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I think he would have seen much contemporary Buddhist observance as entirely disconnected from his teachings. That doesn't necessarily mean he would have scorned it. There is one sutta in which a follower of a rival teacher was convinced by his teachings and wanted to follow him, and the Buddha advised him to continue respecting his former master. There are also important suttas in which he stressed that his own teachings are not "true" in an absolute sense, and religious teachings should be valued according to the extent to which they are helpful. I don't know the historical status of those suttas, but historically it doesn't seem common for first-gen carriers of the faith to retroactively exaggerate the uncertainty and doctrinal pragmatism of the founder of their religion. Many modern Buddhist teachers (notably the Dalai Lama) express great respect for the ability of other religions, including Islam and Christianity, to inspire and nurture spiritual progress in their followers. So he might look at modern Buddhists reciting nembutsu or leaving offerings at Buddha statues and say, I can't see any connection between these practices and what I tried to teach, but they seem to be helping people a little bit.

His attitude might also depend on how seriously he took rebirth, which was widely believed in his time and place and takes a central place in some of his teachings. It's a point of great controversy among contemporary Buddhists: was rebirth a part of the teachings because it was coincidentally an accepted view in the time and place where Gautama taught? Is it an inseparable part of Buddhism? Both, neither? Can you reject rebirth and still preserve the essence of Buddhism? If Gautama showed up in the present day and said, "Oh, practically nobody believes in rebirth anymore? No matter, I can teach everything I know to people who don't believe it," that would rock the world of Buddhism. But vice-versa probably wouldn't make much of a difference, and neither is going to happen anyway so we'll have to live with the controversy regardless.
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I always thought rosin is the best since it sounds like the cleanest extract. Is that true? If you vape rosin, then you should eliminate even the carcinogens from the plant matter?
Pakistan includes both West Pakistan (currently Pakistan) and East Pakistan (currently Bangladesh)- based on 1947 partiton, until 1971 when India helped Bangladesh gain independence from Pakistan.

Both 'Pakistans' had a responsibility to protect minorities as per Nehru - Liaqat pact, and they both failed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_discrimination_in_Pa...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion_in_Banglad...
Just use {JIRA Reference} - {JIRA title} and get on with your life.
It seems like basic materialism to claim that the brain could be simulated by a large enough Turing machine. But that claim would not necessarily imply that a Turing machine is a useful model for brain. A Turing machine isn't necessarily even used as the working model of a computer though it conceivably could be.

Edit: My comment is basically asking what saying "the mind is a Turing machine" really means. It seems like the main implication someone would take away from that statement is that it's reasonably practical to describe mental processes with a computer but given that the question is formulated as a binary is/is-not. The mind "is" a Turing machine given ordinary physics which I believe say everything can be approximated by a large enough Turing machine. But this sense of "is" doesn't imply the Turing machine mind model is useful.
A nice business insider article: https://www.businessinsider.com/anyscale-berkeley-databricks...
I was loaned Cuckoo's Egg by my first CS professor back in 1989. Great book.
What’s the difference between an “Afro-futurist” and a “white supremacist” apart from a palette switch?
And rightly so. It is much easier to write a bug-free sha256 implementation than try to write a bug-free To-Do app.
I think it feels easier to say that now that we are long past the point where the debates occurred. But this happened during a time when universities were still trying to figure out how to divide up sciences.

Nowadays, the idea that math has a role to play in pretty much every science isn't really questioned at all. I mean, imagine I suggested that something other than math should be brought to bear on physics. I doubt a single person in here would support such an approach on any level. I think that represents a clear win. Answering objections about the fundamentals of math using formalisms like ZFC was a component of that.
> Between Gecko, Webkit, Blink, KHTML

That's kinda just two browser engines. Blink is a fork of WebKit, and WebKit is a fork of KHTML.

Though I'm partial to the argument that provided the main options are at least FOSS, diversity of implementations is of minimal concern.
"Closing the issue as confirmed by @Christian-Schiffer the issue has been addressed."

I hope that is code for ignoring it.
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If you haven't read the book, get on it! it's a really easy read and really inspiring. Although it's sad how his obsessions cost him.
Now that's health in context ;)

At this point in my life, and after careful study and application of Ray's work, I can only say I hope to never set foot in a hospital or doctor's office ever again. (Barring some accident or trauma, knock on wood). Put simply, I've never been as vital or radiantly healthy as now
The article has a powerful message, but its model gets a bit thin in the middle:

> The average person is too poor to fund the very things — the only things — which can offer him a better life: healthcare, education, childcare, healthcare, and so on

These things are being funded quite well, but still creating shitty results. Throwing more fuel on a fire just results in more burning. These sectors have organizational cancers like overadministration (every employee past the first in a billing department), overdelegation (doctor tells nurse tells assistant tells grunt to do something, rather than someone taking responsibility to get the job done themselves), overfinancialization (the doctor is so valuable that their time is parceled into 10 minute chunks with each patient, making them effectively useless and destroying their actual value), and general rent extraction (outlandish C-level salaries - aka fuck you got mine).

