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kobiguru

181 karma · joined December 21, 2017

I sometimes(almost always) make mistakes (typos) while commenting/writing. If you had trouble understanding what I wrote please ask me for correction, I will appreciate it.

I love receiving emails at ( roshanmis at gmail )

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kobiguru··on Launch HN: TagMango (YC W20) – Personalized video shoutouts in India
The number of mobile phone users and content consumers are very large (way above 50% ) of the country.
kobiguru··on Ask HN: How to self-study physics?
Here is a guide by G. 't Hooft to learn physics.

http://www.goodtheorist.science/

kobiguru··on Judge rules that student loan debt is dischargeable in bankruptcy
I would like to upvote this comment at least a few thousand times.
kobiguru··on Pro-Indian ‘fake’ websites aimed at influencing decision-making in Europe
Here you go..

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0143968080231032...

kobiguru··on Pro-Indian ‘fake’ websites aimed at influencing decision-making in Europe
here this should help you get a pretty good picture of BBC's Anti-India bias. From "Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television" published in 2008.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0143968080231032...

kobiguru··on Fake news: BBC and tech firms join forces to fight disinformation
and who fights the fake news that BBC has generated over the years.
kobiguru··on Ask HN: Best resources to gain math intuition?
Hey Kalid, I didn't know you roamed here. I love your site. I have recommended it to everyone who asked me for math resources. I really like your site. Thank you for building an amazing resource.
kobiguru··on India Shut Down Kashmir’s Internet Access
Two factual errors

1. Amnesty International is not a UN organisation.

2. India didn't Annex Kashmir, it has been an Indian state since independence.

3. Kashmir special status was given and revocation according to the Indian constitution.

4. I cited the oldest communique from a reliable source.

Stop shifting goal post when you can't argue the point.

kobiguru··on India Shut Down Kashmir’s Internet Access
Here enjoy

https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/bab500/bypass_news_...

kobiguru··on India Shut Down Kashmir’s Internet Access
Okay, let's say they lift the ban here is how things will transpire.

First, Pakistan's ISPR would start a massive disinformation campaign aided by the separatist who lost all their influence with the present government but has a great following among the Kashmiri Youth.

Then there would immense violence with many dead while the "leaders" and there loved ones stay in a five-star hotel in Delhi.

To prevent a loss of life they had to do it. But it's slowly being downgraded and the curfew is absent in all but 4 districts of erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir

Edit:

I agree with you, that it is bad for people to have no communication channel.

kobiguru··on India Shut Down Kashmir’s Internet Access
To know more about the referendum read this -- See what Para 5 says.

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1949v06/d1...

kobiguru··on India Shut Down Kashmir’s Internet Access
here is what I meant by Intorelant minority. I am sorry if It came as bigoted but I would call any small group of people this

https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...

kobiguru··on India Shut Down Kashmir’s Internet Access
Preventative measures are necessary for the kind of thing it can spark. The change is not like demonetisation rather a well thought and long-held demand of the present government. It has been there in the election manifesto since they started publishing election manifesto.

The new york times is entitled to its view on how India's elected government ought to run the country but that does not mean the government is going to forgo one of THE demands of the party founders.

The other thing that is ignored is that for seventy years Kashmir has gotten the biggest share of the central government's outlays for states and they have nothing to show for. Doing the same thing expecting a different result is bad in any environment.

I am not sure if this will work or not but what I am sure is that the previous status quo did not work. Moreover, how long would the entire state's ambition be held hostage because of an intolerant minority in four districts in the Kashmir valley?

Edit:

"Intorelent Minority" comes from Taleb's essay/book on the skin in the game

here is the link here is what I meant by Intorelant minority. I am sorry if It came as bigoted but I would call any small group of people this

https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...

kobiguru··on Terminating Service for 8Chan
Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent and the website is the New York Times among others.
kobiguru··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2019)
Just Corrected somethings
kobiguru··on India Launches Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission on Second Try
I doubt Journalists hold present-day journalism in high opinion.

NewYrokTimes is perhaps the biggest offender who gets away with this. All I can say is after reading Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent, I can never trust NYT.

kobiguru··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2019)
Just corrected somethings
kobiguru··on Ask HN: Why did WhatsApp become so popular, but not Signal?
You mean the what's app co-founder ?
kobiguru··on Ask HN: Which are the best MOOCs for learning mathematics?
Start with Khan Academy and solve concurrently solve - How to solve it by Poyla. This should give you a good start but a lot depends on what your end goal. I suggest taking look at /r/learnmath subreddit.
kobiguru··on McDonald's is selling a meatless burger in Germany
They have been selling meatless burgers in India since they started here. I don't see what's the big deal about.

May be they weren't a typical burger.

kobiguru··on Uber Is a Scam
I don't think they like monopolies they don't control.
kobiguru··on Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product
DOn't take this lightly if you are serious about the website. DMCA takedown is worldwide and with European copyright laws in place you have more reasons to worry. Talk to a good copyright attorney. There are many, seek the help of NGOs in this area. Do NOT sit back.
kobiguru··on Congress wants to protect you from biased algorithms
“An ignorant man, who is not fool enough to meddle with his clock, is however sufficiently confident to think he can safely take to pieces, and put together at his pleasure, a moral machine of another guise, importance and complexity, composed of far other wheels, and springs, and balances, and counteracting and co-operating powers. Men little think how immorally they act in rashly meddling with what they do not understand. Their delusive good intention is no sort of excuse for their presumption. They who truly mean well must be fearful of acting ill.”

-- Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

kobiguru··on Indian government asks Apple and Google to take down TikTok app
I agree
kobiguru··on Indian High Court Orders YouTube to Remove PewDiePie Diss Videos
Here is the link to the "Congratulations" track [ the video is not available]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHgc8Q6qTjc

here is the link to the "B*tch lasagna" diss track [ this video too is not available]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Dh-RL__uN4

keep your moral high ground and your nazis like pewdiepie to your shores.

edit: I am checking from India and these videos are not available

kobiguru··on Indian High Court Orders YouTube to Remove PewDiePie Diss Videos
It wasn't a diss track against a company but against all Indians. Don't believe me? read the lyrics. he called us a bunch of names that would be considered racist in a civilised society. Indians can and do take a joke more than their fair share but it did cross the line.

I am glad it was removed.

kobiguru··on Is there any potential risks to using an Airbnb host's “free home WiFi”
Man in the middle attack is pretty easy to do if you have control over the traffic. So I would simply say stay off. But that's just being super paranoid.
kobiguru··on Ask HN: C++ in Intro Class to Programming and Writing Code at Exams on a Paper?
This is a bad idea. because one missing comma could screw up the program not mention which compilers they would likely run the program.

That being said if you are comfortable with basics you can learn a lot from this book

http://www.keithschwarz.com/coursereader.pdf

kobiguru··on By the book: reflections on an Indian childhood reading Soviet hardbacks
I absolutely love MIR publishers. My interest in science still exists because of the books they published.

here Someone Has uploaded many of the MIR's titles.

https://mirtitles.org/category/mir-publishers/

kobiguru··on By the book: reflections on an Indian childhood reading Soviet hardbacks
I have spent so much time with this book growing up. It was THE Book to solve to get the bragging rights that you know your physics.
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