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That is a kind gesture. Happy to take one if it's still available. Thank you ! :)

Thanks ! I suppose it might be better to get a cheap replacement in that case.

Hi Everyone, as the title says, one of my PS4 controllers (that shipped with the console) went dead while I was playing a game a few days ago. I suspect it is the battery but is there a way to fix it? I saw that replacement batteries are available online - on that I wanted to check if its worth...

I am with you on that in the big picture. I have no expectation of morality from amoral corporations and nation states either. But if a corporation must lead India's political ambition, it should at least be a financially well managed one - instead of one seeking mindless up leveraging, held...

Slightly unrelated - but it's possible to think of receding freedom of speech as a game theoretical problem. If a state gives Un-curtailed freedom of speech to its citizen, its strategic opponents can exploit it as weakness to use social media as a tool for its own propaganda. Since no state can...

No not linking PAN wasn't an option after 2018-19 if I remember right. Its just that nothing else is linked (no phone, no bank accounts etc).

I didn't know it was so bad already. I'm glad I have kept mine and my family accounts unlinked despite state pressure to do so.

Well, as much as one might want Sanskrit to be revived, languages evolve organically, and government can't do much about a dying language.

The kind of personal attacks on this site is disappointing to anyone who has been here in the more civil times of the past. Maybe its because everyone is just a little bit too sure of the scientific method now, and ignorant of its limitations, even if there is a long way to learn and improve for...

Happy Diwali to everyone on TE ! Cheers.

Well, there is a prevalent dogma that greed, which is useful for Individuals is equally good when those pursuing greed are corporations. Capitalism needs to be reformed for companies in pharma, health, education, and scientific research for reasons that corporate greed causes excesses in these...

I guess it's too much to expect, because the evolutionary instinct to protect turf supersedes our propensity to engage in pursuit of truth, when faced with opposing ideas. The more well read or competent someone is in one field of study (e.g. medicine) - the more blind they often tend to be to...

You are just a first-rate arrogant individual incapable and non-deserving of civil discussions. It is good that TE has an ignore option.

Oh well, I do know that correlations are usually used as proxies to establish "relations" between variables and can be used as statistical "signals" for deeper studies. Luckily I also know that there are statistical tests or causality - but those don't really measure causality because...

Sorry, my mistake. Correction: RNA viruses. This is an unfortunate (and smug response, apparently because you're too sure that your understanding/view is true and any alternatives aren't to be considered) - which shows that in the face of statistical signal (not proof) that shows the need to be...

It is a strawman. You seem to have a bias which makes you ignore the obvious. Kiran calm down and try to listen to what others are saying. You responded to a strawman. Because this is not my profession, I am a risk analyst / systems researcher and while I can do it in some years, both you and...

I am not sure how you can "ignore" virus evolution at all in a population data study - since virus evolution is reality (whatever the cause) and so is crowd immunity. The only difference between the populations that were vaccinated and not is the vaccination. If anything, you can test the base...

Well, arguably, the unvaccinated populations of those countries also faced the risk of death from those variants so their mortality should still be higher. I believe we can still compare all-cause mortality to test whether the vaccines were effective - maybe not precisely but definitely broadly...

That is a strong statement. I guess it can be back tested by looking for mortality rates and outcomes between the vaccinated and unvaccinated. Another way is to compare all-cause mortality between least vaccinated countries (like Burundi) and the most vaccinated ones. I might do the second bit...

Off course the per capita number is small even adjusted for purchasing power, but it doesn't nullify the fact that the economy is too large in total to be derailed by one corporation facing scrutiny, or for that matter failing (although failure is not my base case). That is particularly true...