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lota-putty

212 karma · joined December 15, 2018

There is no honest path to prosperity!

Slavery isn't abolished, you've just stopped recognising it.

Your wallet/time is shaping the world for better/worse.

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lota-putty··on The world’s biggest cultured meat factory is under construction in the U.S.
I like that train of thought.

As a vegetarian in childhood, weekly meat-eater in 20's, vegan over a decade since 30th birthday; I don't want anybody to eat artificial/lab-grown meat. They rather eat home-grown animals instead.

lota-putty··on Ask HN: How did you stop drinking?
Have you tried medically administered Psychedelics?

Psilocybin, LSD, DMT & Mescaline ...

lota-putty··on How many decimals of pi do we need? (2016)
How many decimals do "we" need?

Depends on the context and room for errors & consequences. Double Precision (15 digits) suffices in most cases.

lota-putty··on Crypto Industry Eclipses Defense, Big Pharma in US Political Giving
When you pump too much steroids into bloodstream you get a freak.

"cryto-currency" is an offspring of fiat-currency fiasco.

lota-putty··on Earthworms after rain (2019)
Their behaviour to surface during rain and get maximum human attention likely to get them named after "rain" across cultures.
lota-putty··on Swisscom to discontinue MMS service
Try email, better privacy than MMS.

I was a MMSC developer over a decade ago, don't ask what most of the MMS traffic was.

lota-putty··on Ask HN: What is one book you would recommend everyone to read?
It's a silly question, any book with facts not philosophy.
lota-putty··on U.S. is considering a radical rethinking of the dollar for today's digital world
Gold(Noble Metals) Standard, where are you?

There is a local saying here "When fences eat crops, what can you do?" or "Fox guarding the hen-house", can you blame its instincts.

lota-putty··on YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count
I'm not liking any videos right now. Not sure what to do with the videos on my 'liked list'. Only original & creative content that's impressive is spared from a dislike. Gathered it's subjective.

My block-list & 'don't recommend channel' is growing faster now.

lota-putty··on Lenovo Selling Linux Laptops Directly in the US
Bought a Lenovo laptop 10 years back with free-dos on it.

Installed Ubuntu on it, now at 20.04 LTS. This laptop runs 8 to 16 hours* a day; still on stock hardware except the CPU-fan.

* torrenting & internet-surfing

lota-putty··on Dating in Delhi when you're poor
Metro cities are not self sufficient, they rely on near/remote regions for resources to sustain.
lota-putty··on Dating in Delhi when you're poor
India hosts 400% of humans of its healthy capacity; 150 people per sq km.

What the world sees is the tip of the iceberg. Someone alien to India might have to spend decades to get all the idiosyncrasies that run here.

For starters, good portion of sexual harassments/rapes are not reported. Even unnatural deaths go unnoticed or ignored.

lota-putty··on Canada Records All-Time High Temperature of 49.5 Degrees: Weather Service
We're pushing the boundaries of Anthropocene.

What changes have you made in your life since learning of "Global Warming due to green-house gases"?

Turned vegan, started walking, cycling; gave up on pleasure trips?

lota-putty··on There are no results for tank man
Those pictures are proof how trained military men behave, "maintain a single file". "Tank Man" becomes a legend for brazenly holding the line marching Tanks.

Given this scenario to any Indian driver, they'll just pass by using other lanes.

lota-putty··on Police in India visited Twitter offices over ‘manipulated media’ label
There is a saying in India "उल्टा चोर कोतवाल को डांटे", i.e. "a thief accusing the sentry".

There are very few(handful) media houses in India that stand against current Central Govt. politics in India.

If Govt. of India doesn't like Twitter policies, it's free to block it or create it's own propaganda machine.

lota-putty··on Suicide claimed more Japanese lives in October than 10 months of Covid
Hopelessness, I suppose.

Also, these people are very sensitive & even wiser. If these people can be identified, perhaps they can be relocated to favourable new environments to face challenges.

By the same cbsnews: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/unintentional-shootings-guns-ki...

Did you see the difference?

lota-putty··on Iran's top nuclear scientist believed assassinated by Mossad
Why does Iran lag while North-Korea* built nuclear weapons & got a seat at global diplomacy round-table?

