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Indian socialists and communists arguing for price controls on a service consumed by the rich, a service with a deeply unprofitable business model, and a service destructive to the climate. This is the India Nehru would have wanted. Not all is lost.
The last two years were noticeably terrible in America (speaking strictly domestically) compared to the past but I think catastrophic predictions about the country are just misguided. Theres a lot of self-correction built in. You can’t just go ahead and do anything really
I like how a big part of leftist thought is basically declaring extremely complex logistical problems as “solved” by nationalization and price controls. A terribly incurious (and hence tragic) but also revealing mindset
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annoying, but hopefully practical, answer: stop paying attention to story and instead watch what the camera is doing
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the entire leftoid discourse is only about language, once you notice it, you see it everywhere.
they think categorizing sevices from "luxury" to "essential" eliminates real world constraints via magical govt subsidies and regoolations.
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ONE OF THE WORST PARTS OF MODERN LIFE SELDOM SPOKEN ABOUT IS THE LOUD FUCKING MUSIC EVERYWHERE YOU CANNOT GET AWAY FROM THE LOUD MUSIC IT'S LOUD MUSIC IN THE STORE IN THE CAFE IN THE BAR IN ANY PUBLIC PLACE WHERE YOU ARE ALLOWED TO SIT AND SOCIALISE IT IS LOUD MUSIC ALL THE TIME
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I heard the same in 2000. It had barely begun all these years.
We can finally stop shoveling mud with bare hands and start using power tools.
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It’s sort of remarkable that Jane Austen has become probably the central figure in English literature after Shakespeare, and arguably the most beloved. All the more so because she never traveled far from home; her life was largely lacking in drama. Early critics accused her of leading an insular existence, ignoring the great issues of the day and limiting the scope of her stories to the home. And yet, as Eudora Welty has noted, “The interesting situations of life can take place, and notably do, at home.” Such was Austen’s genius that within her limited sphere she saw the whole of human nature. All of life is contained within her six novels. She remains our greatest psychologist and one of our wisest philosophers. To read her books is a first step towards acquiring wisdom.
Reiterating because the media illiterates are it again. The purposes of the narrative arts and history are different. They can be and often are in touch with each other but approach problems in completely different ways. Films absolutely need not be historically accurate
I'm tired of teaching this online: everything that is written, mythologies, fiction, epics, histories, plays are written in a time period. They therefore take in the socio-cultural milieu of the time period they are written in.
Harry potter wears a t shirt and jeans because teenage boys of 21st century wear that in Britain. Mythologies, epics, fiction serve as excellent sources for socio cultural history
A depressingly familiar variety of Indian tech rent-seeker: bottomless resentment, an ego matched only by victimhood, an extraordinary talent for torturing ethical concepts into grotesque inversions of their meanings, and a tragically impoverished conception of intellectual life
Every once in a while, I come across some high-rated competitive programmer who seems to have a problem with me teaching CP to students on a paid basis.
These are the same people who go ahead and join some HFTs with insanely crazy packages, live a completely individualistic life and not care about anybody else in the world. Their sole identity is just being smart, and they think that’s somehow helping the world. Don't even get me started on whether that's the right way to make money, because we all know what happens in HFTs.
Nobody cares how much money you make OR whether you're an expert on Codeforces or a grandmaster, as long as nobody is having any positive impact in their life because of you.
I probably make 1/10th of what these people make, combining my full-time job and the little amount I get from TLE. Yet these people seem to have a problem with me being more famous in the world of competitive programming than they are, despite being less smart than them.
Some of them start a mini community or Youtube channel saying they would do things for free. The moment they get a job, they forget the entire community and just walk away.
Even ignoring all the obviously wrong stuff in the interview, this is just meaningless mumbo jumbo. Thankfully we do not have to rely on twitter style schizo-posting for a theory of universal rights and secularism. It’s been a solved problem for 300 years get over it.
Here, Sharjeel is clearly outlining the general features of a particular ‘intellectual lineage’ of Islamic modernism – see the full part of the answer. He goes on to cite the canonical scholars who propounded this school of thought (and then outline a second school of thought specific to Indian Muslims). Simplistic to project all of it as his own arguments.
It’s good but they put way too much cheese. It’s pretty close to one of the best bookstores in the city I’ve been to (not been to many) - Codex. Also walking distance from Anthology whose Essential Cinema series is to be treasured
Love the claustrophobic atmosphere of this movie but my main problem always has been that there’s just way too much dialogue for my liking. It’s my problem with Eric Rohmers films as well though they are a lot of fun
