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See, it's fine to dislike RMS (for whatever reason). But the question was whether the EFF -- an organization that claims to support free speech on the Internet -- should've joined the dogpile on RMS based on ludicrous claims written by an outrage addict.
As someone who is very familiar with the naming system in TN and Kerala, I can assure you that the vast majority of upper-caste people here don't use a caste-based surname anymore. Please also note that we're talking about South Indians in academia, who like most people in academia around the world, tend to be far more left leaning and/or progressive than the general population.
> Respectfully, if you can't tell that Bulsara is a Gujarati surname
Bulsara means someone from Bulsar -- a place in Gurajat. The point I wanted to make is that not all surnames in India have a caste-based origin.
> Perhaps try reading the article? He has even linked the RTI responses if you doubt him so much.
RTI responses will only tell you the number of candidates who were hired through caste-based reservation. And this is exactly why I linked IITM's CS website. How did the author figure out the castes of the 20+ faculty members without caste-based surnames?
A similar incident occurred with Patels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patidar_reservation_agitation
Lol, this is hilariously wrong. Caste-based surnames are extremely uncommon in South India (20% of India's population), and it's not even a recent thing. Even in North India, unless you have an extremely popular caste-based surname (e.g., Sharma, Gupta, Agarwal, Tewari, etc.), it's hard to identify someone's caste. (On a personal note, I knew a "Sharma" who happened to be an OBC.) What is Farrokh Bulsara's [1] caste?
FWIW, as someone who has spent considerable time in Indian academia, this article reeks of BS. No one cares about your caste in Indian academia. The languages you speak, the part of India you come from, etc., cause a bigger divide than caste.
>There is exactly one out of 180 CS faculty members across five IITs who belongs to OBC category
Total BS. There's no way that this person could verify this claim. It's probably true that there's exactly one faculty member who chose to avail caste-based reservation to get their job, but looking at IITM's CS faculty listing [2], I see at least 20+ faculty without caste-based surnames. How exactly did the author find their castes? What about Christians? What about Muslims?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Mercury
[2] IITM is in South India; see http://cse.iitm.ac.in/listpeople.php?arg=MSQw
RMS never defended Epstein -- not even once. His only crime was being a pedantic aspie. If the EFF considers that to be good enough reason to cancel him, then yes, I think that EFF are total hypocrites. FWIW, EFF's official blog post only linked Selam G.'s hitpiece that has been thoroughly debunked elsewhere [3].
[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/statement-re-election-...
[2] https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-appendix...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/statement-re-election-...
http://techrights.org/2021/11/05/not-the-frontier-anymore/
https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/25/john_gilmore_removed_...
The ballast is dropped during the ascension, not the descent. This makes the ascension-step impossible to fail and requires no electricity [1]. Incidentally, I first came to know about the bathyscaphe while reading Peter Watts's Rifters trilogy (which is an amazing hard SF series set in the deep sea).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathyscaphe#Mode_of_operation
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTHAe-m56Vw
It doesn't. But it's irresponsible journalism to write an article of this sort without admitting that every single arms exporter sells to autocracies.
[1] https://www.statista.com/chart/18417/global-weapons-exports/
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The Intercept has mostly echoed current left-liberal talking points ever since Greenwald left, so you won't find many articles critical of the current war there. Anyway, since the OP is about Kissinger, it's interesting to note what he had to say about the current war [1]
> "After saying that Western countries should remember Russia’s importance to Europe and not get swept up “in the mood of the moment,” Kissinger also pushed for the West to force Ukraine into accepting negotiations with a “status quo ante,” which means the previous state of affairs.
> “Negotiations need to begin in the next two months before it creates upheavals and tensions that will not be easily overcome. Ideally, the dividing line should be a return to the status quo ante,” said Kissinger, 98, according to the Daily Telegraph. “Pursuing the war beyond that point would not be about the freedom of Ukraine, but a new war against Russia itself.”
[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/24/henry-kissin...
It's sad this deplorable human being was given the Nobel Peace Prize.
youtube.com###cinematics.ytd-watch-flexyYes, physics has origins in philosophy. Philosophical notions that could be formulated mathematically and tested experimentally became physics, and the rest became metaphysics. And, in the 21st century, metaphysics is of zero importance to working physicists. Only a few physicists would even be able to accurately describe what "ontology" is.
> Even GR has light cones and events as real physical objects of the theory.
Events and light cones are just convenient words/phrases for mathematical definitions, e.g., an event being the 4-vector (t, x, y, z). They don't have any further philosophical significance.
Isn't that by "design"? Ontology of QM is an inherently philosophical topic, and is of little interest to working physicists.
How does this compare to other "take a break" programs like xwrits and Workrave?
$62.99 for something that you could hack together in a few lines of (power)shell script?