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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.

Oops, sorry, here's the actual ACM DL link that works for non-Brown people. Let's change these stats. (-:

"In America only 57% of doctoral students will have a PhD ten years after their first date of enrollment... The earnings premium for a PhD is only 3% more than a master's degree"

RT @jackrusher: On the power of using the right primitives:

"For our [Convolutional Neural Network], the requisite operations can be expressed in ten lines of native #APL code, using just 22 built-in verbs and conjunctions."

Federation IS the Ferengi culture.

vector magazine

@smdiehl wonder if already has this list.. I use them on my router to block FB/IG etc.

RT @razibkhan: Modern human origins cannot be traced back to a single point in time
"Contrary to what many believe, neither the genetic nor fossil records has so far revealed a defined time and place for the origin of our species." this seems right

I'm excited to share that this month there will be a @Suricata_IDS webinar for those interested in starting to contribute! My fellow intern Tharushi Jayasekara and I will be sharing our experience in a Beginner's Guide to Adding New Features to Suricata :)

ನೀವೂ ಕೂಗಳಿ ...

How Indian Americans Feel about India and Prime Minister Modi "Interestingly, Modi’s approval is lowest among Indian Americans who have been in the country the longest." this is what many of us have been saying. most indian americans arrived after 2000

A look at their presumptive tech stack -- full of Google and Facebook.

I should probably go ahead and delete my account.

I'd rather have my data handled by $FB, $GOOG, $TWTR IPO millionaires (who already have the data) than wannabe SV clones /sarcasm.

The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous the author claims fixation on intent/motive etc. is WEIRD

@nytimes position is standard across history

Short selling, explained