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@UnderstandingF8

Ramble about arsenal and football. Used to play FPL. At twitter , just to follow some investment accounts I love 🙏

Bengaluru, India शामिल हुए Haziran 2020
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Understanding Football
Understanding Football@UnderstandingF8·
One of the most memorable moments for me was to get a chance to discuss football with 2 of my favorite FPL Managers @lateriser12 & @zophar666 . Thank you @PLforIndia & guys for the opportunity. Glad to be part of FPL community ❤️
Premier League India@PLforIndia

"Thanks to @OfficialFPL I have started watching more football and understood the game better" On #FPLTalkies we are joined by a veteran, @UnderstandingF8 who talks about his love for Arsenal and also tells us why he is more of a @lateriser12 than @zophar666 😂

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Understanding Football@UnderstandingF8·
@GouravSama43709 @Tijori1 @RuntimeBRT @kunalkamra88 He's a standup comedian, yes he is not expected to understand or appreciate the complexities of business but can make fun of businesses when they forget that services still hold valuable in these businesses. It's not a fair world, we get it.
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Gourav Samal
Gourav Samal@GouravSama43709·
@Tijori1 People like kunal kamra wont appreciate stuff like this because appreciation doesnt pay or generate views. People like Caleb do appreciate and celebrate Indian IP&tech @RuntimeBRT and people like @kunalkamra88 milk these companies failures but never appreciate when they do good
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Tijori@Tijori1·
Ather and Ola Electric need to be appreciated here They develop and control the IP for the 'brains' of the two wheeler after working on it completely in house
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India pays a premium for the privilege of not learning anything :) Every Indian car Tata, Mahindra, Maruti, all of them has a tiny computer inside called an ECU (Engine Control Unit) This computer decides everything - how much fuel to inject, when to shift gears, how brakes work, how the battery behaves in an EV. Think of it as the car's brain. India makes zero of these brains for passenger cars. All of them come from foreign companies, mainly Bosch (Germany). If you don't control the brain, you don't really control the car. Indian OEMs can't even add a simple valve to their own engine without asking Bosch for permission. They can't change a single line of code. They are selling cars with someone else engineering inside. This isn't really about technology being too hard. It's a business model designed to keep you dependent. Three layers lock you in :) First, every new car programme needs Bosch to do setup work (Rs 10-30 crore). Second, you pay full price for software Bosch already developed for Volkswagen so Bosch gets paid twice for the same work. Third and this is the killer every time you want to change anything in the software, even something tiny, it costs around $500,000. So Indian OEMs simply stop trying to innovate. They accept whatever Bosch gives them. The calibration trap means tuning the car's brain for Indian conditions, how should the engine behave in Ladakh cold vs Chennai heat? Indian OEMs outsource even this to AVL in Austria. AVL reuses work they already did for European cars, charges India full price, and transfers zero knowledge. So Indian engineers never even learn how their own cars work from the inside. What Korea did is Hyundai faced the exact same situation in 1987. They set up Kefico as a joint venture with Bosch, learned everything from the inside, and by 2015 they owned the full technology themselves. The sequence was simple - first learn calibration (tuning) → then write your own software → then build your own hardware. It's a ladder. India never climbed the first rung. Why India didn't do this - It's not a talent problem Indian engineers design ECUs at Bosch offices worldwide. It's a combination of things like Indian OEMs won't fund Indian startups to develop alternatives. They demand that Indian suppliers first prove themselves in Europe before getting a chance at home (while European companies protect their own). Middle managers won't risk their careers backing a Pune startup when they can safely pick Bosch. India spends 0.64% of GDP on R&D vs Korea's 4.9%. Private sector funds only 36% of India's R&D, in Korea it's 79%. SEDEMAC - the one exception - One Indian company (IIT Bombay founders, Pune-based) actually makes ECUs for two-wheelers and generators. They have real IP, real patents, millions of units shipped. But even they couldn't break into passenger cars. Tata Motors is literally in the same city and doesn't use them. EVs are simpler to control than petrol/diesel engines. This should have been India's fresh start. Instead, Mahindra's new EV platform has Bosch (Germany), Valeo (France), BYD (China), Mobileye (Israel), Continental (Germany) - zero Indian ECUs. The dependency just migrated from ICE to EV with different foreign names. swarajyamag.com/technology/the…

