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Bala Subramanian
Bala Subramanian@BalaOnX·
The journey of Alive has been one of purpose and passion—crafting a vibrant space where active ageing meets comfort and connection. Proud to see this vision come to life. #TheRainbowByAlive #ActiveAgeing #Trivandrum #eldercare #geriatrics #startups
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The Kaipullai
The Kaipullai@thekaipullai·
Many people here are saying Vijay would be an awesome CM and there would be no corruption because he is already rich Poor fellows. If only they understand that corruption in India doesn't happen because of need or even greed. It happens because people realize they can.
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Chennai Updates@UpdatesChennai·
Looks like Parandur Airport won't happen then...🙂
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Aravind
Aravind@aravind·
インドの夏は、砂漠地帯などの一部の場所では50度近くまで上がることがあります。しかし、ほとんどの地域では平均気温が32〜40度程度です。また、内陸部や非沿岸地域では40度を超える日が頻繁に見られます。 これは記録が始まって以来、ずっと変わっていません。例えば、自動車も電化も普及していなかった1900年代初頭のイギリス領インドでも、多くの都市で40度超の夏が記録されています。 古代インドの文献には、灼熱の夏が描かれており、乾いた大地と、十分に準備した軍隊でさえ数日で命を落とすほどの極端な暑さが語られています。 日本は緯度が高いため、インドより夏の到来が遅いのは知っています。気温はよく35度くらいになります。 私はそんな暑い日に富士山に登ったことがありますが、高度が上がって気温が下がっても、熱中症になりかけたことがありました
Yohei from Japan🇯🇵@learning_yohei

インド人の皆さん、日本からこんにちは🇯🇵😄 日本の夏は本当に暑いです。最高気温は40度くらいです🥵 インド人に質問があります🇮🇳🤔 インドも夏は暑いと聞きました。インドの夏の最高気温はどれくらいですか？😄

