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To be fair if responding to nationalist and religious comments is considered flamewar, then I do not care that you have banned my account.

If that's your measuring stick then Adolf should get the credit for creating the right condition.

European colonial power would have never left if they hadn't got into war of attrition with Hitlar.

British left their biggest colony India only when Indian soldiers revolted and they were too weak to crush it post WW2. It was simply not possible to rule after this incident.

She and her family is responsible for a lot of atrocities around the world. Yet a lot of people here are eulogizing as if she was a saint who taught art of living to the people.

To me this is a demonstration of power of conditioning and media management.

Two old yet alive Indian languages Sanskrit and Tamil have hymns even older. I wonder why Sanskrit and it's rich collection of hymns completely gets ignored.

Nasadiya Suktam[0] from RigVeda[1] ponders the questions of our origins in sweet melody.

[0] https://youtu.be/SYlP7DXtyQ8

[1] https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigveda

India as a whole didn't even exist back then...

Vishnu Puran composed circa 400 BCE to 900 CE says.

  उत्तरं यत् समुद्रस्य हिमाद्रेश्चैव दक्षिणम् | वर्षं तद् भारतं नाम भारती यत्र सन्ततिः ||

 Land that lies north to the sea and south of Himalaya is called Bharat(India) and it's people Bharti (Indian)

Thanks, but that's such a narrow definition of the concept.

Shukla Yajurveda[0] conservatively estimated to be written in 1200- 800 BCE period in 17.2.20 constructs powers of 10 upto a billion by names by adding shunya successively to 10.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yajurveda

Isha Upnishad[0] was written in 1st half of 1st millennium BCE as per the conservative estimates. Its Shanti Mantra(wishing peace to all living beings) of says:

ॐ पूर्णमदः पूर्णमिदं पूर्णात्पूर्णमुदच्यते ।

पूर्णस्य पूर्णमादाय पूर्णमेवावशिष्यते ॥

ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥

Om Puurnnam-Adah Puurnnam-Idam Puurnnaat-Puurnnam-Udacyate | Puurnnasya Puurnnam-Aadaaya Puurnnam-Eva-Avashissyate || Om Shaantih Shaantih Shaantih ||

Rough Translation:

That (god) is complete(puurnnam), this living being is complete. From completeness emerges completeness. When this completeness (living beings) emerges from that completeness (god), only completeness remains.

This verse describes God. But it can also be describing concept of zero and infinity. Buddhist philosophy emerging in 500 BCE is based in shoonyata[1] (nothingness) so concept of zero was definitely known for a long time.

As far as mathematical applications are concerned, we can't say for sure as a lot of knowledge was lost to invasions which specifically targeted universities like Nalanda[2].

Hindus imagined time scales of microseconds to trillions of years which in IMHO difficult to imagine without zero based mathematics[3].

Having said that there are a large number of manuscripts in the hands of small groups and families are yet to be discovered so these dates.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isha_Upanishad [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9A%C5%ABnyat%C4%81 [2] https://www.myindiamyglory.com/2017/09/11/nalanda-9-million-... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_units_of_time

IMHO idiomatic defensive coding is very hard.

It is also true that in many countries, covering populations much larger than that of the United States, hemp production was never made illegal and continued unabated ...

Only India and China are more populous than USA and it's illegal in India despite being an import and useful ingredient of Indian medicine system.

I am not claiming hemp to be a miracle material. But covert lobbying, scheming to obliterate the superior alternatives does exist.

Bill Gates mother having a seat on IBM's board was not a factor in IBM giving him such a sweet deal?

No, I don't have any example of any king in Europe...

Kalinga deaths are recorded to be 150000. I will suggest reading about the crusades and others religious wars to find how many were killed. Please also read about how Bible was used to justify the slavery and subjugation of pagans.

Indian conquered upto Cambodia, Persians conquered a big part of known world yet didn't engage in erasing the native population or the culture of conquered. But in contrast almost entire population of native Americans were annihilated. They practically do not exist.

Would love read more upon 'Abrahmic Philosophy'.

First 2 commandments of bible summarises the doctrine/philosophy.

After Kalinga war Ashoka renounced voilence as per the teaching of Buddhism. Do you have a parallel example from Abrahmic kings?

Having said that every civilization have had destructive infights. People fought for money, power,fame etc.

But that doesn't mean they destroyed each other's knowledge system, temples, and monuments. That's is only true for Abrahmic philosophy which stresses on destroying the culture and knowledge systems of the conquered.

Yep ancient civilizations have thought about these concepts for a long time. Some got destroyed by floods, some by famine, but horrific destruction have happened when Abrahmic religions came on the scene with "holier than thou" philosophy which made destruction of others a religious duty.

Hindus were obsessed with zero and infinity and to them it was the same as god itself. Shanti mantra(used to wish well to all living being) from īśopaniṣad says.

ओं | पूर्णमदः पूर्णमिदं पूर्णात्पूर्णमुदच्यते । पूर्णस्य पूर्णमादाय पूर्णमेवावशिष्यते ॥

oṃ | pūrṇamadaḥ pūrṇamidaṃ pūrṇātpūrṇamudacyate | pūrṇasya pūrṇamādāya pūrṇamevāvaśiṣyate ||

That is Whole and this is Whole, the perfect has come out of the perfect; having taken the perfect from the perfect, only the perfect remains. Let there be Peace, Peace, Peace.

