Bullshit. I’ve no interest or opinion on whether Trump is good for America or whatever. But he will go in harder against Russia. He was the one who warned the Germans about their increasing fuel dependency on the Russians in the first place.
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Both countries can’t use nukes because the other has them too. India has a fast growing economy at stake and Pakistan may be an economic disaster but Pakistani elites have huge assets in the west which can be frozen.
Usage of nukes in the Indian subcontinent has easily calculable first order effects.
In Ukraine it’s entirely different. It is ridiculous to suggest that the US will welcome the destruction of the entire human race if Putin even nukes civilian centres in Ukraine. They won’t. But there are second and third order consequences of such actions which are not in favour of Russia and certainly not in favour of Putin and his friends.
The new Cold War will be sealed and it will be game over for his regime. He wants western apathy and social disorder to continue. And he wants a disaster zone in Ukraine as his personal entry point into Europe proper.
Reading this would have been funnier had it not been for the behaviour we’ve seen this year.
The important thing to realise is that the dot operator is used to access functions grouped into modules (or even invoke anonymous functions) rather than invoke methods on an object. Because Elixir being a functional language, the central operation is invoking functions on data and passing the results to other functions, rather than calling methods on objects.
From this understanding you can just grok from the code that this is a program that takes a list of numbers and squares them concurrently, in the process using your computer’s parallel processing hardware. And as this is a high level language you can create concurrent workloads with minimal implementation knowledge.
Even if you come from C family of languages where the & denotes something to do with address, you’ll realise the way Elixir uses it is not far away from that, but without the added tediousness of memory management. So elixir builds upon common conventions.
Some things like Enum may confuse a Java programmer. It’s Elixir speak for enumerable data rather than a collection of constants. And of course the pipe operator is different.
It’s certainly not easy to see this and write your own code and offer suggestions. But for a mildly experienced programmer who has already adopted the mindset that code is just a bunch of instructions presented in non-linear fashion, like in a legal document, this is an approachable intro to start asking questions from. First of all one should be willing to read a couple of pages from some book on what are anonymous functions and what is the syntax like for that etc.
The task is a bit more difficult for people who tend to look at code with a more inflexible viewpoint ie junior developers.
Let’s see multiple legitimate sources for this one. Police reports are public too. I’d like to see this confirmed. regional language sources are also fine.
So it is interesting that not one big popular protest happened because 5 million or more people died because of either covid, or covid containment related reasons like the decline of the economy or unavailable of other services like surgeries. Not only this, in the many important elections that have been held in India, compensation for covid related losses is not a major election issue in any one of those.
So in my opinion, this article‘s conclusion on India is hilariously off the mark. Even most of the liberal media in India which is opposed to Modi and his government and sends people out into the countryside for investigation has said that though there is evidence of economic destruction because of the lockdown and fear there is no evidence of large scale death.
Some BJP supporters will look at articles like these and claim that this is all a vast conspiracy to defame Modi and India. I don’t put much value in such claims. I think the conclusions are because of bad application of statistical reasoning. One size fits all application of some statistical tool on a global scale clearly shows the writer’s lack of understanding and their immaturity. Whatever figures they are using are clearly missing context specific to each country and this makes these results useless.
I’m 37 and I’ve just started out. I know at this point my career has a low ceiling. But I’ll try my best.
And fundamentalism is a misnomer when it comes to Islam because any deviation from fundamentals is violently opposed. It’s a religion that never moved away from fundamentals. It has never had any reform that secularised and drew power away from the clergy.
You are probably a good, kind person but when this happens to Rushdie or any blasphemer it represents exactly what unreformed Islam is.
This isn't really much value to most people. If you ask me the less influencer crap that exists in this world, the better.
In its essence slavery is an exchange of labor deal where the buying party has it way better than the selling party.
They hate the ruling party, who to be honest are amoral assholes like most Indian politicians and bureaucrats, so facts don’t really matter to them.
Anyway the amount of generalisation in both the question and your quite incorrect answer is pretty funny.
Also the most profitable farms aren’t the largest ones, which are often dedicated to growing common grain like wheat and rice, and sugarcane. These crops would be bought by the government at prefixed prices. And the assured income again leads to a lot of fighting and influence mongering, and ironically much smaller takes for the average competing farmer.
Quite unexpectedly, the highest profits are made by farmers who manage to get smart financing and grow niche crops like fruits, some vegetables, flowers, organic, cash crops etc. The highes profits in India are always made by people who carefully avoid government and activist attention, assistance, benevolence, interference.
… to be honest, I never thought the +1 emoji would make someone mad.