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Taliban have a twitter account, Ex PM of Malasia have openly justified Paris beheading, Iran's supremo calls for Jew genocide, and last but not the least China calls their Uighur detention camps as "reeducation" with zero consequences.
So yes plan if you want but cost of executing the plan might be high enough to put you out of business.
My non technical wife managed to lock herself out of her device and icloud with no recourse as I didn't preserve the reciept.
So now we have a device but it is just an unusable brick. So are we the owner or renter?
However, this entire thread is a discussion on justfying the "deplatforming" by tech giants to uphold democracy.
Why these giants act so one-sided is my confusion.
I agree that both are crimes. I am more concerned with reaction of tech platforms. Remember these same tech companies were supporting BLM blindly.
Few months back exPM of Malaysia openly justified beheading in France with no reaction from tech companies.
They always suck-up to China just get a foothold into the Chinese market so thinking they are acting to uphold democracy is a funny idea.
Killing random people to make a political statement is terrorism. Isn't it?
With kids at home only time I get is @ 1 AM.
A single bad bug or security issue can make data inaccessible or corrupt. Tapes on the other hand does not have that issue. IMHO trusting all your important data to a single vendor or technology is a recipe for disaster.
> Also, the Ottomans never occupied Arabia/the Gulf. They stopped at the Levant. Because there was simply nothing to occupy in an empty desert.
AFAIK Ottoman ruled up to Mecca yet it remained undeveloped. Seems a little bit strange that they had made advancements in architecture yet did not develop the holiest place.
> Dharmic (Hindu) scholars kept precise time by observing and calculating the cycles of Surya i.e. the sun, moon and the planets. These calculations about the sun appear in various astronomical texts in Sanskrit, such as the 5th-century Aryabhatiya by Aryabhata, the 6th-century Romaka by Latadeva and Panca Siddhantika by Varahamihira, the 7th-century Khandakhadyaka by Brahmagupta and the 8th-century Sisyadhivrddida by Lalla.[24] These texts present Surya and various planets and estimate the characteristics of the respective planetary motion.[24] Other texts such as Surya Siddhanta dated to have been completed sometime between the 5th century and 10th century present their chapters on various deified planets with stories behind them.
Hindu India have names for time scale ranging from 10e-17 to 10e22 long before Greece and Arabia[2].
How you insert a video in org file? This is one of the reason I have to move away from org only setup.
Well this can happen to non tech savvy users like my wife who configured their device once and then just used it for couple of years until the day of the incident.
> I am okay with Apple's choice on this, as I prefer the security and the theft deterrence. I keep several methods for recovering my iCloud account, and I keep the receipt for my expensive devices.
This would mean market for stolen iDevices should not exist?
> Does activation lock even apply to Macbooks?
Not yet but it might once M1 becomes ubiquitous.
You will be happy if apple bricks your M1 laptop if you forgot the password due to any reason. What happened to spirit of HN culture?
M1 feels like a stepping stone in the same direction on laptops.
Personally it feels wrong to pay for a device someone can lock you out of and then refuse to unlock. It's like paying ransom without getting kidnapped.
Best thing is this doesn't break the flow of thoughts by forcing user to fill in dates, people etc. in different UI boxes.
I wonder how did they approach the NLP part in 1990 and what more is possible today with deep learning?
Secondly money and conditions can't be universal drivers.
On a side note I feel trend of letting youngster do whatever they want even during school years is counter productive. For example children who misbehave even once in a while with teachers and sometimes parents even are taken for psyche evaluation immediately. IMHO children does need direction and guidance until they understand the consequences of their choices.
One can still speak wrong if they learn to speak the letters wrong but chances are reduced. Are Romanian and Turkish similar?
There is no need to say what kind of mess they end of creating.
