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That was just for sale a few days back on the Kindle store (at least in the US). Not sure if it still is.

Customers do pay more for organic food and non-GMO food that's certified.

The name India literally derives from the Sindhu river (aka the Indus river), which became Hindu in Persian (S->H is a common sound correspondence between Sanskrit and Persian), and dropped the initial H when getting into Greek. It was also used to refer to some areas beyond India -- (i.e, modern Indonesia or the "East Indies", but the origin of it was from civilizational India.).

I've never heard of India being used to refer to Ethiopia. Ethiopia itself is a phrase of Greek origin, and dates back at least to Herodotus.

India has been used in the English language for over 1,000 years, and in Latin and before that Greek for at least 1,500 years before that, along with Indian and its equivalents in other languages.

This was of course well before anyone used the word "Indian" to refer to Native Americans.

Hong Kong and Taiwan were explicitly excluded from the banned countries and political units.

Yoga (Sanskrit) and yoke (English).

Yoga literally means union and is derived from a prefix yuj meaning to attach, join, harness, yoke.

Thanks. I was wondering why the sidewalk didn't show up on my Alexa app (I have an unsupported device, luckily.)

That is a very recent change, post the Trump tax changes, which removed most of the impact of the AMT.

Interesting to see the current numbers. But even before then, the AMT disproportionately affected California taxpayers.

Andrew Boni doesn't sound like an East Asian name to many people, though it certainly could be. A quick google search indicates he also looks less East Asian than Justin Zhu.

Edit: Since someone seemed to be irritated with my comment enough to downvote, people just with East Asian names have been known to suddenly face less discrimination once they started using non-East Asian names, or be characterized as non-East Asian after changing their names to something non-Asian.

Some notable biracial (White/East Asian) Hollywood actresses with ambiguous racial characteristics have had to change their East Asian sounding name to a white name to get roles, or non-typecast roles. For example Sandrine Ho (of House of Cards) changed her name to Sandrine Holt and suddenly got more callbacks.

The Alternate Minimum Tax was only supposed to affect less than 100 millionaires in the 1960's who were paying no taxes. Now, it is impacting 20+% of California tax payers most of whom earn under a million dollars a year and many of whom are not millionaires.

So I presume this is an attempt to create a new GNU/FSF grouping without RMS and his supporters?

Most of their (30'ish) stores were in California, but they had a number of stores in Texas and the Western states. The SF Bay area had a few locations including Fremont, Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, and San Jose.

I can beat that.

A couple of years ago, I'd asked where their UPS's were (I'd bought one from a Best Buy more than 10 years back so I knew they had stocked them) and they told me there was a Fedex near by.

People are driving far less in general, and I suspect fewer people are road tripping, so range anxiety, and rechargeability becomes less of a problem for those who need to buy a new car.

But there are also more people replacing plane with car travel, which increases the numbers of people driving, but I presume that's much lower than the number of people no longer road tripping. And some of those people might decide it's worth it just to rent a car if they need to do that.

The only time I ever interacted with ESR on fetchmail, I reported a bug for an issue I ran into (with Kerberos 4 IMAP), submitted a patch, and it was accepted without discussion in the next release.

Admittedly, this was 19 years ago, and it was a relatively small fix.

> When Reed began farming in 2005, he paid $120,000 for his first new tractor, but fast-forward to 2020, and the equivalent tractor’s price tag now reads a heftier $350,000.

The big question is why have tractor's tripled in price in the past 15 years? Regulations? Cars haven't gone up anywhere near that in that time frame.

2nd gen Indian American here. I've been working in Silicon Valley since 2004, and have never been quizzed about my caste. And my last name isn't a caste name or even caste associated name. And somewhere between a plurality or majority of my coworkers have been Indian born.

There's a lot of math that _everyone_ needs to learn, even if not college bound. Those who are college bound and interested in any quantitative major can certainly learn advanced versions of all of these.

People need to understand basic probability and statistics. (This would be useful to teach in a civics class too, if we still had them!). Calculus isn't needed for the basics.

Basic financial mathematical literacy. "How to balance your checkbook^Waccounts, now that we barely use checks any more". What do interest rates mean in the context of Credit Cards, mortgages, savings accounts, etc...

Understanding what the numbers really mean. People use numbers a lot, but what are they really saying? Are people using numbers to lie?

Yup. When the Portuguese ruled Goa and surrounding parts of India, they were happy to keep caste prejudices -- for example, for a long time they only allowed Christian converts of Brahmin origin to become priests.

Similarly, other Catholics attempted to integrate the caste system into Christianity in India (see the Malabar rites controversy), and had two different "castes" of priests, one acting as Brahmin's and ministering to higher castes, and one acting as Hindu priests from lower castes (pandarams), ministering to everyone else.

Interesting (or really not so surprising) that Facebook's head of global affairs is Nick Clegg, former British Deputy Prime Minister (and head of the Liberal Democrats when they were in coalition with Cameron's Conservatives).

Whether or not it's actually better, it gives leverage over China. Do better or else...

The countries which have English as a second language.... were both British colonies until the 1960's. Malta had once even pondered integrating into the United Kingdom, though later gained independence and became a Republic. Cyprus has some undergraduate education in English (a friend of mine from Kuwait had gone to college there).

Other European countries don't have that history.

No, what happened is that Mitch McConnell refused to even allow a vote, and even Republican senators wouldn't have been able to vote for the centrist proposed by Obama.

Asian Americans are Americans. It makes perfect to compare Asian American admits to Asian Americans in the American population

Agreed, Winston Churchill's active hindering of efforts to ameliorate the Bengal famine of 1943, by exporting food from Bengal, and discouraging _sales_ of food from Canada, caused about 4 million deaths.

At the very least, he's at the same level as Tojo Hideki, whose invasion of Burma was the other cause of the famine.

We don't wipe out images of people no matter how evil they were.

Wow, their UI... insists I lived in a city I used to live in years back. There's no way to even just change my city for one search. (I tried changing my address elsewhere, but it just doesn't pick up the change.)

Does anyone know if Google comingles items from various merchants like Amazon does?

If you're not a fluent English language speaker, you might want to look at a dictionary before calling people morons.

In addition to its original definition as "what the Eastern Roman Empire morphed into", it also means: "excessively convoluted" "highly complex, intricate, and devious". These other definitions unsurprisingly are based on what English language speakers thought of the Byzantines..

You still have to be at least upper middle class to afford the cheapest Tesla car.

And I suspect their other products (power wall), etc, are more upper middle class, unless there are new apartment communities using it.

The new apartment complex near the (old) Fremont BART station still had people actively working at it this morning. It doesn't seem to be on the essential list from what I saw from the official Alameda County order.