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> a subscribe and save order Yeah. This is a joke. They give us a 5-10% discount to do this. But when the time for the next delivery came, they had doubled the prices instead of locking in the price I had subscribed at. I had to cancel t
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I have had serious issues with Amazon these last two-three months which has resulted in my moving a majority of my purchases to a different online retailer. I bought some ASSIMIL language-learning books being sold by a (known) POD firm. But
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> Out of curiosity, what is it you don't like about the UK system given that you're saying that it's "eerily similar" to the US system? I was comparing the Indian system to the UK and US ones. I will still take t
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What did they expect? That an Indian court will give them some kind of immunity from copyright laws? From some media reports I see, the court has already made up its mind on the issue during a previous hearing:[1] > However, the Court st
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While no system is perfect, and it might be a case of the grass being greener on the other side, I have some healthy respect for the US system. I am not a fan of the UK system which we have copied almost wholesale. The laws and judgments I
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I don't know why they decided to pause uploads. Relying on Indian courts for sensible and timely judgments will only lead to grief. They do not respect precedence and judgements often depend on the judge and the people involved rather
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I heard George Friedman on the GP Futures podcast yesterday saying that the US considers present-day India to be a minor player. Sacrificing India to bring Russia to the negotiating table and to signal to China that it is not being encircle
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> Their no-bullshit returns policy. I have been waiting for three weeks for them to pick up some fake POD-crap they delivered instead of the books that I had ordered and refund Rs. 800 (~ $8). I have had about 8-10 phone calls with them
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> Freaking expensive! Right!? I live in India. The summers can be 40C. So $500 for an extremely energy efficient split-ac from a local manufacturer that does up to 12K BTU/h and $50 for installation. I ran it 16h every day at 40% ca
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JJ is brilliant. I reluctantly moved to git from mercurial when host-after-host dropped mercurial support. git is a user-hostile POS that I never got used to. A thousand needless complications including nightmare merges, and an inscrutable
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I like LLMs. I really do. But my experience with them is very different from the Chicken Little folks. Let's park coding to the side for a bit. Case 1: I am collaborating with a friend to build a graded Sanskrit reader for beginners us
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Sugar, carbs in general, is particularly problematic. I know of diabetics who cannot give up on sugary treats with full knowledge of the consequences of their behavior, people who have seen others in the family lose eyes, limbs, kidneys and
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> "Too many calories" is a simpler problem to solve: increase physical activity, take less sugar, or take sugar less frequently. From Taubes' Good Calories, Bad Calories : > “To attribute obesity to ‘overeating,’” as t
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> Can't say I ever ran across that in any serious context It exists. Invaders do not necessarily invent things out of whole cloth. You widen existing fissures in society in order to control it. The gotra-jaati-varna system has a com
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> partition was driven by the British The British absolutely had a role. One theory is the West needed a pliable state on India's west to guard the Arabian Sea from the Russians. A lot of Hindu politicians of the era were socialists
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Not unless it precedes a classless letter or it is actually "m." All nasals becoming anusvaras is something Hindi/Marathi and other languages using the Devanagari script do. Sanskrit uses the specific form of the nasal when a
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A note on the name. The nasal "m" takes on the form of the nasal in the row/class of the letter that follows it. As "ñ" is the nasal of the "c" class, the "m" becomes "ñ" Writing Sanskr
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UBS estimated that there were 0.86M dollar millionaires in India at the end of 2023. Credit Suisse, in a 2022 report, estimated that the number would double from 0.79M in 2021 to 1.6M in 2026. Different reports use different standards. A lo
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> most Indians don't live in the city in 1-2 Cr You only need about 5-10% of them to do so to start hitting the numbers from my claim. > the number of Indians actually paying income tax alone is just around that number The number
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> Switzerland has 9 million total people, and more millionaires than India and Pakistan combined. Well, based on official figures, perhaps. I am pretty sure, however, that India alone has more than 20 million dollar millionaires. A large
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I am not sure that the intersectional feminist writing this essay has access to the mental framework necessary to understand the fundamental dispute between the countries. But her toxic essay needs some grounding. So... Pakistan was created
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> there's no evidence can prove Rafales have been shot down Even if a couple of planes are lost, so what? You lose lives and equipment when fighting a war. The Americans lost three F/A-18 Super Hornets in their expedition again
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This is fine. I was referring to actual evidence. The Pakistani generals were blatantly lying in their PCs. All the fact checkers in the world suddenly disappeared. And the evidence presented on the Indian side which can be cross-checked us
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I read it to see if the evidence shown at the two press conferences by the Indian DGs of Operations and Modi landing on the Adampur Airbase (which was supposed to be heavily damaged) and giving a speech with the S-400 system (which was supp
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Plenty of reading material is available. * The History and Culture of the Indian People - is a 11 volume encyclopedia edited by R.C. Majumdar. Slightly dated because of when it was published, but it is a scholarly work that will give you pl
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In a way, yes. Hinduism slowly lost its warrior ethos post Buddhism and Jainism and their fetishization of non-violence. All our books (itihasas and shastras) warn about enemies and how to deal with them. And people simply forgot all that.
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So the ceasefire is gone. Done and dusted. Pakistan doing what it does best. Good. It was a mistake in any case.
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Probably a mistake on India's part, but the future will tell us. We have the habit of squandering away the gains made on the battlefield on the negotiation table, famously after the 1971 war that birthed Bangladesh where thousands of s
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Depends on the situation. I like reading and writing stories. Last month, I compared the ability of various LLMs to rewrite Saki's "The Open Window" from a given prompt.[1] The prompt follows the 13-odd attempts. I am pretty
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The permanent bureaucracy is a hangman's noose around the country's neck. They have a billion ways of derailing projects with political and public support if they don't like it. So many people have talked about their conversa

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