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I don't know why the lens you view this through is retributional, us vs them, or about taxing success of developed nations or rewarding people of a particular geography. Population…

This sounds like someone standing on a sinking ship asking why everyone onboard needs to be given their share of available tools to help plug the leaks, when those tools could be u…

Those who benefited from the carbon emissions at the cost of others on a per capita basis need to take accountability of funneling the accrued capital to those who are suffering be…

The profound number of changes are in tact only if those changes aid in the natural selection of the organism against selection pressure. Such changes are replicated more successfu…

My mistake, I presumed incorrectly, that the argument you were making came from a place of defensiveness, rather than a more holistic framing of evolutionary success. Thanks for pr…

I doesn't seem like the above commenter was making a value judgement.

This is an insightful way of communicating technical and domain debt that software can accrue over time. Thanks.

Mission to unexplored south pole of the moon and investigating the presence of surface water at the bottom of craters that don't receive sunlight. Simultaneously capability develop…

I didn't claim sex work in all countries is a result of human trafficking. I said forced prostitution is fuelled by human trafficking. >"In some countries, sex work seems to be ill…

No it's not, it might be acceptable in a few societies but in a vast majority of societies across the globe sex work is both frowned upon and illegal. You are naive if you think al…

I don't know why you feel the need to give people your background/ability/level to bolster your argument. I'm sure you can string together a coherent argument without the need for …

There is certainly scope for a more intelligent and nuanced discussion to be had here than what reads like a junior engineer's half baked rant on the uselessness of engineering man…

>There's no evidence to support this assertion Like all your other assertions this one feels self serving for your point of view when a rudimentary google search provides reference…

Lockdowns did help flatten the curve, many countries health systems were overwhelmed regardless, but without lockdowns the fatalities and outcomes for severe cases would have been …

I think you were half way there taking charitable view on one of the arguments, I think taking a charitable view on the commenter's perspective/intent would have gotten you all the…

While I agree with the points you are making and think they are important, they could have been made just as effectively without resorting to an Ad hominem format. Though the quali…

Thanks for the detailed analysis. It was quantitatively informative.

The article reads like a self serving western narrative loosely based on cherry picked facts. India has clearly stated it will buy cheap oil where ever it's available on the market…

There is no love lost between india and china due to events in the recent past. The Indian people and government are furious with china's flouting of the agreed upon status quo at …

Wow, an analogy as spectacularly useless as it is distasteful.

I don't see how domestic policy is relevant to a discussion about perspective of India's foreign policy alignment concerning the west. And don't mistake me for a champion of Indian…

I haven't ascribed an independent perspective to india exclusively, merely pointed out india has an independent perspective. And I did not say west are arrogant morons I said "Some…

India is not anti west. The west has this binary/absolute way of looking at things, "either somebody is with them or against them". India recognises the world is a much more compli…

This was eye opening. Thanks.

Space-time isn't a gravitational field. Gravitational fields curve space-time.