When and why did the British first choose to invade India? - India Today

The British first landed in India in Surat for the purpose of trade. Here’s how and why a simple trading company, the British East India Company, became one of the biggest challenges the subcontinent had ever dealt with.

The British landed in India in Surat on August 24, 1608. While India has a rich and recorded history going back 4000 years to the Indus Valley Civilisation in Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, Britain had no indigenous written language until the 9th century almost 3000 years after India. Then how was it possible for the British to start capturing this huge country and control it from 1757 to 1947?

Good point.

“Doctors nationwide are questioning what is so difficult about enacting a law for our security,” Dhruv Chauhan, from the Indian Medical Association’s Junior Doctors’ Network, told the Press Trust of India news agency. “The strike will continue until all demands are formally met.”

Based.

It wasn’t unique, it wasn’t a “one off”. The unique framing appeals to conservatives as it feeds into exceptionalism and impunity. “We’re special!” It’s those people who only care about stuff when it happens to them. Same as with abortions and “The only moral abortion is my abortion”.

Fundamentally, this is evidence of the failure to generalize learning (what learning is for), a grand failure of intelligence.

Israel is a semi-autonomous US military base and state.

unlikely

if ( parameters.teaMass <= TEA_BAG_WEIGHT ) { 
    return "Error: incorrect input. Check if tea bag was inserted correctly into water container."
 }

They’re artificial volcanoes/geysers.

Glad I didn’t read it.

I clarified how it depends. The answer was “it depends”, which is a very displeasing answer, so I skipped a step.

You add the repairs to the price.

If you’re creating a luxury house/apartment, well, the word “luxury” is already there.

This isn’t about people getting a place to live, this is speculation, like Bitcoin, but with housing. There’s a mass of people buying housing to commodify it by selling it later at a huge price or by renting it out. This mass of people got scammed by housing developers who promised to deliver the apartment or house (at a good quality). Unfortunately, that didn’t happen; developers ran ponzi schemes. They used investors’ money to start new constructions and attract new investors, and stopped working on the old constructions or finished them poorly with bad materials.

This is how capitalism works unregulated. So the small investors fucked around trying to become petite bourgeoisie, and they’re finding out the beauty of capitalism.

I know this is hard to hear for Americans, but if you’re making money from being a landlord or flipping houses, you’re a piece of shit.

Bailing out these investors would be like bailing out Bitcoin “common people” investors when the “currency” crashes.

edit: grammar

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why stop at curly brackets? Do all of them: parentheses, square brackets, angle brackets, and curly brackets. Also, strings should be liberated. Move all non-escaped quote characters to the end of the line too.

At least name it well. What’s tw supposed to mean?

<br>

actually:

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but only sometimes.

Oldman.setHealth(“dicktits”); //normalize pls

0

Oldman.setHealth(“-100±1%”); //make percentage pls

Reject operations.

Use absolute number to remove the minus. Math.abs()

Oldman.setHealth(0.0); //it is subunitary, but undefined behavior - will it access the ‘numeric value’ overload, or the ‘subunitary numeric value’ overload?

Same result either way, so whatever if branch is first.

Understand the purpose. If you want to kill the old man with 0, then there’s no point to leaving it as 0.9%, understand the non-linear characteristics of life and death.

When you’re dealing with the low level functions, sure, you can keep it simple. When you’re reaching the surface of user input, you’re either going to waste time with validation and error reporting, or you’re going to waste time with interfaces that can handle more shit without complaining. There’s no fool proof either way, but good luck pissing users off with endless docs.

Don’t write your own code just yet.

If your goal in programming is just to be a traffic cop between the user input and the database, all you’re doing is building a virtual bureaucracy, the kind that people really hate and is easily generated with coding tools. Or you’re just deferring the “smoothing out” burden to the UI developers.

…ends with. And there are more ways to parse.

Absolute (cm)

adding one 0:

100%, automatically changes unit to %

(Word table properties)

The high level setter function should be made to handle both string and numeric values.

If it contains “%” it’s a percentage value.

If it’s a string without a “%” it’s an absolute value and needs to be normalized.

If it’s a numeric value, it’s an absolute value.

If it’s a numeric 100, it’s 100%.

If it’s a subunitary numeric value, it’s a percentage.