Yoga teaches this blissful existence so some parts of these teaching deal with physical aspects like asanas(exercises) and pranayana(breathing). However, central ideas of Yoga is called निष्काम कर्म or unattached action which simply put means hell or high water, you should stick to your duties and perform them without caring for the results. No wonder many scholars like Beethoven, Eliot, Emerson, Oppenheimer to name a few got inspired by its philosophy.[1][2]
[1] https://www.yogajournal.com/yoga-101/first-book-yoga
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/nov/18/classicalmusic...
You are basing your assumption on languages using Roman writing system which actually isn't capable of expressing all sounds used within the language. All language systems doesn't suffer this. For example most Indian languages have accurate sound to letter mapping even to the level of defining short and long sounds of same alphabet differently. In order to speak correctly you just have to say the individual sounds together. There is no weirdness involved.
Yoga is all about living in harmony. Some parts of it like Asanas, and Pranayama can be measured as it impacts the physical body. I have no problem with Wim taking a part of it and popularizing it but in not admitting to its sources he is preventing from others making further discoveries of the list of techniques available. What he is teaching is just one of paranayama technique from a list of many.
I do not doubt his achievements and commitment to excellence.
Yes it is possible but highly unlikely. He himself claims practising yoga for years. How do you justify him never coming across eight parts of Yoga? Moreover on his website he admits similarities with Buddhist meditation but reluctantly[1] and justifies by claiming of "stripping the religious aspects" just like you.
so as far as religious trappings are concerned, Hinduism and Buddhism aren't religions in Abrahmic sense. There is no creed to be followed, there are no prophets, and you don't have to follow commandments to achieve eternal bliss in after life. Buddhism and Jainism don't even have gods per say.
Word Dharma comes from Sanskrit root dhri, which means maintains the stability and harmony of self, society, environment, and universe. This means there are no prohibitions but only principles to be followed to maintain the balance. Depending upon the situation same principle might suggest diametrically opposite actions.
Sample size seems small because Wim wants to hide his sources. See my other comment[1].
Yoga's actual name is ashtanga yoga which means it has eight limbs[1]. Contrary to popular belief Yoga is not about just twisting your body into weird poses. That aspect is called ASANA and what Wim Hof claims as his discovery is called pranayama which is a fully developed science of breath control practices by Sadhus and monks for centuries.
YAMA – Moral disciplines
NIYAMA – Positive duties
ASANA – Posture
PRANAYAMA – Breathing techniques
PRATYAHARA – Control over senses
DHARANA – Focused concentration
DHYANA – Meditative absorption
SAMADHI – Enlightenment
I think there is strong bias going on here in the comments. Two of the comments mentioning yogic origins of this practice are dead. So I present 2 videos as an example. First video[2] was captured by Indian soldier in -45 degree temperatures of himalayan border. Second video[3] captures another sadhu who lives naked under snow without any protective gears
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashtanga_(eight_limbs_of_yoga)
[1] https://youtu.be/8Xbi4Qrf9mE
[2] https://youtu.be/FcUdEkPa-2c
EDIT: Second video added.
EDIT 2: Major edit explaining yogic origins of this practice.
As the article says learning progresses from what to how and finally to why.
Starting with why is just a way of deciving ourselves into feeling smart.
I would say in areas like language learning asking why question isn't even possible generally.
Yes Reservation is still needed. India is big and people who got oppressed under colonial rule would take a few generations more to come up.
Bigger issue is exploitation of caste lines for politics.
Thanks I didn't knew that. Having said that Harvard and Stanford is last rung. Those who are able to reach those places are already prevailed I would argue. Is there similar affirmitive action in place on lower levels as well?
India has it across the board which help more IMHO. Some communities have used it so much that now debate within the lower sections have started that reservation should be taken away after 3 generations.[1]
Yes there is discrimination but India is fighting it on policy and social level. Reserving 50% in education and jobs is one such big step. India's constitution was written by a a Dalit. Many people from the held high offices. Current prime minister and president are from the same community.
> Suffice to say, the US does engage in extensive aff action in education and hiring (although neither are directly legally mandated).
Is it measured? If not than how you know?