lagolinguini

> Car infra takes next to nothing to plan and build. Trains, trams, metro, anything big at all really, takes decades, riddled with corruption, environment destruction, landscape change.

As opposed to building highways, parking lots, massive car sized neighbourhoods etc...?

My cat was missing for a few days about a month ago. It was really stressful. Currently, I’ve put an AirTag on her which works okay since she’s an outdoor cat but I still get paranoid when FindMy hasn’t updated in a while. I would really love to support this project!

First prototype is great anyway. Could be made smaller over subsequent iterations!

> I don't particularly like vscode. It's heavy and slow and janky, particularly on older laptops. I don't like being sucked back into the Microsoft ecosystem after spending years getting away from it. But ultimately, I want to just get on with my job, and my job is not Lua Developer or Neovim Plugin Expert.

Personally I've started paying for intellij and using it with it's vim emulation. I know it doesn't solve the problem of being clunky on older laptops, but it is an amazing experience to use. I get the best of both worlds, I get really good vim emulation so I don't have to relearn editor shortcuts, I get the benefits of a modern full fledged IDE with many useful features that work out of the box with basically 0 configuration (debugger, git, tasks, etc.)

No it’s not the same. One of them is an institution conceived through organisation of people, laws, traditions and customs, the existence and membership of which is a choice. The other categories are associations made by accident of birth. I don’t have a horse in the race but it is important to understand that those situations are not the same. When people say stuff like ACAB they are free to criticise the existence of the police as an institution as they please.

Correct me if I am wrong as I am not a physicist. I see a point that is important to consider, that you have potentially overlooked. First, you assume that dissolution of salt is a completely reversible thermodynamic process, which is fine. But considering it a reversible process, in order to reverse the process we need to do a certain amount of work which you have calculated. In order to do work we need an engine. The most efficient possible engine is a Carnot engine. It is known that a Carnot engine can never be 100% efficient (unless we can achieve infinite or zero temperature). Given that you calculated the amount of work needed to reverse the process, you still need to bound the efficiency by the efficiency of a Carnot engine. Alternatively you need to factor in the efficiency of a Carnot engine to get the minimum required energy input.

I think the subtle difference is that alcohol not for human consumption must be denatured, and can be synthesised.

IIRC you can still buy iodine free salt, you just can’t advertise it as table salt. It has to be explicitly advertised as pickling salt or rock salt or the like. This is the case in many countries, not just India. It is arguably one of the most successful public health initiatives ever.

My concern with some of these endavours is the opportunity cost to rescue services. Obviously, there is no question that if anyone is in danger in a remote location we should try our best to rescue them, but the corollary is that as a responsible citizen you should avoid putting yourself in situations where others have to go to great lengths to rescue you if it can be avoided.

I think you’re right. The more I think about it the more I feel like Reddit to me is the comment section for thinks that either don’t have a comment section or have a bad comment section.

> We do not vote for Presidents in India.

The fact that they are elected by electoral college does not make them non-democratic or non-elected. We live in a representative democracy.

> As a fellow NRI, this is counter to what I hear from my fellow Indians. There is a ton of optimism around jobs, infrastructure growth and economic policies that are finally opening up the nation

One wouldn't rely on anecdotal evidence to justify policy. For example my own experience is the opposite of yours. I hear complains about unemployment, lack of safety for women, cost of living crisis, lack of safety of Muslims.

> Every big nation that has successfully escaped poverty has done so through suffocatingly authoritarian means

Just because others failed doesn't mean we should too. Keep in Mind that the Republic of India has survived until now, and people at it's inception said it wouldn't.

India is very much like Turkey, though perhaps no where as close to China or Russia.

State governments in India are not powerful, and they never have been! The constitution of India grants much more power to the Central Government than it does to the State Governments. The BJP government has pushed the boundary of federalism again and again. Here are some concrete examples:

1. Denial of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir.

2. Using the Centre-appointed governor to take down the Govt. of Maharashtra.

3. Constant pushback on policies and appointments made by the Govt. of Delhi.

I'm sorry, but OPs comment is not an inflammatory opinion. Congress does not stand opposed to the core founding principles of the republic.