He should learn ethics from Islamic Nationalist Imran Khan and Islamic Nationalist Shehbaz Sharif of the "constitutional Islamic State" of Pakistan (both of whom should also never be referred to as Islamic Nationalists even though they start speeches with quotes from the Quran and with "Allahu Akbar" because.... Because.).
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Sigh... Benares used to be so beautiful. Smiling happy hungry people defecating on the side of the Ganges. Sigh. Little children doing physical manual labor all day to earn enough for a small piece of beautiful Benares roti. Sigh.
I miss the old days.
Pankaj Mishra is as British as any white Britisher who likes to eat bangers and smash for breakfast. He's been living in the UK for decades, and he has a byline in the Guardian (which also appeals for direct funds from readers in every article they publish online). Also, Pankaj has sat on the board of the Open Society Foundation, so he's as Western as anyone else. Please don't imply that someone of Indian descent can never be considered a Westerner.
at least 99%
Hindu Nationalist Modi has been a disaster.
Unlike Islamic Nationalist Imran Khan and Islamic Nationalist Shehbaz Sharif of the "constitutional Islamic State" of Pakistan (both of whom should also never be referred to as Islamic Nationalists even though they start speeches with quotes from the Quran and with "Allahu Akbar" because.... Because.).
I love it when Western authors write poverty porn about India.
I too am nostalgic about the days when half the country was living in extreme poverty, and spent the whole day chasing their next meal.
If they were good, surely these people could be absorbed in other areas of YC?
Then I learned this was only 26% of its cash reserves.
I thought cash was considered wasteful because it loses value via inflation.
Has the thinking changed? Can someone knowledgeable please help me understand this?
*The reason I mentioned hourly and yearly is that I'm wondering if a pedicab driver can put in 8 hour days like a cook or dev.
The Mapuche people look stunningly Polynesian/Asian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapuche
Easter Islanders are believed to be Polynesian.
Here's a strange thing: there's some Asian-origin DNA in some of the indigenous people of Latin American. For some strange reason this is not discussed much.
Students sit in the classroom scrolling tiktok.
I don't think we're going to make it.
My guess is these deans too are heavily on the spectrum.
Many times in my life what seemed normal and okay to me, was severely offensive to others. It's a cross I have to bear.
But upper castes are in denial about how caste plays out in the rest of India.
They will claim it was something in the past. Wrong. Upper castes still often whisper about so and so being a *** (impolite way of referring to someone of a lower caste), or about such and such work (e.g. cleaning dishes) being the work of a *** and not a Brahmin like themselves.
Some now claim that caste was created by the British.
Wrong. Al Biruni (traveler from Persia) in 1020 wrote in Tarikh Al-Hind (History of India) about how when there was a communal meal in the village, a barrier needed to be put up between people of lower castes and people of upper castes.
My own personal experiences with caste (as someone exposed to it very late in life) were described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31035615
But upper castes are in denial about how caste plays out in the rest of India.
They will claim it was something in the past. Wrong. Upper castes still often whisper about so and so being a *** (impolite way of referring to someone of a lower caste), or about such and such work (e.g. cleaning dishes) being the work of a *** and not a Brahmin like themselves.
Some now claim that caste was created by the British.
Wrong. Al Biruni (traveler from Persia) in 1020 wrote in Tarikh Al-Hind (History of India) about how when there was a communal meal in the village, a barrier needed to be put up between people of lower castes and people of upper castes.
My own personal experiences with caste (as someone exposed to it very late in life) were described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31035615
LOL.
Follow on question for anyone reading this: Is there any evidence that pranayam (yogic breathing exercises) can heal mitochondria?
In 2017, I did Andrew Ng's original Stanford AI Coursera course.- it renewed my understanding of Matrix Algebra and more importantly "why" we need it (being from India, I was fortunate that I learned matrices by rote, and the Indian education system ensured that details like "why" on earth I needed to study this thing never had a chance to pollute my pristine mind /sarcasm).- it gave me an...
India will remain in the top three greenhouse gas and emissions producers forever.
If you don't understand why, please learn a little math.
I seem to remember, after ChatGPT gave me a result (a list of only 103 words/phrases), I searched for the Spanish "Zipf's list" (highest frequency words) on Google Search (to compare it with what ChatGPT gave me).
Three times over the last month a striking coincidence.I use Chrome as my browser. Google owns both Chrome and YouTube.I can't remember the first two incidents any more, but they were on the same scale as the third incident.The third incident: two days ago I asked ChatGPT to give me the 600 most important words in Spanish. Today, YouTube has recommended me a video titled "100 most important...
Twitter uncritically and submissively followed directives from FBI and CIA.
I read some headlines that Meta/FB too uncritically and submissively followed the same directives.