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by sn41 7y ago
Chandraayana would mean "Journey by/to the moon" as in Ramayana or Uttarayana. Chandrayaana means moon vehicle. The thing that annoys me is that ISRO uses Hindi naming convention rather than the Sanskrit. Visarga is a thing.
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by sn41 7y ago
I like to think: "We should focus on depression, loneliness and providing for veterans while also investing money on space projects like this".
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by sn41 7y ago
Others have pointed out the shallow connection to Taoism. But even the discussion of the lambda calculus does not seem to be insightful. For example, recursion in lambda calculus does not need names.
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by sn41 7y ago
Not really... native Bangaloreans generally make it a point not to speak Hindi. As for people in the IT Sector, "English is the Lingua Franca" (pun intended) :)
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by sn41 7y ago
I am new to this, but isn't the idea of calling next() which is prevalent in frameworks like express.js, essentially similar to continuations? I may be wrong, but I would genuinely like to know.
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by sn41 7y ago
There were creole-like languages that existed in the South, usually when Dravidian culture was mixed with Sanskrit. One famous instance is "Manipravalam", which is a blend of Tamil-Malayalam with Sanskrit. I think in Manipravalam
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by sn41 7y ago
Besides the fact that in states like Kerala, for example, where you have nearly 92 percent literacy, declaring Hindi as official language will result in nearly 0 percent literacy. I think just like Charkha, and village-based self-sufficient
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by sn41 7y ago
It's not about culture alone, rather also about the weather patterns. In India, monsoon is the major climactic event around then. So it's not spring-summer-autumn-winter in India (in most part of the country), rather, it is summer
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by sn41 7y ago
I have never heard of this. In my experience, in central India, the district officials in many places are overactive in declaring daytime curfews when the temperature passes 45.
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by sn41 7y ago
I think this is going overboard. Even during the peak of the Cold War, I don't think that reviews by Soviet scientists was banned. Whatever the political differences may be, I think that the process of science should not be blocked unl
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by sn41 7y ago
I'm a technology enthusiast in my 40s. Even I lose my patience, to say nothing of people of my parents' generation, when I try to travel to a new country which has a different set of showers, cooking ranges and washing machines&#x
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by sn41 7y ago
Shimura's biography "Map of my life" is a fascinating read, especially on his tragic friendship with Taniyama which led to the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture.
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by sn41 8y ago
Ralph Nader has an analysis on how online advertising is often at the root of corporate surveillance. https://nader.org/2018/10/04/the-root-of-the-internets-disre... Of course, other forms of surveillance, li
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by sn41 8y ago
When did this happen? I can access the channel from India. Was it something that was temporary? (I do want to support individual producers over corporate houses, but the whole PewDiePie vs. T-Series has a lot of racist and xenophobic overto
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by sn41 8y ago
I sometimes think that there's only ever been one economic model - slavery. Various excuses are periodically found to justify it, like aristocracy, caste system, slavery, Gulag, meritocracy, passion, etc. - ultimately, as a society, w
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by sn41 8y ago
In case you'd like to read a counterbalance to "Tragedy of the Commons", I highly recommend Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom's works which describe how commons actually work and regulate themselves in the real world, and how
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by sn41 8y ago
Currently reading it. Quite an experience. I am discussing it with a friend as I am reading it. Don't quite catch all the gnostic references, possible causes of the weird names etc. but still intriguing.
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by sn41 8y ago
Nonsense. Trying to get away with whatever you can, has always existed as a principle. Nowadays, it is easy to forget Dow Chemicals, Philip Morris etc. which were nothing short of nefarious in their pursuit of profits. Bhopal still takes th
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by sn41 8y ago
This lockdown is what organisations like EFF are trying to fight. Once I have paid for a product, I am its owner. I should be legally allowed to use it, disassemble it, or repair it in any manner I choose to. My main concern is that my book
740.
by sn41 8y ago
What a coincidence: I was only yesterday looking up Lancelot Hogben [1], whose probability book using card games and chess is very interesting [2]. I wanted to see if this book was available in print. Today, I see this factoid come up as a
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by sn41 8y ago
There's a related phenomenon that I've experienced. Some of my best insights into problems have come to me when I was either very tired, drowsy, or slightly ill - like running a mild temperature. I wonder whether this is because
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by sn41 8y ago
Some of it is probably a debt trap. The Djibouti port and Hambantota are perhaps warning signs of things to come.
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by sn41 8y ago
It is basically memoized recursion. However, that does not mean that it is easy. To find out the optimal substructure - that is, building the solution to the problem from the optimal solution of its subproblem decomposition - is where the a
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by sn41 8y ago
No, this is not the right way to look at it. How will you feel when a purported safe drug ends up killing or maiming many? Oh, they could've stopped buying thalidomide? Shouldn't the management of a burger joint that caused deaths
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by sn41 8y ago
This has been mentioned in the discussions - the "Red Flag" comment : "The fact that this airplane requires such jury rigging to fly is a red flag'.[1] " What happened, I think, is deceptive naming - a fairly differ
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by sn41 8y ago
This is I think what is very very close to the truth. Some pilots are trained on the MAX, but later, untrained pilots are arbitrarily assigned to these planes. I am not sure that even emails help - with the amount of newsletters, and ad mai
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by sn41 8y ago
John Ruskin's "Unto this Last" influenced Gandhi deeply.
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by sn41 8y ago
Walled gardens are partly due to the emergence of huge corporations who harvest and aggregate personal data to build profiles ostensibly to aid advertising. I find this baffling - traditional shopkeepers never used to ask for the personal d
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by sn41 8y ago
I think it is well-known that Polynesians, probably the greatest navigators in history, considered navigation to be a spiritual endeavour. I always thought that this is possibly where the whole "spice-eating space navigator" idea
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by sn41 8y ago
Do you have some sources where I can read more on this stuff? I came across stick maps when I visited museums in New Zealand, and found the idea very fascinating. I have an amateur interest in navigation.

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