Ex-trader, Ex-founder (edtech). Interests - Finance and Education
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Reading Chip War. While the world was developing, innovating, or using - in some way participating in this value chain - we as a country slept thru & suddenly now want to build a TSMC overnight. We have no right to. In fact our tech and innovation begins seriously only in 2000s.
No nation can top any amateur games table without being competitive in - athletics, cycling, swimming/diving, gymnastics and to some extent in weightlifting, wrestling/boxing, (may be shooting, archery, rowing). Amateur games is all about these & rest all are sides.
Where you state the obvious influences on you of people, place and conditions as some thing not desirable. Food habits very strongly lend to ones identity. This is global truth, not some thing unique and undesirable phenomenon of India.
In India, what you eat is rarely JUST about food.
Your CASTE, where you grew up, who cooked your food and even who you eat with can all shape what ends up on your plate.
@krishashok is back on Dostcast to unpack the politics, history and weirdness behind something as ordinary as food.
Tonight, 8 PM.
pod link in thread
An Omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent God is a possibility under the Vedic fold, not a given, which is the case in the western religions.
Surprised that such fairly established guys don't understand difference between taxing a service in a value chain as against not taxing transfer of stored value between accounts. it is same as taxing when you sell your produce while not taxing when you use it for yourself.
UPI Charges Row | Ashneer Grover Exclusive
If I transfer ₹1 lakh to my friend through UPI, or I pay ₹3,000 using a QR code, what is the cost of running the system? The cost is the same. So, if I transfer ₹1 lakh to my friend, nobody is making money from it. But if I make a payment of ₹2,500 to a small shopkeeper then the government wants to put charges, what’s the logic? — @Ashneer_Grover speaks to @shreyadhoundial
Such titbits makes me wonder, the scientific advancement at scale that we experience would have come by without the Hindu decimal system.
Possibly we would have been doing doctorate about dots and dashes.
In the 13th century, Cistercian monks devised a system of numerals in which a single glyph can represent any integer from 1 to 9,999
Learn the nine digits in the top row and the rest follow: flip them for tens, invert them for hundreds, do both for thousands. Combine the four around one vertical stroke and you have any number under 10,000
That corps have exclusive pricing power is the biggest nonsense that the vast majority including edu and rich elites end up believing.
Market forces include suppliers, vendors, land, labour, cost of capital, regulatory costs, distribution, customers, competition etc.
Amul sets its price.
McDonald's sets its price.
Pepsi sets its price.
Starbucks sets its price.
Britannia sets its price.
Parle sets its price.
Nestlé sets its price.
Cadbury sets its price.
Kurkure sets its price.
Domino's sets its price.
Maggi sets its price.
But the farmers who grow the food are expected to accept whatever price the market gives them.
No producer in the free market world sets their price independent of market forces. Farmers in India do not want to be exposed to market forces and hence mostly take the MSP as fixed by govt which also anchors their price in the market.
When representatives forget that they REPRESENT, that legislation is a duty on account of their representative powers and over look on executive is again a result of those powers.
And effective representation is indeed a function of the number of the people one represents.
This was the first cricket world cup I followed and there were 2 disappoints apart from India's matches -
1. SA terrible loss to Eng
2. NZ was the most deserving but they could not crack Pak losing twice to them
Imagine if India had won their matches against England and Australia - they would have qualified for the semifinals. However, they weren’t good enough overall and might have still crashed out in the semis.
The team spent more than three months in Australia for five Tests and a tri-series.
The long tour, along with staying away from family for such an extended period, probably led to fatigue and affected India’s performance.
Even by this measure, INR has depreciated ~50% every decade. 6 decades to 2014 translate to 12x. Last decade too is a 50% dep.
Mr. Sridhar Vembu,
It took 65 years for the Indian Rupee to slide from ₹5 to the US dollar in 1950 to around ₹63 in 2014—a long, gradual erosion across multiple governments and eras.
Yet in just the past 12 years under Narendra Modi, it has been a free fall from ₹63 in 2014 to roughly ₹92 today to the US dollar, eroding the purchasing power of every Indian family, especially the middle class and the poor who feel imported inflation the hardest.
When you choose to lecture about the 1966 devaluation—now nearly 60 years old—it feels like a convenient deflection from the crisis. It is plain dishonesty.
You turned out to be yet another closet #Chaddi trying to profiteer by sucking up to RSS-BJP-Modi.
Such article on vembu tells/measures more of the author/news portal than the subject(vembu). (Wittgenstein's Ruler)
Zoho’s Sridhar Vembu is often celebrated as a tech billionaire who chose villages over Silicon Valley.
But the story isn't just that.
Here’s a closer look at power, ideology and the making of a tech empire.
🔒Profile by @Indulekha_A. thenewsminute.com/news/decod…
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Of all the songs of the 90s, I never thought I would end listening to this song in decent freq after 25 yrs.
It's a template song - but unnimenon's melody, anuradhas folksy, jazzy arrangement just marries very nicely.
This is a common but a fairly elementary tactic. Talk about two subjects that are parallel in tandem, hoping that it forms a connect in the listeners' mind.
At an event in Bengaluru earlier today, Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah said, "The Information Technology era is now transforming into the Artificial Intelligence era. This has also raised fears of potential job losses. Our government is also working to elevate the Kannada language, heritage, and culture to a global level. As part of this, the government is committed to preparing our language for new challenges to prevent job losses from Artificial Intelligence. I call upon scholars and technical experts to come forward to make Kannada the language of new technology."
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This is exactly how evidence based medicine shouldn't work. When such events crop up, you go back to the drawing board, not give causality correlation gyaan. Risk reward for in favour of universal Covid vaccination; but that doesn't mean we disregard adverse events.
When patients came to me with logic like this, I used to agree with them and tell them a personal story. I said, I normally keep my pillow on North side of bed. One night I placed pillow on South side. That night an earthquake in Latur killed 40,000. All because of my change of pillow placement. Never kept pillow like that again. No further earthquakes. Can't understand why ppl did not believe me. Same logic.