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He is gonna love his first trip once he's out. Respect.

Calling the Indian Government a totalitarian regime is stretching it a bit too much. India is still a paradise of liberty compared to China and some other countries in our region. Indians want H1B because they want to earn in dollars, plain and simple. All other reasons are secondary. H1B is modern-day bonded labor. You guys are the sugar slaves of this age, like it or not.

First, they came for the journalists and nobody knows what happened next.

The entropic brain hypothesis reminds me of the Mandukya Upanishad. I or Ego is neither the waking state, neither the sleep state and nor the dream state, but the one from all these states emanate from.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGKFTUuJppU

It is the age of tech-nihilism after all.

Congrats. Do you guys use AllenNLP, by any chance?

I use a Chrome extension instead. Works like charm.

It's not random at all. Moderators are appointed so as to suit a particular narrative. The subs are such echo chambers that it is hard to separate propaganda and truth.

Great Depression.

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The 200M Indian Muslims are already ghettoized. And they do not mix. RSS's vision of Hindu Majoritarian India is a constitutional democracy without any minority appeasement.

r/india is just cesspool. They do not care about free speech or liberty; they just want to control the narrative. The comments section is a shit show. It's hard to find a decent comment. It's all gomutra/sanghi/fascist/chaddi. At least on the other Indiaverse subs, we see some decent discussion. The best debates on CAA are on r/IndiaSpeaks. It's pro-BJP, but you can still criticize them there. And a lot of randians have found an outlet there.

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Just signed up. The website needs a UI overhaul. I think this will work. All the best.

How can machine consciousness cannot be different from human consciousness? How can we say that when we cannot even define consciousness.

The author seems to approach climate science as exact science. It is not. Predictions could be just way off the mark. There might be just a catastrophic failure and the food chain might collapse. The 6% drop in crop yields might just become a 50% drop. Climate scientists don't know shit. If they knew, they would be proposing solutions.

Meditation and psychedelics affect different areas of the brain, neurologically speaking. I think they are complimentary.

A bigger question is what was that 'you'. Was it the ego? Was it my sense of self? We keep changing throughout our lives. But psychedelics are more than just a life changing experience. AFAIK, it's the only way to experience ego death. The dissolution of self can remind you of the transient nature of things and lead you towards spirituality. The good or bad aspect should be judged from that perspective rather than your perspective. The ego is temporary, but the spirit is not.

What is my results? All results are generated by Google and i don't have a copyright claim on them. They can show me whatever result they want. If I'm not happy, I'll look elsewhere.

Thee larger problem is factual accuracy. With all the propaganda going around, it is hard to find the truth. Any attempt to classify such opinions will inevitably further a propaganda.

As someone said, we live in strange timeline where comedians are more trustworthy than politicians.

What about entaglement?

How long till NLG becomes good enough that it can answer questions factually? I think integrating it with a knowledge graph might just make search obsolete.

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Here's my post on the 2014 thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7368727

Is it possible to have a independent-contractor coop? We are looking to convert into a coop and have run into this legal grey area of contractor vs employee. It looks like coops are only for employees.

It is a good thing that Google is charging for it's products. They are converting users from products to customers. I am looking forward to Google Search Pro without any ads.

Is there a well defined boundary between QM and GR?

Is there a clear boundary where string theory ends and Standard Model starts?

Related thread, the oldest known version of Mahabharata.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IndiaSpeaks/comments/ddim7e/not_for...

I would argue that failure of Neoliberalism has nothing to do with China and has everything to do with flawed economics which assumes that our planet has indefinite resources and wealth can grow infinitely. Authoritarianism is the natural outcome of unchecked capitalism and Marx predicted that a century ago.

Yanis Varoufakis has an interesting take on Chinese economic imperialism. According to him, the Chinese are a benevolent imprealist, trying to achieve the same dominance but with loans rather than guns.