On 9/26/07, Venky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay, so as expected, the gap is widening. Though, from what I
understand about Gini coefficients from Wikipedia, a country as
large as India with its economic diversity would end up
exaggerating the value. To quote Wikipedia -- When measuring
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 10:50 +0100, B.L. Krieger wrote:
obviously me being a geramn and an anthropologist helps me
to ask for these calculations (of course only in privat).
fascinating! so when can we see an analysis of this suitable for the
SilkList Journal?
-rishab
those who sleep 8 instead of 7 hours are twice as likely to die?
doesn't everyone have a 100% likelihood of dying, at least for the
moment? (cue eugen...). can't blame journalists for sloppy reporting of
statistics, though, when one of the most read papers in Plos medicine
recently was a study
oh the luxuries of life as a [relatively] rich man in india :-)
-rishab, who is forced to camouflage the creases he didn't bother to
iron out
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 00:26 -0700, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
[for me, that is a necessity rather than a luxury - i am way too
clumsy
with irons so
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 17:53 +0530, Ingrid wrote:
The merits of this article aside, Gini coefficients, that measure income
inequality, have risen steadily in India since 1980 from 0.32 to 0.38. For
the record, a Gini above 0.35 is generally believed to be unsustainable
socially and
with inflation at 10% for much of the 80s and 5-10% through the 90s, 30
rupees in 1980 is worth over 250 rupees today, so 90 rupees would be a
decline. anyway, if the study ingrid quoted is the one i remember, they
used inflation-adjusted purchasing-power-parity dollars, which attempt
to reflect
Steve Albini is, of course, the guy behind this [1] which is still
required reading for anybody trying to understand what all the fuss
about music and copyright is *really* about.
Here is some tangentially related stuff, that allows him to express
his inner Dorothy Parker very well:
More commentary on (one) Pakistani's reactions:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Dont_speak_for_Muslims/articleshow/241.cms
On 9/28/07, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ah, equalization and compression. Yeah, I can see that. I still think
he's wrong for blaming CDs though. I think the same thing would have
happened (and was happening) in any medium. I know the trend had
already started with LPs and cassette
