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by msiyer 8y ago
If I eat 5 burgers a day and reduce it to 2 a day, I will lose weight. However, no amount of burgers is good. For more than a decade I had been fasting intermittently. I ate one very huge meal everyday. Typical Indian meal with fair bit of
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Free speech to be really free must be free of consequences. This also requires a rational, mature audience. The fear of consequences will not allow free speech to exist. Preaching Bible can offend my atheist neighbor. My neighbor's bla
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Finding the true strength hidden deep inside is the only way to not get lost in the chaos of achieving more than the other guy. Something Alexander Grothendieck said is so relevant: In those critical years I learned how to be alone. [But ev
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Trying to effect large-scale changes without rectifying fundamental issues is futile. We all want to change the system, but the system is only a large-scale reflection of individuals constituting the system.
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The link says: > Passphrases are optional. Your synced data is always protected by encryption when it's in transit. Data is protected when in transit and passphrase is optional. How is this a good feature?
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Spare time is important, money not all. Homeless people (homeless due to circumstances or by choice) can have extremely well-behaved dogs. Gypsy groups, tribal people and wandering monks in India are examples I have seen.
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There are evil forces. We need to protect ourselves. We need military. However, it is naive to think that we, as citizens in a democracy, have any say in the wars we engage in. If we have no say, who does? If we have no say, is the one who
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>> Eating meat is a manly-man activity This is something that baffles me. The biggest, strongest mammals are herbivorous - elephant, bull, bison... Even the best carnivorous animals meditate for a few hours and seek divine help before
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Look at "leaders" all around the world. Past and present. And look at condition of the world around you. It is people's fault that they become our "leaders". It is a crime that we let them remain in position.
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If we look closely, we will soon realize that everything favors tyranny. Religious institutions, political institutions, educational institutions... The problem is humanity has a tendency to pick or gravitate to morally weak specimens for l
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Very well said. Too much dry thought and almost no fertile community-oriented emotions.
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A very few powerful men have been abusing other men for generations too. Women in such powerful families were no less abusive. Why are we ignoring the suffering of men?
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That is a myopic view of history.
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We are centuries behind because we do not embrace the beauty of dimorphism. One sex complements the other. This is not a war for supremacy.
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This world is built upon the dead bodies of men. Men who fought wars to protect their kin, men who fell from the top of buildings they were constructing, men who suffocated to death deep in the tunnels, or drowned in the ocean... Let us not
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If that is your argument, I would say men have done a commendable job. They supported women for centuries while building a society that would eventually let women not be dependent on men.
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Vision without wisdom is always myopic. People have a tendency to mistake smartness for wisdom. A grave error. Why is it that everything we touch gets ruined?
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What you say makes complete sense. It is correct as per my observations. However, one big issue is that sociopaths (manipulators, idea\effort-appropriators...) have an edge. Also, such people accumulate and ruin workplace.
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Agree. What bothers me most is the price David has to pay to slay the ToS of the Goliath. It is prohibitive, to say the least. Thus, there is nothing to stop this trend of ridiculous ToSs. Such violation of human rights should attract swift
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The logic that substantiated slavery, genocides, wars... had the same soul your logic has - greed. Greed is never good for the society. Do not forget that we are social animals.
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Cost is the most important concern. Various factors add to it. Time taken to deliver justice, if it ever can be, is the major factor. The justice system is set up like a religion. Even a group of victims with a common influential adversary
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> Sadly, even if this is unenforceable, the potential legal battle to have it declared so would be scary enough to quash some criticism. I have seen this happen in so many cases all over the world. Supreme Court orders can be ignored by
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Can total data consumed be more than (31 x 24 x 60 x 60)s x 50 Mbps in any month of the year? Let us stop pretending that the lawyers who approve corporate literature are innocent and just misinterpreted the meaning of the word "unlimi
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The audit is a joke. Just hogwash. What exactly happens if wrongdoings are unearthed? What happens when taxpayers' money is found lost? Nothing. Pentagon eats up trillions and no one has a clue. Trillions paid out in bank bailouts and
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Central banks can never be held accountable for anything. In most cases, they cannot even be audited.
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Yes. These negative forces feed on our negative reaction. My rottweiler is barked upon rather aggressively by the street dogs whenever we go for walks. He does not care; does not even look at them. He has a happy family and he is happy. I l
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This is in no way a deep problem. We make it deep by using psychological mumbo-jumbo, being too politically correct, getting triggered too easily, destroying the family support system... Start taking these less seriously. Start building bet
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Stop hating hate speech and start hating censorship. Hate speech is bad only if we let it affect us. Censorship is bad because someone else decides what we need to think and how we need to react.
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"breaking a few eggs": We can surely afford to lose a few cars. I hope that is what you meant.
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Democracy is a function of many variables. "An average high intelligence of population" and "high tolerance for seemingly outrageous ideas" are important ones. Humans have rigid belief-systems (comfort zone) and show ver

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