* North-South split, thanks to USSR/USA insecurities.

lota-putty··on British engineers develop process to turn moon dust into oxygen
When species are getting extinct on Earth in our lifetime; many would be happy to give up the Moon for mining.

Is it too political? Well, you drew a tangent; I'm dragging it.

Political: West was indifferent to the plight/life of middle-east people for oil in 20/21st century. Needed little/no reasons to destabilise. When we can give up part of Earth for mining; I guess we'll think little about Moon when the time(profitable Moon mining tech) suits.

lota-putty··on RIP – Indian Style
While most Hindus cremate their dead, some sects of Hindus bury their dead. Some sects of Hindus celebrate few festivals together.

Once such festival : https://frontline.thehindu.com/the-nation/article29507016.ec...

lota-putty··on CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
There are no Zebras in Indian subcontinent; we accepted Anglo term.

Cross-Walk(even Pedestrian) is a better term than Zebra-Crossing; for kids though, Zebra helps.

Edit: English were in world over making colonies across Afro-Asian countries.

https://www.thehindu.com/in-school/sh-science/The-zebra-in-o...

Has anyone seen a Zebra cross a zebra-crossing? Only happens in England.

lota-putty··on China delists all remaining poverty-stricken counties
CGTN is to China what RT is for Russia.

Economics is a zero-sum-game; if they lifted everyone in China out of poverty, then poverty is exported to other countries or the nature paid all the costs.

Edit:

Nature is a silent sufferer in the economics. It acted as cushion to our misadventures, a-bomb(wars), oil-spills, co2 & other gases, industrial wastes, nuclear wastes.

For a person to become rich, they have to earn profit dishonestly; if profit is shared equally nobody is richer. Somebody is getting short end of the stick to make someone else richer.

If everyone is self-sufficient through out their lives, then technically there is enough to go around. Otherwise, one who holds the resource in high demand won't share it fairly.

Simply put : Income disparity will thrive in resource hungry society where resources are held by few members. Even in self-sufficiency, if population grows then nature has to pay the price. Resources are finite for all kinds of life on earth. If one thrives some other suffers.

Anyway, now it's downvoted; wasted my time wording it.

lota-putty··on Chili pepper consumption associated with 25% reduction in death from any cause
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_food_origins

Indigenous people who domesticated wild flora & fauna as food sources.

Sadly, most Indians eat wrong Cinnamon bark.

- South Indian Vegan(10 yrs & going)

Fortified wheat-flour & dry Soybeans cover my protein & vit-B12 req.

lota-putty··on Send Payments in India with WhatsApp
They(RBI & Govt of India) rather work on leaner AndroidOS (LineageOS + microG) and BhIM[1] like Apps for popular smartphones sold across India.

Don't privatise charity & security; humanise it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BHIM#Security

lota-putty··on Five Eyes and Japan call for Facebook backdoor to monitor crime
Placed in your hands the responsibility of protecting/securing lives of innocent citizens you would overlook the privacy of citizens.

Paradoxes of technology-industrial complex.

Nothing out there is better than face-2-face social meetings. Nothing private should have access to the internet let alone "going over secure links".

lota-putty··on Redefining what sustainable fishing means
Accept previous generations messed up(greed & pride). Even now, most powerful & wealthy are respected more than most wise people. Often power/wealth is mistaken for wisdom.

- Precise definition of territorial waters depending on mainland's size & population - Hands-off fishing in international waters; farm & eat marine food within mainland marine territory

No international body out there is strong enough to protect sea-life.

lota-putty··on Obese politicians signal corruption, study finds
Body keeps score...
lota-putty··on Teens don't have a clue about IT? (2016)
Sounds like grown-ups are failing to learn how to engage teen-minds during these tech-vibrant times.
lota-putty··on How did British officers live in the scorching heat of India?
Makes you wonder if Europeans had collaborated wisely/fairly between themselves couple of centuries ago, what kind of world it would've been today.

`Greed` got to them before `Envy`, driven by `Pride`

lota-putty··on Washington pressures TSMC to make chips in US
How is it different from colonialism?

Leeching in the name of democracy?

There are several democracies between Taiwan & USA.

lota-putty··on Peer-to-Peer Based Social Networks: A Comprehensive Survey
Has anyone used Utopia : https://u.is/en/ ?
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