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Every time I see these negative media people pulling the right things down and the wrong things up, I feel these blokes are by design all about increasing entropy (Could be true!). There is no fix for broken media so to speak.
I am not sure about this one comment in the article submitted by OP. As far as I understand the temperature at the center of the earth should be as high as that of the Sun. The core is known to be the heaviest and hottest part of our planet.
I firmly believe that it is consumer apps, and consumer apps alone, that can give blazing home runs like this one.
Despite the risk, numerous deaths, blood and corpses all over the place. Somehow valley since last September had been running after enterprise junk but that's not where the gems lie (My opinion of course!). There is money in enterprise but no home run possible over there.
Edit: I like the way the edited title of this thread: Facebook (whatsapp.com).
This was the best news of the day. :)
> Text-cut off from the bottom.
Have noted the issue. We will get it right on Ubuntu as well.
2. Search is something we're still working on.
3. Resizing text will NOT have any effect on the book, we've taken care of that.
We're yet to optimize for laptops and big-screen iMacs, but this one is on top of our task-list!
Meet Bubblin - Youtube of Flipbooks. We simplify book-writing and publishing. Make it as simple as a blog.
If it is, then these are early signs of that dying model, you know. I don't mean to say that the case of these overreaching universities is as bad as that of Hollywood/MPAA but traits are similar. It's a good thing for education space in tech, not so good for those who will be a part of the brick and mortar model during transition.
My 2 cents.
I have been forcing myself off HN lately. One thing that I miss the most due to this is the SHOW:HNs of really cool products and hacks that hit the front page. This gives me a great month-to-month access to those great stories at one place.
Bookmarked!
But looking at how things have been in America for the last 10+ years (since the justification of WTC) I don't see much hope unless the citizenry rises to the occasion and fixes these rascals to their place. I sincerely hope they do, but I am given up on this already.
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During his time in the State's Health Ministry, he launched Polio Eradication Plan in October 1994.[6] The programme was successful and was adopted throughout the whole nation by the Government of India.[7]
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Please do your homework before calling others on the task. And look beyond your own version of reality, it is important. I wouldn't have even replied to you had it not been on HN.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harsh_Vardhan_(Delhi_politician...
https://twitter.com/drharshvardhan
Dr. Harsh Vardhan has keenly taken it to its fruitful conclusion as well.
The initiative to check polio started way back in 1978, with permanently disabled population still available across 5 alive generations. This number is likely to shrink rapidly in the next two decades, provided the polio vaccination program is kept abreast with advancing deadliness of poliovirus [1] and state's ability to maintain free vaccination.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poliovirus
[Edited: Span of generations across which polio afflicted patients could be found is 5 and not 3 as per my original comment.]
It's important to note that China does have a dual system of Governance within itself: Democracy (Hong Kong) + Communist control (Mainland). Thus it can, and does, leverage best of both worlds to doing business efficiently.
This also means that Hong Kong, for a city, is in a very strong position to grow up into a cutting edge city of future given the volumes it has to handle for mainland China.
There you go: http://www.nileshtrivedi.com/2012/07/10/how-much-is-enough.h...
This is actually very classy and reminds me of my dad's office back in the day. I remember going to his desk on Sundays and listening to dot-matrix printers nearby. Now I know those were ordinary MIS/TPS reports that we've come to hate so much. But I used to play with that line-feed paper, ripping its edges where it connected to the printer sprockets.
There was also a huge drum printer in that office, with a giant spool of paper resting on the false floor. The room was air-conditioned, shoes left outside, very cozy and well lit. Sure it looked very cool to me then. Thank you for bringing back those pleasant memories!
I didn't say that doom awaits us all. But responses to my half complete comment do say something about what is likely, or what average people are afraid about. If we are to believe that we often meet our destiny on the road taken to avoid it, these refutations are a sincere indicator of the potential impact.
Let me come to what @rayiner said on the comment above yours.
From parent > If anything, technology makes the kind of governments presented in Brave New World or 1984 even less feasible, because with as destructive technology advances, it takes a much smaller fraction of people within the government to topple the whole system.
Absolutely! Smaller fraction of people will have higher power to execute, topple or rule. So it works both ways.
I do have some apprehensions about this new level of operation. New tech bases itself on deep understanding and application of human psychology, magnifies its wrath on the perpetrated empowers the perpetrator even more. But given any tech product for every x% of legitimate and intended use, there is y% of illegitimate and unintended use. For example, for each licensed gun that protects somebody in the US, there are a few versions of that same innovation that kill hundreds of people elsewhere.
I am not sure if y > x, but could be.
True that a gun is not responsible for the crime - it is the person vying to kill who is - but the gun definitely is a quicker and surer "solution" for people with that intent. It's harder to kill a man with a knife or bare hands, so a killer would prefer a gun.
IMO, petty violence will find a new complex and probably dreadful micro form with advent of weapons having more sci-fi. How this will impact Governments of future, some with money and even more dreadful resources, some with lesser money and more nastier leadership is yet to be seen.
