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Mozart's music sounds like AI generated. Not sure about the focus/relax/sleep parts though.


Sleeping is by far the best exercise for the brain.


This is no good! I am not using Opera as my main browser, but I do use it to test my webapps. Is there a way to disable auto-update from now on, surely, safely, and cleanly? My last version is going to be 35.


> ... both sides fought for the same thing: Freedom.

Not really. The US government doesn't give a crap about freedom. What they want is influence and hegemony. Freedom/democracy are only PR excuses for american public consumption when it's convenient. Ordinary american people are nice people though.


I wrote that more to emphasise the irony. Obviously whether the US as a whole has worked and contributed towards 'freedom' as one of their main goals is open for debate.


That's not always true. I agree that pure altruism isn't the modus operandi, but you're ignoring a lot of non-Americans who're appreciative of any help in the past.


> answer some very interesting questions.

But for political reason no one wants to answer that question. I mean as an example ... the current Egyptian population has really nothing to do with the ancient Egypt that built the pyramids.


If the pictures aren't in colors how do you know the moon is black and white?


What does it mean to be literate in India?

http://gbytes.gsood.com/2006/07/03/literacy-in-india-can-ind...


This "survey" was held in villages in 5 of the most backward states in India. In Hindi. 13 years ago.

Two of the states also do not speak Hindi as their primary language.

Do you really think this is a fair representation of India as a whole ?


That's from 2006.


I love India too (from afar far far away...), but I got to correct this for you:

> ... but they have a looooooooooooot of work left to do to become anything close to a <strike>first</strike> second-world nation.


India is a developing economy and a society that is rapidly modernizing, bringing many folks into a brighter future as quickly as they can from my perspective. I'm a white American who has visited different parts of India three times over the past four years and each time I find the amount of progress and change remarkable.

This doesn't mean that there aren't many issues and major tasks to tackle but I find the resilience and pluck of the whole spectrum of Indians I've met to be commendable and invigorating.


I love ancient wisdoms.


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