreed with tocomment that it was a biased sampling not in the sense that planetary systems happen to be this way in the region we are looking at , but in the sense that planetary systems seem to be this way when we look at things from
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by lake99 13y ago
Unusual is a subjective term. She says 10%-20% of the planetary systems are like ours. Are you saying that that was the point made in the original article too?
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by lake99 13y ago
tocomment is right. Watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JTneTI82nE from 5:00 to 7:00. Yes, scientists may have been quoted in this article, but I have seen how most journalists mangle, ignore, or sensationalize things that were said.
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by lake99 13y ago
Mailinator is your friend.
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by lake99 13y ago
I am not sure what you mean by " Therefore group attacks, and group retaliation are a necessity, and they will exist regardless...", so I'm curious why you are singling out Islam, when group violence has been inevitable across all races, re
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by lake99 13y ago
The train was returning from Ayodhya, the center of another religious controversy [1]. It's one thing to serve mob-justice to the people who burnt the train, it's an entirely different thing to "serve" it to all kinds of Muslims who are com
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by lake99 13y ago
> All the austrian economics fans ... Depends on why one is a fan of Austrian economics. There is this (strawman) group that Krugman loves calling "austerians". And then, there are others who subscribe to the idea of "Not Yours to Give"
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by lake99 13y ago
The barbaric religions, in the Indian context, are Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity. Of the three, Christians have lost the power they used to have, and have taken to subtler tactics, i.e. of brainwashing children, etc. (Take kids on a tri
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by lake99 13y ago
Not Western at all. I'm an Indian, and I tend to think of Buddhists as pacifists too. Yes, Buddhism spread with the power of Buddhist-sympathizer kings. But when I look at (what little there is of) Indian history, I see Brahmins being frigh

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