jvsg's comments

jvsg | 5 years ago | on: A 4-month online dating experiment using 10 fictional singletons (2012)

>you can force people to marry, but you can't make them care about each other

That's incorrect. Arranged marriages are forced in some sense, but people do come around to care. Put a man and woman together in captivity and they start caring for each other. That's how human nature is.

And regarding the gunpoint thing, there's something called Bride kidnapping in central asia. Ofcourse those brides cry for first few days or so, but eventually settle in, with equal or probably more happiness than the women of the so called free world.

jvsg | 6 years ago | on: Languages of India

The sinhalese people of Sri Lanka are Indo-European, not dravidian. IIRC they came from Modern day Bengal.

jvsg | 6 years ago | on: Zero Rupee Note

yep. Me too. In my case, my bank was unable to process that amount of payment so they eventually had to strike it off my bill.

jvsg | 6 years ago | on: Interview with DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg

> They make more than enough money by providing the Internet service

So you are going to decide whether they are making enough money? Don't like tracking? Switch over to a privacy respecting ISP.

jvsg | 7 years ago | on: New research on the cost of colonization to India

That's incorrect IMHO. The Mughals had ruled over an area greater than India's current area. The Marathas too had almost replaced Mughals after their downfall, and the British replaced Marathas. There was infighting in a few kingdoms towards the south and the east, and that's where the British gained their initial territory.

There was a concept of a united India/Hindustan/Bharat/Aryavart in Ancient times.

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