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Not about this book in particular, but I wanted to thank you for creating this amazing resource. As someone who obsessively bought every MIR title he could while growing up in Delh…

I am a fan. Been using it for several months now and it’s my default reading location and I read a lot. Reading is essential to my life and work and I have been looking for a solut…

I agree with the thrust of this article, especially this line: "For a long time I felt somewhat unique in this regard, but COVID has made my longstanding reality the norm for many …

Z-Y is a fantastic book, especially if you have a decent math education already. Soviet style math and physics education - if done well- teaches you how to think with math, i.e., m…

The crucial line in the 1914 report was 'the university is, indeed, likely always to exercise a certain form of conservative influence.' Not conservative in the political sense as …

So much subtext about the undeserving poor. Except that it's not even wrong. To give just one example, rates of alcoholism are higher in South India - both in TN and Kerala [1] - w…

To be honest, I don't know what it would mean to rehabilitate a twelfth century Archbishop. What kind of saint could he become? Surely not a religious saint when religiosity is dec…

I have used a Bialetti for the last twenty years and will not use anything else to make coffee. Forms meets function meets flavor.

1. He made $250K self publishing a book. That itself is worth writing a post about and such posts are routinely popular on HN. 2. From all appearances, he gave the money away out o…

A little bit more Googling will tell you that Kirti Ambani, the man accused of ordering the hit, was no relative of Dhirubai, the Godfather. Nusli Wadia, the man he was supposedly …

Makes me think that panspermia isn't so outlandish. 100 million years will get you from star system to star system with plenty of time to spare.

I want to talk about the opposite problem - I routinely get 'personalized' emails from the founder/CTO/VP for awesome sauce/ saying "Hey X, I noticed you were able to turn on the l…

1. Painting a very broad brush, as in half of Eurasian philosophy, check out Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad's 'Eastern Philosophy' [1]. 2. More technical, but a valuable introduction to a…

Any article that mentions unbundling, disruption, bubble and tipping point in less then a thousand words deserves mention in the Malcolm Gladwell hall of fame. Here's the opposite …

"What remains uncontested is the product of his meditations, the Samkhya Sutras, which laid the foundation for the earliest “complete” system of philosophy derived from The Vedas. …

When white people make a mistake they lose their jobs. When black people make a mistake they aren't allowed to breathe. Both are unjust but they are far from morally equivalent.

Wow, small world. I had a brief exchange with you when you were an intern at IISc in the summer of 2006 and came to a talk of mine. At that time you were interested in the cognitiv…

Truly, despicably evil.

The most riveting piece of art criticism I have experienced in a while. Wow, just wow.

Thank you for your generous offer of help. We don't need additional support at this time but I will keep you in mind if new needs come up. Thanks once again.

I'm sad that so many of the top comments here are Notion skeptical. I have loved Notion from the very beginning and used it as a personal repository for a long time. More recently,…