The problem isn't really "societal surplus" going to a few, but rather the surplus being wasted in a distributed fashion. Ultimately because everyone needs to cling to "full time" jobs lest they fall off the treadmill completely. So everyone is overworked in that they don't have time to keep their own house in order, but not actually producing enough to actually pay for the generally wasteful lifestyle that results.
Could anyone, with industry ties, forward these threads, in which people are fed up with the vendor supplied support software / drivers, each time they come up (and the do come up), to the appropriate decision makers?

Thank you!
The issue I had with the original article is the way it starts by shedding what the author considers as myths.

As I mentioned, to understand Buddha's story, it should be done in the context of the most important teachings of Buddhism which I'm not going to go into here. Its almost like axioms in Mathematics. You don't pick the results you understand, and she'd the axioms that don't make sense to you. You can do it, but you are going to run into contradictions.

Buddhism is highly internally consistent despite the story being so old and informal in the sense of western philosophies. The danger of what she is trying to do here is that after you shed all the "myths", what you are going to end up with is mindful exercises for corporate events.
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Saying that certain Indian companies do things is fine; it becomes an unfair generalization when you try to to extrapolate that to being because of their country's culture to be dishonest.
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I agree with you totally. I think the difference is that in person you are more aware of the other person's emotional reaction to what you're saying. You can see it in their body language. On the internet we all become narcissists only aware of our own feelings.

In smaller communities you have to learn to get along despite a difference of opinion. On the internet you'll find someone who agrees with you and can trash everyone that doesn't.

This coupled with a more rapid shift in the values of the west than I think we've ever seen, there are conflicts everywhere.
Religious persecution must be done on State-sanctioned grounds (like an official religion or a theocratic state based on Constitution). Any other persecution could just be a particular party's policies e.g. Tomorrow a Buddhist party could come to power in Bangladesh and persecute, say Jews. That does not have Constitutional sanction. Next week a different party might persecute a different religion.

> Sri Lankan Hindu Tamils being prosecuted in Shri Lanka.

And 4 lakh Hindu Tamils were given asylum in India in past 40 years. Proof - https://twitter.com/PIBHomeAffairs/status/120730426394626867...
Currently there is no persecution going on there as civil war is over. If in future, they get ill-treated again, a new version of CAB might be brought.

There have been many instances of citizenship granting based on particular cases throughout India's 70 year post-independence history. This CAB is just one of them. It's neither the first, nor last.
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Yet another site that doesn't load anything for me. Just a bunch of scripts and photo captions.

So what are these people doing to make their stuff so elusive?
It's just repeating a tired stereotype. India is becoming a less corrupt country over time as institutional arrangements (not "culture" which is irrelevant to the issue) improve. It's already less corrupt than many of its neighbors.
> It felt like a massively unfair way to evaluate me.

My advice to someone in a similar situation is to start talking and ask about what we want to really achieve here. Not what the task description literally says (SPA or whatever - that's "how" but not "what for"), but what's the real business purpose for it. For the interview purposes - what do they want to see during or after those 50 minutes.

Then making a guess whenever this objective can be realistically delivered within the provided constraints, and communicating how do you feel about it.

If they provide their real expectations (e.g. "we want to see how you tackle a problem outside of your immediate expertise domain, we recognize harsh time constraints and it is okay if you won't complete it, although we'd appreciate trying your best") it's all fair game. If they don'tjust insist they want this specific JS SPA done in 50 minutes - well, that says something about their project management habits. In such case, I'd start asking questions about the role responsibilities.
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Alas, this approach does not yield fruit for the traditional core Unix files such as in /etc, these are not exposed through the Finder interface.

However there are a lot of potentially sensitive files that could be trivially replaced by modified versions if this tactic works everywhere, i.e. /System/Library/Security/authorization.plist
> 1. Don't focus on the technical (#1 YAGNI, #2 Ignore software upgrades, and #3 use the tools you know)

Adding to this with what one can focus on...

Start with an empty mind identifying your customers’ or audience’s problem.

Then answer with the technologies that make the most sense to solve it.
I don’t think the list is that long. The main charge must be he forgot to share some profits with the right people in the government.
Sectarian persecution is different from religious persecution.

For example

CAA does not differentiate within Hindu castes saying 'Only Dalits are oppressed, Brahmins are not oppressed, so we won't give citizenship to Brahmins'. It speeds up process for all Hindus.

