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Touche - you are right, the human cost was immense. In that sense, partition was a failure. I guess I meant my comment in the sense of how satisfied people are right now with the status quo.

This is indeed quite possible and I won't dispute it. My point still stands though - the current Indian government has given plenty of current-generation Pakistanis (ie. those born three generations after Partition) to rediscover an appreciation for having a separate country. (My sources are Pakistani Americans, so take that how you will)

This is a very inflammatory comment. Many of the Pakistanis and Indian Muslims I know are proud of their South Asian heritage and actually turn their noses up at the Arabicization of their culture. Not all obviously - but enough that I know that your broadstroke painting of Indian Muslims is an extremely unfair characterization.

Indian Muslims and Pakistans and Bangladeshis are no less natives of the subcontinent than the Hindus or the Buddhists or the Jains are - they just happen to practice a different religion.

Correct me if I'm wrong on this... but from what I recall the Indian subcontinent was never a Union except as a British territory. Even the Mughals never managed to conquer all of southern India.

That's actually a profoundly interesting insight I haven't heard before.

None of those states make sense because they were built by colonialists drawing lines on a map without regard for native concerns. If Indians themselves sat down to divide India along actual ethno-cultural-linguistic lines we'd end up with better results. I'm not saying it's likely or even possible... just that if it were to happen, they might themselves be happier and more prosperous.

I don't know what that would look like because I don't know India that well, but I do know that the guys at work from Tamil Nadu are very different from the guys from Northern India. It's not a Texas vs California difference, it's a "we don't even have the same mother tongue" difference.

Great question... I don't know. The USSR did figure something out, so there's that.

Diversity sure is. I imagine the culture in Mumbai is very different from Chennai... whereas LA and NYC are way more similar. Of course, I do not know for sure, please feel free to correct me.

If you broke India down, and with it the Hindu vs Muslim farce, there would be no reason for antagonism with Pakistan.

The people I know from Pakistan are plenty happy with it, given the anti-Muslim sentiment in the Indian government these days. India itself is a relatively thriving nation, for all its faults. I don't think partition was a failure.

You could have, and in fact would have, said the same of Europe before 1945.

I always see comments about how huge and ungovernable India is because of its diversity... doesn't it make sense to break India down into more governable nation-states then?

I read somewhere that there are districts in India with more people than the entire population of Norway!

Meanwhile, I push pixels for a living. Sure gives you an inferiority complex.

The Crash Bandicoot CTR game that's a remake of a PS1 game takes anywhere between 2 and 5 minutes to start up on my Xbox One. It's absolutely ridiculous.

Anybody know what's the cheapest setup you could get away with for iOS/xcode development? Would it be a (used) Macbook Air, or can you not really run xcode effectively on them?

Gotta feel for any people getting married this weekend...

Readwise looks great, but their pricing is pretty buried...

I'm not sure, but we usually see it for pioneers in the field and in my opinion she certainly qualifies.

Do we get a little black bar on the site for her?

whatsapp is also impossible to use on >1 mobile devices.

I actually felt the same. I forced myself to take it after seeing the hype, and it really fell flat for me.

I use Chrome for web development because of devtools. Personal use is all Firefox.

It's crazy how much FF's marketshare has dropped. It's such a great browser.

I've used combinations of all 3, and it hasn't really made a difference to be honest. I'm ok with a shower a day and getting 18 hours of coverage - the point I was making was that I still need a shower a day. A lot of people can't get by with less without making people shuffle away from them in public.

Yup, I soap all over

The reason to avoid (ostensibly good Labour) government overreach is that you can't trust the Tories when they're in power.

I start stinking after ~18 hours no matter what deodorant I use.

Healthcare, education, infrastructure... all of which badly need funding.

Why would a wealth tax be a bad thing?

Pro-Tip: don't.

The hype isn't worth it.