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    Help me get rid of mosquitoes (anything except zapper racquet)

    All Indian houses should be designed to be completely sealed and central AC built in, balconies should have mosquito nets. It will take care of dust, pollution and mosquitoes in one go. Only entry point remaining for mosquitoes will be the main entrance door.
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    Need a 3.5mm AND USB-C dongle thing.

    Will work with something like this aux splitter - https://www.amazon.in/3-5mm-Stereo-Audio-Splitter-Cable/dp/B077QW94QC Plug the single end into your headphones (with another female-female aux adapter like this - https://www.amazon.in/Electron-Female-Stereo-Adapter-Converter/dp/B0CP585TX6)...
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    Target Locked 2047, we will go back to our roots, The yin and yang of human civilization!!

    Not that I support it, but this is not necessarily true. If you are fanatic enough like the Jews, it can be done. Hebrew was a dead language no one knew how to speak and it was revived by one man in the 20th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revival_of_the_Hebrew_language India though is...
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    FS: Others Grand Diwali luxury sale

    Interested but this goes in the Indian market for 5k (+offers, card, etc). Is this the same or is something different with this one.
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    Laptops My MacBook Air M3 running unusually hot ?

    Chrome works perfectly fine on mine. Just uninstall it and reinstall it without any unnecessary extensions and it should be fine. Can't really use Safari for everything because every now and then you come across a website that doesn't work and works on Chrome.
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    News MacBook Pro with M4 family announced; MacBook Air now starts at 16GB for same price

    M4 Mini pricing is too competitive. For M4 Macbooks 16gb is base now, so both 8gb and 16gb M1/2/3 value will tank. Apple was charging 20k for 8gb->16gb upgrade and that just evaporated. On top of that M1 Macbooks are selling new for <50k. So a 4 year old used M1 Air that the owner bought for...
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    90K+ Macbook M4 Pro or Mac Mini M4

    It's all about the form factor. If you are going to be working on a desk all the time, the Mini is honestly much better value. Only get the Macbook if you really need a laptop and the battery life.
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    Ayurveda for Diabetes and Metabolic Disorders at IISc

    If it works it works. Modern medicine readily adopts treatments that work clinically even if there is no mechanism understood behind it. For example penicillin was discovered by accident and it was proven to work clinically, there was no understanding of how exactly the drug acts on bacteria...
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    Ayurveda for Diabetes and Metabolic Disorders at IISc

    No doubt through experimentation. If the theory was sound then the treatments that didn't work would have been discarded by Ayurveda itself, but they are not discarded in the name of tradition. People in the past tried all sorts of things, herbs, techniques, practices over thousands of years...
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    Ayurveda for Diabetes and Metabolic Disorders at IISc

    I said the THEORY of ayurveda is illogical and unscientific and most importantly, unprovable. I did not say that knowledge of herbs and techniques is also illogical. Anything in Ayurveda that works can and is being assimilated into modern medicine. Ayurvedic research institutions funded by the...
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    Ayurveda for Diabetes and Metabolic Disorders at IISc

    This is already happening both by scientists as well ayurvedic institutions. Science has never rejected something just because it comes from plants/animals. So many medicines are made using plants and so many vaccines are made using animal blood/cell culture as part of the process. All it cares...
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    Ayurveda for Diabetes and Metabolic Disorders at IISc

    Disagreement between modern medicine and ayurveda/homoeopathy is not about what works and doesn't work, it's about how do we confirm that it is working. If something in any other field is shown to work by the standards of modern medicine, it is immediately adopted. These are not some super...
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    Ayurveda for Diabetes and Metabolic Disorders at IISc

    Yet Ayurveda people keep saying that modern medicine fears ayurveda because their profits will decline. When in reality if Ayurveda actually finds something that works, pharma companies will shamelessly adopt it and sell it. It's just that most Ayurveda claims cannot be proven by the standards...
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    News MacBook Pro with M4 family announced; MacBook Air now starts at 16GB for same price

    Usually resale value is a strong point of Apple devices but this generation will definitely piss some M1/2/3 users off.
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    Target Locked 2047, we will go back to our roots, The yin and yang of human civilization!!

    We had to take Sanskrit because that was the only teacher our small school had. I forgot most of it in a couple of years. Modern Sanskrit taught in schools doesn't even enable you to read religious texts because the Sanskrit there is totally different, so I just don't see the point of it. I know...
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    Bad news for coders?

    beautiful code does not make money.
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    Ayurveda for Diabetes and Metabolic Disorders at IISc

    Arey it's a science post, not a political post, we should all applaud the scientific progress being made in the country ;)
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    News Apple Announces Redesigned Mac Mini With M4 and M4 Pro Chips

    They just won't be able to compete, better products -> more money -> even better products. Already Intel and AMD are several generations behind Apple and that is not even Apple's main expertise. They are reaping the rewards for focusing on the end product and no other company did that. As for...