CAA do not differentiate within Christian sects saying 'Only Protestants are persecuted, Catholics are not persecuted, so we won't give citizenship to Catholics'. It speeds up process for all Christians.

Similarly, CAA does not differentiate within Muslims saying 'Only Shias are persecuted, Sunnis are not persecuted, so we will give citizenship to Shias'. It keeps speed same for all Muslims.
If you're into podcasts there is a biographical interview with Cliff Stoll here https://www.numberphile.com/podcast/cliff-stoll
This one is particularly good: every time you think he can't have more glass props, he pulls out another one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8Rxep2Mkp8
look, in essence, I hear what you are saying, but when considering the readership of Bloomberg News, Mason City, Iowa and Zambia is a false equivalency.
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There is a difference between positive discrimination (affirmative action) and negative discrimination (ill-treatment)

If you are new to this issue, and want to understand the CAA/CAB in simple words -
https://old.reddit.com/r/IndiaSpeaks/comments/e9qhvb/cab_in_...
I prefer Germany, Austria and Switzerland's model.

Its not a panacea in preventing trafficking but for the workers that want to be there it doesn't criminalize them, and the market for establishments are pretty competitive and great for patrons. Game of Thrones can't even compare, while many tourists corral themselves over to one street in Amsterdam due to its marketing campaign even though there are whole countries that are way more awesome.

The std testing is the most attractive part of these systems. "Tolerant" and "Decriminalized" places do not have the capability of offering that. Let alone everywhere that outrights criminalizes workers and/or Johns.

I think the population health should be a prong that is weighed heavier. Regulated systems do that. If there is any coercion of the sex workers then spend resources enforcing that and providing avenues just like anybody else in a domestic abuse relationship.
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Yeah, no (sorry). As a French, I often feel this part is misunderstood pretty badly.

The second part is right: it is "why?" first. The "say no first" I think is not a French thing, that's the result of the clash between the French work culture (don't laugh) and others.

We are a bit anti-authority, I think it is hard to deny this trait. We don't like being bossed around but that's not systematic or unavoidable: we just want to follow orders we respect. So in France, you almost never give orders to someone without explaining the why (and complain about the clueless boss/client that made this order a necessity). Give us a good reason, the first answer will be yes.

In many cultures (and especially here in Japan) the why is often omitted. Without a why, we are very tempted to just say no. State a good reason or stop wasting people time.

I do believe it is a defense mechanism we built against terrible managers.
What people believe about them matters, not whatever internal rationalizations may or may not have occurred.

Aside from their bad reputation for killing products, they also have a bad reputation for providing next to zero human support services for their products - even if you do pay for them.
Here's the Github repo: https://github.com/apple/HomeKitADK
His follow-up book "Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway" was also a great read [0]. It's a shame that collectively we couldn't heed some of his warnings about the hype we were being sold about the Internet. In many ways the future he hinted at turned out to be substantially worse than he predicted.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385419945/ref=dbs_a_def_r...
I am perpetually happy that Cliff Stoll figured out how to be his normal weird self in the world.

That unselfconsious joy about stuff is exceptionally wholesome.
> There is no such religion called Hinduism

This is a common new-age trout. Hinduism is the oldest religion in the world, with an extensive set of scriptures, rituals, rules, and culture.

It's like a banyan tree with many roots. Just because it doesn't enforce a particular branch (sect) with the rigor that other religions do, it doesn't mean the tree doesn't exist. It exists old and strong.
The irony of this comment being that managing JIRA tickets is probably the absolute biggest time-sink of any organization that uses it.
I learned it from my guitar teacher as an adult. Started with scales and ear training, then onto what chords were, modes and then chord substitutions and things like that. Most of the weird stuff I know about music comes from YouTube videos, though, and I'd recommend Adam Neely or Rick Beato because they'll probably have a video in their catalogues that you'll enjoy.

Learning the basics will be boring, not going to mince my words on it. Treat it like a pattern exercise, since that's what most of it is. The theory is stupidly dry, as useful as it can be, but I don't think there's really any other way to learn it beyond wrote learning.
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Seems to be her/princess. If princess is concerned about what pronouns people use, then princess wouldn't like "she".
This discussion has been going on for thousands of years. Considering the difficulties, and the shortness of life, one has to wonder how many of the discussers actually had the time to find liberation.
cAB is the first time that a party has selectively handed out citizenship to win Bengal elections and to keep only Muslims out of the NRC. During Assam NRC, Hindus and Muslims both were kept out, so they brought a loophole before the nationwide NRC so that they can hand out citizenship to non Muslims.
> I am not saying there are no better alternatives possible, go ahead design them and start the political process..

Read again what I wrote above: email. Hell, add twitter or a phone number on top of that if you really want. That's still a good extra layer of anonymity.

