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by msiyer 8y ago
Income tax is ridiculous. Especially in India with the stats I presented. How exactly are tenants getting the better end of the deal? It is the tenenat who: - pays the rent which is arbitrarily high and increases every year thereby offsetti
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> You salary is taxed at 35% effectively This is what is directly visible. Less than 3% of the population pays income tax while tax is deducted at source for the salaried class: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news&#
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The monument is being neglected. The current government has an attitude which is very similar to ”not invented here" whereby anything not created by Hindus is not to be valued: https://www.firstpost.com/india/yogi-
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This is a path one can choose. Another is to rediscover the childlike wonderment by becoming a keen observer of nature. It strips away the ego. We do not really invent anything. We mimic nature. All our Mathematics, Science and Technology a
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Monopolies, whether ephemeral or eternal, are bad. Disappearance of a monopoly does not mean the data collected disappears nor does it repair the torn social fabric.
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>> "When it starts to matter, I'll spend the time looking into it. Until then, I try to know just enough to clue me into whether it might matter." Exactly. Stack and heap are not important in the C# example I gave. What
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I agree. I have known people who would not move to the next chapter in a book unless they understood the one they are reading in its entirety. I have pointed out the inherent impossibility of such an endeavor. They do not listen. I think th
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Linux is not ready for mass market. I think, proprietary file formats, vendor lock-in, monopolistic and restrictive trade practices etc. are reasons why users dread switching OSs. I my opinion, OS itself has very little value to the end use
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Cannot agree at all. I switched to Arch Linux when RedHat was swallowed by IBM. KDE Plasma 5 is my thing. Windows 10 is a VM guest in Arch host. 32GB workstation, multiple monitors - 2 24 inch Dell monitors, 1 Haeir 55 inch, SSDs and Wester
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I agree with most of what you say. If living beyond the age we were designed for is the cause, I wonder why the American Cancer Society says: By 2030 the incidence rates among people ages 20 – 34 years will increase by 90% for colon cancer
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> Cancer requires several mutations to line up in ways that allows cells to start multiplying without constraint - evading normal growth controls and apoptosis and the immune system and such. In that case, either we are engineered badly
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I am honestly curious. What exactly is the root cause of cancer? The article talks about cancerous cells tricking the immune system, but this trickery is the result of something else. Immune system, in a healthy body, eliminates cancer cell
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> The customer gets to have their body float through space for millennia. Cool! We are floating through space. In a huge spacecraft called earth. Aren't we?
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A myopic solution. We have no idea what role these problematic insects and weeds play in the grand scheme of things. Killing them is one thing. Elimination of species is a totally different game.
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> And raw red meat is a category 2a carcinogen That makes it safe to consume?
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My point is that body will adapt to all situations. Smoke your first cigarette and body revolts. It becomes progressively easy. Body adapted. Is it good? Same with milk, meat, sugar...
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> People have been eating meat, bread, and vegetables for thousands of years without issue. If any of these were the problem, the human race would be dead by now. People have been smoking for thousands of years. Smoking causes cancer was
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Bread is bad. Refined wheat flour baked; full of acrylamide. Beef is as bad. And what about all the cheese? Vegetables are better, but still not the best as far as human digestive system is concerned. Look around you. If these things were s
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If you are "obsessing over food" during Ramadan you are doing it wrong.
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People have done and do stupid stuff. What's your point?
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Stake tartare is a dish. Ground raw flesh mixed with other ingredients. Cannot count this. > 'dry-aged beef' is still rather sought after. "The process of dry-aging "The process of dry-aging"... Processed. Cannot
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> We have evolved to consume meat, as well has plant matter OK. Let us not argue this point. > So has circumcision. I say that as someone not categorically opposed to it - but to say that just because something has been done a lot, do
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I am not so sure. A mouse does not cook flesh, we do. They eat rotten flesh too. The day humans can eat uncooked\rotten flesh and not fall sick, I will consider us to be omnivores.
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> Let's begin with the fact that we're not lions. We're not even carnivores. It is evident we are not lions. It is also evident that we are not carnivores. Are you sure we are omnivores? Fasting has been recommended in Eas
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Also look at osteoporosis rates in Western cultures. Lactose tolerance\intolerance is the term. I can smoke 20 cigarettes a day and my body tolerates that. Does not mean it is good for me.
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Who came first? Why do we need to assign a Western figure to a method preached by eastern philosophers?
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Why do all wild lions look the same? Are their bodies not complex like ours? Fasting is followed by animals too. When they fall sick they fast. Deliberate fasting in humans is a necessity because humans eat unnatural food.
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Burgers are terrible food. They are addictive and are loaded with empty calories. Edit: Downvoting me will not change facts.
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I do not think so. Mahavira (Jainism), Buddha and countless other saints have preached the benefits of such diets for thousands of years in India.
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For the majority, losing weight is not tough in theory. In practice, however, will-power causes most trouble. It is really easy. Species-specific diet can do wonders in a very short time. I have tried it with my dogs and I am trying this on

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