Looking at these feats of technology and trends of early drones, lasers, processing, robotics, motor-limbs, 3D printing and other aspects of machine development it seems that the day is not far when the outreach of the Government is gonna get completely beyond people's ability to contain it.
I can imagine things like people not being allowed to use naked eyes while walking on the streets; force use of licensed Ocular Rifts to take a stroll instead. Driving cars taken off the list, use self-driving ones etc. Eventually shunt the squishy skin under a robot and rely only on the brain part of the human to do the mundane stuff.
Doesn't look great to me, but ...
Here is a write up listing some studies and names of books to consider:
http://amlanroychowdhury.webs.com/antiquityofegypt.htm
For far eastern links, read about inter-marriages and relationships for a period of over two millennium between Ayodhya(India) and Seoul (South Korea) [1]. A search on the Kim clan and Princess Heo Hwang-ok and the spread of Buddhist/Hindu culture right up to Japanese coastline can be inferred.
This is kind of the spread of Hinduism in South East Asia [2] before convertists of other religions (like Muslims or Christianity) emanated.
Ayodhya, for example, the city of Ram exists even today [1]. You're an Indian, you'd know it of course. The modern version of this city is considered more than 9000 years old, that's roughly about 7000 BC on wards. Buy a plot of land in Ayodhya, start digging and you'll hit structures and temple tops of another buried city underneath as you go deeper.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayodhya
This cave for example Bhimbetka [2], is between 50,000-200,000 years old. It is mentioned in epic Ramayana which has yet to be dated. Bhimbetka is declared a world heritage site, and gives a proof of homo erectus with skills in the Deccan area that early in time.
Some crazy estimates suggest approximately 100,000 to 900,000 years ago for Ramayana, but then it is a crazy estimate [3] indeed. There are pearls of available proof, mythology and craziness all over the place. Someone needs to connect them together so that we might get a better picture of it. Obviously I don't wish to over state the age of Hinduism, but it is mystic by virtue of its age for sure. It makes me lose my calm, ironically.
God this is going to be a long comment.
I don't know how immersed you are w.r.t Hinduism, which gave birth to, no rather off-shooted other religions like Buddhism & Jainism. Here I can only give a very top-level view to help you make an entry:
There are two epics of the Hindus: The Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Read both, they're brilliant classics. These two epics are stories about rise and fall of political power, affairs, conceit and ensuing wars between leaders of different Hindu kingdoms. Let's say kingdoms of an aggregate land mass we now call India, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan that stretches up to far, far east to places like Cambodia.
I could not confirm how far in the west did Hinduism spread out but will do so given that I am excited about it now.
Both epics are mythology by today's standards, but the stories in each are what Hindus vehemently believe as true. All (not most) of warring cities in both these epics exist inside and outside of India (or sunk under the ocean [1]) even today. I mean literally.
On axis of time, both these two epics are separated from each other by two 'Yugas' [2]. We are living in the Kaliyug where kali == machines and yug == time-frame. Yugas are of varying length, first being Satayug about 1,728,000 million years. Man exists during this period as life forms from scratch in this universe. Alexander was like a fucking second ago when you're talking ages of this length.
I suggest start with Yugas and you'll start seeing math, numbers, conclusions, geometric progressions and astronomy right in there. No need to accept anything is true or false, w.r.t written and confirmed history. But you'll love visiting places, and connecting it with the historical texts.
It goes up the Bohr's model of atom (Paramaṇu), the theory of what nucleus and subatomic particles were about (hell yes!), the nuclear bomb (Brahma Asthra) and how these were used in warfare, negotiation and peace keeping. Several other concepts of what seems similar to magic of quantum physics, treatment of time-space curvature, extraterrestrial life, theory of relativity and additional dimensions of gravitational physics (though refuted by modern practitioners of course) all exist in discussions. May or may not be correct, but the level of thought can be appreciated.
Astronomy, for example, scales to the level of predicting solar cycles, cycles of universe (311.04 trillion years?[3]), variable length of life of man/species, sub-sub-events like the ice age, age of the machines, age of only truth which you will find pretty fascinating to read, if not believable.
Let me just throw in the starting point [2]:
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarka
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuga
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrics_of_time_in_Hinduism
Yes, there isn't a proof that the bridge in question is man-made. I deliberately put it up there. GSI claims it 'may be man-made' but it stops at that. Here is something you might want to look at: Search about 'floating rocks of India' (Pumice rocks) that have specific gravity lower than sea water.
Once you dig deep into some of it, read through Ramayana and also dive into history of Sri Lanka, I am sure you'll find something really interesting. That's why in the parent comment I wished someone undertook the journey to capture and record "everything" that needs to be explored of history over there.
Got it. I volunteer to move out of this discussion because you could have as well said that primary purpose of stairs had something to do with going up or down?
Most architecture around the world from Eiffel tower to Pyramids to Angkorvat has something to do with proving a point. Usually the point is that 'we have achieved this engineering marvel, we have the capability to build this'.
By your logic people possibly got to Eiffel tower or Golden gate by simple pattern and repetition, even experimentation, devoid of any math. That's just plain stupid.