And sorry, but I won't design anything now - I won't touch HAM even with a 10 ft pole, let alone engage in politics.

I'm not saying that to hurt you. I just assume you care about HAM and wonder why younger people are not interested anymore, as discussed in the original article.

The problem is that several of your core values have become show stoppers for people like me. Address the big 3 problems I listed, and maybe you'll have more success interesting more people to HAM. Personally, I don't care anymore. I now prefer unlicensed spectrum.
OK, that sort of thing would be hyper-helpful to me; I'm an immigrant myself, having fairly adjusted to North American/Canadian culture, now working with remote teams in India I'll never meet. Without overly sterotyping, any useful resources that would help me understand cultural standpoints and attitudes?
> Using Ofono, I have successfully spun up LTE internet, sent and received SMS messages, and placed and answered phone calls - though the last one without working audio. A friend from KDE, Bhushan Shah, is working on this and rumor has it that a call has successfully been placed. I have not had success with MMS, but I think it’s possible.

Ha, that's better than I expected. Kudos to them for making it this far!
You think we're at market top for the next 30 years? Inflation adjusted?
> I do believe it is a defense mechanism we built against terrible managers.

Positively reinforced by a taught history of overcoming oppression.
Previously I was working on C# and SQL. I'm no fan of either of those, but at least with C# I can understand what the designers were thinking. Ideally I would be working in Clojure if it was up to me. Or Scala or F#.

Now it's Javascript as that is the code base our client uses. The client runs a number of production factories and have an internal web app that is mostly Javascript on the front end for monitoring these production lines.

It's made me angrily punch my desk and consider just quitting on the spot on a number of occasions.

I don't know how anyone tolerates using this day to day and doesn't want to jump off the roof. It's absolutely idiotic.
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If that's what you want, it looks like you can get that by typing 4 characters. This seems like an awfully small price to pay to allow other people the possibility of much increased security.
Is there something similar for iOS?
Go research how things work. Clearly --to echo your sentiment-- you do not understand how these programs are interrelated.

-Medicare does not kick in until 65+

-While you are on Medicaid you accumulate debt after age 55

-Medicare has an expenditure limit, after which you are kicked back into Medicaid, which is, effectively, after 55, a debt you have to pay and the State has the ability to place liens on your estate and grab your property for payment. In fact, they are required to do so by law.

As I said in another comment one of my friends is dealing with exactly this scenario right now. In fact, I just spoke to him a few minutes ago and learned his father died this morning.

While he was on both Medicaid and Medicare (due to the aforementioned ping-pong effect) he now owes the government a pile of cash, hundreds of thousands. My friend has power of attorney over the estate and will be traveling back to his home town to sell the assets and pay the government.

Again, like I said in my other comment, I am not saying these things because they occurred to me. This is reality in the US today: The crap they are trying to sell us will, in fact, turn into the largest private property grab by any government in the history of the world.

In my friend's case the Medicare lifetime limit was $120K. His father burned through that very quickly --probably in a single hospital stay. He was then kicked back into Medicaid, where he already owed money (from 55 to 65). All of his care after the $120K Medicare limit then became a debt the government is required, by law, to collect. And they intend to do so. This will cause the sale of his father's estate for payment. He is dealing with this nasty reality right now.

These things are NOT insurance. That's the greatest lie people are being told.

EDIT:

In Q&A form...

How do you get to Medicare?

Through Medicaid.

Is Medicaid insurance?

No.

Is it free?

After 55 years of age you owe the government for your medical care. It's a loan.

Are they required to collect on that debt?

Yes, by law. Some states are a little more lenient, but the law says they have to collect.

How do they collect?

They seize your estate, your assets, they can force a sale of assets, etc.

Are the children affected. In come cases the debt has affected the children (I don't remember details).

Is MediCARE insurance?

No.

Is is free?

No, you paid for it while working.

Does it cover everything?

No, there's a limit based on your contribution. In the case of my friend's father this limit was $120K, which is nothing in terms of US medical care.

For context, he was 95 at the time of death. His $120K of Medicare allowance was burned through three decades ago. He ended-up back in Medicaid very, very quickly decades ago. And the bills are massive.

What happens when you use-up this money?

You are kicked back into Medicaid.

What happens then?

You add to the debt you accumulated between 55 and 65.

Do you still have to pay for it.

Damn right!

How?

See above.
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Your comment makes more sense if we replace “useful” with “practical”
You mean license plate - if it was my full name, yes I'd object having that information available to everyone.

FYI, I have black tape over the barcode that's on the back on my driver license, and the number and other non essential fields on the front.

People can see my photo, my first name, the year I was born. They can't scan much out of that in bars.