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In the name of national security, the agencies do whatever they like, and what's worse, people buy the narrative

People want openness, transparency, freedom, participation regardless of whether they are CEOs or not. Now HN's got it.

BSNL still on ipv4

This is absolutely gold! Whoever made this wins the internet

Gotcha, thanks. I was looking in the wrong pdf

This only talks about data privacy, not sideloading apps and does not even mention developer mode

Then it's time to remove beef from your diet.

Less cows = less farts

Free will is limited. For instance did you choose your parents? Did you get to choose where you would be born? So right from birth you don't have much free will. But make the best of what you got

Yes, it's excellent.

I also like flutter compared to one of these webview solutions. There are good alternatives in other languages like Go (https://gioui.org/)

UPI (Unified Payments Interface) transactions using VPA (Virtual Payment Address) are free for now. Around 6 billion transactions are processed every month. But apparently the Indian govt is planning on adding a 50 paise (₹0.5; $1 ≈ ₹80) transaction fee in the future.

Correct. It is due to the politics and incessant greed of human nature that our ecological problems are difficult to reverse.

From the politics POV, they must impose a limit on how much factories should produce, because ultimately the climate problem has been caused due to our exploitation of resources and their eventual disposal as waste.

Less production = less waste = better ecology

But if you remember what happened with the toilet papers during covid, I don't have to remind you what's going to happen when production of most goods is unanimously reduced.

There will be those who panic buy, and those who intentionally hoard, and a basic shortage of everything which I'm sure humanity in general is not willing to cope with for the sake of our environment. Hence, reversing the damage cannot be possible.

However, those who want to try, I wish you all the best in your endeavours.

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It's just that when a majority of the American people want certain changes in policy, they are not able to get them passed even though the country is a democracy.

The parent comment just gave reasons for that (among other things).

You are right about religion, but what I am talking about is spirituality. Here's the definition for better clarity: the quality of being concerned with the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things.

Modern science stays away from this space for whatever reason, but isn't this just another kind of science like the study of cosmos or microbes? It is a very important facet of life, which dwells into questions such as the meaning of life, what happens after death, when does life enter into a mother's womb, etc. All these questions are of scientific nature.

However, to address these questions we cannot simply break open or dissect things to understand how they work. Naturally, because these questions do not deal with the material world. To understand such phenomenon, one should first understand the subtlety of the soul.

The breathing techniques or pranayama that this thread was originally about deals with yoga. Pranayama is a part of yogic teachings. Yoga is a sanskrit word which means the union of mind and body. The union that the word yoga is referring to is that of uniting individual consciousness (our individual experience of reality) with Divine consciousness (the essence of truth as perceived when we quiet our five senses and reconnect with the Supreme Self within)[1].

So it's not just breathing, or stretching your muscles as it is usually portrayed as. There's a far deeper subtlety in it which is better kept undisturbed from experimentation without having knowledge of the subtler entities.

...when someone makes a discovery in a laboratory (a real discovery, the kind that takes years to produce) then that’s a real manifestation of the Universe understanding itself.

That's true as well, but there are yet discoveries to be made by understanding the nature of the "self". Something that involves looking within rather than outside in the material world.

[1] https://www.yogapedia.com/what-is-the-true-meaning-of-yoga/2...

Here's one:

https://www.unexplainable.net/info-theories/mahavatar-babaji...

But really, you might think living a 1000 years is extraordinary, however, the soul (or the life we have in each of us, including you and me) is immortal. When we die, it's simply the body that is discarded. But life itself never perishes. The soul takes multiple births in new bodies and this process of life and death goes on and on until the soul merges with the supreme conciousness. So what's the proof for all this? Well, there's nothing to prove it as false either.

Modern science disregards things that it cannot experience and "see the proof of" for itself. But that's like a person who lacks sensual perceptions saying stimuli that interacts with their senses does not exist. For example, if a blind person says light does not exist or a deaf person says sound does not exist. They might even deny its existence despite you telling them otherwise, that's because they cannot experience it for themselves. So who's to blame them?

Similarly, we are kept from higher understanding due to our inability to experience. That does not mean it does not exist. It simply means we are incapable.

There are many fantastic things in this universe that science knows it cannot understand and even more things that science does not even know exist.

But if it doesn't come from hypothesis, experimentation, and, in the case of medical treatments, clinical trials, it simply isn't science. Or "ancient science".

Way I see it is, we humans are the most sophisticated creatures on our planet. Our birth onto earth is a natural process by all means. By natural, I mean we are a product of nature after all. We humans try to understand the nature around us including ourselves, which is what we termed as science. Our scientific thought itself is a product of nature, and they translate to our endeavors and curiosity to unravel the secrets of reality.

