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> Can't remember who wrote the perfect definition of Biology: "The study of complex things". There's a great deal of wisdom in that.

Human society is complex, but it would not normally be considered biology.
> The statistics point towards users wanting music from the big four labels

I'm sure they pointed that way for TV content, too, when Netflix did House of Cards.

I think people want music that's "well known", music their peers also know about, and that goal is aligned with the big four labels, because they have the clout/infrastructure to get a song played on the radio etc., but it's not a causal relationship. With streaming becoming ever more popular, the idea that Spotify could achieve something similar, especially if they can tap into data to predict who's likely to like a new album, isn't too farfetched.
Yeah the thing is that good engineers are expensive and they’re not going to be answering customer service calls for the most part.

The trick is getting escalated to someone who knows what they’re doing.
I think it’s just a bit badly worded. You don’t normally throw them away, you leave them in the queue for later.

For instance if you have a process that gets requests and writes stuff to DB, while processing a request you can send a message to the DB, then use a selective receive to match on the response from the DB while ignoring all other messages (you’ll deal with them later i.e. when you fetch the next request to process).
Allow me to broaden the topic.

A lot of this era speaks about equality. As if everything should be flat and free to go in and out. But I very often feels that only "hills" matters. People overcome them when they do want to perceive what's at the top, and often make something of it. Instead of just wandering around without efforts or care.

I wonder if other people feel like this about this flat vs hills thing (sorry for that very badly name analogy)
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3. https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/open-source-summit...
I don't know about the post-modernism thingy.

To the second part: To one practical is to the other unpractical. To one just is to another unjust.

To push certain categories over others just says to me you want them to be in your frame(practical, useful for you I guess?).

And to not give an argument on the usefulness is to hide intention. But I'm not too firm on that yet.
Ever since I turned on “show dead” I’ve noticed that too. Of course the sheer volume of spam that’s intercepted thst way is impressive too. The mods are so responsive that I think on balance, it’s a very good sauce.
Every recent Polish graduate will speak decent English, they'll speak it especially well if they studied something technical where the bulk of the material being published is being done in English (CS/software engineering).
Sin and cos were the first mathematical concepts I truly understood through programming rather than through high-school mathematics. The traditional method of teaching them through triangles feels very unintuitive.
Hi, author here!

Thanks for the correction on this -- I'll update the article with correct info. I'm not a Prime subscriber and the information on Prime benefits are completely intransparent.

And if I can't easily figure that out, it's unlikely that average consumer Joe will. The perceived value of each offering is the point here.
The “Aryan Invasion Theory” that you refer to has been thoroughly refuted by all serious historians. I can’t believe there are still people who propound such nonsense. There were no Aryans and no Dravidians. The Vedas originated in what is present day India and it is the original indigenous culture of that land.
Also as you work with Python, you may want to look at the link between Basil Fawlty and your chosen language :)
Where do you live with those completely insane prices? Spectrum(TimeWarner) in New York is $60 for 100/10. Which usually pegs at 120/12 any time of the day I use it.
Trying to define "life" is one of the central questions of the philosophy of biology. And the positions one takes in the philosophy of biology are inevitably going to be influenced by one's metaphysical positions regarding the problem of universals. A nominalist, a Aristotelian realist, a Platonist (etc.), are all going to approach the question "what is life?" differently.

Sometimes when people discuss this topic, they assume a certain approach to metaphysics without making that assumption explicit (indeed, they may not be aware that there are genuine alternatives to their personal metaphysical positions.)
there is no such thing as unbiased in the case of India. The history is rife with many different issues.

The current history of India was rewritten by leftist who control Indian universities like JNU.

You will never find anything truly objective till you visit the country and explore its complex interwoven history by yourself and listen to many different perspectives. Even after that nothing can be compressed into a simple narrative.

The only difference is India is still a democracy unlike China so you routinely get exaggerated articles like these popping up.
It's bad here but it's not nearly that bad. If you're a good full stack dev you can easily make 50k, and 9k rent+utilities yearly will buy you a very reasonable lifestyle.
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While i agree Indian history cannot be taught properly in a history text book i think each state introduces its own biases and the CBSE textbooks do a big disservice to Indian icons like Shivaji and their contribution to the country especially at the expense of Muslim rulers. The well documented atrocities of a despot like Aurangzeb are whitewashed
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>> There is an assumption that the education system currently is in 'mess'. That is not true.

Oh please stop with that attitude. You must have gone to a good private school with good teachers and expensive tuition classes after school to get to where you are today. Just look at the schools that economically backward children go to today and try taking their classes. This comes from someone who has personally gone to some classes in those schools (especially in rural areas). Ground reality is that the education system is really a mess. This is not an assumption.
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Options received under an EMI scheme are tax-free, although you may eventually have to pay capital gains tax at time of exercise.
I spent some time in Krakow and it has horrible air quality. Summer feels normal like any other city, but certain times during the winter it's difficult to see due to the smog. See the below video for reference.

