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> FaceTime and Zoom have a significant cognitive load, too

Why the cogntive load would be lesser in a face to face conversation than digital assuming the internet connectivity is good ?

You are trying to project the varna system and vedas are preaching good things but only the implementation is bad. That is not true. Division of laborers(not labour) and enforing them over the generations even if you don't believe in karma is baked in to the core philosophy of the vedas.

> That is utterly, laughably, ridiculously false. I can't believe someone with even a modicum of intelligence would say that.

Citiation please. Britishers primary goal is colonization. Missionaries came much later and they did not interfere with the education system.

I will address the most important point about education first.

> Which has been very problematic. Education for all is good, but they have enforced Christian education and many other negative things.

How is getting educated becomes problematic verses no education at all. I am taking about basic reading and writing ? Controlling the access to education and maintain the hierarchy of the society is the fundamental idea of the varna system. This is one of the important reason there were very few Nobel laureates and inventions have come from India in correlation with its population. By the way Britishers never had religion as part of education.

> It seems like there are some gaps in your understanding of Hindu and Vedic thought. Yes, you are born according to your past life karma, but the soul (in a body or in the other loka) always have free will – so you chose your karma – you chose to do actions that created future karmas to be resolved. By extension, you chose your birth. This is the full understanding.

This is same as saying you don't choose your varna/caste.This is just another way of saying you are born in to lower caste and have to do the back breaking job because for your sins in the previous birth.

> In the original varna dharma, there isn’t an “easier life” for one caste or another.

A priest life is much easier than a farmer or manual scavenger.

> Your natural abilities are the way that you choose your caste. One person has no interest or ability for the spiritual life, but they are good at business. Your natural abilities are chosen based on past karma, which you also chose.

Not true. Its very explicit. Even if it assumed true, once education is denied and fathers occupation is enforced on the children's for all the generation's how does one will have the time to find out and grow their natural abilities ?

> A person of the priest caste would offer equal respect to the worker caste

If education is not restricted based on religion, then one does not have to seek privilege or validity based on birth.

> The authority should be by one’s own volition and the community.

The enforcement is not by community its by the kings as preached by the vedas. The kings enforce varna system by denying education, owning property based on the caste or enforce fathers occupation over their childrens. Naturally kings have the incentive to avoid competition and hold on to their power.

Your statements in the first paragraph are contradictory. > Well firstly, the varna system doesn't change the Hindu perspective that one chooses one's birth.

> That still lines up with the core tenets of Hinduism, that one chooses one's birth based on the ripe karmas.

Vedas says one is born according to his past life karma.

> The original caste system - the varna dharma - simply means that at different stages of life and different people more naturally express ways of serving society - some are workers, some are business people, some are warriors, some are priests.

If people were allowed to change caste most people would have changed to priestly caste as it is the most easy life one can have.

> A brahmin (priest caste) does not need to be born from brahmin parents

No father would want his child to convert to lower caste.

> The British further abused the caste system and perpetuated this false understanding of it for their own benefit.

I am not saying Britishers came as saviors, but they are the ones who setup schools to everyone, obviously for their own profit ,but still mass education happened only after their conquest.

> This is not the original way. The Vedas actually tell us that castes are fluid through one's life and not based on which family one was born into.

Assuming this is true, who has the authority to decide who should belong to which caste. Obviously the people in the highest caste will decide and they will try to main the power. Its simple as that.

Not true. The varna system advocated by the vedas the holy books of Hinduism is all about the division of laborers(not labor). Its the foundation for the caste system, where privilege is based on birth and even education is restricted to kings only be allowed to the priestly caste. Only after the invasion of British this has changed. The kings were okay with this because they don't have competition for their place. This hierarchy of social ladder worked because of the privilege one gets by birth over those under the hierarchy.

That is the philosophy i live by. I am from india and When i was a child i was always made to feel guilty of not studying hard as my parents are sacrificing for me. I never wanted to marry but was forced again guilty trapping.Even compared to other asian countries, in india this mentality is very strong. This is mostly due to the religious conditioning enforcing the belief everybody in a society has a role to fulfill.

The problem with retaining is independent of processing information speed.

Thanks so much. There are very rare tricks and tips that's comes across ones way which becomes part of a person's habit. This is one of them.

If its contacting the server after infecting, Why is it hard to track the owner of dns address or the ip owner since running a server is impossible without the leaving a trail to real world id.

> "If I have strong executors but am lacking in people leaders, I bring in someone who has that focus"

I don't understand how people who can not execute and lack technical expertise will be a better fit for engineering leadership than those with strong technical skills ?

Microsfot teams app - While working in office most of my colleges would come to my desk for trivial things if they wanted something but don't know what they want. During discussion they would figure it out what they wanted exactly. Since the corono outbreak everyone is WFH and now if they want something they figure out what exactly they want and then message me. This is a huge time saver. Now i can focus a lot at the problem and respond to the messages async.

Me too . please do share

There is a gpl version software polar bookshelf exists and its quite good https://getpolarized.io/

What do you mean by its not free ?

Learning probability for strong foundation in ML. The books i am following are "First course in probability by Sheldon Ross" and "Probability and Statistics" Michael J. Evans and Je¤rey S. Rosenthal

This is the first time i am studying based on the topics rather than following syllabus. I wanted to understand covariance for calculating similar interest b/w users to suggest the posts viewed by a user in the app i am developing. This took me down the rabbit hole and forced to learn everything required to define covariance. Its talking a lot of time but i feel it's worth it because now i have a strong foundation. Also its nice to follow more than one book because i have no attachment to any of the books. When in college i used to get attached to my notes or the first text book i follow, but studying a topic from many books have no attachment to either and its liberating.

I too prefer office to WFH. I miss socializing, randomly taking meeting co-workers at their desk, fun gossiping etc. Another huge problem is WFH induces guilt if nothing gets done in a week. Working from office even i don't commit for more than 2 weeks no body ask about as long as i show up to work.

I am a programmer by profession and I have a degree in computer science. My college taught me probably 1% of what i know, 99% of my knowledge is by suggestions from strangers on internet. You asked who those those strangers are. I don't know, that why they are called strangers. When i came across "How to be a Hacker" by eric raymond. It taught me how to learn on internet(asking questions). Then book suggestions from strangers on internet(examle: stackoverflow recommended books for programming) helped a lot to widen the knowledge. And for inspiration watching live 10+hr straight coding by George Hotz, direct replies from my heros John Carmack, Jonathon Blow on twitter and youtube comments is doing a pretty good job. I have done a few courses over coursera, and currently learning category theory. Internet education wins big easily over college education. May be college is required to inspire people but not educate them. That is obsoleted, because internet does that much better job.

> "You just don't get this with online or remote learning."

I have learned literally more than 99% of my knowledgefrom strangers on the internet and ad hoc conversations on irc and reddit.