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ramakanth-d.medium.com 5mo ago

The Caloric Execution: The Death of the Cheap Calorie

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ramakanth-d.medium.com 5mo ago

The Execution Event: Why the 2026 Economic Collapse Is Built on Efficiency

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ramakanth-d.medium.com 5mo ago

The March Cliff: Why the 2026 Economic Collapse Is Different

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ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov 10y ago

In Klayman v Obama, Judge issues an injunction against NSA

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techcrunch.com 10y ago

Airbnb, Proposition F and the Shared Hypocrisy of Bay Area Housing

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wikileaks.org 10y ago

TPP final negotiated text – IP chapter

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medium.com 11y ago

Access Private Facebook Group’s Documents – Facebook Graph API Security Bug

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www.youtube.com 11y ago

Silk Road and online freedom: Mother of Ross Ulbricht speaks out

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en.wikipedia.org 11y ago

Dreadnought hoax

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www.blyon.com 11y ago

What happens when National Geographic steals your art?

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www.vijayanand.name 12y ago

How to ask for a Startup Job

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gmailblog.blogspot.in 12y ago

Introducing Gmail Shelfie

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www.jwz.org 12y ago

SXSW RIP

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www.facebook.com 12y ago

Mark Zuckerberg is frustrated with the US Government

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venturebeat.com 12y ago

Startup developing HIV/AIDS vaccine is 2nd nonprofit accepted into Y Combinator

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techcrunch.com 12y ago

Lonely Planet Acquires Mobile Travel App TouristEye

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balajiviswanathan.quora.com 12y ago

Indian Space Mission, Poverty and Closet Racism

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allthingsd.com 12y ago

Apple Announces October 22 Event: “We Still Have a Lot to Cover”

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www.forbes.com 12y ago

Foursquare Launches Ad Platform For Small Businesses

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www.sfchronicle.com 12y ago

Bay Area Literary Map - Mapping booksellers, literary landmarks, and 300 authors

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techcrunch.com 12y ago

Monsanto Acquires Weather Big Data Company Climate Corporation For $930M

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www.cucumbertown.com 12y ago

5 months into a running a startup, the little things I learned

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www.theverge.com 12y ago

IOS: A visual history

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www.kickstarter.com 12y ago

Portable Rail Handle

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blog.uber.com 12y ago

Uber launches in Bangalore,India

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www.washingtonpost.com 12y ago

Bradley Manning found not guilty of aiding the enemy

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www.latimes.com 13y ago

San Jose State will suspend online courses offered with Udacity

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www.theverge.com 13y ago

Netflix receives its first Emmy nominations

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thenextweb.com 13y ago

Baidu To Acquire 100% of 91 Wireless for $1.9 Billion

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www.thehindu.com 13y ago

India gets ready to roll out cyber snooping agency

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The headlines will tell you the market is "correcting." The pundits will call it a "seasonal adjustment." But on the ground, Friday, February 13, 2026, marks the moment the structural floor of the American economy finally gave way. We aren’t just looking at a recession; we are witnessing a synchronized deleveraging event where technology, climate, and debt have converged to create a "March Cliff" that no amount of traditional stimulus can bridge.

I emailed Chomsky a month back about Thoughts and Language. I hope he doesn't mind that I'm sharing it. My email,

I was fascinated by your talk at British Academy. I'm no linguist. Please Ignore my ignorance.

If the formal language is not designed for communication but for our thoughts, Is it not the case that there are two different mechanisms of perception? One to understand internal language (if I can call it a language) and external language we use socially? It is bewildering. As I type this email, I'm thinking of the words that needs to be followed. Because of my ability for pattern recognition or for the conceptual understanding of rules of the external language. I'm not sure if my ability is a natural phenomenon or a self trained one(as far as English is concerned). English is not my native language. It is acquired by study. Recently, My thoughts have been primarily in English. I could switch between English and my native language for thoughts.

Is language the only way to think? Is it crazy to think that our brain does not use language to think at all? Can thoughts/perception , like language, have two different mechanism. Understanding external logic and internal logic? The internal system might be visual, physical etc. It seems to lead to a structure problem. Does internal thoughts have far more complex structure? If dreams are thoughts, It is extremely complex and might be a evidence that there are different systems. I strongly think it is because we have different involuntary mechanisms to perceive like sense of smell etc.

Chomsky's reply,

Very little is understood about the interesting questions you’re raising. To study them we’d have to have a way of accessing thinking by some means that does not involve conscious use of language – which is probably a superficial reflection of something happening within. But so far there are no good ways.

I have been seeing this too. Steve Pinker in his books, Sense of Style, has portions which talk about this problem. He calls it -"Curse of Knowledge" and has advise for scientific writers. I wish researchers could spend a bit more time on improving their writing skills for better communication.

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