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by rajekas 7y ago
Many many years ago, I used to take the 560 from Kamal Cinema to Connaught Place (in Delhi for those who don't know these references) with a couple of geeky friends. We would walk from the CP bus terminus to Connaught Circle, grab a bi
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by rajekas 7y ago
I am Indian, I am vegan and was brought up vegetarian and I am not short. I am a foot taller than my parents. It has nothing to do with approximating western diets and everything to do with proper nutrition, vegetarian or not.
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He was a wonderful man. I took 6.xxx with him and liked it so much that I started attending his group meetings and eventually asked him to be part of my thesis committee. Some of the best mentoring I have received on the inner workings of a
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by rajekas 7y ago
It's possible without being patronising or racist to say that India needs to follow a different model of development than the western one. In fact, that idea was central to the Gandhian independence struggle - just read the great man&#
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by rajekas 7y ago
As a middle class Indian who lives in the West much of the time, I think you're dead wrong. First of all, almost all the state investments go to the middle class. I was brought up in a state owned company township - in what's call
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by rajekas 7y ago
I am not American though I live in the US and I don't have student debt. I probably won't retire in the US either, which means that all the money I pay into social security is a donation from me to you. And I grew up in circumstan
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by rajekas 7y ago
To be honest, I don't get the mania for processed meat substitutes when there's excellent vegetarian/vegan fare from cuisines that have been doing it for millennia. As an Indian brought up in a vegetarian family, I had no ink
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by rajekas 7y ago
Why is it that when it comes to nonhuman beings we turn to violence first? Then there's the hiding of the violence behind scientized euphemisms for bonus points.
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by rajekas 7y ago
As someone said, probably me, analytic philosophy is precise but boring while continental philosophy is vivid but incoherent. I always enjoy Terry Eagleton's barbed wit - he's convinced me to crack open a pint of Witcraft.
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by rajekas 7y ago
I am not well off. I am not Muslim and I am not a Pakistani woman, but I can see why the NYT is carrying this story. It's been snapping at China's heels all year long, reporting on the various ways in which China is exerting power
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by rajekas 7y ago
Very well done. Strikes me as literate programming married to Anki, so great for explanation as well as memorization.
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by rajekas 7y ago
I have a friend, G, whose father, like Vasily Grossman, was a Jew in the Soviet army. An embedded journalist, just like VG. Stalin only employed Jews in these forward positions because however bad it was on the Soviet side, it was worse in
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by rajekas 7y ago
My earlier comment met with some resistance, so let me try to get some more downvotes by stating my objections once again and more comprehensively. I should say I have nothing against the premise of the business - if it provides livelihood
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by rajekas 7y ago
Not only do I support the continued "stealing," I hope there's a farmer's campaign against Pepsi in India that leads to the company being banned as a whole. They have no idea of the depths of anger emerging out of the on
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by rajekas 7y ago
Except that you don't need to publish journal articles anymore. Instead, combine 1 cup pseudo-psychology, 1 cup vague design principles and 1 cup quotes from Donald Norman and Massimo Vignelli. Sprinkle with Kahnemann on thinking fast
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by rajekas 7y ago
In a strange coincidence, I was flying back from Bangalore in late Jan and the long curly haired person in the Emirates check-in line looked awfully like Richard Stallman. That's because it was Richard Stallman and in good Indian fashi
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by rajekas 8y ago
No I haven't. Seems apropos. For some strange reason, the description reminds of of Erich Maria Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front," which doesn't have much joy in it.
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by rajekas 8y ago
I am not a Christian, never was, but I can't listen to Silent Night without tears coming to my eyes. May there be peace on earth for all beings.
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Brushing off a 4000 year old pot(atlasobscura.com)
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by rajekas 8y ago
Even the name percolates down the sands of time. The fifth Mughal emperor and builder of the Taj Mahal took the name "Shahjahan," i.e., King of the World. Like Ceasar becoming Kaiser, etymology recapitulates history.
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by rajekas 8y ago
You're right - I interpreted the OP as wanting a single blog. The $10 a month or more is for hosting 250 blogs or more. I would say that's a pretty good deal.
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by rajekas 8y ago
It's not $10 bucks a month but $1 or $6. I am a paying customer myself and very happy with the service. They are generous enough to say that if you don't want to pay them money or have a different idea of what a blog should be, th
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by rajekas 8y ago
Feller's two volume classic [1] has plenty of motivation - his exposition of combinatorics at the beginning of the first volume is a great introduction to that subject! However, it wasn't written with algorithms in mind. Venkatesh
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by rajekas 8y ago
I bet aliens love it when you shine a pointer in their eyes
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by rajekas 8y ago
The United States minus Congress is essentially the Chinese system with two parties instead of one - overwhelming authority for the executive, overt and covert threats to get with the program. Not surprising, since our networked, interconne
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by rajekas 8y ago
Sorry for the confusion. What I meant was an analogy - just as Colombia or parts of Mexico were taken over by the narcotics industry and everything about them was transformed by the influx of drug money, Vancouver has been taken over by Chi
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by rajekas 8y ago
In this case, the one nation whose sanctions are likely to impact the culprit is hesitant to do so because that will prevent the sales of weapons that invite the sanctions in the first place.
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by rajekas 8y ago
Absolutely. It would be a sign of progress if politicians and NGOs along with companies stopped taking blood money.
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by rajekas 8y ago
True. In a just world, the UN would be sanctioning KSA for its war in Yemen, but what are the chances of that happening? A privatized version is a modest alternative - a pledge that companies sign and enforce about their sources of financin
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by rajekas 8y ago
Of course, foreign capital inflows are hardly unique to Silicon Valley tech. Dodgy capital finds its way wherever speculation and money laundering are to be had. Real estate is a huge example. We have known for a while that some of the pric

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