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kya bakwaas hai, kuch bhi. Back up your allegations or STFU. In fact BJP is getting more centrist by every day. This is alarmism at a level even more than Breitbart etc.
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Which is why distribution using the App store is so great. You don't have to worry about distribution, payment... Too bad not all Apps will work in the restrictions Apple created.
GitHub doesn't do desktop software. Msft does. I'm assuming that is a big reason why they have a big performance boost.
Spartacus is a TV show that did it respectfully and sucessfully IMO. Do you have an example of a show or movie where it was a complete disaster?
You'll pay more in taxes, but there is universal healthcare available free at the point of delivery. So taxes might be higher here, but you and your employees will access to some of the best healthcare in the world.

I do not think taxation should get singled out as a deciding factor where to setup a business, but could be considered in the round with all the other operational costs.

Low taxes might seem good, but if the key services are non-existent or corrupt, then your costs of operation will be significantly higher than in a place that has high(er) taxes, but civil society is run efficiently.
Obviously my personal opinion, but since you asked:

1. Celebrities receive preferential treatment within the legal and bureaucratic system

2. Celebrities often have both public appeal and wealth -- two important ingredients for wielding political influence

3. Less importantly, celebrities absorb a high proportion of media attention compared to issues of importance
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TheWire is a known propaganda machine. Just look how much in cahoots with the old Govt their founders Siddharth Varadarajan and the other guy were in. They were paid by funds from the previous Vice President for absolutely nothing
I think they could have used a semicolon instead, as in "Lisbon; Kraków, Poland; Edinburgh are ...".
When you add an estimated 3-4% world inflation rate to those real GDP growth numbers, you get to a nominal growth rate of just over 7%...
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Not really. Especially amongst economically well off Muslims as well their fertility rate is higher than Hindus.
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Oh, I'm very fond of it myself, especially since I moved from Cambridge which was far more expensive! I'm still trying to get a good feel for market depth. Everyone wants frontend web devs it seems.
Here in Europe it seems to be 9.99euros for Amazon Music Unlimited, which is exactly the same as a Spotify subscription (not even counting the Family plan you mentioned).

What's odd is that my Amazon Prime subscription already gives me unlimited access to Prime Videos without additional charge, I'm surprised that they use a different business model here.
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I remember studying in Pune i had some ICSE friends who did not care or knew much about Shivaji and his contributions.

Imagine this happening in Tamil Nadu.
Rent is Lisbon is getting very expensive and salaries don't closely follow that trend. However, the article is right about many corporations coming here to setup global shared services for operations and support desks.
Cool. One of the sci-fi things I really want to see is NEal Sephenson's Ractives, from The Diamond Age:

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[0]: http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/Ractive
I suspect these models will actually be used for extremely mundane "acting" gigs like commercials hocking falafel in Memphis TN or being a smartphone personal assistant, rather than the aspired A-list movies.
Both of those quotes are saying the same thing with different words and have the same intent.

"It's too expensive" is not a valid excuse if customers would be willing to pay for it.
this is awesome! having lived in Brazil I can testify that the country really need this (if such testimony is necessary). However I do think other countries would benefit too!

I've long wished for AI governance, and this is a great step in the direction I imagine that working. I for one welcome our new robot overlords ;)
Re: Polish government, I wouldn't trust the news hype on "authoritarianism" at all - IMHO, these "news" are largely just some powerful people doing dirty politics
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Universal health care, education and food security are long shot problems. Impossible to solve to solve on the short term problems in India.

Its just the scale. There aren't enough tax payers, or the scale of the economy to collect that much taxes to fund these sort of policies. The population is mind boggling. At the state level there are still many policies to solve these which are being chased. But its not a easy problem to solve for our population numbers.

There is an even deeper problem of tax accountability you need to fix and go on to these things. This mostly a policy problem.

The parent is trying to imply a problem with the content of education syllabus.
I was an anesthesiologist for 38 years. Wrong patient/wrong site surgery happened at every hospital — UCLA/USC/UVA — I worked at. No matter how many safeguards are in place to prevent such misidentification, somehow, one gets through from time to time. The public rarely hears about it.
> Portuguese emigrate in volumes comparable to Poles/Romanians and there is a reason for this.

This used to be the case up until a few years ago but having spoken with many young Portuguese there's a serious resurgence of tech and arts scenes.
How is this project perceived by the government officials?

I am sure (or at least hope) that some of them are very much in favour, but are there others calling into question the accuracy / legitimacy of these type of analyses?
I prefer to make less money than to live in a multicutural paradise like in the west.
I suspect Budapest's tech companies exist because there's a very unusual market in Hungary due to being a language isolate. I saw lots of homegrown companies and ways of doing things of all types there.

Bratislava on the other hand looks like it's being rebuilt almost from the ground up, has a reasonable tech scene (even hosts demoscene parties!) and also has some of the friendliest people I've ever met anywhere. Eset seems to be the anchor company.
> some software is just better constructed

Exactly, TextMate and Sublime Text are both around 35 meg and both are close to feature parity for with Atom. It's only this more recent breed of software that is so absurdly bloated.
Yeah companies can internally praise certain religions over others. They can’t discriminate but they do anyways.
While i agree that Islam has contributed a great deal to science. It is disingenuous to use that as a defense for all things Islam especially contemporary.

