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by weeksie 10y ago
A little tangental. Indians are insanely good drivers given their actual traffic conditions. I just spent two months there and as (fucking annoying) as it was to walk through the crowds with motorcycles whipping by, inches away from me all
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by weeksie 10y ago
That's a shame. You didn't even read the link you were arguing the validity of until now? I still don't think you read it since you've just quoted the thesis but not referenced the notion that the idea even of "Hind
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by weeksie 10y ago
There's a pretty long list of citations at the bottom of that paper and the sample of them that I could be bothered to check for an internet article were legit. If you have any arguments against the thesis of that paper other than ad h
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by weeksie 10y ago
Where am I arguing against "the Vedas" and what does that even mean? The (well cited and researched) paper I linked above mentions how old the Vedas are. However, they are holy books and mythology, not historical documents. A desc
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by weeksie 10y ago
Read the link in my first post above. Your claim would be the same as saying that "Christendom" was a nation during the middle ages and that the EU has always existed as an identity. It's a region with many shared traditions
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by weeksie 10y ago
I seem to have ticked some people off with that statement, but it's factual. The idea of "India" as a nation just didn't exist. To say that the "income" (whatever that means) of India changed under colonization
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by weeksie 10y ago
Source/context? There was no such thing as "India" before colonial rule. The idea of India as a cohesive entity is a colonial and post-colonial innovation. Hinduism was never even a cohesive entity before British rule, it was
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by weeksie 10y ago
Nothing at all is wrong with tenements. The East Village and LES are full of old tenement apartments that rent upwards of $2500-$3000/month.
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by weeksie 11y ago
Anecdata. A lifetime of "writing" followed by several years of actually writing.
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by weeksie 11y ago
Writers' block is a myth. Writing is work. Put your ass in a seat and get the job done. Creativity is a vocation, not a bolt from heaven. You want to beat a slump? Produce more work until it gets better. That's all. Want to get fi
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by weeksie 11y ago
The Easter Island statues were never really a mystery. They are just large totems much like many others that are found throughout Polynesia. There was never a question that they were built by the islanders. There were some vagaries around h
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by weeksie 11y ago
My understanding is that there is at least some oral record of clan violence and/or toppling of the Moai, but perhaps I'm way off on that. The museum on the island certainly presented it that way. But I'm no anthropologist. A
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by weeksie 11y ago
Perhaps. It would have been a hell of an earthquake to topple every single one, I reckon. (There are about 288 that were on platforms)
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by weeksie 11y ago
I was just in Easter Island/Rapa Nui in December. One of the most incredible places I've ever been to. I have pretty much the exact photo as the one at the top of the article (it's from the quarry where they carved the Moai).
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by weeksie 11y ago
That was a long way to go to get to a Ficciones reference. The Pierre Menard's Don Quixote and the Library of Babel are probably my favorite Borges stories, and I do think they're applicable to the author's point. I just ca
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by weeksie 11y ago
When I first immigrated to Australia I was shocked at the tone that journalists used, even in mainstream publications. Turns out it's just an Aussie thing. People can argue about the merits of that tone but that article fits pretty wel
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by weeksie 11y ago
Oh, I was around. Regardless, I was stating that your dismissal of "basic economics" was wrong. It's not basic economics, there's a lot that goes into the equation. Wages might go down. Wages might not go down by a ton.
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by weeksie 11y ago
Actually, basic economics says that wages tend to be sticky.
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by weeksie 11y ago
Love that source code. I dug around in it quite a bit when I was teaching myself about B-tree implementations about ten years ago.
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by weeksie 11y ago
Like the flat white, "No worries" really started to take off around the time the work visa requirements for Aussies lightened up. Quid pro quo for Johnnie Howard's support of the Iraq war and all.
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by weeksie 11y ago
Good point! Though I am quite good at resting my hands and haven't developed RSI over the last fifteen years or so. I would still place a heavy bet that workplace injuries are more common amongst labor-heavy jobs ;)
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by weeksie 11y ago
Keep in mind that a lifetime of manual labor often leads to chronic injuries and pain. How many of those old timers had back problems? I grew up working on fishing boats in Alaska, I know the drill pretty well. I don't have a vise-like
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by weeksie 11y ago
Me too. Wrote a toy language partially referring to this back in '06. I still look back on that time fondly. It was one of those periods in my career where I was learning so many new concepts at once and it all felt like play. Much of
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by weeksie 11y ago
The most amazing thing in that article is "an even weirder move". Not often you see a Professor Brothers reference in a Bloomberg business column.
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by weeksie 11y ago
I do have to say that Buenos Aires definitely reminds me of NY. But those are first impressions and I'm probably just missing home a bit.
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by weeksie 11y ago
Buenos Aires is incredibly safe when it comes to murder rate. Its petty crime is very high though, with over 900 robberies per 100k people.
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by weeksie 11y ago
Definitely planning a trip. We were going to make a run last week to get out some Yankee bucks but it turns out that Xoom seems to work fine for the purpose (when you factor in the price of the ferry ticket and so forth). But yeah, I think
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by weeksie 11y ago
Awesome! Will do, for sure :)
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by weeksie 11y ago
I'm in Buenos Aires right now and that's pretty spot on. Beef is of incredibly high quality and it's incredibly cheap. I've been here for a couple weeks and will be staying until December (I've taken a year off with
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by weeksie 11y ago
Most people would, depending on the amount of inequality and how bad off the least fortunate are. There's been pretty good research on that. Rawls' thought experiment is meant to reveal what people in a society would consider just

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