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by sirtaj 8y ago
Hopefully we are still free to discuss what effects a company's perfectly legal choices could have on us as a society and as an industry? Or is that also now verboten in the name of fairness to the free market?
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by sirtaj 9y ago
No, they were not all doping. Many top-tier cyclists show integrity and character by resisting doping under intense commercial and team pressure, only to be often beaten by dopers. I've probably mentioned this here before, but Nicole C
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by sirtaj 9y ago
Sorry, the former is simply too graphic for a textbook intended for 11/12-year-olds, and I'm not sure why you chose the latter passage vs: "During his campaigns in the subcontinent [Ghazni] also attacked the temples of defeat
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by sirtaj 9y ago
Opened the Class 7 book, immediately found multiple references to Ghazni, one to Ghori. For perspective, Maharaja Ranjit Singh also gets one passing mention. So I guess I'm not seeing the systematic effort so far; perhaps there is more
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by sirtaj 9y ago
Is there some reference you can point to about this whitewashing in the textbooks? Because I don't recall it being so.
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by sirtaj 9y ago
In my schooling in New Delhi in the 80s -- when the Congress-ization of the NCERT was at its peak -- I clearly recall being taken on a school trip to see a film about Shivaji, and also learning about the cruelty of Aurangzeb to everyone inc
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by sirtaj 9y ago
No, the stretch is that it's a definition that can be applied to any entertainment activity that isn't 100% passive.
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by sirtaj 9y ago
Sorry, this is just too much of an absurd stretch. You could describe a book of pulp fiction in a similar way - you have to put in effort (read and turn pages) to receive a reward (entertainment).
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by sirtaj 9y ago
I recently played Life is Strange and ABZU, both of which would be difficult to classify as Skinner boxes.
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by sirtaj 9y ago
This is ascribing to Trump a level of subtlety and diplomatic intelligence that has not been in evidence in any way to date. In order to believe he is capable of 4D chess, we have to first believe he can play 2D chess.
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by sirtaj 9y ago
And that's something that's probably better addressed by AR anyway.
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by sirtaj 9y ago
This is probably slightly off-topic, but Ask Metafilter is an unsung internet treasure.
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by sirtaj 9y ago
One of the ways I manage my ADHD is by tiring myself out physically before I work. That way I don't have to depend on a tired brain and stress before I can focus. I find the reduction in physical energy is just as effective, but of cou
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by sirtaj 9y ago
People still routinely admire the military prowess of western imperialist leaders like Caesar and Alexander ("the Great") and more recent ones like Napoleon without endorsing their reasons for going to war.
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by sirtaj 9y ago
It's a common response even here on HN when companies behave contrary to the social good - "it's their job to make their investors profit while working within the law. Don't like it? Change the law." Well, don'
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by sirtaj 9y ago
I came to Unix at that time with Delphi fresh in my mind (Delphi 1/2 IIRC ) and the only thing that showed anywhere near similar promise was Qt, though it took a long time for it to get similar features in both the object model (proper
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by sirtaj 9y ago
Isn't there a concern that this will desensitise them to humans, or is it just assumed that it'll happen anyway because of all the tourists?
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by sirtaj 9y ago
I find myself doing this more and more often with python libraries, even with the well-documented ones like Django REST Framework - always keep a source browser open on the virtualenv dir so I can read library source. There's something
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by sirtaj 9y ago
If not too inconvenient, I'd be interested to hear what tools and workflow you use to do this.
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by sirtaj 9y ago
"Why should we do the right thing unless other countries do exactly what we want" is pretty transparently a political argument, so I'm afraid that ship sailed already with you at the helm.
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by sirtaj 9y ago
It bothers me when they call them "monitors" and then go ahead and fiddle with the frequency response anyway. Look at the difference between the HD 280 pro and HD 380 pro, both labelled as monitoring headphones. The 380 sounds lik
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by sirtaj 9y ago
Market segmentation also routinely leads some advertisers to target the kind of people who prefer high quality reporting. Economist vs Daily Mail, as an analogy.
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by sirtaj 9y ago
If by "based on gold" you mean "our forex reserves and balance of trade with the world are lopsided because of our voracious appetite for imported gold", then maybe it's almost halfway accurate.
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by sirtaj 9y ago
I've seen how clinical trials take place here in India and yes, it's not always pretty. There are plenty of people who mean well and do good work, but the pressure to reduce cost invariably leads to shortcuts.
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by sirtaj 9y ago
This almost sounds like a finishing school for corporate courtiers.
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by sirtaj 10y ago
I remember discussing this with a German acquaintance in the early 90s. Extremely anti-nuclear because of Chernobyl and the food contamination scares in its aftermath, and it didn't seem like a niche view at the time. Presumably that l
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by sirtaj 10y ago
Right, I've heard that floating around, and it's true that neovim exists primarily due to the lack of async in vim. Whether or not it appeared in vim 8 because of neovim is something I can't personally answer.
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by sirtaj 10y ago
Until vim 8, everything in vim ran in a single thread with little or no cooperative multitasking. So if you have a handful of plugins that do any non-trivial thing with the contents of a buffer in real time - dynamic syntax highlighting, ru
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by sirtaj 10y ago
I had per-game profiles that would reboot straight into the game, and then back again into the previous profile on reboot. I've been slowly learning that this kind of thing was a rite of passage back then. But for some of us it was our
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by sirtaj 10y ago
Why not? eGPU dock prices have come down significantly in the last few months.

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