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I see a lot of comments asking what a fear of learning something new is. I interpret is as the fear of appearing stupid when trying to learn something new. This means, that one doe…

I am an engineer and I particularly relate to the problem that the doctor has with having to click multiple times to order medical tests where previously only one sufficed. Also, t…

>The QWERTY design predated any potential jamming problems. Perhaps it was so foreseeing? https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/fact-of-fiction-... Apparently it was partly p…

> Why should an architect know Shakespeare and QWERTY? Well why not? QWERTY could refer to just being able to type. An artist could possibly do well to be able to use a computer? I…

I remember reading about baby name fads that were caused by names of TV characters. The one I remember is "Emma" catching on after the baby on the TV show Friends.

Your comment is very interesting. I recently took a course on Design Patterns. I sat squirming during the lectures because I didn't like what was being said, but couldn't put my fi…

>> Not that of some long gone boogeyman. Since the boogeyman has been "gone", the entire region (not just India) has gone through several wars, a very messy, violent and tumultuous…

You make a good point. It is simplistic and lazy to blame the colonials for all the ills of a society too. But the slow progress in fixing something like this is not so much becaus…

There is more history to this. The introduction of the law relating to making gay sex illegal "... dating back to 1861, (that was) introduced during the British rule of India (mode…

Have they also taken away your stapler?

That's the thing about being a rebel in a hierarchical system. You really are up against much more than a "rebel" in say the U.S. would be up against. For example, think of the ado…

What do you mean by a colonial system? edited to add: I ask the question because I genuinely don't understand what you mean by it in this context. It seems to me that it might mean…

Respectfully, it seems to me that India (and other countries in the region and maybe elsewhere) has a problem with strictly hierarchical structure, issues with accessibility and av…

Hacker news is definitely more a forum than social media platform. But the temptation to collect "likes" and the resulting dopamine high is a thing on HN too.

Definitely not. https://qz.com/547641/theres-an-awful-cost-to-getting-a-phd-... (Most of the article is anecdotal but it does make references to studies & statistics of self-report…

I don't think anyone needs 7 pairs of shoes a year. I have had the same three pairs of shoes (each for a different kind of weather) for the past 2 or so years. One of these pairs h…

Sure health and energy are helpful when raising kids. But what about wisdom and perspective? I would think it really depends on the person and how prepared they feel with respect t…

It makes sense that the language is too young to have evolved to be a means of communication. I remember being surprised that the phenomenon of colonial rulers of a country imposin…

:vsplit filename to open file called "filename" in a vertical split of the console window. Also :split filename will open it in a horizontal split

In today's research community this doesn't matter. All that matters is how many papers you publish - no matter how stupid they are.

Do you mean forcible abortions? The article is not focused on voluntary sexual sterilization. It is focused on sexual sterilization of people tricked/forced into it or paid for it.…

I think that the comment above mentioned killing baby girls because that is a thing. The killing of live born baby girls. You are right, that is different from aborting fetuses. Bo…