A classical example is that Arabic numerals were essentially Indian numbers (including zero) that were introduced to the West by Arab traders. If one purely talks about timelines there are many unappreciated parts of Indian history and contributions created locally that predate Islam and Christianity.

This is not a contest but just trying to highlight the facts. Some Indians do not like the pride taken in these things but that is a separate issue
Slightly off-topic, but this is what a Serenata de Amor is in Brazil (it's a bonbon and it's very good, IMHO): https://i.imgur.com/tQZ0JHF.jpg
Not to mention the Fringe in August (although I imagine if you live or work centrally it can be quite annoying).
Edinburgh is fantastic and definitely a great place to live and work!

I work just a little north in Dundee. A great little city with a growing reputation[1]. If you're ever looking for a job in the games industry there are lots of companies based in the city. They tend to be smaller indy places although there are some larger companies too.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-02/where-to-...
In both cases “Arnie” was quickly blown off the endoskeleton revealing the robot underneath.

“Peter Cushing” had a substantial role in a recent Star Wars film. I’m still not sure how I feel about it.
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I can assure you the previous Govt. which rules for 60+ years did the same and i feel a lot of this changed the character of the country. We need to reverse some of these changes so that we are proud of our heritage.
Agreed re: triangle method. At the very least, the triangle should be explored in the context of a unit circle. Otherwise, most students struggle with negative sin / cos / tan values ("how do the quadrants work again?"), the connection to Cartesian coordinates, etc. It's a shame that we present so much of mathematics as arcane magic requiring incomprehensible mnemonics to understand - especially in trigonometry, where there are much more intuitive / visual representations of the basic ideas.

(Source: I volunteer with the Toronto Public Library to help high school students with homework, mainly math.)
> truly understood

Hmm, I wouldn't be so sure... Because it is by the way of geometry that people normally find explanations of mathematical concepts that are the most intuitive to them. (To be fair, some prefer dealing with symbolic algebra instead.)
Sure, if we are talking about this sort of stuff, let's do away with Hindi language being mandatory. We already have English as a common language. And you guys are suggesting local culture and its history comes first. So local state language and english should be enough.

One less subject means we could add a 'History' elective to high school syllabus.

Those who are interested can opt for it. Others can opt for whatever they want(Math, Economics, etc etc).
In my schooling in New Delhi in the 80s -- when the Congress-ization of the NCERT was at its peak -- I clearly recall being taken on a school trip to see a film about Shivaji, and also learning about the cruelty of Aurangzeb to everyone including his own family. So I'm not sure what sort of whitewashing you're referring to. Where did you go to school?
Also, the cost of repair has remained static or increased, while the cost of manufacturing has greatly decreased. Older consumer goods were usually much less reliable than modern equivalents, but it made economic sense to repair them.

In 1984, a 20-inch colour TV cost £329 versus an average weekly wage of £115. In 2017, a 40-inch HDTV costs £300 versus an average weekly wage of £530. TVs are now vastly cheaper relative to the cost of labour.

TV repair used to be very common. There were half a dozen TV repair shops in my town when I was a child. A lot of people preferred to rent, partly because the up-front cost was prohibitive and partly because the rental price included repairs.

Today, even simple repairs like a capacitor replacement are prohibitively expensive. Even if the parts cost pennies and it's a quick replacement, there's a minimum of two hours of labour just to get the back off the TV, find the fault and test the repair. Why pay £150 to fix your old set when you could get a new, better set for £300?

It's not great for the environment, but it's good for the consumer.
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If you really thought there were going to be quick miracles the problem, I'm sorry lies with you. Miracles were a soundbite.

The plan is for a long term and organic growth.
You cannot not congratulate him for making gutsy decisions. The hugely unpopular demonetization.
I suspect because tl;drs are often frowned upon. The article isn’t so long, and HN members generally strive for substance and more depth (even if they don’t always achieve it) and tl;drs work against that. That’s my guess, anyway. Mindreading is tough, and those that downvote without comment tend not to comment even when prodded (which is one of the reasons comments on voting is against the guidelines).
Or the future is more like in Japan, where Hatsune Miku, "Future Sound", a Vocaloid-based anime hologram is selling out concerts, and has more followers than "regular humans". The fans like lack of drama as well.
Yeah. I remember trying out sin and cos on a calculator with random numbers, getting back seemingly random results and wondering what exactly they meant. Then, some years later, studying them on computer by running them in a loop—and realizing that they let you draw circles!
Heck, if the US Army can get away with it, who's to stop private OR public corporations?
>Essentially each player who has appeared in the football and basketball games marketed by EA in the last decade -- approximately 125,000 men -- are eligible for settlement money. (https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/ea-sports-se...)

In this case, it was clearly not the NCAA as a whole. The NCAA was against the case because it would mean athletes being paid.
I know that's what he meant. The price of a meal and delivery + tip would easily be $9 from McDonalds. Sure, kids meals are a bit cheaper, but it would still be hard.
Skyscanner has a decently large office in Glasgow, too.
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