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We have only one job: if we're lucky, we must take care of the unlucky; everything else is merely an argument about the best way.
And the best way the young can serve humanity is by pursuing material success than the easy option of do-gooding.
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A lecture on the evolution of Latin and Greek pronunciation between 500BCE to 500CE, delivered in Latin itself (restored classical pronunciation). Subtitles in English/Latin, listen for the subject matter, or for the language itself.

@tamaskls I found the ATC audio around this time and removed everything except calls to/from UAL328.

The first call with an issue occurs at ~0:54 and the mayday occurs at ~1:00.

How much of the benefit of exercise comes simply from the fact that it tires you out and thus causes you to sleep better?

@alrighthazel

Listen to interesting thoughts by @teasri on Koo App -

So the whole world can discover the Discovery of India, delighted that Bharat Ek Khoj is now available with subtitles in 109 languages of the world. Click play, then the cc button, select your language. Jai Gyan! Jai Hind!

Shri Gurubyo Namaha 🙏
With Paramaacharya's blessings, I have started a website exclusively dedicated to dilapidated and less known temples of Bharat.
A small attempt to bring to light the pieces of our history/identity which are fading into oblivion.

Watch K N Panicker’s Karnabharam (2001) here—

RETWEET IF YOU LIKE THE STOCK #LetTheKittyRoar

RT @bnholzapfel: Congratulations to @DrSwatiMohan and the whole #Perseverence team at @NASA! #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

Hosting “ಹಾಗೆ ಸುಮ್ಮನೆ” with @bharathceegee . Today, Feb 18 at 9:00 PM EST on @joinclubhouse. ಹಾಗೆ ಬಂದ್ ಬಿಡಿ

"...against a team of legends—Laxman, Dravid, Tendulkar, Ganguly—Zimbabwe pull off a remarkable 4-wicket victory. “This is for Trevor,” says captain Streak. Trevor Madondo is just 24 when he dies. He is Zimbabwe’s first black Test batsman."

a great piece.

The biggest issue facing Native Americans in the US is invisibility in modern society. A person could easily go years without seeing an Indigenous person on TV. Great to see Native American representation on this Nickelodeon show Casagrandes. A big start!

@tapanguchi ಎಸ್ಟೋನಿಯಾದ "ಕಾಜ ಕಳ್ಳ"ರಿಗಿಂತ ಉತ್ತಮ ಅನ್ಸುತ್ತೆ ..

@btbytes @tapanguchi

Actual country/years of democracy vs the imagined past

One third of corn-belt farmland is basically just a dead medium for holding fertilizer. Modern farming is inherently unsustainable.

"In the early days, he might wrestle for hours with a jammed lock..his inexperience made his job look difficult, his customers would pay, often adding a tip..he became highly expert, and could fix the same problem in minutes. Now customers resented paying"

@btbytes hodl maga hodl maga hodl maga bida beda avna

Interesting article on the business of the East India Company in the 18th/19th century. Arguably it was one of the first office-work environments and a good example of an early bureaucracy

Since we're still arguing about Scala 3 indentation, let us reconsider the thin space:

"the wise and ambitious manager learns to cultivate the proper, prescribed modes of appearing. He dispassionately takes stock of himself, treating himself as an object..undertakes a program to reconstruct his image, his publicly avowed attitudes and ideas"

It is a very cold, rainy day here in Washington, and I felt like being transported to a monsoon afternoon in India, with all its sounds and smells, by the great Pt Venkatesh Kumar - raga Sur Malhar (which Malharizes raga Sarang)

A new biopic on #Tyagaraja !

The central elements of Buddhist iconography: the tree, the wheel and the lotus are shared with Hinduism. Please refer to the book by Ananda Coomaraswamy.

Hinduism, Buddhism & other Dharmic systems should all be considered as variations of one tradition.

RT @EricBellmanWSJ: India has emerged the surprise leader of the global vaccine diplomacy race. It has exported three times more doses than it's given its own citizens and can spare even more without hurting its own rollout.

Sometimes the throwaway accounts on hackernews are right:

Speaking of water-powered computers, Guy Steele gave me permission to publish this repository, which I hope is the full set of Crunchly cartoons.

@btbytes For most apps, moving from 8 to 11 or 17 is smooth. Just replace the JDK and run tests. If all works, then you are good.

If something does not, is likely b/c some library has a dependency on something in the JDK that became private (e.g. Unsafe class).

Recently posted by the "History" channel, from a 2012 docudrama series, an episode on how the Aztecs fell.
The WORST! Perpetuates nonsense that 500 men took down an empire of 25 million, no mention of Tlaxcala or Malinche. Cringe-watch begins at 37:05

.@robkhenderson grew up in foster care and was a failing H.S. student. Then he took an aptitude test to get into the military, and discovered he was smart. He writes that eliminating standardized tests will hurt many overlooked young people like him.

Happy birthday Charles Darwin!

A professor at one of China's top universities claims - alongside several other academics - that the remnants of ancient Western civilizations - the Pyramids, the Great Sphinx of Giza, the Parthenon, etc - are ALL just modern fakes made to demean China.

@Jason @awilkinson @SubstackInc The most valuable service a platform can provide to a creator is the ability to generate a new customer. Providing the software back end is a commodity.

What isn't a commodity is the marketplace that has the most liquidity and delivers low CAC.

Finally got around to blogging about what I've been working on at home! (and tweeting about) Shout outs to @jasonish @vectordotdev @Jeffail

Minimalist doom in a 510 byte boot sector that runs in qemu.

While the image of India's tragically high farmer suicide rate often links it to grinding subsistence poverty, the majority of cases involve inability to pay debts.

These are people trying, and failing, to join the middle class.

India's farmer protests aren't just about a piece of worthwhile but badly-handled agricultural legislation.

They're potentially the birth pangs of a more urbanized, prosperous India that will transform the world in the 21st century (thread):

The Vaccine Had to Be Used. He Used It. He Was Fired. makes you physically ill reading the details in this piece.

we are a fallen nation with fallen magistrates who have lost all sense of "ren".

but harris county lawyers would make han feizi proud

A Pakistani-American doctor was fired and is being prosecuted because he gave an opened vaccine to anyone he could find rather than letting it go to waste.

Apparently, it would have been more "equitable" to throw the vaccine out.

This is madness.

@hpnadig Beautiful flower with lots of ref in Ramayana, Kalidasa, etc.
Rama says in the 1st sarga of Kishkindha Kanda

'Like the Palasha tree full of Kimshuka flowers, the whole forest looks like it's on fire due to the flowers'

Watch this lovely video on muttuga.