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Sorry, but this seems too strange to be true. Are you sure you didn't miss anything?

Particularly strange since moving train (i.e. vehicle) is about the most common way doppler effect is explained in textbooks- it's not like you need any big "eureka" moment to get to this solution either.

If a movie has won an oscar, I used to count that as negative. Generally avoided nobel winners' books. Interesting how things have changed in just 7-8 years (I'm 25).

Why would someone want to game a negative result? Nobody ever becomes famous for saying my approach doesn't work. (As long as science is open, to make sure there is actually good work done by researchers before reaching this neg result.)

Am from Indian subcontinent. Butter isn't exactly that popular where I'm from (Bangladesh). Milk is usually collected at dawn and consumed in liquid form before the day is over, no need to store anything.

> major Abrahamic faiths venerated milk consumption

In Islam, Milk is considered the drink of paradise. There are quite a few ayats (verses) in Quran about the greatness of Milk.

https://damdaran.ir/en/articles/a-glance-at-milk-from-quran-...

I think the entire point of the article was that Taliban doesn't really care about rigid ideology, it's their flexibility that has won them the war.

> if you had one side giving you aid (food/medicine) in exchange for support

I'm afraid you have an awfully rosy version of what life was like for an average rural afghan under American rule.

Here are some links to get started-

- https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/world/asia/us-soldiers-to...

- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/sep/09/us-soldiers-af...

- https://news.abs-cbn.com/global-filipino/world/01/12/12/outr...

> If they did, they could end the Taliban in the span of a few weeks, just like they did ISIS. It wouldn't be a war, it would be a rampage...

This whole paragraph seems utterly bizarre.

US did NOT "end" ISIS, certainly not alone. Most of the fighting and dying was done by Shia and Kurdi forces inside Iraq whose lives literally depended on stopping ISIS. US failed in Afghanistan precisely because no such ally existed.

And, what exactly do you mean by "rampage"? There seems to be an awful implication- "if US forces didn't bother about civilian casualties, Taliban could be surely defeated". Which I suppose is true, there can't be any Taliban if there isn't any more afghan.

Taliban is certainly more popular than they were 25 years ago.

Last time there was a pretty strong grassroot movement against Taliban, particularly in the northern parts of the nation. Taliban didn't have to fire a shot in many of these places this time.

And then there were "phantom soldiers"- it's the practice where officers would just create non-existent soldiers to pocket their salary.

I think you're overestimating Pakistan's capability. It gave Taliban leaders shelter at their worst moment, and that is about the only leverage ISI had.

The moment Taliban started to carve out territory inside Afghanistan, that leverage was gone. There's some gratitude, but also lots of resentment among Taliban leadership about the way they were treated by the Pakistani authority.

No, born and raised in BD, never left.

Because things aren't so bad.

I live in Bangladesh, now, and I don't think we're much improvement over India (except the caste problem). I once witnessed the aftermath of a policeman beaten by public because he assaulted a shopkeeper. So while people doesn't have much legal recourse, they aren't exactly powerless either.

Similarly rich & powerful evade justice, but I wouldn't go as far as saying "there's rarely any justice for anyone". The state may fail to provide justice, but people find their ways, and that sort of keeps the worst impulses of the powerful in check.

I'm hesitant to call the slum population "homeless". We have people in the parks, footpaths too, and that's very different from people living in many of these slums.

Here are a few facts: some of these slums are 100+ yrs old. A lot of them have "permanent" homes, something lot harder to uproot than tents. And lastly, if the government attempted to destroy them, it won't be just poor people, almost entire society will be outraged. Something similar happened here in Dhaka.

Here in Dhaka, we pay around 45usd/month for 1.5hr of work per day.

Death penalty for "possession"? Did you mean trafficking? Here [1] it says,

> according to the Law on Public Security Administration Punishments, marijuana smokers shall be detained for 10 to 15 days and fined a maximum of 2,000 yuan.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_in_China#Legal_status

We have something called Cadet College here in Bangladesh (grade 7-12), and British public schools were I think the primary inspiration behind them (actually first few principals were all British). It was just as brutal as you say, if not more.

But the attitude of "ex-cadets" here is that of extreme pride, many consider it to be the best 6 years of their life. And this feeling is almost universal.

I have now several times come across criticism of British public schools by their own alumni, I wonder why there's so much difference in attitude.

"Following the medical emergency involving Denmark’s player Christian Eriksen, a crisis meeting has taken place with both teams and match officials and further information will be communicated at 19:45 CET.

The player has been transferred to the hospital and has been stabilised." - UEFA[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/UEFA/status/1403765507682193409

> The author pesters us with an imputation on Hume as an analytically bankrupt political thinker but fails to deliver any concrete proof.

"analytically bankrupt political thinker" - I didn't think the author implied something so strong.

"but fails to deliver any concrete proof" - Not sure what constitutes "proof" in conversation like this. But I think the author did show that Hume came close to understanding the many problems of his society- racism, divorce, wealth inequality- but his over-skepticism led him to dismiss any social change. The central point is that while Hume was skeptical of change, he wasn't equally skeptical of established order.

I'm not that big fan of this article either. But I think you're being unnecessarily harsh.

The answer is No, isn't it?

I think for C++ vector, when current underlying array gets filled, the common strategy is allocate a new array double the size of the current one, and copy contents over to that.