Abhishek Bhatnagar

Was Stephen Paddock a terrorist?

It’s a hard question to answer, and like much of social science, remains subjective. However, given the current state of American society (with perhaps the most opportunistic, narcissistic and demonstrably divisive president in history), and the emotionally charged nature…

Reading Weekly -August 14, 2016 — August 21, 2016

Highlights this week

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The evolutionary psychology of Genocide

Our species is capable of abominable crimes, the very worst of which we call ‘Genocide’. Though the media has repeatedly confused ‘mass killings’ with ‘genocide’, in actuality there is an orthogonal difference between the two. ‘Mass Killings’ can refer to an…

The cost of saying no to Peacekeeping

Virginia Page Fortana of Columbia University has a great paper out titled Does Peacekeeping Keep Peace? [1], which shows through a comprehensive study of recent civil wars that peacekeeping in general does lead to greater stability in conflict zones. In her own…

The possibility of a military intervention in Syria

Why did NATO intervene in Libya, but is not getting involved in Syria?
I know what you’re thinking: Oil!

Yes indeed, oil security was one of the key reasons for the NATO intervention in…

Git Stash

Git’s Stash feature is consistently under used, which is strange because is also one of Git’s features that makes it ridiculously awesome.

Hers’s how it works:

UseCase:
You start working on an issue or feature and have made changes to one or many files in…