These visions that I spoke about are nothing but the universe speaking to these great rishis. By universe, I mean nature itself. Nature is bestowing knowledge upon its own creations to aid them in understanding itself! The same nature that has imbued life into our bodies when we are born. The same body which will eventually turn to soil after it has run its course.

Now, you might wonder, why nature is not bestowing these sort of gifts upon you? Frankly, I do not know myself. It is what it is. On the bright side, nature has bestowed the most fortunate gift of being born as a human being which almost as a law of nature makes the heights you can go to limitless. No other creature has the same benefits as human beings. We are born with both curiosity to ask questions and intelligence to analyze and infer profound meanings from their answers.

While "we", the ordinary humans live for about a 100 years before forsaking our bodies, however there are people who live for 1000s of years. It's a realm of possibility not yet uncovered by modern science.

There's another kind of belief system which accepts axioms coming from divine visions and divine teachings, though. It rhymes with "pigeon".

That only came into picture recently during the last ~2000 years. The ancient knowledge I am referring comes from way before.

Don't mess around with your breathing without guidance. It can do more harm than good.

Pranayama is an ancient Indian science passed down from saints who received these teachings as divine visions. It didn't materialize as a result of experimentation as many would assume.

Even practices like Sudarshan kriya (which makes use of breathing) were passed down to Shri Shri as a divine teaching.

So my advice is to not experiment with your breathing unless you have proper guidance and knowledge.

I like this post because it's written in such a way that a SQL layman can understand

Take a break for 6 months, then do whatever comes to your mind.

Fair enough.

Well, idk about you, but I hear of at least one school shooting in the US every week. Statistically, the numbers might not be much, but it sure caused 95% of schools to enforce active shooter drills, no?

A majority of the US population supports stronger gun control. Unfortunately, in our political system, that's not sufficient to make it happen.

Isn't US a democracy? If majority of the population supports stronger gun control, it should be easy to pass.

Anyway, I don't mean to put you on the defensive. I understand that you love your country.

There's clearly a strong opposition against gun control in US, so the fact that the media is downplaying the shootouts by comparing it to natural disasters is not surprising.

But keep in mind, while Americans find it to be a commonality, it's rare to see news like this in other parts of the world: "...but students don’t need the active-shooter drills now conducted in over 95 percent of the nation’s schools..."

Active shooter drills? In schools? You folk live in a first world country but act like you are living in an active warzone

Considering how many shootings happen in the US and so many victims being little children in schools, I find it odd that you think it's a great place to prosper when being shot at is a real life threat esp. for those who can't even protect themselves.

As an outsider, to me the American society doesn't seem like a sustainable one. And it corroborates the fact that so many Americans are emigrating out of America.

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Of course, in the US things are different when it comes to sending kids to school. Where there is the constant danger of being shot at by some psycho.

So it's better if they stay their kids at home.

There's nothing wrong with having your username and real name tied together, unless you don't want certain information or views (i.e political affiliations, sexual preferences, etc) which is broadcasted under your online persona to be associated with your real life person. The problem is that the OP didn't do the due diligence to create a different persona to voice subjects they did not want associated with them IRL.

Like I said, I understand the damage has been done, but to prevent future instances (and possibly mitigate existing ones) the OP will have to take certain measures which may involve sacrificing information published under their current online persona (by deleting accounts, changing usernames etc). It should make things a little harder for online sleuths, but nevertheless not impossible to track down.

I can provide another suggestion, which is to change their real name. Depends on the OP, how far they are willing to go to undo their mistake.

To the original poster:

I understand what has happened, but in the future try to take better care of your online presence. To remain anonymous, it's essential to create a completely different username each time you signup to a website. That way, it becomes much harder to track you across the web. In addition to that, some people also use VPN to mask their IP. Some also use different or anonymous email addresses.

For damage control, I'd advise you to delete accounts that can be deleted. If you prefer create a new one but using the above mentioned safety practices.

Language certifications. Foreign universities usually ask for them. Also, it always looks good on your resume. Not to mention, language is a great way of connecting with people even if you are not of the same ethnicity

That's like asking why doesn't everyone switch to landline phones since they have the same calling functionality as mobile phones.

Answer: Well obviously, since landlines are missing the biggest feature mobiles phones have: portability.

Point I'm trying to make: 1. Apps are smoother than web experience 2. Have a much native-er feel, etc.

If app is available, I'd rather use an app.