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Bala Subramanian
Bala Subramanian@BalaOnX·
Appreciate the effort. Even if it moves a few hundred it's good. While they may have gone for money, they now relish the quality of life which the US offers. Nowhere in India you can beat that. Now, if you can build that anywhere in India at an economical cost, I am sure the status will change.
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Sridhar Vembu
Sridhar Vembu@svembu·
Open letter to Indians in America. -- Dear brothers and sisters from Bharat: Like I did 37 years ago, you arrived in America with no money but with a good education and cultural heritage from Bharat. You achieved outstanding success. America was good to us. For that we must remain grateful - gratitude is our Bharatiya way. Yet today, a significant number of Americans, may be not the majority but not too far from it either, believe that Indians "take away" American jobs and our success in America was unfairly earned. You may think the next election will fix this, but your choice would be between people who hate our Bharatiya civilisation and people who hate civilisation itself. That is the "hard right" vs "woke left" battle. You are mere bystanders to that conflict. Meanwhile there is one thing that is true now and will be true in the future: the respect Indians command world-wide will substantially depend on the fortunes of India herself. If India remains poor, the woke left will give us moral lectures with pity and the hard right, different moral lectures with scorn ("hellhole") and we must not confuse either with respect. Respect in today's world, along with prosperity and security, comes from one source: a nation's technological prowess. India produces sufficient brain power to achieve that prowess but alas we exported so much of that talent, particularly to America. As we develop that prowess in India, our civilisational strength will assert itself. As difficult as it is for many of you to contemplate this, please come back home. Bharat Mata needs your talent. Our vast youthful population needs the technology leadership you gained over the years to guide them towards prosperity. Let's do it with a missionary zeal. Respectfully Sridhar Vembu
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Ethan’s Analyst
Ethan’s Analyst@EthansAnalyst·
How it’s going 5 hours later Team status Senior Lead Offline Enforcement Non-operational Jr Analyst Power saving mode Early performance review High alert Short attention span Minimal output Current state Unresponsive Couch compromised No deliverables Daily report: still pending Hands-off management Fully validated Model unchanged Continuing observation Sent from my Mac
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Bala Subramanian
Bala Subramanian@BalaOnX·
What changed your outlook was the exposure you got in US on how a better system would work. Unfortunately for most Indians we don't have that reference anywhere in India right now. Even one small state or union territory if it's well governed for 5 years can be made an example for the rest of us to see and be inspired.. We are, however always caught in the squalor with very little hope to get out.
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Sridhar Vembu
Sridhar Vembu@svembu·
In the 1980s, most IITians would go abroad. In 1989, when I graduated from IIT Madras, I remember feeling extremely dejected about our country. Punjab, Kashmir and Assam were all burning. My heart was not in engineering. I was mostly reading books in Economics and Philosophy - we had a good library. The burning question in my mind was "Why are we so poor?" Some of my classmates and I wrote an article in the IIT campus newspaper in late 1988-early 1989 (there were two newspapers, Focus and Spectator, and I believe we published in Focus, they were reproduced using "cyclostyling" machines - please look them up!). In my vague recollection, the thrust of the article was that the IIT system was failing to serve the needs of the country and the country itself was facing a profound stagnation (I wish I could get that article now - a copy may be in some dusty basement in IIT). I want to know what I thought and said as a 21 year old in 1989 that I agree with and what I disagree with today. By 1989, I had become a committed anti-socialist, having lived through the socialist stagnation of India. By 1989, the collapse of the Soviet Union was on, and China was in turmoil - the Tinananmen student protests and their forced suppression. By 1991, India needed an emergency IMF loan. The 1991 economic reforms by Shri Manmohan Singh happened due to pressure from the IMF. So you can imagine the mood in 1989. That was the India I left in 1989. I was feeling miserable to leave but hopeless to stay. In 1990, I came home for a visit and thought of dropping out of my PhD and staying home. I was home sick. I started to study Singapore and Japan during 1990-94 in my PhD years - the "Why are we so poor" question. By 1994, I decided I would be in the private sector and took up an R&D job in Qualcomm.
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이재명@Jaemyung_Lee·
어제 저녁, 드라우파디 무르무 인도 대통령께서 베풀어 주신 만찬에 참석해 뜻깊은 시간을 보냈습니다. 사회적 제약과 개인적 어려움을 극복하고 공동체와 소외계층을 위해 헌신해 오신 대통령님의 삶에 깊은 감명을 받았습니다. 오늘날 인도가 보여주는 자신감 역시 대통령님의 용기와 비전에서 비롯된 것임을 느낄 수 있었습니다. 대한민국과 인도의 가능성은 무궁무진합니다. 이제 우리는 정치와 경제를 넘어, 서로의 미래를 함께 만들어가는 든든한 동반자로 나아갈 것입니다. 무르무 대통령님과 인도 국민 여러분의 따뜻한 환대에 다시 한번 깊은 감사를 전합니다. धन्यवाद!
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Bala Subramanian
Bala Subramanian@BalaOnX·
@sumanthraman It's not a question of translation it's a question of knowledge. United States - ஒருங்கிணைந்த இந்தியா 🙏
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Sumanth Raman
Sumanth Raman@sumanthraman·
This is hilarious stuff. Vera level translation. 😀😀😂
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Bala Subramanian
Bala Subramanian@BalaOnX·
@Akshita_N If one were to hear only the translation they will probably end up voting for the other party. Jokes apart, isn't this reflective of how this party approaches things as a whole. Never fixing anything. Just allowing things to fester and drag..
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Bala Subramanian
Bala Subramanian@BalaOnX·
Wherein lies the oxymoron. A good developer cannot be a good domain expert. You need to live in the domain. Of course generic processes can be automated and structured, but domain expertise is earned. The biggest fallacy is that one can become a domain expert by going through an additional two years of management degree rigor. These just give you the lens to observe things. What to observe and how long purely depends on you.
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Sridhar Vembu
Sridhar Vembu@svembu·
Here is what I tell our software engineers on how to thrive in the AI era: be very good domain experts. Programming skills are the foundation (and we definitely don't want to lose them) but deep domain knowledge is what customers pay for, along with reliability, security, support and compliance. The productivity gains from AI are still hotly debated: we definitely get to a working prototype much faster but a finished product has a lot more to it and not all the stages can be sped up by AI. That is why I advise our technical teams to not obsess about programmer productivity as a metric but focus on how we can offer a far better experience to customers using AI. There is a lot of needless or incidental complexity in software that can be eliminated by AI.
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Sridhar Vembu
Sridhar Vembu@svembu·
Universal High Income is a dystopian view that assumes that technology displaces all "paid work" so humans have to be paid by the government to consume the vast output of automated factories and AI. Elon is making two assumptions: a) AI tech will lead to extraordinary explosion of goods and services produced with minimal human labour b) their glut will not lead to rapid price drops. Prices WILL drop unless the government allows monopolies to emerge to keep prices high. Merely enforcing EXISTING anti-monoply laws would be sufficient for prices to drop. Keep in mind that copyright is a government granted monopoly and can be taken away by the Sovereign. Still, what would humans do if "AI will do everything" - that one is easy, do what we don't CARE for AI to do for us, such as taking care of nature, nurture, culture and scripture. I can imagine farm workers and teachers and nurses and priests getting paid well because we don't care for robots to care for our babies or for the sick or be our priests.
Elon Musk@elonmusk

Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI. AI/robotics will produce goods & services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, so there will not be inflation.

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Bala Subramanian
Bala Subramanian@BalaOnX·
@business So basically now getting more women into the government is an issue as it is being brought by a government you don't like.
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Bloomberg
Bloomberg@business·
Modi is using the women’s quota to redraw the electoral map and secure a 2029 win for the BJP, writes Menaka Doshi in India Edition. bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
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Ethan Brooks
Ethan Brooks@alt_w_v_g·
Think about what just happened today. We lit a controlled explosion in Florida, sent four humans ~240,000 miles into deep space, slingshotted them around the far side of the moon, and brought them home to a bullseye in the Pacific. The re-entry capsule hit the atmosphere at 25,000 mph and had to thread a corridor only a few degrees wide. Too shallow and you skip off into space. Too steep and you burn. They nailed it. Now picture someone a thousand years ago looking up at that same moon. They could not have imagined this. Not the math. Not the machine. Not the four people inside it. Not the idea that we would watch it live from a glass rectangle in our pocket on the other side of the world. And yet people today are confident they know what the next 30, 50, 500 years will look like. They do not. No one ever does. The cotton gin. The steam engine. The lightbulb. The airplane. The internet. The smartphone. Splitting the atom. Walking on the moon. Every single one of them was impossible until it wasn't. We are not at the end of the story. We are barely past the opening chapter. Humanity will always find a way to win. Bullish. Always. Sent from my iPhone
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Parimal
Parimal@Fintech03·
A photon is created in the Sun’s core through fusion. However, the core is so dense that the photon cannot travel in a straight line. It undergoes a random walk, bouncing b/w atoms like a ball in a chaotic pinball machine. It takes about ~100000-170000 yrs for a photon to work its way from the core to the surface (the Photosphere). Once it reaches the surface, it travels the 150 million kms to Earth in just 8 mins & 20 secs. The sunlight we see today was actually born when Neanderthals were still roaming the Earth. We are literally living in the light of the deep past.
X Freeze@XFreeze

The Sun is by far the biggest source of energy in our solar system Even here on Earth, the Sun accounts for roughly 100% of all the energy we use - fossil fuels are just ancient sunlight stored in plants, while wind, hydro, biomass, and solar power are all driven by the Sun right now Beyond Earth, the vast majority of spacecraft, satellites, and future Mars bases run entirely on solar energy The Sun puts out 3.8 × 10²⁶ watts - more energy in a single second than all of humanity has ever used in its entire history And just to put it in perspective: the Sun makes up 99.8% of the total mass of our entire solar system. Jupiter is only 0.1%. Everything else (Earth, Mars, asteroids, etc.) is basically miscellaneous We’re finally learning how to use the only energy source that actually matters ☀️

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Bala Subramanian
Bala Subramanian@BalaOnX·
@Fintech03 That is actually a good take. Population will always drive ingenuity. Removing inefficiencies itself will drive towards the delta. Stick the course, invest in innovation and wait for it to reap benefits.
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Parimal@Fintech03·
The 19th Century Railway Paradox: In the late 1800s, British investors complained that American railway stocks were outrageously expensive & speculative. Many of them pulled money back to stable European markets. The people who took money off the table missed the greatest 50 yr wealth creation in human history. Because they valued the Price but ignored the Delta. India’s valuations are high because it is almost the only large economy with a Positive Real Growth Rate (Growth minus Inflation). Japan & Europe are cheap for the same reason a 20 yr old car is cheap: the maintenance costs (demographics/debt) > the utility.
Nithin Kamath@Nithin0dha

