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For e.g. the Pythagorean theorem - that was independently discovered by many cultures centuries or even millennia before the Greek mathematician.

There is no need to refer it to his name, it could be the law of triangular squares or something (just an example, please do roast me for this)

Also, the theorem is is mentioned in the Baudhayana Sulba-sutra of India in almost the same structure, word for word, written between 800 and 400 BCE.

Today, it appears as if the Greeks are the fountainhead of all of western philosophy and world mathematics.

In education, the western civilisation is studied as an inverted pyramid. A large base of goodness and greatness with some badness towards the sharp peak thrown in.. like how the US is a country founded on principles of freedom while the bad parts like slavery is seen as a small aberration. Contrast it with the treatment of India in the western press, education and academia. The base of India is the bad bad casteism, poverty, snake charmers, millions of gods, some sort of pagan religion, etc which gets all the focus while small goodnesses hardly gets any mention. Nobody knows about Indian systems of philosophy which is richer than the Greek - from Advaita to Nagarjuna's Buddhist nihilism - ever heard of these? Blame your education. If you have heard, kudos, you are a statistical outlier.

All this leads to the ingrained slant that we see on social media. India means rapists, poverty and what not. The leftist academia dismisses all of India as unworthy of respect.

This is just an example. Thanks for reading. Disagree if you must, but let's enjoy the freedom of expression.

[All hail the Internet. To the Human Brain and Evolution behind it, belongs all Glory.]

Annotation of Videos holds a great potential for Educational videos, especially those demonstrating machinery, surgical procedures, etc.

I will be trying this out at our med school immediately - excitedly.

Paywalled. Is there a copy I can access? 12ft.io is disable for NYT it seems.

Add to your list, Flexgate.

Macbooks have become notorious for industrial design faults that come up late in the lifetime of a laptop.

and, dual/triple/quadruple monitor setups - once you go multi monitor, once can never be happy with a laptop.

Indian Justice System is largely seen as fair, but it is tooooooooooooooooooooo slow.

Cases take years to be concluded. Sometimes, even decades. The backlog is huge and the relatively very low cost of suing creates a lot of civil suits. In the US, losing a case means paying the costs of the winning side usually - In India the costs are calculated at a ridiculously low rate, that does not deter frivolous cases at all.

Also, the Indian Govt is known for its over zealous taxation of foreign entities - termed tax terrorism. Hardly a tax haven.

Let me add, 'Daily Rotation' for your consideration.

Best thing is that you can choose your reading sources from a large variety, range and interests.

https://dailyrotation.com/

Barter?

You are describing a Hippie taking a holiday, perhaps.

I am in India and I never bargain, hate the pressure. You never have to bargain unless you are in a known tourist trap places, wanting to buy trinkets.

> loses games all the time

to 16 year olds?

That's the news.

Sorry, this is simply not true.

Anti-polio-vaccination has been endemic in the region for so many decades. Long before the US proxy war in Afghanistan against the USSR.

If the poisoned BTC somehow make it to any exchange and gets bought cheap, we will be seeing historical red candles.

Continuing your racist tirade against India, I can see, with your false anecdotes.

Do you use a computer?

Well, some of the software stuff on it is from India. Enjoy!

Sorry, that is not a fact, but a racist anecdote.

Indira, typical Indian can't understand semiconductors and behaved like an uncivilised tribal... is what you want to convey?

You won't talk about the thousand ways Indians were kept from immigrating to the US or acquiring computers and mainframes using sanctions.

The Guardian is at it again.

Consistency of wind is a huge problem - seasonal, directional, intensity, etc

Let's put this another relatable way.

Despite rare cases of aircraft disasters, the benefit-risk assessment for air travel shows a favourable balance for all age and sex groups; therefore, air travel is recommended for everyone ≥12 years of age

When this comes to travel by car/road, the risk just shoots up many fold, yet nobody bats an eyelid to use cars, sometimes multiple times a day.

Yes sure, but you need to factor in the fact that you might be wrong and that the risk of being wrong can be disastrous for you and your family.

Can you please share the name of that Centre? I would love to investigate.

Thanks.

