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by sn41 7y ago
This seems to be measuring the volume of messages with particular keywords on each day. I think that people wishing "happy birthday/thanksgiving/christmas/Valentine's Day" may not actually mean they are happy.
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by sn41 7y ago
Bananas are the prime cautionary tale against monoculture. The number of native breeds which are now gone for the sake of promotion of one particular breed leads to less resilience against disease and pests. Just in my corner of India, ther
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by sn41 7y ago
On a related note: I suspect that humans cannot "guesstimate" numbers greater than 20 by sight. I have tried this experiment on myself, friends and relatives and so far no one has succeeded. Take a glance at the next longish queue
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by sn41 7y ago
Very strange. Early yesterday morning, I thought out of nowhere: "hey! around 2011 or so, our lounge in our organization used to have Linux Journal. Wonder what happened to that subscription?" So sad to see this happen. I personal
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by sn41 7y ago
Post Jio, India has one of the cheapest data rates in the world. Sometimes when you go elsewhere, one tends to accidentally turn on data and use it the same way as in India, and I have been bitten like this once. Luckily it was prepaid, so
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by sn41 7y ago
Yes, material prosperity will improve, no doubt. But I am doubtful about greater leisure.
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by sn41 7y ago
Society has always made sure that most people remain in the rat race. During agrarian times, it was back-breaking work. During the industrial revolution, it was in sweat shops. Once office became computerised, it became office drudge work.
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by sn41 7y ago
There is a slight insinuation in your comment that it was ignorant villagers who killed off large number of tigers due to population pressures. Superstition and a reaction against man-eating tigers were not the cause of the near extinction.
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by sn41 7y ago
This is rather virulent. As a liberal, I do not agree with you. I am sure there are human beings on the other side, and dialogue will help. Baseline thinking is not always relevant. In fact, I believe it is through the moderates on the othe
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by sn41 7y ago
No. They withdrew the 500 and 1000 Rupee bills in circulation in 2016, which was around 86 percent of all the cash in the country, which is the 6th largest economy in the world at present. But cash circulation is almost back to normal by no
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by sn41 7y ago
Where are you quoting these figures from? The minimum wage is considerably higher than Rs. 100 per day in most parts of India. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_Wages_Act_1948 Rs. 200 is not a big amount. Of course
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by sn41 7y ago
Boeing is undermining its credibility through the promotion of such strategies. I am kind of taken aback that even after the death of >300 passengers, their attitude is to weasel out of the situation with a sham certification? Of course,
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by sn41 7y ago
I agree with this view. You still need gardeners, maintenance staff, custodians, plumbers, electricians, drivers and shop staff. They cannot afford to live inside current smart cities. Most middle-class and rich think of smart cities as jus
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by sn41 7y ago
The addictiveness of bacon might be due to the salt. Even though I am not addicted to fat (I think), it is vital for the "filled" feeling I have after a meal.
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by sn41 7y ago
The principle of writing a fast core in C, and choosing a Turing-complete language as the language to build the tool, and further giving the user an interpreter so that (s)he can extend it, is a brilliant design. Whether or not you are a Li
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by sn41 7y ago
There are no state level income taxes in India, afaik. However, the Goods and Services Tax on many items is very high - 28%. So if you earn 100 rupees at the top slab, then you effectively have 58.3 after the income tax, and say you use it
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by sn41 7y ago
I'm guessing medicare is free in the Netherlands. India has a public health sector which works only on paper. And its basic education access for the poor has been deteriorating in many of the central/northern states.
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by sn41 7y ago
That is true. But please keep in mind that the whole MCAS fiasco was precipitated by a dubious cost-cutting initiative related to an engine placed more in front than would be aerodynamically stable. The game was lost in the first quarter.
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by sn41 7y ago
Sure, but it is hard to make a decision without knowing educational background. That level of blinding is not really feasible. Unfortunately many Bay Area recruitments happen based on IIT/Tsinghua snobbery, not the caste system as othe
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by sn41 7y ago
Ethiopian Airlines is a Star Alliance member. It must be one of the premier customers of Boeing, and was one of the first airlines to introduce the Dreamliner and 737 MAX into their fleets. If word gets around that this is how they treat th
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by sn41 7y ago
A STEM Ph.D from India here. The subject I most liked in school was grammar. I can tell you why grammar, prosody and poetry are as beautiful (more so, imho) as STEM. But in a third world country with limited opportunities, and for the most
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by sn41 7y ago
It's not that easy. I can easily find out which school, which school board and college you graduated from. If you are not a graduate of an IIT, I will conclude that you are subhuman. (By I, I mean a general recruiter.) None of this nee
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by sn41 7y ago
If I understand correctly, YT is able to solve it because it has huge data centers which can cache the videos at appropriate locations all around the world. Honest query: do you think an individual/small group can replicate this? Perha
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by sn41 7y ago
I agree. It is wrong to wag fingers saying impractical etc. Lower bound theory is about adversaries against _all possible algorithms_, not just the analysis of a given algorithm. So progress is expected to be slow. George Polya in his book
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by sn41 7y ago
I was driving through Nebraska on the way to Colorado in winter 2009, when behind me from the distance, I saw an 18-wheeler with its hood in the shape of the Tasmanian devil (from Looney Tunes). The truck looked like it was about to gobble
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by sn41 7y ago
"Tailspin" by Stephen Brill is a relevant read in this context. If you measure the correlation between which percentile of income one's parents lie in a generation and which percentile of income one lies in a generation, it m
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by sn41 7y ago
India is now having a plastic recycling problem of its own. Most cities in India do not own landfills, and their surrounding villages do not want a landfill in their backyard, even if the city wants to purchase it. What's the alterna
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by sn41 7y ago
Great move. Enough of frozen screens and unresponsive interfaces right in the middle of driving. Who ever thought this was a good idea?
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by sn41 7y ago
I do agree. But ever since Malcom Gladwell popularised the "Matthew effect", I am sad that an-out-of context quote is used to justify the promotion of deliberate cold-blooded apathy towards inequality. Whereas it is very clear in
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by sn41 7y ago
Please do not use the quote from the Bible in an inappropriate context. Matthew 13:11 is He replied, "Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. The context makes it clear that

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