Asked someone from the industry whether foreign investors are still interested in allocating to India. The TLDR: Interest has pretty much died out. India is seen as geopolitically exposed, especially to an oil shock. There are no real AI plays. Valuations are rich. And the rupee situation doesn't help. On top of that, investors who were sitting on gains have taken money off the table and are now looking at markets like Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Europe etc instead. He also pointed out that our LTCG/STCG structure and the increase in STT have made India less attractive compared to other markets that are seeing inflows. If we need to attract FPIs back, and we do, fixing this feels like pretty low-hanging fruit.

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Bala Subramanian
Bala Subramanian@BalaOnX·
@straits_times Respectfully. We have a couple of important state elections and other more productive tasks to focus on.
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Bala Subramanian
Bala Subramanian@BalaOnX·
@Nithin0dha Please make a kit including some weather monitoring equipment for around 10k. Most apartments in cities will be happy to set it up. Will also be useful for wind and weather monitoring.
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Nithin Kamath@Nithin0dha·
Good air, clean water, and food are fundamental to a good life. In that sense, they should be treated as fundamental rights. But air quality has been steadily degrading, and it's not really part of the mainstream conversation. That needs to change. Right now, if you look at the site (link in comments), everything looks green. But as we get closer to the end of the year, things will start looking much worse. Solving air pollution is hard, but the first step is simple: people need to know what they're breathing. Right now, that's not possible. India does collect air quality data, but it's either locked away, too broad to tell you anything about your locality, or just not published at all. There's no single place a citizen can go to get a clear, neighbourhood-level picture. So we set out to fix that. Today, we're launching an open, pan-India air quality platform, built in partnership with leading organisations in the field. The goal: give citizens, schools, local governments, and communities direct access to the data that affects their daily lives. At @RainmatterOrg , we've been committed to keeping this conversation alive, and this platform is our attempt at making that happen. All the data on the site is free and open, so others can build on top of it.
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Bala Subramanian
Bala Subramanian@BalaOnX·
@thekaipullai Exactly. It's always a matter of a few days inconvenience for them which drags for years. The first mistake is allowing them to think short inconvenience is ok for long term benefit. And if we push they will do a super shoddy work rather than the usual shoddy one and leave it.
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The Kaipullai
The Kaipullai@thekaipullai·
For all the positivity that you may have for India, it usually evaporates instantly when you see how authorities treat you and how they give damn about you Don't believe me. Check this out. This is a scene from the road behind my house. For an instance you may think it is a World war trench, but it isn't. It is the great BMC doing one more dig in the quest for oil, treasure or god knows what. The excuse here is that they are laying pipes. Now after digging they realised that they have blocked the main gates of some buildings, making it impossible for them to enter or exit their own houses So what do they do? Instead of building something safe and secure, they simply threw across those "Sorry for the interruption" board across the chasm, precariously that too, and told the residents to use it to cross. If you look at it, it is untethered, rickety and can fall anytime. And God forbid if it falls while some person is crossing it, they will most probably die. BMC is making Mumbaikars play, fear factor in real life. And the reason they do that, is because they know even if someone actually gets injured or dies, they are not going to get punished, they are not going to be sanctioned, nobody is going to get blacklisted or disbarred and nobody is going to go to jail. At most they will be fined some 2 lakh rupees, which for them is less than what they earn in 15 minutes This rickety makeshift "bridge" is the perfect example of how much authorities value your life and how much they care about you.
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Bhavish Aggarwal
Bhavish Aggarwal@bhash·
Strong execution in March by @OlaElectric team across service, sales & CX. Closed with 1,000+ daily orders as demand surged. 10,000+ registrations - 150%+ MoM growth. Market share up. Playing to our strengths and winning back customer trust! We'll reclaim leadership soon - thanks to our customers🫡
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