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Yup, google translate only talks about Ukraine's position on the Russian-occupied Kuril Islands.

That's interesting. The decoding of Linear Elamite _may_ help in the decipherment of the Indus Valley Script.

One of the theories behind the Indus Valley Civilization, is that they spoke a Dravidian language, related to modern southern India's Dravidian languages.

There are also some theories (not generally agreed on), that the Elamite language is related to the Dravidian languages.

People also have hypothesized that the IVC script may have at least some relation to Linear Elamite, and if so, it's more of a basis to do generate some hypotheses.

Agriculture is required. We gotta eat food. Having big lawns with water guzzling lawns isn't needed.

Of course, we need incentives for efficient use of water by ag too.

Oh, I didn't notice the "we" there. Thanks for the info!

I believe that Harlan Ellison's "A Boy and His Dog" was also a major influence behind it.

For obviously fake characters, a Unicode proposal for the Egyptian Hieroglyphics Extended-A block managed to include a hieroglyph for an ancient Egyptian holding a laptop. (Note that this is a proposal, and has not yet made it into the standard.) Presumably it was a copyright trap.

https://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2020-m02/0018....

Things might be different because of Elon Musk's announced acquisition attempt of Twitter.

Your brick and mortar and online savings accounts are your savings account up to the maximum insurable amount.

Your company stock is an investment that is part of your compensation.

Your retirement account has (mostly) investments, at least in the US.

Your brokerage account has investments investments.

Any investment advisor will tell you that all investments have risk. There's an upside, and there's a downside to every stock. Anyone who remembers the Dot-com bust will remember that.

Agreed.

Depending on how Twitter does things, if the employees got RSU's, taxes due (federal, state, etc.) got correctly deducted on vesting.

Unless people deliberately reduced their tax deducted from their RSU's (which may not be doable), or have lots of other income on which tax is due, they won't be screwed over on taxes. And if they have lots of other income on which tax is due, they're less likely to be living paycheck to paycheck.

The humorous part of this is from 1991.

https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html

Here in the US, I can go to many grocery stores, and have my choice of kefir.

As an actual Hindu who has lived in a Muslim majority Middle Eastern country, I'm not the tiniest bit offended, because a fermented yogurt drink happens to have a somewhat similar name as an insult based on religious bigotry..

The original link, https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/06/21/crypto-regulation-ust-l... doesn't work.

This link does https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/06/21/crypto-regulation-ust-l...

My car made by Toyota never had to go to the shop for anything serious for several years. Sure, I needed to get tires replaced multiple times, but internals took 7-8 years, and I finally sold it off at the 12 year mark, after having replaced the batteries, the alternator, and the brakes.

My BMW took at least a couple of years before I ran into problems.

A new vehicle shouldn't have any problems for at least a couple of years, period.

Your employees have deliverables. Maybe they're customer facing. Maybe they're not directly customer facing.

But the incentive structure may prioritize getting their deliverables done over doing patching at least in the short term. The corporate hierarchies for IT and their main organization might only have a common manager at the very top of the company.

I wonder what the net carbon impact of this is. Use of _reclaimed_ Carbon Dioxide, that could allow for trains to not do a start/stop which uses large amounts of fuel (or even just electricity that might have been generated using fuel).

Or would the trains have just stopped at their normal stop instead waiting for leaves to be cleared?

What I wonder is the breakdown of sources.

Solar? Hydro electric? (I wonder if roof top solar is included here).

Also, note this was over a very short period of time. And there's still night time, when solar doesn't operate, except for whatever got stored into batteries.

The page states pretty much the opposite. If you read the link, they state how, amongst other things:

Good SAT scores can help find students from poorer high schools who didn't have the opportunity to take as many advanced classes in high school.

Also, to quote the paper "College admission protocols should attend to how social class is...encoded in non-numerical components of applications"

Like admissions essays touched up by educational counsellors, who can also get children of rich parents into "volunteering programs" that touch up experience, while poorer kids have to work after school.

Maybe we need more "Speakings", as described by Orson Scott Card in his book, "Speaker for the Dead".

In that book, a Speaker for the Dead would speak all the truth about the deceased, good and bad, warts and all.

Yup, See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system

In Indian English, for large numbers, especially in financial contexts, lakh (100,000), Crore (10 million) are generally used, often multiplicatively (e.g 1 lakh crore for 1 billion). Very_ rarely, Arab ( 1 billion) is also used.

Numbers over 1 million were ambiguous at the time Indian English came into being -- 1 billion was either 1e9 (short scale), or 1e12 (long Scale), and is still ambiguous to older English-speaking Indians.

