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Absolutely this: nobody wants their buildings sealed. In most apartments, people have continued to pay full salaries to their domestic help and insist that they do not show up for work. In some cases where the domestic help are young migrants from other states, the employer families have even invited them to stay over until the lockdown is over. They continue with their daily chores with full payment and the additional benefits of being taken care of by a family instead of being on their own. Whenever someone requests the HOA to allow outside workers, other residents immediately express concern about what happens if even a single person is tested positive. Nobody wants to spend a fortnight confined to their houses, and not allowed to venture out of their house for even a walk.

On the flip side, the writing has an increasingly rare property that the whole article (essay?) is divided into sections with proper titles. More often than not, I lose patience and give up on most articles these days, simply because there are no visual markers when scrolling through. I have no way to know where to stop and scan a few lines as I scroll through ... it's all just a continuous torrent of words and sentences.

From a retail investor's point of view, both approaches are wrong. The retail investor can neither "play" the game of stocks, nor understand what it means to buy a business. Not because there is anything magical about either, but because the retail investor has a life too, and would rather focus on their own work for their actual income.

The correct way to look at stock investment is to say "I bought a stake in the future of the world's industry". And that makes you realize what a mind-bogglingly large gamble this is with your savings. People simply have faith that human life will keep improving over the long term, and hence the value of the world's industry will also keep going up irrespective of short term rises and falls.

I know this adds nothing to the discussion, but the level of restraint and politeness in the parent comment caused me to pause and reflect a bit.

> I get that many think that Americans are hugely too litigious. But there is the argument that there ought to be compensation for damages.

That point of view is rather unfortunate. Why does it have to be about damages? GP even ends his comment on a very postitive note about things that would help. Not every mistake needs to be punished. It was a false positive, and it was heartening to see that all the parties acted fast enough. Why not just move on instead of outraging over hypothetical concerns?

EDIT: I have no idea how to quote parent comments here.

Why do drones need visual aids when flying to the destination? I can imagine an autonomous car needing to "look" at things because humans and human-defined conventions are involved. Can the drone simply not position itself using GPS, mobile networks, wifi access points etc? The camera might be required only when it is time to slow down and drop the parcel.

Probably an isolated point of view, but I stopped learning "new tech" a long time ago. I have a systems programming job and C/C++ is my bread and butter. The only new thing that I might spend some time on this year is C++14, because our build tools will enable it some time soon.

On the non-tech side, I started learning Tabla (a musical instrument) this year. This is far enough out of my daily activities that I am getting a kick out of the new skills I need to master, especially the dexterity required to play different strokes with each hand while keeping time!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabla

That criticism looks unfair to me because you did not quote the very next sentence which was relevant:

  "Gee, that’s complicated! I must be really smart to have
   written such a function, right?

   Wrong! I just have a trick!"

Seems like the author deliberately picked an example that looks hard but isn't once you understand what he wants to say.

The original phrase is "वटीतून ताटात", pronounced as "vaatitun tatat", but with two different sounds for the "t". A "vaati" or "katori" is a small bowl, several of which are placed inside the plate in a meal. The idea is that you are the bowl and your family is the plate; irrespective of whether food is served in the bowl or the plate, finally you are the one who enjoys it.

In my language (Marathi), we have a phrase for this which can be translated as "from the bowl into the plate". The intention is to expand the meaning of "me" to include people that matter. Then you no longer think of the money that you give out as a loan or a gift; you're merely spending it on your extended self.

I was afforded the "luxury" of doing a PhD instead of getting a job out of college because my older brother was working and assumed the financial responsibility of the house. Now I work too, and if the occasion arises, I am happy to part with reasonable sums of money without even thinking of whether it is meant to be repaid or not.

It's not really a fear of the merge commit. In a massively collaborative project, almost everything is happening in parallel, and most of that history is not important. The merge makes sense when there is an "official" branch in the project, with a separate effort spent on it. It's likely that people working on that branch rebase within the branch when collaborating, and then merge the branch as a whole when it is ready to join the mainstream.

