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Excellent discussion on Vedic oral culture, sacral rites and level of preservation down to this day (unmatched in every other culture of its vintage)

I like how they comment that even Shakespeare’s work has more variants than the ṛcas.

Pandemic’s Toll on Housing: Falling Behind, Doubling Up we need to build. developers need to build. the state needs to build. it's atrocious what america does to lower-income ppl. not everyone can/should live in stockton and commute to oakland

I don't understand gamer culture and most of you don't understand Midwestern culture so let's be confused, together:

Imagine if this report was about any other country..

Thought I’d compile my translation attempts on a blog...

Start your own company
Start your own community
Start your own currency
Start your own city

In my mind this is a typical workday for @switchingtoguns

New working paper with @SVNieuwerburgh @VrindaMittal2 and Jonas Peeters on Covid-19 and real estate.

We document that urban land gradients have gotten temporarily much less steep, associated with the rise of telework and land scarcity

One of the more important things to happen for was @jain_ankit (CEO of ) dropping by, very early in the project, asking how they could help.

They generously donated the use of Eva, their digital assistant. She is magic for us.

One of the more important things to happen for was @jain_ankit (CEO of ) dropping by, very early in the project, asking how they could help.

They generously donated the use of Eva, their digital assistant. She is magic for us.

One of the most straight talking, easy to understand, and data backed articles on the farm bills. All the way back from June 2020

Kudos @JacobShap @PerchSpectives

Rare level-headed foreign coverage of India 👏🏼

The Future of India Depends on its Farmers

@thorstenball

WSB User Has New License Plate Number: “GMEAPE”

5 minute read on what India did right, and that there is no “mystery” to it. Yes, lockdown was terrible economically, but paid out in terms of healthcare outcomes.

This graphic in the article brilliantly sums up my beef with UX being seen as some touchy feely humanist empathy profession. No matter how evil some code is, there's a designer and UX pro helping to lure people to it. See also:

Wonderful news: the Italian state has bought Umberto Eco's library from his family. It will be kept at Bologna University and at the Braidense Library in Milan. If ever there was an author's library that deserved to be preserved intact, it was this one.

Almost Deja Vu, It has been 20 years since .@VenkyHariharan wrote a post . What has really changed since ? Both these posts are great reads conveying the same point from different snapshots of Indian FLOSS timeline.

Joshua Slocum was the first to sail around the world alone (1895–1898). He couldn't swim.

Robert E. Case circumnavigated alone without his left leg (1998-2001).

These people have no fear. It's inspiring. I want to be like them.

There is no connection between the stock market and reality.

A thread:

1. Airlines spent 96% of free cash flow on stock buybacks for a decade, then cut 90,000 jobs as soon as trouble hits. Then they got a $50 billion bailout

Computer science and programming courses that will challenge your mind. All online for 2021.

• Rafting Trip (Distributed Systems), May 10-14.
• Write a Compiler, May 24-28.
• Advanced Programming with Python, June 7-10.
• SICP, July 12-16.

2/3 of Tesla’s income is from selling regulatory credits to companies that are required by law to buy them.

Five Spectacular Indian Destinations Beyond The Taj Mahal

@forbes highlights the splendor of some of the other grandiose structures from the treasure trove of architectural wonders spread across the country.

Every destination has a story 🙏🏽

The fantastic Dr. Sthaneshwar Timalsina introducing himself, Vimarsha Foundation, and his new free course on the Tripurarahasya, bringing together Tantra and Vedānta, śāstra and abhyāsa, Indian textual traditions, philosophies, and spiritual practices:

Applications surge after big-name colleges halt SAT and ACT testing rules "a 2 percent dip in applicants with enough financial need to receive fee waivers, and a 3 percent drop in those who would be among the first in their families to go to college."

GitHub should start an App Store. Great idea! And GitLab too.

They have the distribution and skillset to pull it off, and could make one-click installation work on desktop and Android, if not iOS. @natfriedman @sytses

Tesla proved that memes, narratives and online activism are powerful tools long before Gamestop, but as they take hold in the broader market it should be noted: the results are not easy to defend as efficient allocations of capital.

India has vaccinated 3.7 million in 2 weeks (mainly focused on high risk groups). Expecting capacity to vaccinate 10mn per day by July.

But pessimism has been rampant from people who don't get India - its chaotic, but it's selective chaos.

Chinese President Xi Jinping called on officials to step up protection of intellectual property rights from the perspective of “national strategy” via @business 🤣

tbf, america in 19th century ripped-off british works all the time.

"While the probability of an American between 6'6" and 6'8" being an NBA player today stands at a mere 0.07%, it's a staggering 17% for someone 7 feet or taller...being 7 feet tall is the world's shortest path to becoming a millionaire."

@sagar__dubey

10 Reasons to use Haskell by @serokell

The Life and Times of George Fernandes - The man who always took on the Establishment

For those who are interested, here is the post in r/wsb drawing up the play to gamma squeeze $GME and send the HFs to the hospital.

It’s a thing of beauty.

3/3 The book is special to me as it was really my first introduction to non-school / non-contest math, and, well, the rest is history :)

You can read more about Virginia Lee Pratt here

A local resident has been detained for cooking a barbecue over an eternal flame monument to fallen World War II soldiers in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan.

“No need for coal,” the unidentified man was heard explaining to eyewitnesses.

(1/4)"Invasion of Sikhs from the Punjab"

An Oct 1907 article that explores the causes behind the "anti-Hindoo riots" in Bellingham, WA.

@hamsanandi @Gurubhat_ @sridatta_a Yes ,there is gradual evolution.
Yes ,from Kalyani Chalukya/Housal time period onwards, it becomes easy to read.

When The Giants Of Indian Classical Music Collided With Psychedelic San Francisco ~ That Which Colors the Mind

@deno_land Documentation to the newest version is broken?

@EthantheFlaneur @SuspiciousPleb it's actually juice made from the dried flesh of "kokum" fruit - also used for making curries etc.