Verse above describes God superficially but it also describes zero and infinity[0]. This small text with only 18 verses and yet it is so profound. Similarly Buddhist philosophy which also came out from India is based on Shunya(zero).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isha_Upanishad

Hindus were thinking about time ranging from nano seconds to billions of years[0]. As far lost knowledge is concerned Indian civilization have faced numerous attacks especially on its knowledge system and wealth. During one such attack Nalanda university was destroyed, more than 10000 teachers were killed, and library with millions of books was set on fire which raged for 3 months. Invaders themselves recorded these event gleefully. As per them India was a land of idol worshipers.Here is summary article which contains links to primary sources[1]. It's through struggle and luck Indian civilization have survived although with lots of gaps.

I am sure there were others great civilizations. But they are not here any more to tell the tale.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_units_of_time

[1] https://www.myindiamyglory.com/2017/09/11/nalanda-9-million-...

Hindus imagined this thousand of years ago.

Uncountable universes(multiverse) are born when Supreme consciousness Vishnu breathes out. Inside each universe God Bharma is born with the responsibly of managing the affair. Brahma lives for his 100 years which is roughly 311 billion years. During this time many mini cycles of creation and dissolution takes place. When Bharma finally dies after completing his 100 years,that particular universe dies with him. After another 311 billion years another Brahma is born again and universe restarts. When supreme god Vishnu finally breathes in, multiverse stop existing and creation end till the time supreme god breathes out again.

I think ancient people have gone through same struggles and came up with similar answers and they also exchanged ideas.

enamored by the results of your action

Bhagwad Gita is poetry and philosophy but it also reasons from the first principle. How attachments leads to self destruction is deducted so well in verse 2.62 and 63. I can read/recite Sankrit a little and it's so amazing to think that you can have poetry and step by step reasoning in same verse.

Reasoning goes like this:

Verse 2.62

1. When one deliberates the fruits of the action, they get attached to it.

2. Attachment leads to desire.

3. Desire lead to the anger.

Verse 2.64 carried the thought forward and finished it.

4. Anger leads results in confusion.

5. Confused person loses the memory.

6. Loss of memory leads to destruction of intellect which lead to complete destruction.

All of this sound much more melodic and transcendental when you can understand.

Unattached action is the central message of epic Hindu text Bhagwad Gita.Two shlokas (verses) I find extremely comforting are [2.47] and [3.5].

Verse [2.47] says:

1) Only rightful action is in your control.

2) Fruits of your action is never in your control.

3) Give up the pride of doership .

4) Last but not the least do not get into inaction.

Verse 3.5 says:

No body can remain inactive even for a second. All living being have to act even to sustain their bodies.

Anyone interested in stoicism should also read it from a good translation.

Here’s a story from the early days of Amazon Web Services: Before writing any code, engineers spent 18 months contemplating and writing documents on how best to serve the customer. Amazon believes this is the fastest way to work—thinking deeply about what the customer needs before executing on that rigorously refined vision.

Good luck explaining this to the new age Scrum certified gurus who wants to complete all design work in 2 weeks of sprint 0.

That also depends upon the fact that how much of that $500 billion was the upfront investment made and how much was actually due to pure speculative pricing.

Isn't it more like wheat produced at a cost of $100 was selling at $500. But it can only sell at $150.

Nopes move fast and break things. Only issue is that Earth is not a software system which can be fixed with upgrades.

Exactly just a few decades ago CFC was a non issue, Lead caused no harm, smoking was good for health, and cocaine was a refreshing drink. Yet here we are again so full of ourselves that asking the question is unsettling.

That interesting, I have a question though.

How do you come up with memory places distinct enough that you don't confuse them?

Thanks for investing so much energy. I regret to be the source of emotional conflict. :)

I will get down voted for saying it. But Newton most likely didn't invent Calculus. Circumstantial evidence suggest that Kerala School of mathematics passed the knowledge to the Jesuit missionaries who in turn might have passed it on to the Newton. Link to the research on this topic[0].

[0] https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/indians-predated-...

While I want to execute the idea I am always put off by the essential administrative stuff such as user management, payment gateway linking, subscription management.

Are there any open source plug and play options available out there which can take away this tedious but important work?

So they might be paying 2x-3x. Does that justify professional player analogy?

Professional players gets paid millions for a few years and then ends up into retirement. For analogy to work Netfix should pay that well.

Seems they were bonkers from the start. Why they thought competition will not catch up with them? What is their business moat?

Absolutely meditation is just one part of 8 part Hindu Yoga system objective of which is to be one with the ultimate reality and live a good life no matter what. Person grown with strong Abrahmic values with find it confusing any strange.

After reading Bhagwad Geeta I realised that yoga/meditation is all about discharging your duties with no expectations. I won't say I am transformed but my life do change for good by a huge margin after realising this.

India have this very well figured out with its Universal Payment Inferface (UPI)[1]. Payment of any amount small or big is possible online as well as offline. I use the same interface to transfer 100k+ to my trading account and also to buy vegetables from a roadside vendor for few rupees.

This is an open system so lots of competition and zero lock-in is possible. It's su successful that world's 40% digital transaction are hapenning in India.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface

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