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by sifar 7y ago
The verses are so vivid, so poignant. They talk of great deeds, vows (e.g sons of Feanor),the powers people had, the nobility they showed when faced with terrible evil. It makes one really sad for a lost world.
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That's the charm of it. The ring has not effect on him because he doesn't covet anything, only see things for what they are.
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by sifar 7y ago
No poems, Faramir is pretty one-dimensional with no scope whereas in the books his character is much more nobler. And the worst of all - they left out Tom Bombadil. His character showed what state you need to be in to not be affected by the
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by sifar 7y ago
So you are replacing state benevolence with the advertising industry's benevolence :). If the news/media organizations cannot survive and profit without either help, then shouldn't they be allowed to wither ? Instead of impos
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>> If every time you went and hung out with your friends they shamed you, saying you look homeless, you might think differently Then you need to change your friends.
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>> the average American citizen still thinks of themselves as a free and independent thinker and not a product of their environment. More importantly, these people have realized it is far easier to shape the environment to the individ
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by sifar 7y ago
What is new is the scale at which it happens now, in the democratic countries. And ordinary people are not aware at the level at which this invades their lives. And what is worse, you are deemed a criminal/undesirable if you voluntaril
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by sifar 7y ago
FWIW, this passage struck me well and also the one I take away the most from the book. It is akin to the Tao, or your flow experience where you are immersed into the thing, your consciousness doesn't differentiate between you and the o
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by sifar 7y ago
Couldn't agree more. A lot of things were invented in the 60's-80's which didn't work out due to lack of applications, technological limitations of those times etc.
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by sifar 7y ago
Some of these overlap with what others have suggested. 0a) Build a simple video game. 0b) Implement a simple encryption scheme (eg. ROT) to exchange messages. 1) History of computing. Not just the superficial but how it was, how we got here
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by sifar 7y ago
Totally unrelated to the finance minister blaming increasing ride sharing usage to the slump in the Auto sector sales :) [1]. Really myopic. Yes Uber/Ola overcharge and don't pay the drivers enough, after enticing them with offers
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He need not.
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The key is to not make it popular. Have a barrier to entry.
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by sifar 7y ago
I believe we have missed it by concentrating so much on Happiness instead of Joy. Joy is a much more wholesome emotion, long lasting and once you are in a state of joy, happiness follows.
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by sifar 7y ago
Minor nitpick. >> the british conquered mughal india. It was not the Mughals but the Marathas, however the methods essentially were as you described. The Mughals were already in decline, during the EIC's rise. The dominant power
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by sifar 7y ago
This is the best articulation I have read explaining the phenomenon. Thank you. Can I steal this ? If only business leaders can wrap their head around recursive feedback and have the courage to account for it.
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by sifar 7y ago
Can you please point me to the references(books/online archives) please. I see this happening in a few places in the world and have trouble getting people to understand that someone like a Hitler/Nazism doesn't rise unless th
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by sifar 7y ago
>> It is information itself which produces uncertainty I would argue, information is uncertainty. That is basically baked into its definition. Something that is lost on almost all of us about the information technology paradigm. So,
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by sifar 7y ago
Thank you for the link. A treasure trove. Their archive page [1]. [1] https://archive.org/details/%40mirtitles?&sort=-publicdate&p...
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it is in their faq [1] >> Tractors are often equipped with steel wheels rather than rubber air tires to discourage its use as a vehicle on the road. [1] http://amishamerica.com/technology/#tractors
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by sifar 7y ago
>> Do you really think that you, by willpower alone, are going to be able to resist all the temptations of multinational corporations who collectively spend billions researching how to manipulate your lizard brain? Well, it is difficu
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by sifar 7y ago
>> They are in incredible burden that you cannot imagine or conceptualize prior. The company you founded, the marathons you ran, your PhD thesis, etc., these are all peanuts. Haha .... I agree. The first kid is the hardest. For the se
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by sifar 7y ago
Have you used a Nokia N9 ? Way ahead of its time. + Linux on phone + True multi-tasking with live tiles. + Full web browser. + Turn by turn on device voice navigation. Cannot stress how significant this was. + uncluttered swipe gestures t
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by sifar 7y ago
Yeah, I had Nokia N9. Best phone I ever used. Only wish it had a replaceable battery. Elop killed it before it arrived by announcing the move to windows. That was one of the key event for Nokia in particular and the smartphone industry in g
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by sifar 7y ago
yes, I realized this after asking the question :).I must admit I never thought it in this way. Thinking more about this, this might fail if the compiler uses post-incrementing load/stores which update the pointer addresses too. Or will
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How would this work for unaligned accesses - which index would very likely be. A neat way to look at things nevertheless, thanks.
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Most DSPs have zero overhead loops (still branches) which don't incur a branch penalty. So something like below may take 1-2 cycles atmost, per iteration. for(i=0;i<howmany;i++) { out[index] = random(); }
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Create an urgency to deliver. Use that as a motivator. 1) Promise someone you value/respect to deliver some program 2) Join an interesting coding competition 3) Help teach kids programming. 4) Figure out if you can solve a problem in y
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by sifar 7y ago
I am fascinated by forth and stack machines. It reminds me of Donella Meadows' Leverage Points, when you change your paradigm from data in registers to that in stack, the architecture becomes simpler. Can you please suggest any referen
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by sifar 7y ago
The other end is the conventional development method where each work in their own silos without a detailed idea of the others. This leads to bloated systems.

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