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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/04/19/1654397/-The-Historical-Roots-of-the-Korean-Crisis-Can-t-Be-Forgotten The best overview of this history of this period is University of Chicago’s Distinguished Service Professor and Dept Chair, historian Bruce Cumming’s The Korean War: A History. I will su...

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India's Power Capacity Seen Overtaking Japan This Year: Chart by Stephen Stapczynski Fueled by a rapid rollout of coal-fired power generation, India is expected to have Asia’s second-largest power capacity at 363.32 gigawatts in 2018, overtaking Japan, according to data compiled by BMI Research. The...

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https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/05/trump-north-korea-cuban-missile-crisis/554318/ What Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un Don't Know About Their Own Standoff If the Cuban Missile Crisis is any indication, today’s leaders may be dangerously misinformed about the nuclear crisis. On Oc...

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https://swarajyamag.com/insta/pakistan- ... ga-project
Pakistan Blames ‘Indian Lobby’ As World Bank Turns Away Its Request For Intervention Over Kishanganga Project

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https://swarajyamag.com/insta/ibc-effect-fear-of-losing-control-forces-over-2100-companies-to-settle-rs-83000-crore-bank-dues Fearing action under the newly-enacted Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), over 2,100 companies, who had defaulted on loan repayments, have settled their dues of around Rs ...

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General rant about Indian "obstructionism" in SCO and BRICS. https://www.eurasiafuture.com/2018/05/23/india-is-holding-back-the-shanghai-cooperation-organisation-and-brics/ In respect of finding a solution for the problems faced by the BRICS and SCO regarding India’s inability to see eye-t...

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/predators-of-new-york Predators of New York There’s something about New York, New York City, that is, that is at the root of the Trump phenomenon.........New York City is a liberal city, probably the most progressive big city in the country, as far as it goes. Ye...

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http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1103257.shtml All mosques in the country should raise the national flag and study socialist core values to strengthen their "concept of nation" and carry forward "the spirit of patriotism," the China Islamic Association declared. Chinese experts ...

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On Tocharian: https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/eieol/tokol/00

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Possible example of linguist bullshit: Khotanese. Khotanese is one of the languages of the Indo-Scythians (Sakas). Sakas invaded India around 100 BCE. The question was what language did they speak? The answer was e.g., Khotanese - which however is attested to only 500 years later, written in Kharosh...

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Here is a video https://youtu.be/tCckcTHWqKw purporting to be a "Middle English reading of John Skelton's poem "Speke Parrot"" [ tCckcTHWqKw Listen to it, and ask why are modern English and Middle English (John Skelton 1463-1529) (assuming the pronunciation is correct and not mad...

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Some foreign "civilized world" perspective on Indian Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code. https://www.herbertsmithfreehills.com/uk/grads/latest-thinking/overview-of-and-foreign-perspective-on-the-indian-insolvency-and-bankruptcy-code http://www.jtjb.com/2017/corporate-india-insolvency-fastest-f...

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http://www.jonesday.com/files/Publication/1ec093d4-66fb-42a6-8115-be0694c59443/Presentation/PublicationAttachment/e5b46572-7aeb-4c34-ab2e-bee2f8f3d3c2/Comparison%20of%20Chapter%2011%20(A4).pdf Comparison of Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in the US with UK, France, Italy, Germany (supposedly the "civiliz...

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^^^ The current US President is a billionaire, but has his businesses go into bankruptcy four times.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/08/31/news/co ... index.html

Who took the haircut in each case?

I suppose the civilized world is an imaginary construct.

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^^^ Thanks! Good find! I do have some reservations about this We can also make simple, non-asymptotic statements, such as: If the environment is a square and migration only local, then by symmetry the North-South and East-West eigenvalues should be similar Which is true, but the point is e.g., that ...

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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1990/09/the-roots-of-muslim-rage/304643/ Bernard Lewis, 1990, The Roots of Muslim Rage Written when this was true: "There is no Cuba, no Vietnam, in the Muslim world, and no place where American forces are involved as combatants or even as "advi...

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^^
I cant claim to have understood it all either.

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Draining the swamp, or destroying expertise? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/21/trump-vs-the-deep-state Small excerpt: During Trump’s march to Washington, he framed his mission as nothing less than regime change: America’s capital was a defeated empire in need of occupation. In the months...

