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Very likely they are planning to leave. There’s a small chance that they have some family issues or burnout though. You will want to have a conversation about the latter. When people zone out, it usually is the former though, in my experience.

The central claim: “Our findings show that religion-state integration emboldens Buddhist vigilantes to attack religious minorities.”

Which can’t be a surprise to anyone, especially to Tamils who have witnessed the pogroms in Sri Lanka the last half century.

1. No press freedom: what explains the presence and popularity of the wire, scroll, news minute, the quint, etc? Traditional print media that’s critical of the current party in power includes The Hindu, Telegraph etc. That there’s no press freedom is false.

2. Ethno-nationalist state: what ethnicity are we talking about here? BJP loses often in elections locally, and majority of their opponents are Hindus.

What India has always been is illiberal. You are weakening your point by exaggerating the current conditions.

Moreover this prosed ban is because we have an overzealous bureaucracy that doesn’t understand technology and does not care to. It’s got nothing to do with what India has become.

What does she do with it?

Which article?

It’s in a proto-sharada script, which it seems can be dated to earlier than 5th century.

There’s no consensus on dating of the Bakhshali manuscript however: https://www.ams.org/publicoutreach/feature-column/fc-2018-06

Looks like he was doing his patriotic duty.”Thiel's reporting to the FBI was largely limited to foreign contacts and attempts by foreign governments to penetrate Silicon Valley.”

Not uncommon in rest of the world. Once upon a time, it was American journalists who enthusiastically did this:

1. C.I.A. Established Many Links To Journalists in U.S. and Abroad: https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/27/archives/cia-established-...

2. Correspondence and collusion between the New York Times and the CIA: https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/29/corres...

731 AD, Champa (modern day Vietnam) princeling Nandivarman becomes the Pallava Emperor and is crowned at Kanchipuram, modern day Tamil Nadu, India.

TBF, I remember this only because I have been reading D Dennis Hudson’s work.

Most Indians still know, it has been covered continuously these past two decades. Or maybe I am in the wrong information bubble. BJP’s political opponents won’t allow anyone to forget it.

Blow the whistle on what? Nothing in that documentary is new, most Indians know it. It has been reported and widely covered by Indian press before. It is just new to you (or the west).

Amit Shah is not a Jain. Agree otherwise. Caste is a very lazy lens to apply to the situation. Indian political parties are about power, every one of them has been illiberal. There’s BJP, but also DMK and Trinamool, who are just as intolerant of dissent at state level.

In Telangana, someone was arrested for making fun of the CM’s nose: https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/andhra-student-arre...

These are all parties that are opposed to the BJP. I wish there were parties that are committed to liberalism, rule of law and institution building in India. Not very optimistic at the moment.

This doesn’t explain Microsoft, which is just as old and laid off as much people.

Which country is that?

The internet happened. Now we have access to not just what the elites think (via the mainstream press), but also also what they miss or misrepresent. The exposure to many other plausible narratives mean that the mainstream media will never be the same again - most people now understand the news is not concerned with just objectivity or truth, but with narrative (even if journalists conflate the two). I don’t think you can ever rewind back on the internet and information explosion. The animal has tasted blood, and it wants more.

Trump shouldn’t be given so much credit for the present moment. It should instead go to the iPhone, twitter, Reddit, Facebook, 4chan, blogs - the internet fire hose. And it’s not just the United States, it’s happening all over the world.

> I would like to have accomplished something before I start to think about settling down and having kids.

It’s not an either/or. You could have kids and do other things. One of my regrets in life is not having kids earlier in life. Few things have given me as much pleasure as spending time with the little ones and watching them explore the world.

Agree with the overall thrust of the article, but what’s the evidence for this assertion?

> Creativity itself was a structural feature of the place of the sexual minority in society. One can with perfect consistency, again, rejoice at the disappearance of gay marginalization, and at the same time bemoan the cultural cost of this.

I wish I hadn’t spent all that time on Twitter and pop culture in my twenties, and instead devoted myself to learning and upskilling.

My sympathies. Are these issues that could have been flagged by the current genetic pre-screeners? Eg NIPT

I mean I don’t see concerns about fertility rate reflected in the Korean movies/shows I consume. Just a glib observation.

Going by just their pop culture it’s not apparent to me that this is concern to them.

> One day after the offending article went live, the AHA tweeted out a “public apology” from Sweet. It reads like a forced confession statement, acknowledging the “harm” and “damage” allegedly caused by simply raising questions about the politicization of scholarship toward overtly ideological activist ends.

While you didn’t have the twitter hive mind then, did public institutions capitulate to the activists from the right this way in the past? 50s, 60s, 70s?

He also says

> “The right-wing Hindu movement in India has historically not been associated with people from underprivileged castes, and those people have generally been less supportive of the movement“

My understanding is that BJP has come to power under an OBC wave, both in UP in 2022, and in the North 2019.

A 15 year old niece told me this week that she can’t be bothered to read because she gets bored by the time she gets to the end of the first page. “Why do that when I have TikTok and YouTube?”

It seems like there’s going to be a generation of people who don’t have to pretend to read - they simply don’t care to, and it doesn’t confer the same status TikTok fame does.

Which is the BS company? Pluribus or Arista?

Not more dangerous to fellow humans than other kinds of world leaders, surely? America, without nationalist populists at the helm these past two decades, was clearly dangerous to the people of Afghanistan and Iraq (unless they are not part of humanity).

Self-serving politicians are the rule across the world, not exceptions. The best we can hope for is one person is not in power for too long.

Did the 2019 bill have any impact on the extant data collection practices?

I can’t get into his writings, but I know others that do (and I am not talking about Naval Ravikant). So a waste of just our time, perhaps, and yet cannot be dismissed.

You left out the fact that JK rejected the notion of a world teacher and disbanded that particular association. He also rejected theosophy as a whole, and any organization that claims to know any such thing as a “Truth”.

It’s interesting that he would reject the money and power that came with it just because he didn’t believe in it. Most godmen and “spiritual entrepreneurs” wouldn’t.

The 100 page machine learning books, Designing Data Intensive Applications (DDIA), philosophy of software design etc.

DDIA was the most useful since I could apply it directly to my work, the others not so much. Not even sure if I took away much from the ML books since I rarely use it in practice. Still enjoyable overviews. DDIA will stick, others won’t.

Around 3 these past few years. Reading is not enough though.