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AllThingsBrazil™
AllThingsBrazil™@SelecaoTalk·
No surprise to see Gabriel Magalhães pull out of the Brazil squad given Arsenal’s title run in. It’s not the first or even second time he’s done this. Clear tactic from Arsenal & Arteta. Brazil needs to be tougher when players continually do this.
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Understanding Football
Understanding Football@UnderstandingF8·
@kuttrapali26 Think it's easier to talk as an investor rather than promoter. Some of these events are once in lifetime, how is a promoter expected to call out impact on business without experiential learning. It's easier to call them out in hindsight perhaps.
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Ayushi Chky
Ayushi Chky@kuttrapali26·
Why I don’t trust management interviews and concalls In every concall/interview: Zero To Minimal impact from tariffs,war and macro events In the next result: Margins down,Growth missing, U Turn on future guidance #Investing
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The White House@WhiteHouse·
PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH, it's the American way.
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Utkarsh Singh
Utkarsh Singh@Utkarshsingh107·
@I_m_Anshuman_P @EquityValueIn Any fillip in growth should lead to some re-rating as well. 17-18% growth is very doable seeing the expansion efforts and benefits from technology transformation.
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ValueEquity@EquityValueIn·
What's an high conviction idea of yours that has corrected a lot in this market structure ? Do comment with small thesis !
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Jon Mackenzie
Jon Mackenzie@Jon_Mackenzie·
Anyone else finding it a bit funny that Arteta said man-marking is ruining the game and then City went and zonalled him in the next game?
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Gideon Sa'ar | גדעון סער
The mad Iranian regime's strategy is to target civilians. In the past 24 hours, Children were severely injured. They are committing war crimes as a strategy! My statement at the site of the Iranian missile strike in Arad >>
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Understanding Football
Understanding Football@UnderstandingF8·
@EiFSoccer The kind of bs we hear from people with blue tick accounts to seek some engagement that will get them some pennies.
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EiF@EiFSoccer·
We’re really witnessing one of the most mediocre Premier League title winning sides of all time. Boring, focused on set pieces, time wasters, arrogant for no real reason. This was a necessary humbling for this Arsenal side who, important to note, have still not won anything.
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Understanding Football@UnderstandingF8·
@jeffrey_dalyop_ Not everything was on him, our performance was still on the team. We were weoful otherwise. Deserved loss.
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ARTETA'S REVENGE@jeffrey_dalyop_·
You are not mandated to play your 2nd keeper in any final. Everything capitulated for Arsenal from there. Very good lesson for Arsenal/Arteta. NEVER CHANGE A WINNING FORMULA.
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Daily Mail US@Daily_MailUS·
Iran ballistic missile hits Israeli city in terrifying strike near top-secret facility that is key to country's atomic weapons program trib.al/VFi2zOK
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Eric Njiru ⚽️
Eric Njiru ⚽️@EricNjiiru·
I’d rather be 9 points behind Arsenal than 5 points above City. We are coming
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Ritesh Jain
Ritesh Jain@riteshmjn·
Everyday I am reminded of my tweet by President Trump. US is now energy surplus and frankly can leave the mess of strait of Hormuz to countries whose oil passes through strait of Hormuz. Inspite of this war have you observed the difference between WTI and Brent .. the difference used to be max $4 bucks but now $15 bucks. So US crude is not even $100 bucks and natural gas is almost free within United States whereas factories are closing down in Asia and Europe due to lack of Natural gas.
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Ritesh Jain@riteshmjn

My view on US if President Trump wins the elections. A trump win will be America first policy which will accelerate deglobalisation. It will push more countries to take care of their own security as US military umbrella will not be freely available. A trump presidency will be a transactional relationship. A trump presidency will undermine institutions especially Fed independence. Trump will want lower dollar lower rates and will erect massive trade and tariff barrier to protect American industry. Historically it is the responsibility of reserve currency to share its GDP and police world shipping lines but America under President a trump will be more inward looking and that will lead to acceleration of multi currency trading system.

