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qart

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    Comment #47873590

    The author of the first book listed there explains there was no ancient Silk Road. This concept was dreamt up in 1877. https://youtube.com/shorts/Ki4UQ20tWQk

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    Comment #47775058

    Another "maybe" to consider: maybe it's the wrong format for you. Years ago, I got yearly subscriptions at a gym that was right below my office, and showed up less than 10 times. T…

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    Comment #46728047

    Canada logic: "Let's take in people who have links to Canadian crime gangs, and when things go bad, let's just blame India" > it's literally the 'garbage logic' that the majority o…

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    Comment #46727937

    You are resistant to all the actual information I have provided you. Your terrorists are killing more of your own citizens. But, I suppose Indian government should straightaway acc…

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    Comment #46707874

    Calling out hypocrisy is fair game. What rebuttal? Why even talk about irrelevant "clippings"? On whom is the onus of providing evidence?

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    Comment #46707441

    > If it's such an insignificant movement It is a significant movement in Canada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India_Flight_182 Also, the veracity of a claim does not depend on…

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    Comment #46701340

    > These are literally murders by Indian nationals on other Indian nationals They are all in your immigration pipeline or already through it. The crimes are all on Canadian soil. Wh…

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    Comment #46701291

    > India's claims of Mr Nijjar of being a terrorist was not. But I'm not talking about this claim. I'm talking about the fact that Trudeau accused the Indian government being respon…

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    Comment #46701196

    It is that simple. Canada is not learning. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G76aXJOWkAA4CNy?format=jpg&name=...

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    Comment #46701111

    Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalistan_movement is not a significant movement in India. I have plenty of connections with Sikhs and Sikhism in India. Apart from a very tiny m…

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    Comment #46701035

    > nobody in Canada wants anything to with your 'ethno nationalist wars' Absurd. These are YOUR 'ethno nationalist wars' because your country has given them a safe haven. This probl…

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    Comment #46700912

    > For decades, countries like Canada prospered under what we called the rules-based international order. As an Indian listening to this, this comes across as absurd. Trudeau consta…

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    Comment #46550215

    Weasel words, basically. All too common in journalism. It's also common on Wikipedia but Wikipedia acknowledges it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word

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    Comment #46441217

    There is a talk called "Java for Small Coding Tasks" by the author of Core Java: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04wFgshWMdA Apparently, this is the way to do it: ///usr/bin/env ja…

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    Comment #46315621

    You will not build reading stamina or make yourself well informed with sappy stories. Learn some basic statistics and try reading research papers directly. "I have read more words"…

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    Comment #46315077

    A friend of mine told me a few days ago that he thinks LLMs are already smarter than most humans. I agreed with him instantly.

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    Comment #46314623

    > Amy Bies was recovering in the hospital from injuries inflicted during a car accident in May 2007 When an article starts like this, I instantly close it and wait for proper sourc…

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    Comment #46189488

    You're right. MISRA is a cult. Actual studies[1][2] have shown many of their rules to be harmful rather than helpful. I have worked in multiple safety-critical industries. MISRA is…

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    Comment #46175223

    I have family members with health conditions that require periodic monitoring. For some tests, a phlebotomist comes home. For some tests, we go to a hospital. For some other tests,…

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    Comment #46173158

    One state in India is particularly strong with its labour centric protectionism. As far as I have seen, most families' earnings come from one family member working in "Gulf". The l…

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    Comment #46033605

    I have had my hearing tested at an audiologist. My hearing curves are identical with air conduction and bone conduction. There are very few cases where bone conduction might be bet…

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    Comment #45969167

    There will be no course-correction in India. The usual mindset is "how can I be the bigger a-hole?" With accessories becoming more and more affordable, there has been a rise in sup…

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    Comment #45807995

    I have them all installed, but I use WezTerm most often because it is fastest to give me a window when I hit the assigned shortcut key. Ghostty is a hair slower. Kitty takes 2-3 se…

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    Comment #45576873

    I live in India. Nearly all parties appoint literal thugs as ministers. Let alone English literacy and fluency, they are not even competent in their own language. Here we have a mi…

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    Comment #45192626

    This is India. If people are informally reporting corruption in some institution, you'll be on the right track if you believe it to be true. There will never be any formal studies …