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^^^ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3989108/ n summary: i) when analyzing data with a spatial covariance structure, PCA produces highly structured results relating to sinusoidal functions of increasing frequency; ii) in as far as PCA results depend on the details of a particular data se...

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https://www.nature.com/articles/ng.139 2008 paper, so one hopes it is incorporated into modern thinking already. Interpreting principal component analyses of spatial population genetic variation John Novembre & Matthew Stephens Nature Genetics volume 40, pages 646–649 (2008) doi:10.1038/ng.139 A...

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For future reference: https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/12/02/the-perfect-human-is-puerto-rican/ This blog takes computational biology to task. PCA - detailed explanation https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/05/26/what-is-principal-component-analysis/ There are many generalizations and modifi...

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The fragility of the Chinese economy is also touched upon in this Bloomberg opinion piece:
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles ... force-open
China's Economy Is Too Frail to Force Open

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Claim: "Every $10 increase in the price of a barrel knocks 0.2% to 0.3% off India's growth rate, according to the country's latest economic survey. "

From CNN: http://money.cnn.com/2018/05/18/news/ec ... index.html

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Maybe off-topic, maybe not. How the mind plays tricks with perception. Maybe the Greeks did actually hear "Sandrocottus", this is not just a Greek-ization of an Indian name. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/whats-up-with-all-these-viral-illusions/560693/ PS: also, may...

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tradingeconomics.com reports:

Foreign Exchange Reserves in India decreased to 417700 USD Million in May 12 from 418940 USD Million in the previous week.

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“Normal backwardation” does not mean backwardation is normal.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/backwardation.asp
“The primary cause of backwardation in the commodities' futures market is a shortage of the commodity in the spot market.”

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Iran will go nuclear, Saudi will want to follow suit - buying from and propping up Pakistan.

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On Twitter, manastaramgini: Indo-Aryans: If we go by mainstream indological models the RV should have been composed in the Panjab no earlier than ~2000-1900 BCE - stretching things to the limit butm more like ~1700 BCE \pm 100 yrs. There are some serious problems with this which have been overlooked...

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Perron wins on consistency - tradition, etymology match.

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Tradition is questionable. While this is fundamentally wrong what is the argument you have to offer against it? The problem is that tradition is malleable. But one should be able to show consistency, e.g., if the archaeologically established material culture and the content of the texts and the tra...

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^^^ If we accept the idea that language spoken in one area can subsequently be spoken in another area, then human migration is one means by which this can happen; and genetics can show us whether human migration occurred. Of course, what languages were spoken in what area and which era is a matter o...

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This is what I meant when I said that we need to use that model. Stand on whatever post/pedestal/tower you get and jerk off and let your seed spread far and wide. This is the way of science now. Or else the baton of science and knowledge-production is ripe for being grabbed back from the institutio...

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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ar ... cy/559130/
Birth of a new American Aristocracy.

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This was written w.r.t. a debate in climate science, but are relevant here for all the genetics papers: First off, what definitions are being used here. This committee has decided that formally: ⋅ Reproducibility is the ability to test a result using independent methods and alternate choic...

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For future reference. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED043872 The Influence of Sanskrit on the Japanese Sound Systems. Buck, James H. The Japanese syllabary of today would probably not exist in its present arrangement had it not been for Sanskrit studies in Japan. Scholars of ancient Japan extracted from t...

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India - private sector coal power plant debt debacle, per Bloomberg:
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles ... n-times-20

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From 2013: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-markets-rupee-analysis/analysis-indias-inverted-yield-curve-fails-rupee-and-slams-economy-idUSBRE98405O20130905 “Viewed in one light, India’s steeply inverted yield curve is the result of a deliberate and classic policy strategy to defend a weak cu...

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From tradingeconomics.com: India's trade deficit widened slightly to USD 13.72 billion in April of 2018 from USD 13.25 billion a year earlier, below market expectations of a USD 15 billion gap. Exports increased 5.17% year-on-year to USD 25.91 billion, rebounding from a 0.7% drop in March. Sales wen...

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-14/india-s-oil-demand-surges-for-eighth-straight-month-in-april India’s oil consumption surged 4.5 percent in April as industrial activity gathered pace in Asia’s third-largest economy and sales of trucks and buses soared. The nation’s total oil demand...

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