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Atanu Dey
Personal blog · deeshaa.orgeconomicsphilosophy
Atanu Dey's personal blog at deeshaa.org covers economics and philosophy. Since 2008, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Atanu Dey's posts on India's development, education and policy, and on Charlie Munger's ideas. One commenter calls his education essay a must read.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
It's all Karma
What Hacker News says?
For anyone wondering how a Steve-Socrates dialog might be like, I found this analogous bit of history: --- Diogenes was in Corinth when Alexander the Great sent word through a messenger asking Diogenes to come see him in Macedonia. Diogenes told the Alexander’s messenger, “Go tell your emperor that Corinth is as far from Macedonia as Macedonia is from Corinth. So if your emperor wants to see me, he can come and find…
Comment linking /2017/03/03/diogenes-of-sinope/
on “John Carmack: My Steve Jobs Stories”Submitted The “dot-corn” Bubble as a story · 8 points
HN discussion"The highest form a civilization can reach is a seamless web of deserved trust." http://www.deeshaa.org/2007/06/06/charlie-munger/
Comment linking /2007/06/06/charlie-munger/
on “Charles Munger (of Berkshire Hathaway): Elementary Worldly Wisdom”Submitted Mother Teresa: Where are her millions (1998) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThis is a list of disrespectful, disconnected mix of facts and fictions which has flimsy grounding in reality and doesn’t address the main question I was asking, but I will engage in good faith. https://theprint.in/opinion/western-reading-of-shivalingam-a... > As you may know the story Shivas Phallus was cut by Indra, and now Hindus Worship the fallen penis of their deity from puranas being cut by another deity of t…
Comment linking /2021/01/02/schopenhauer-on-the-upanishads/
on “Nalanda: The university that changed the world (2023)”Submitted The US Empire in Decline as a story · 6 points
HN discussion800 million people are starving in India. And the Govt/Politicians doesn't want people to prosper. They fear people might vote as per their conscience in elections. http://www.deeshaa.org/2011/06/02/the-starving-800-million-i...
Comment linking /2011/06/02/the-starving-800-million-in-india/
on “As an entrepreneur in India”Submitted Sifting Through the Embers (Douglas Adams) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionA must read for anybody interested in education and development related matters in third world countries in general and in India in particular: http://www.deeshaa.org/2007/02/07/thoughts-on-the-education-... The gist of the matter is that OLPC is a bad thing for India at large. Why? because India doesn't have the resources. There are thousands of schools without a blackboard and a chalk mainly due to lack of resourc…
Comment linking /2007/02/07/thoughts-on-the-education-and-olpc/
on “India buys 250k OLPCs”Submitted On Competition and Ideas as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIf American courts want to put a precedent to an ordinary crime such as this, they may follow India's example and do this instead: http://www.deeshaa.org/2013/12/06/lets-weep-for-a-morally-ad...
Comment linking /2013/12/06/lets-weep-for-a-morally-adrift-society/
on “Man gets 14 years for ‘lasing’ helicopter”Submitted 200 years that changed the world, a quick video as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wordly Wisdom According to Charlie Munger as a story · 1 points
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