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by robinsoh 4y ago
> The Vedas are considered revelation from the ultimate reality. As far as I can tell from googling, they are just considered to be stories from Aryans that entered India. "The Vedas are considered the earliest literary record of In
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> All the core teachings lie in Hindu scriptures What does "scripture" mean in this context? Scripture normally means messages 'directly' from the 'Abrahamic God' received by certain 'special individual
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> There's a lots of dev kits, but take for example https://shopkits.eink.com/product/ice-driving-board/ Are you saying the ICE driving board hardcodes waveforms? Where do you see that stated?
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> most dev kits come with a controller which embeds a [proprietary] set of waveforms. That however leaves you with conservative implementations and far from state-of-the-art. Please clarify what dev kits you are referring to. What do you
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by robinsoh 4y ago
Please clarify what you are attempting to communicate with the link to the header file, otherwise it looks like you just googled and gave a link to something that you yourself don't really understand.
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> There are lots of patents on electrophoretic displays. There are lots of patents on software. Could you explain your point in greater detail? > And unlike some other industries, these patents are actually used in lawsuits by some p
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> but the world of eink is filled with patents and lawsuits, and I think that if I implemented this and it worked well I could never sell it. Even if I gave it away for free, I'd probably have lawyers banging on my door wanting to t
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> The methods or refreshing e-ink displays are called "Wave Functions" in e-ink parlance, and they're actually implemented in software. I've never heard of "wave functions" in the context of electrophoretic
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> Lets call that steel from Damascus. That's confusing to me, what exactly was from Damascus, the steel or the forging technique? Reading the article OP cited says: "This suggests the possibility that the low levels of vanadium
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by robinsoh 4y ago
The original statement that you had made was: "You can’t tell caste visually.". But your own comment "So does colorism, where lighter skin is preferred. But they’re not the same thing and acting as if they are confuses much,
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> I suggest reading the Wikipedia articles on varna and caste in India as an introduction. There’s a lot to learn and very little of it is about color and even less about skin color. > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> Anyone who finds a comment analogising race in America to caste in India insightful knows nothing about caste. I will respectfully disagree strongly. I have read the wikipedia links you provided to back your prior claim that 'cast
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> Caste (varna) and jati are not about race. They’re culturally transmitted and not based on easily visible characteristics. I mentioned in my other comment. My understanding from a brief examination of published papers is the opposite.
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> The average South Indian Brahmin is darker than the average North Indian Dalit. You can’t tell caste visually. It sounds like you're saying the research paper I linked to is incorrect? Is there some evidence you could help to cite
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> That's... not really caste, though? My understanding from a brief examination of published papers is that it is a significant component of it though. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285414433_Mapping_
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> But my understanding is that skin color and first names do not reliably signal caste differences. My understanding from a brief examination of published papers is the opposite. https://www.researchgate.net/publication&#
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> If you don’t know what caste is you are under no obligation to take part in a discussion about it. You can just sit it out. It is unclear what you're trying to communicate. Would you like to clarify? Are you saying I don't kn
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> What I don't understand is, how do people know the caste of some individual if they want to decide if they hire them or not, how does it work? It doesn't seem like people are very public about their caste, so how do they get
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> are hard for me (an Anglo-American) to judge, seeing as if it were happening (either way) there's little chance I would have noticed it. That's an interesting comment. "little chance I would have noticed it." . I fo
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> there's literally wind flowing from inside the mountain and that's flowing all year around at ~10°C, even during summer when it's 35C outside Could you clarify? What do you mean by wind flowing from inside the mountain?
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> No, it is a statement that if 'ethical' is where the topic has shifted to, Hmmm... I'm confused what exactly you're trying to communicate. Are you're saying one shouldn't talk about ethics in the context o
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> Bless your little heart. A twice dipped teabag will get you through the day just fine, I'm sure. What did you intend to communicate to the parent commenter? That the parent point is invalid?
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by robinsoh 4y ago
This sentence: > Blew up a lot of retailer investors funds through his SPACs although he himself Madeoff quite well given the closing conditions. does not seem to be comparable or descriptively equivalent to this part: > CLOV, SPCE, S
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> when Chamath Palhapitiya was claiming he's the new Warren Buffett on CNBC. I don't remember that. I watched a few of his videos. Seems like rational statements explaining why Warren might be wrong about Bitcoin. https:/
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by robinsoh 4y ago
"The captured water in the SHPF can be released by >70% within 10 min through mild heating at 60 °C under a wide range of RH (Fig. 3b and Supplementary Fig. 15). This mild heating temperature is realized by introducing the hydrophil
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by robinsoh 4y ago
I misunderstood what you wrote due to the 2 conditionals you had "previous... didn't". I re-read what you wrote and you're correctly saying that there were sophisticated urban dense settlements in the Amazon. From the pa
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> But it has nowhere near the risk profile for evolving human disease as unregulated wet markets Is your assessment based on evidence? I'd be interested to read a statistical analysis comparing the number of diseases that have come
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> Industrial farming is a controlled closed environment where diseases are known and managed, That doesn't sound like an accurate description to me based on the evidence I have read and seen in Kansas. https://www.ncbi.nl
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by robinsoh 4y ago
"The calculated vapor sorption rate of the SHPF is 1.65 L kg–1 h–1 at 30% RH, which indicates 1 kg of SHPF can capture 1.65 L of water vapor in 1 h, compared favorably among the state-of-the-art sorbent materials" "The captur
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> No. That seems really confident and terse for a really complicated question. Wouldn't PPE be somewhat useful in protecting this 'ancient forest' from diseases the researchers/visitors may be bringing to the area? &g

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