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When in India I was told there are even some rare families still raising their children with Sanskrit as their primary language. I think this spoken Sanskrit is however a bit different from the written version which might mirror Latin that might also have had a spoken and written version (and the former is dead).

Small remarks:

* I found the description on the 'drum' pattern difficult to understand, that might be a word understood in a particular way in your culture/region? * The introduction mentions the verse that can mean both apology or declaration of war, would be great to have this mentioned/translated too as one of the examples.

Thanks for an interesting article!

file size is not a problem in big cities of the developed world. Many poorer countries and even remote regions in rich countries are left behind.

neither is it small change for the workers...

jitsi also just works.

you might like the servicr, but zoom is definitely overvalued, no question about it.

IB doesn't seem to be commission free though.

I think its better. two peeves:

- no 'new tab' option in the menu - URL/search bar is finally at the bottom, but when you use it it moves to the top. very annoying little detail.

Important to clarify that the answer is 'No' not because it is somehow an invalid way of marking copyright, but rather because it's not necessary.

You, as the author, automatically have copyright for your own creative works. No registration, marking or anything else needed. It also doesn't matter whether you share it or not - copyright is an automatic right.

Now, enforcement is another matter...

Viruses also can stay inactive in the body for years, see herpes as an obvious example. No idea if that can also be true for flu viruses though.

No, they were implementing it at scale for 10+ years. There was an issue with lots of incompatible legacy software so they were still using windows as well but >50% of desks were Linux only.

Then in a very short timespan (1) a new conservative city government came in, (2) Microsoft announced a big local office and (3) the new government killed the open source project without warning and anlunced they'd switch everything to windows 10.

This transition back to windows is now still ongoing and as contracts are signed will not really be feasible to stop. The now new-new Green+social democratic government makes noe a pledge to take open source seriously for all future needs (and I suppose switch back to a Linux asap).

It's a complex issue. There are some calculations and they can go both ways, depending in what and how you calculate. E.g. you could consider training costs - but training costs are one-off for a change, not eternal. Or you can consider coding costs, but they might vary massively from region to region and depending on how (in)competent the procurement goes and how the local market works. Estonia is a country that seems to have figures this out to an immense degree, creating most of the infrastructure themselves and then tendering small-scale procurements for small parts of the system and sometimes allow private competition - but always with government-set data standards and often more on interfaces etc.

To add one other angle: what is cheaper, paying 5 million to a company in Redmond yp provide licenses for opersting systems and officd software, or 10 million to a number of local companies to set up and adapt a slightly less refined open source tool for the local needs? In one scenario the money leaves the local economy, in other the city might spend more money but the money stays local and is used to buy houses or sandwiches, pay handymen or bus tickets or taxes. Where is the long term cost/benefit/ratio higher?

because it wasn't fully clear which jurisdiction would apply.

I doubt that good looking women have such an easy life as you seem to think. Being attractive goes along with sexual harassment from the early teens onwards - stares, commdnts, unwanted touching, .. This doesn't stop until they turn 40+. I've seen 12(ish) year olds or moms with small children getting lewd comments.

In later years attractive women struggle exactly because of the trope you describe - all their achievements are doubted because others think those are just due to their looks and genetic lottery. And they can never be sure whether a male offer of support is genuine kindness or collegiality or an attempt to get in their pants.

Another example: I travel 2x/month for work. When I do I go for runs, roam late around the neighbourhoods of unknown areas to take photos, grab a beer and chat with locals, etc. I dont have to fear too much harm beyond a robbery. My female colleagues all have a very similar travel schedule but they don't see or experience nearly as much of the cities they travel to, simply because as a woman you have to fear much more for your bodily integrity than us men.

Not saying anyone is really at fault here (except our fellow men that don't respect boundaries/common decency) or that being unattractive is better (especially for women that has its own downsides) but it definitely is not all rainbow and sunshine just because a woman has good looks. Be kind to all, whether beautiful or not.

There is probably also an issue of too much information. All these massive efforts generate data that is barely ever used as the time and resources just aren't there.

the Dolphins in venice was really a matter oft cleanliness, and possibly less boat traffic. The canals aren't so deep that you would not see dolphins swimming through on normal days.

This is not at all true from a yogic perspective. The original aim of yoga (with all eight parts, not just the asanas but also breathing, healthy eating, right behaviour, internal cleaning, etc) is to make the body so healthy that you don't have to worry about it. Then you can work with your mind to address your samskaras, etc and work towards a deeper understanding of reality and self up to enlightenment.

On the contrary, changing your physiology will change much about your life.

E.g. developing muscles, good posture and meditation help massively to build confidence which will help you all around e.g. to speak up at work.

Body-Mind is bidirectional and I would really recommend you try working on whichever angle you can start. There is no good life without a healthy body, but of course it's not the only thing.

you might want to look into the "eternal September" concept, for me that really is what happened to Reddit.

to;dr eternal september = constant influx of many new users didn't allow the 'culture' from before to survive.

But Swedish were self-isolating, companies allowing flexibility, all citizens have affordable access to great quality healthcarez etc. It's a functional country with high trust. The obligation to stay at home is not necessary when society and even economic actors respond reasonably.