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Understanding Football
Understanding Football@UnderstandingF8·
@FPLfrasier Welcome to the world of chances created . The low xG , irrelevant metric which will be used more by twitter blue tick accounts trying to fund their egoistic narratives than any coach meaningfully looking at football today.
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FPL Frasier@FPLfrasier·
Most chances created in the premier league so far 101 — Bruno Fernandes . . . 66 — Bruno Fernandes from open play . . 58 — Declan Rice 56 — Bruno Fernandes under Ruben Amorim 56 — Dominik Szoboszlai
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Arsenal Inside@arsenalinside_·
Piero Hincapié was awarded by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador, Alejandro Dávalos, during a discussion held at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. A recognition for all his efforts as a football player, for representing his country and being an example to the youth. 👏🤩🇪🇨 (🎥 TikTok: natalia.vera.f)
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Understanding Football@UnderstandingF8·
@1shankarsharma No disagreeing there but your lack of say in a war that's not yours is not the same as your lack of strength.
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Understanding Football@UnderstandingF8·
@1shankarsharma The only reason we have been able to practice this strategy is because of our considerable strength in world politics and strong investment power which has made us choose us over these countries again and again. The parties in war will ofc choose how they want to end it.
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Shankar Sharma
Shankar Sharma@1shankarsharma·
It would be a mistake to think that the decision to end the war rests with America. It doesn't. It rests with Iran and somewhat, with Israel. And Iran won't stop until it gets what it wants: no US presence in the ME. Cast iron guarantees that it won't be attacked again. Israel wants to finish its own ( read: Netanyahu 's) agenda: subjugation of Iran. This seems a far reach, considering they could not even finish Hezbollah: and Hezbollah is hitting them hard on the Northern side, destroying ~20 tanks! Iran's objectives can't be met either: US won't leave the Gulf. Therefore, Iran will never agree to a ceasefire because it knows this will only give the enemy the chance to regroup as happened last June. And of course, there is this little thing about oil. Can US resist taking over Iran's Oil? No. Because controlling this oil will give it massive windfall profit paying for the war instantly. And it will give it massive energy dominance over the world because it will control all of the world oil except Russin. Weak countries like India, who have zero bargaining power with US ( plenty of recent examples) will have zero energy independence: we will become Tommy, getting rewarded for good behaviour or punished. Of course, till then, we serve two masters: US & Iran, since we need to get oil passes from both. We have recently made ourselves a transactional country so even old friends like Iran and Russia have become transactional with us. " Strategic silence", " delicate balancing act" are all synonyms for " majboori" and "kamzori". But that's fine: we simply don't have strengths ( unlike genuine superpowers like Russia & China) to offer. So we play to our weaknesses -aka " jahanpanah , tussi great ho..." and get mercy - aka LPG , Oil biscuits - in return. As they say in aamchi Mumbai, "chalega". (And if Trump indeed wants to wind down, why are the marines headed to the gulf? Don't believe a thing of this " winding down" bs.) So overall, barring a nuclear attack, there is no clear end visible to this war. I desperately hope I am wrong. And as a very knowledgeable Geo political expert told me yesterday, if there is a nuclear attack on Iran, the winds from Central Asia will drive the effect to North India without a shadow of doubt, affecting soil, water, weather, crop, life, for 15-20 years. Better head to Shimla before it's too late!
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Drop Site@DropSiteNews·
Tucker Carlson challenges The Economist’s editor-in-chief to define Israel’s “right to exist”
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SANTO@ssentongopeter5·
Is that an Arsenal player blocking the Bournemouth keeper ? Arsenal are really terrible
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