I once remember a letter in the Times of India sometime in the 1990's, by someone decrying a multi-billion dollar expense for a power plant (the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabhol_Power_Station that was to be built by Enron, as the then largest ever foreign investment in India) was unaffordable and cost India years of GDP. Which makes sense if you're thinking in Long Scale terms.

One comment -- in India, there is theoretically the concept of the "creamy layer", sufficiently rich individuals cannot benefit from reservations, though in practice I don't know how well that is implemented.

Another thing is that casteism is _not_ limited to Hinduism in India. Not by any stretch of the imagination.

Look at the matrimonial sections of Indian newspapers -- there are Christians who explicitly look for a Nadar (a caste from Tamil Nadu which has become prosperous in the past century), a Christian Saraswat Brahmin (a caste from Western India including Goa, where the Portuguese only allowed native Christians of Brahmin origin to be Roman Catholic priests).

Sikhs have castes mirroring Hindu castes, even though their religion is explicitly against the caste system.

Indian Muslims have a different caste system, with people claiming an Arab, Persian and Turkish ancestor (and sometimes people of high-caste Hindu origin), at the top, and people of Dalit origin at the bottom.

Sanctions can certainly cause inflation. They just cause less inflation if the government (Iraqi Kurdistan) isn't printing any more paper, or more inflation if the government (the rest of Iraq) decided to print its way out of debts.

And sanctions can certainly cause inflation if it becomes more expensive to import goods (or make them locally instead).

This is the exact same thing that happened in Iraq after the first Gulf War back in 1991.

The northern part of the country, defacto-ruled by the Kurds had their own version of the Iraqi dinar, known as the Swiss dinar, as it had been printed by a Swiss bank note printer.

Due to the sanctions the central Iraqi government had to resort to locally printed bank notes of poorer quality for new notes. However, these notes couldn't reach Iraqi Kurdistan which had a fixed money supply. The Swiss dinar was soon worth 150 of the new Iraqi dinars.

Both of these have since been demonetized and replaced with a unified Iraqi-dinar, after the toppling of Saddam's government.

Any chance this is at least partially deliberate? If more people were to use GNU Radio, the manufacturers of said hardware would get sued until they were forced to lock down their hardware.

I wonder how these social media posts were being uploaded due to a loss of internet connectivity. Satellite internet, or has internet been restored already?

For context of non-Indians and Indians:

Sanskrit is used to refer to several different languages. It's often ambiguous which one people are referring to when they say Sanskrit. Classical Sanskrit is the only one which wasn't spoken as a common language.

Classical Sanskrit -- the language codified by amongst other Panini, around the 5th century BC, which was used for religious and secular purposes for high culture and amongst the political elites.

At this time, some of the other languages now called Sanskrit had turned into the "Middle Indo-Aryan languages", including Pali, and the Prakrits, whose descendents now include the modern Indo-Aryan languages of northern India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.

Vedic Sanskrit -- the language of the Vedas (1700BC-600BC, approximately), believed in its earliest forms to be the common languages which then became some of the modern north Indian languages. Classical Sanskrit is a codification of Vedic Sanskrit.

Broadly -- any Old Indo-Aryan language, including the pieces of Mitanni Aryan attested in inscriptions in northern Iraq/Syria/Turkey embedded in other language texts including Kikkuli's Horse training manual (mostly in Hittite, except where he uses "Mitanni Aryan" words in glosses and defines them), and king names in the Hurrian language, which are meaningful when interpreted as Sanskrit.

So short summary: This paper from the 1980's, by a researcher then associated with NASA Ames Research Center basically states that the Sanskrit linguistical and grammatical traditions had mechanisms for describing words and their relations (between the 5th century BC, through the 15th century AD), that didn't make it to Western grammatical traditions until the mid 20th century.

These same relations are those that were used in Artificial Intelligence linguistic models, and given that the Paninian grammar could fairly unambiguously represent Sanskrit, it would be possible to map Sanskrit into a programmatic model for natural language processing in computers.

Note that through decades of misintepretation in the popular press, this has become, "Sanskrit is the ideal language for programming in computers, or even "NASA has endorsed Sanskrit as the ideal language for programming computers".

Not speaking English, doesn't imply they don't understand English words or phrases that have gotten into what languages they do speak.

It would hardly be goodwill -- this would be compensation for emitting enough carbon to cause their country to be drowned.

See also, Mobile vendors change the gun emoji to a picture of a squirt gun. Are you sending someone a death threat or telling them to cool off with a super soaker?

https://www.inverse.com/article/44132-google-gun-emoji-goes-....

They adopt. There are plenty of children in the foster care system or orphanages depending on the country whose lives would be greatly improved if they lived with parents regardless of the combinations of genitals or gender identity of those parents.

Or those who are richer and/or in richer countries can use various artificial means.