You're not providing any evidence to back up your statement, except the opinions of Rogan and Musk; to my knowledge neither is an expert on health statistics. Could you provide a source to back up this claim?

> Republicans who brought the lawsuit had asked the justices to side with them but to stay their ruling for about a week so legislators and Evers could work out a new plan to deal with the pandemic.

> The justices declined to do that and had their ruling take effect immediately.

This is ignoring reality in favor of principle||partisan positioning (choose your preference).

Nothing rational or legally sound in throwing the situation into chaos.

But is it really democracy in action if a small-r Republicans holds the governor hostage?

I see it as top comment, where is the echo chamber?

I think downvoting unhealthy positions doesn't necessarily cause an echo chamber. Is it really necessary to address every irrational, stupid, inciting, ... posting? Is really every opinion worth being respected? I don't find the op offensive but it's been repeated here many times over - does each copy need a rebuttal or response?

Everyone is entitled to their opinion but I don't believe in the mantra that everyone's opinion matters equally.

That's just an irrational position. Of course it matters as now companies can tell workers to come or be fired. All irresponsible people can go out, spread the virus further, overwhelm healthcare and kill thousands more.

And the way it is done just showd how the US is going bananas:

> Republicans who brought the lawsuit had asked the justices to side with them but to stay their ruling for about a week so legislators and Evers could work out a new plan to deal with the pandemic.

> The justices declined to do that and had their ruling take effect immediately. ...

> With no COVID-19 policies in place, bars, restaurants and concert halls are allowed to reopen — unless local officials implement their own restrictions. That raises the prospect of a patchwork of policies, with rules varying significantly from one county to the next.

With all respect, this is an absurd summary and you're obviously not in any way an expert on this topic else you wouldn't write such nonsense. There is no 'ideological war with Islam'. There are many Islamic countries closely following the western model of economy and society. The conflict with China also has long stepped beyond just ideology and is much more about realpolitik, power projection, economic clout, etc than ideological conflict between a formally-communist-but-is-actually-just-a-typical-capitalist-autocracy and the hardcore capitalist that is the US (and which some would describe as at least an oligarchy).

there is not much points going into your other arguments which are equally absurd, except of course for the obvious oil-vs-guns deals between US and KSA and the spurious arguments for the war which we all know were lies and it's just astonishing how little the US population holds its leaders to account for starting a war over faked evidence.

For western countries there's no shortage of anything important. The argument that the economic effects will kill more might count for the US with its absurd policies (like link between healthcare and employment) or countries like China and India with less developed social support systrms, but does not make much sense in Western Europe. You will see a slight increase in suicides from.unemployment, but health etc will not be impacted.

And there will be some other positive effects: decreased traffic means decreased pollution (a key cause of heart and lung disease), less traffic accidents, less stress linked to long commutes, etc. Not to mention lower spread of other diseases like the common flu due to social distancing.

I don't mean to paint it all rosy, but the issue is not as black and white as is suggested in articles like this.

I think the narrative has changed quite a bit since the initial austerity policies of the 2009 crisis. Arguably some of the enforced changes were long overdue, while others went far beyond the reasonable. But it's also how they were implemented that mattered.

Portugal was under the troika but efficiently implemented things and quickly got out of it. Greek and Cypriot governments tried to game the system again and again, e.g. the troika imposed on Greece (or rather agreed with Greece, there's some nuance) an obligation to reduce it's overblown public sector by reducing the number of public servants. They did make a mistake though as they did not specify which public servants.

What does the Greek government do? They massively reduce the number of teachers, then turn around and ask the European social fund for money to cover annual replacement teacher contracts.

But the overblown administration has not shrunk much (and each time the government changes they do as before and rehire their allies...). Instead everyone curses the EU/troika/Germany/... for 'imposing' these cuts when the cuts per se are often not the issue, but rather the implementation.

You can also see why countries like Germany are scared of mutualised debt: Since the introduction of the euro, Italian debt has increased massively because it was so cheap. Easier to loan money and serve a few favors when the government will anyway change in 2 years and the current one doesn't have to bear responsibility for the long-term damage. It's of course a much more complex story, but there's no denying that irresponsible government spending is part of it. Italy is desperately hoping for inflation to shrink the debt:GDP ratio as it's become pretty impossible to pay it back anyway...

tl:dr: The author is a Kenyan media consultant. He highlights that media shows constraint when suffering/mourning/death occurs in own region/culture, but not when it's somewhere exotic. He contrasts Ebola vs covid reporting in western media and predicts more will be shown if the covid epicentre moves to Africa.

Certainly some truth to this, but the early reporting from Italy was also very voyeurism-driven with very vivid pictures showing human suffering and death. That said, the daily mail and fox news will always show human suffering and tell stories to create fear and panic as those sell, more serious media is showing more restraint.

So it might be more a difference in reporting depending on whether it 'hits home' or not.

There is no lack of CO2 for plants. Deserts have very different reasons for existing (and usually growing).

Skype was Estonian, not Swiss.

it's a story because in the EU it's rather unusual. there were a few high profile cases but to say this is the norm is not really right...