But in an AMA, it's the audience that asks interesting questions, with you discovering that your stories are more interesting than you originally thought they would be!

Totally speculating out of thin air ... but what if charity is the currency used by the powerful? X donates to Y's foundation in return for favours. Y uses those donations for Z's social work in return for favours, and so on it goes.

This government has always been pretty tight-lipped about upcoming changes. Decisions are made, directives are sent to the appropriate governing bodies, and then public statements are made. It's a refreshing change from the past.

Or maybe they mistook it for "carrier aircraft", as in "cargo plane".

Note that starting tomorrow, people will become progressively reluctant to accept those notes in retail transactions. It will become difficult for anyone with a hoard to exchange these notes for any other commodity.

EDIT: fixed typo "tomorrows"

But csv files can also be manipulated in shell scripts, with the text being piped from one util to the next. Here it becomes important that the separators can be correctly typed and displayed.

"It appears that y-fronts are a uniquely British phenomenon whose popularity doesn’t extend far past their borders."

Sad to note that they didn't survey India!

Clearly, this picture is vastly different from the original picture you painted. I feel let down by the fact that you did not mention how outdated your original description was.

I live in a newer area of Bangalore and my apartment is surrounded by construction sites. There's a settlement of construction workers right across the road. What we see is small temporary one-room houses with satellite TV, and families that dress up and go out every Sunday. We even see them buying basic cosmetics in the local stores. Kids are not visible in the day time either in the settlement or on the construction sites, and I like to hope that they are actually in school.

We speak three languages in our family --- Marathi, which is our native language, besides Hindi and English, which are both common throughout India. Our older kid grew up speaking only Marathi at home. She picked up Hindi with here playmates in the apartment, and learnt English at day-care. She is good at all three now. Our second child is going through the same process now. There was no serious confusion in either child's mind, besides the occasional mistake of crossing words from one language to another.

The older kid said her first sentence consisting of three words at 18 months, but the younger kid did not. By that stage, both had a large vocabulary of words to express themselves, and even larger vocabulary of words that they understood.

EDIT: Missed the detail about "since birth". So no, my example does not answer your question, since they were exposed to only one language --- Marathi --- until 18 months.

Slashdot was ... ???

> Now people have moved to online stores for buying things, > with local sellers feeling the heat.

Totally agree. Our shopping habits have changed drastically over the last year. Trips to the local stores have gone down from twice a week, to once on alternate weekends for specific items. We use a combination of online retailers, and were very happy to see Flipkart buy Myntra. Wondering if they would also like to gobble up more with the additional funding they get.

Stretching the online story further, I always wondered if it makes sense for Flipkart to take over an online book library, like JustBooks. They could ship every book with a note saying "If you liked reading this book, here's how to buy a copy from us". Flipkart does have much better quality of service than JustBooks!

> Right now, their prices are higher and I can find > (and have found) better deals on either Amazon or Snapdeal

I have the opposite experience. I check prices over a few days before buying, and Flipkart always comes ahead. Permanently gave up on Snapdeal after returning a pair of shoes (only one shoe in the box!), then its replacement (wrong size), and then again its replacement (wrong model).

The local dealer I shop with, uses flipkart as the reference price, and gives a discount on it! We browser right in his store and then reach a deal.

You just blamed the victim. Again.

Seems to me that not only did you provide a quick recipe for an implementation, but also provided a name for it!

This one's an old gem:

"Has anyone really been far as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"

I have always used KeePassX for the simple reason that it does not depend on Mono. There had been uncertainty of the legal and ideological status of Mono as a free/open source project [citation needed] with respect to the Microsoft Community Promise. As a result, I had always stayed away from all things Mono. Has that situation changed for the better?

Given all the comments about Google and Wikipedia, it's funny how you forgot to lookup Hindi. It is in fact an official language of India. Please gets your facts right.

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