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Why does the Western academy praise Mayan and Incan Civilizations as "advanced" today?

Because they are dead.

If they were alive and challenged the Church or Western hegemony they'd be called "Mayan fascists." This is why Hindus are called fascists.

The next big step of deblogization.
is now literally an index.

@thephysicsmill I have tons of fun languages!!! I've written about a few of them here:

This goes into some of the details:

An essay I wrote for @CityJournal

"if the current riots had happened when we were in high school, my friends and I would have grabbed some baseball bats, paintball guns, and fireworks. We would be ready to see who could risk the most and care the least."

We've been hard at work on improving the Checkout experience.

Try it out at ; it will create a mockup for your use case (e.g. typical SaaS plan) and let you see what the UX looks like a typical user in several countries.

@JamesMarsh79 nice!

I usually write my own static site generators. It's a common itch among programmers to write their own. For example, my tech blog: is generated using (Python) and (Makefile). all coded by me.

Ukulele Indian Notation Fretboard

@rob_rix If you care about these two, but not really into writing academic papers for conferences, and journals, you might want to take a look at ConTeXt -

ConTeXt is aimed at professional use of TeX ecosystem.

@sagar__dubey an update on this -

Playing Karnatik music with Ukulele

My Org Mode Flow

#emacs

I've been a builder all my life. I started working along side my Dad at just 3 or 4 yrs old. I was always beside him with a hammer in my hand, just like you see here. I never wanted to do anything else. I feel very…

This Quora answer to "What are some English phrases and terms commonly heard in India but rarely used elsewhere?" is SOOO good

Saluting all my gurus!🙏

No goal can be reached without the guru’s grace

Here Vid| TS Satyavathy singing my kRti gurukRpa illAde in #kharahapriya

#TeachersDay #guru

@digvijoy_c I've ordered remarkable2

What a proud moment. Also, the recent news of Sudan considering establishing ties with Israel was no coincidence.

• Sudan Ends 30 Years of Islamic Law by Separating Religion, State

@charukiewicz @k0001 @erewok I’ve recently been playing around with Janet (). It seems aimed at this kind of thing.

@rorysutherland David Goodhart's Head, Hand, Heart -

Why meritocracy isn’t working via @financialtimes cc @rorysutherland @keithhatter @faris @tomfgoodwin

This is a spot-on observation about the two Reddits.

RT @chibisi: Introduction to generic and metaprogramming in #dlang: its a long one. Enjoy! 🙂

David Graeber, anthropologist and author of Bullshit Jobs, dies aged 59
I love his books. Each time when I read it, it feels real. Like NNT said 100% original. Very sad news today RIP David. I will make sure more people read your works

"Hwæt,” the first word of “Beowulf,” has no equivalent in modern English.

• Tolkien translated it as “Lo!”
• Mitchell avoided a single word
• Heaney went for “So”
• Others chose -- “Attend,” “Listen,” “Behold,” “Yes!”, “What ho!”

Headley went with "Bro!"

It is written by Sri Mathuranatha Shastri

These guys will never change.

@sagar__dubey Rectangle continues the development of spectacle.

But there is also Magnet

(I continue to use spectacle though I purchased magnet; my needs are simple)

@sagar__dubey Rectangle continues the development of spectacle.

But there is also Magnet

(I continue to use spectacle though I purchased magnet; my needs are simple)

@Musashi_Nair @teasri Your daily reminder that there's about 10^86 elementary particles in the known universe:

What a remarkable story. Remember the ice bucket challenge in 2014? It raised 100m overall. Some of it went into the initial funding of Amylyx, the company that could potentially cure ALS.

The exact tree featured in the photographs of this HN story (…) is less than 100 yards from my backdoor. Let's go check it out... There better be some freakin phones hanging there. (to be continued...).

A passionate, and interesting take on the Indo-China stand off.

"India does not share its borders with China, but with Tibet"!

Tibet, a resource and a solution via @IndianExpress

The top 10 most expensive infrastructure projects historically are all in the Anglosphere

A sobering read on food insecurity in the richest most powerful nation in the world. Upto 50 million are projected to fall into the “food insecure” bracket due to Covid-induced disruptions to the food supply chain.

Go to Italy, have a suit made by these fellas.

Also see these classic @ATabarrok posts:

Also see these classic @ATabarrok posts:

ie, Chetty Friedman Rockoff found replacing teacher in bottom 5% by average teacher raised earnings by $250k per classroom

So getting the absolute best teacher to do all scripted virtual lessons might add value, even if virtual not as good as in person

@btbytes @Vada_Yakshi @elisa_freschi It has been used in a Subhāṣita! बादरायणसंबन्धन्यायः 🙂?

300 Plant Varieties in 1 Acre Increases Mysuru Farmer’s Profits to 10 Lakhs!

@elisa_freschi "The major role we can play is not to produce new authors, but follow the tradition of Bādarāyaṇa and come up with new compilers... who will compile in one place what is already available, in different formats"

Twitter friends, I need your help this morning. I have to work on getting the JavaScript course released but you see, but Nim can compile straight to C++:

And there's this kind of awesome looking C++ web framework:

Help!

Twitter friends, I need your help this morning. I have to work on getting the JavaScript course released but you see, but Nim can compile straight to C++:

And there's this kind of awesome looking C++ web framework:

Help!

@docphiloshoper

@docphiloshoper