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As a rule I find that people who take the common, simplistic, tweet-length view of British rule (i.e. that it became rich by stealing from India, that it was the deliberate invoker of India's famines, that it was racist even by its times standards, etc), assume that anyone who disagrees isn't aware of basic history.

I've also noticed that there's always an (annoying) triumphal 'gotcha' when they link to some short-form essay mentioning basic facts, denied by nobody, of the famines and loss of relative share of GDP suffered by India etc.

Again, _everyone knows this_. It comes across as naive and arrogant to assume otherwise.

The effect British rule had in India (and everywhere) was extremely nuanced, and there is a huge amount of interesting history to be debated. After all, we're talking about a subcontinent over a 350 year time period.

The British, for instance, banned the practices of Sati (burning widows alive) and of infanticide, and explicitly allowed Indians to compete on equal terms with the British in examinations to enter the Indian Civil Service.

There's very little consensus amongst historians whether or not they were responsible for the famines India suffered at the time, or if they even made any net money from India whatsoever, given their constant fear of raising taxes.

I'm not necessarily trying to take a position either way, by the way, just begging people who are nodding along to some of these bumper-sticker anti-colonialism comments to read more deeply into what is an unimaginably huge subject.

Somewhat related - does anyone use meow + paredit? I can’t find a clearly recommended way to combine the two as I can with boon.

For canal boating, absolutely. Maybe 20-30k for a cheaper boat. Can moor for free. Coal and fuel maybe £100 a month each, depending on how much you travel/if you have solar etc. You do need to black your hull every few years, but they’re generally sturdy and don’t need much more than that.

Yachting, I have no idea.

I assume you've taken a look at org-jira?

You should just be able to hit `$` in the magit buffer to watch the output.

I agree with you - but the standards elsewhere seem to be so much lower even than here that I think it's (possibly) worthwhile having political discussions on HN.

Of course, I would love to know of a place that discusses things even more sensibly.

Speaking as a consultant, these are terrible slides.

I guess Coq/Lean standard libraries fit this definition.

Not true, we certainly have those that start at 8. Consider a ~45m commute and time to get ready, and waking up at 6 something is not unheard of. (I personally had to wake up at 5:45 to catch a bus to a school over an hour away).

McKinsey are involved in almost every company in the Fortune 500, and have been for decades.

Of course they're going to be around for almost any given corporate failure.

Really interested in the 'custom pandas typechecker'. Are there any more details anywhere, or has anyone else tried writing something similar?

Hence it is impossible for an object (with mass) to reach c.

Only progressively closer - 0.99c, 0.999c, 0.9999c etc.

org-babel might work here. There are also repl keybindings in python mode in emacs.

Not exactly this, but I've had some success using logic programming (minikanren) to statically assert certain facts about dataframes in spark. E.g. "if Row_a is filtered to Row_b, and Row_a is not null, Row_b is also not null".