I am a physician and my contribution to this conversation might not be appreciated, but here it goes. I work at a medical university with two medical colleges and a wide healthcare system and we were involved in the clinical trials for Covaxin (India's indigenous vaccine) as we as Covid care and immunisation. As a foot soldier, I am tired of fighting stories such as yours that raise doubt on statistics with anecdotes. The statistics maybe flawed, but we need some scientific rigour in decrying them. Not 'my parents said' stories.

The anecdote about faking covid test results is plainly wrong. There is a mechanism for registering every PCR-RT test that is done along with the Aadhaar Unique Identity Number. The results need to be validated at different levels. These have been digitised. You can access your parents records online and verify and validate them too. All this is available on your mobile apps. The digitisation and workflow management make faking the results very difficult if not impossible.

Hospitals are specially licensed to treat Covid. Not all hospitals can admit covid patients. It is not like every small clinic or hospital at the corner can simply admit patients. The total bill for ANY COVID RELATED ADMISSIONS are capped. The test fees are capped. There simply is not much incentive to fake results when the fees cannot be charged on whim.

Of course, common people like your parents are fed misinformation by the social media (anti-vaxxers movement in the US) and a lot of fear about corporate profiting, big pharma, etc are the usual trope.

Big pharma sure profits, but they profit most off such staple as baby powder and insulin. Their profits, data of efficiency on vaccines etc are under glare of scientific scrutiny, while their pain killers and opioids are where they don't get any investigation.

The death rates on the other hand in India are under reported and there is a huge backlog that is being cleared right now.

You may not believe it, but India's response to the pandemic has been nothing less than fantastic, given the sorry affairs of its health infrastructure. The mechanisms at every level worked satisfactorily. Were they miraculous? no.

Efficient given the resources? Yep. It could have been worse. Far far worse.

Edit. Oh I forgot to add... our hospitals lost a lot of money and our entire budget. We had to borrow to keep things running and are in the red for the next few years.

So all this 'profiteering'... try running a hospital.

Edit 2: The local administration commandeered our hospitals to set up Covid wards. Admissions were made electronically for hospital based observational wards. Food and medicines were made free for all the admitted patients. Also, Oxygen. Did I tell about the overtime payments to doctors, nurses and paramedical staff? All from the hospital funds. Patients paid nothing. Thats right. Nothing. Not a cent.

Nothing impresses as much as a deadly weapon.

Learn to make Gunpowder.

If there were wise men, teach them the value of Zero.

If everything else fails, claim to be a prophet and produce a book with some vague moral values. Make the claim that you are from the future, one of the cardinal dogmas.

Austrian Ex-Chancellor

I am looking for a robust academic rebuttal of this paper, but I fail to find any. Does anybody have any pointers to literature that directly addresses the paper's assertions?

It looks that the academia isn't interested in crypto space at all, and if any, it is a contrarian view.

I have come to realise that the most important thing about my MBP is the large trackpad. I am getting a standalone Apple trackpad to see if it will work with a PC / Laptop. If it does give me the same experience that I am so used to, its time for me to ditch the MBP.

I am seeing older, professional users move away from MBP, making way for the younger 'use and throw' generation. Repairing is already a dying way of life.

And the Apple tax is only getting more and more soul-sucking.

One word: Work Visas and Residency Permits.

Among other things, Virtual Reality... specifically 3D stereoscopic interactive imagery makes things very life-like and I am stroked by its possibilities for recreation as well as for training.

The present day headsets are still bulky, but am sure they will become lighter and even more better.

The interface will also improve. In oculus we can already use fingers to navigate and interface with the OS. This will only improve.

1. Learn about investing and invest. 2. Publish early, publish more. 3. Exercise more. Eat more healthy. 4. Don't take things for granted. The world can change and will do. 5. Start a startup, don't be afraid of failure and cling to a safe job. Opportunities are a plenty. Don't be too risk averse.

The lesson is that there is always place for everybody, whole of India included in Computer Science..

Once AI matures to a level where it can write programs, we will have to create newer pastures however.

Dude. What exactly is 'unscientific' about these, still waiting.

You are talking about elections, election commission, over which the government has no authority.

What laws were exactly passed against sharing of criticism? Can you link to them?

> do you think that people aren't pouring freakin' cow piss down COVID patients' throats, hence that the videos are faked

In the US, people are pouring freaking bleach down people's throats and even the PRESIDENT of the United States went on his press to advocate that.

So spare me your indignation. I was objecting to the statement that the 'the administration truly believes that cow urine is the cure.'