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I would also like to second the recommendation of checking out James Hoffmann's YouTube channel!

He made me appreciate filter coffee and brew a V60 everyday!

It could be dosage and timing.

Coffee also affects my sleep but I need it to fight off my depression to some extent. So I have found one cup (250ml) early in the morning doesn't affect my sleep.

I have also found, I can have one more cup on the days I go running! (Physical exercise has something to do with caffeine efect on body)

I have a personal rule of no caffeine after 4PM. It helps with sleep! (6 hours before sleep is the idea)

I wasn't aware of these things until few years ago but now I do and I hope this helps someone!

Usually it will have to do with purchasing power parity.

The low pricing in one country doesn't translate to low pricing in another country, especially with digital goods.

Things are changing though now. Many streaming services are doing well in India as prices are appropriate and people are educated on the value of the goods.

It is also related to strong laws/enforcing of laws as well, which is also improving in my opinion.

All of which are not necessarily unique to India.

My point was that 'social representation' and 'economic inequality' are related.

They don't have enough social representation in social institutions because of economic inequality caused by Caste system over long period of time.

The merit(score) of a student is dependent on factors other than the student's aptitude such as the financial status of the family, guidance received at young age etc.

The students from lower-caste communities usually are also from low-income families and lack proper guidance (partly because the parents are not educated) compared to students from upper-class communities.

The reservation in academia is relevant to uplift people who are from disadvantaged communities. The society as a whole whould benefit from it.

IMO, there are valid criticism of implementation details of reservation for lower-caste in India, such as:

* should a person who belongs to lower-caste get eligibility for reserved quota if that person's parents also benefited from reserved quota?

* should caste based reservation be allowed in instances that require highly specialized skills? As opposed to equal treatment based on only merit. (Example: admissions to MD, Govt. jobs that requires highly specialized skills)

You can criticise implementation details of the reservation-system used as a tool by the Government to correct historical imbalance in society but not the idea as a whole because the system in place is showing positive results. We have made a lot progress in last few decades but still a long way to go in good direction. This is my opinion as an Indian techie from an upper-caste family.

Edit: typos / grammar

Right. I see how my wording can be wrong.

I saw some comments (in this thread and some others) that seems to be of the opinion that USA has not benefitted by embracing globalization. That opinion is in contrast to what I have seen in data analysis/reports.

So I wanted to say that maybe problem is not that USA hasn't benefitted from globalization but rather that benefit hasn't been distributed appropriately.

I'm not from USA and my knowledge comes by reading about news reports and expert data analysis so I might be missing something.

USA has embraced globalism and benefitting from it.

American middle-class wealth has moved to upper-class rather than to outsiders.

"The recent stability in the share of adults living in middle-income households marks a shift from a decades-long downward trend. From 1971 to 2011, the share of adults in the middle class fell by 10 percentage points. But that shift was not all down the economic ladder. Indeed, the increase in the share of adults who are upper income was greater than the increase in the share who are lower income over that period, a sign of economic progress overall."

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/09/06/the-america...

A 'news' article is different than an 'opinion' article.

Most news reports contains statements backed by verifiable sources/references/evidence. In general, a 'news' article is and should be neutral.

A good news outlet maintains that difference. Blurring the lines between the two is an indicator of the organization's bias.

IMO, NYT is one such good organization. That was my point if I wasn't clear!

I used to be a skeptic of MSM in general but started reading/following NYT and some other major news outlets about an year ago to challenge my own mindset.

From what I have seen, to my surprise, the NYT's opinion section does encompass diverse viewpoints and reports in general are neutral in tone!

Any criticism I have seen of NYT are either nitpicking (example: headline being too moderate) or taking an incident that is outlier and generalising it (example: Editor of opinion section didn't read a controversial opinion piece by a politician before publishing and resigned over the backlash. Instead of viewing it as an one-off incident, it was criticized as NYT not tolerant of diverse opinions).

NYT is not perfect (who else is?) but it is still one of the best organization with highest standards of journalism I have seen.

> India has no independent press

The statement is cynical.

Has the government tried supress journalism the hurts it? Yes

Did the courts side with journalists? Yes, in some cases.

Is the system we have is perfect? No

Can it be improved? Absolutely yes.

There are good journalism being done by many professionals both for Indian news orgs and for international ones.

You can criticise but be hopeful.

I agree.

I went from long time news-junkie phase to no-news phase to just-enough-news phase.

Being a citizen in a democracy is an active process and the active part doesn't have to take too much time. For example, you can check news just two times a week.

For those who are saying there are no neutral news organizations, here is my take: All people are biased. Organizations are made up of people. Hence, you won't get an organization without bias.

The goal is not to find organizations with no bias. The goal is to get your news from organizations with high standards of journalistic integrity and professionalism. Organizations that are aware of thier bias and try to seperate their news coverage from thier opinion section. There are many such news organizations (probably more than any time in history). Just pick two or three such outlets and you will stay informed.

Recently, I can't help but think this way everytime I see controversial comment/post in HN and reddit.

Maybe TikTok is not collecting data and operating ads in any way worse than Facebook or Google but we can expect companies from democratic countries to face some level of scrutiny from free press and government accountable to people. The thought of Chinese government having access to companies with reaches like Facebook/Google to global population worries me.

Obama commuted the sentence of Chelsea Mannings. So may be there was a better scenario for Snowden? But we can only speculate at this point.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/us/politics/obama-commute...

It's very similar to programming, right? I guess we can generalize it to any specialized skills/expertise. Use it or you start losing it.

Stand-up comedian Jerry Seinfeld mentioned in an interview that he still goes to comedy clubs to perform every week. Obviously he isn't doing it for the money. It's the process of testing out meterials before big shows that makes him good at his acts.

My takeaway from such stories is that Passion for work and keeping in touch with the path that lead them to success helps them stay relevant and successful.

At least on Android, apps can be side-loaded. This is about Apple to some extent.

The site[1] where the video is actually hosted has the image you described as the avatar of the uploader. Could it be the reason?

1. https://asciinema.org/a/qvNlrFrGB3xKZXb6GkremjZNp

Decision to build a chat app might seem wrong now in hindsight but this could have been a strategic move (as hinted in original comment).

Look at their competitors in Asia (all-in-one services like WeChat, GoJek etc. where search, chat, ride hailing, banking etc. are all built in one app) and it would make sense for them to have an engineering team building a chat app.

Just looked into setting in my phone and doesn't have Dark Mode but I tried the Color Inversion. It's enough!

Although may not be as effective as uBlock and other tools, Firefox's incognito mode has some protection against trackers (Content Blocking set to Strict).

I haven't taken these courses yet but Automata Theory is in my todo list. These are offered through Stanford Lagunita (Stanford's implementation of openedX)

* Compilers: https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/Engineering/Compilers/...

* Automata Theory: https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/course-v1:ComputerScie...