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My antidote to the modern startup / co-working space...

HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26325425

Local PDF uses Webassembly to edit your PDFs inside your Browser. Your files won't leave your System, they will not be sent to another server

Mar/2021 -- "Currently, we support merging PDFs. You can combine multiple PDF files into one large File."

@flueke @yogye @lorca1973 @audowla @BrankoMilan

Spare me your anecdata. Americans have among the lowest fraction of nationals living overseas, beaten only by China. If you think there are lots of American expats abroad (compared to say Kiwis, Brits, or French), you haven't traveled much.

Chinese depiction of foreign envoys. "Entrance of the Foreign Visitors of Emperor Yuan of Liang" (梁元帝番客入朝圖), Southern Tang variant by Gu Deqian (顧德謙) 10th century.

@dhruvabatni they already recognize it:

Steal my look

My interview with @Austen of @LambdaSchool on social mobility and education.

Austen is building a class escalator via income-sharing schooling, and has some choice words on both that and the traditional channels for class mobility, universities.

Gadara (Umm Qais) in #Jordan is an ancient Hellenistic city founded by the Ptolemies. Under Roman rule, it became one of the semi-autonomous cities of the Decapolis and prospered in the 2nd century AD with large-scale public building works.
See more 👉

today @joinClubhouse i cited East Asia Before the West: Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute as a way to understand china's premodern influences on greater power relations. @RichardHanania may have a better rec

He Came From Thailand to Care For Family. Then Came a Brutal Attack. i think a lot of asian americans (of all groups) are galvanized cuz this sort of act has been happening for decades. we heard about in the 80s when NYC had a lot of crime

This image of “THE AMERICAN RIVER GANGES” – 30 SEPTEMBER, 1871 from Harper's weekly

is the best example of that fear mongering.

Hanna Adams:

An interesting work about #HindooHistory -- Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu: American Representations of India, 1721-1893 by Michael Altman

Cast of characters: Claudius Buchanan

A scottish missionary who presented Hinduism through "Juggernaut". Perhaps the single most person responsible for the lurid images that continued to be painted. Example: "Temple of Doom".

Did you know #SubdomainInfringement is just as dangerous and destructive to a brand and its security posture as infringing parent domains? Find out why subdomain infringement detection is critical for any security program, and how to get started today:

@Vidhuvyala The paper here goes one further than the above, with an article saying that "patākā hasta" is a "Sanskrit replacement" for "dhvaja mudrā". What language "dhvaja mudrā" is, is a mystery the author is silent about.🤦🏿‍♂️

CC: @hamsanandi, @veejaysai

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Came across this recital today and thought to myself, how much better Hindustani music sounds with the absence of a harmonium drowning everything out.

On this note (pun intended), the harmonium was also formerly banned on All India Radio for 3+ decades.

A quick overview of #ergodicity, using plain language and down-to-earth examples.

A talk on Saturday the 13th of March.
Attendance is free but registration is mandatory:

@VikHasya @hmvprasanna @hamsanandi @bharathceegee illi odi:

@karatalaamalaka IIRC the entire ಸೂಪಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ is available online on , if you want to try pre-capsicum recipes. Some very strange recipes however (ಬೆಳ್ಳುಳ್ಳಿ ಪಾಯಸ etc).

Panel fragment with the god Shiva/Oesho #metmuseum #themet

The PLI that is not grabbing attention that it should: delinking Indian pharma companies from Chinese API must be made a strategic priority.
Covid has elevated India’s position as the “pharmacy of the world” to new levels. Time to capitalize on that.

Sad. Fry’s Electronics going out of business, shutting down all stores.

YOU WORK FOR A SLAVE STATE!!!!

2. And the minute someone defines herself or himself as a "bitcoiner" like a national identity it becomes an irreversible ideological committment not an investment strategy.

Actually it is a religion. You "belong" to a group of amoebas.

The case for student debt relief is getting weaker by @mattyglesias i have lots of friends & family who would benefit from debt relief. but it is regressive in the end. the higher ed system we have is kind of borked. make it dischargeable from now on

Former Patagonia CEO references the 4 stages of life in the Vedas to explain why she left the company.

Looking forward to future CEO announcements where "left to spend more time with my family" is replaced with "entered forest to commit austerities".

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.
My latest:

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