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@cvkrishnan Why is it that tata keeps getting these important deals and not someone else?

What a dumb thread. No comparisons between what India is trying to do vs what China is. India isn’t getting the tech with the MOU. ASML will be skilling Indian workers to operate the machine. Chinese are trying to design and develop their own version of the machine. Own the tech.

@Devz15 lodge complaint on consumer helpline consumerhelpline.gov.in/public/

🚨 WARNING for all Pixel owners in India. 🚨 My Pixel device was sent to official Google repair. After inspection, Google declared it “not repairable” and gave me only 2 choices: 1️⃣ Pay ₹22,620 for a replacement device 2️⃣ Get the phone returned unrepaired Now comes the shocking part. Before taking ₹22k+, Google India REFUSES to disclose: ❌ Which exact device they will send ❌ Whether it’s NEW or REFURBISHED ❌ Battery health details ❌ Water Resistance Rating ❌ Replacement quality standards ❌ Google cannot guarantee battery health percentage ❌ Google cannot guarantee IP/water resistance rating And in writing, Google Support confirmed: ⚠️ Once payment is made, there is NO refund and NO return — even if you are unhappy with the replacement device quality sent later. Most shocking part? Google could not even confirm whether they have any minimum measurable quality standards/policies for refurbished replacement devices: Battery health % Water resistance integrity like IP rating So basically: Pay first. Find out later what device you got. No refund. No choice. Without transparency, measurable quality benchmarks or refund rights. This is not premium after-sales support. This is “trust us after payment.” Attaching screenshots of Google Support’s own email response. Indian Pixel buyers deserve transparency before payment, not blind acceptance. @GoogleIndia @madebygoogle #GooglePixel #PixelIndia #Pixel6 #GoogleIndia #ConsumerRights #RightToRepair #MadeByGoogle #TechTwitter #Android #Smartphones

@polydao Why even bother working for these companies when its obvious you are disposable to them like a tampon? use and throw. removing atlassian products from my stack now.

Atlassian's revenue: $1.79 billion last quarter Atlassian's move: fire the engineer who built their infrastructure his move: post a 38-minute breakdown of every system he built, free for anyone to copy what he revealed: > Envoy proxy instead of enterprise load balancers > sidecar architecture for auth, logging, rate limits > DynamoDB + SQS for async provisioning > Packer + SaltStack for automated VM deployments at scale Atlassian charges per employee across 350,000 customers this guy just handed you the enterprise playbook for free save this

@AngelicaOung India is trying to figure out an economic model where they dont have to work gruelling hours for little pay to please corporations like foxconn while perplexed why china hates india and helps its enemies instead of india.

Chinese economist: in my experience Indians seem more interested in arguing than learning from the Chinese experience Indian ppl: NO WE ARE NOT! (Kudos for the Indians who wrote actual thoughtful answers.)

@spaceandtech_ they are here

Limix Dynamics unveiled Tron 2 in late 2025, a flexible robot that can switch between dual-arm, bipedal, and wheeled-leg modes. In wheeled-leg mode, it can carry payloads up to 30 kg, move across tough terrain, and recharge automatically for longer operations. In bipedal mode, Tron 2 uses visual input to climb stairs step by step and adapt to complex environments.

@kejimao But what did you tell them?

Many years ago, I gave two presentations on how China builds its industrial and technological ecosystem—one for an Indian audience and one for a Vietnamese audience. Although the content was largely the same and went into many details that were rarely mentioned in other settings, the feedback from the Vietnamese and Indian participants was strikingly different. When I discussed the gaps between Vietnam and China, my Vietnamese friends listened very attentively to my analysis of Vietnam’s weaknesses. They even proactively acknowledged Vietnam’s deficiencies and asked me to analyze more specific issues in greater detail. However, when I compared China and India, many Indian friends became quite argumentative. They tried to compete with or challenge the Chinese perspective on almost every point, to the point where I could barely develop my analysis. As a result, they might have won the debate, but missed a valuable opportunity to have a meaningful exchange. So, I came to know which country would be the real winner for "China+1" many years beforehand.

@ShivrattanDhil1 The aesthetics of communism achieved with capitalism. HAHA

Modernization and Aesthetics” The world lost it's colors and now most things are gray!! Color didn't disappear overnight; it faded through the objects we buy, the rooms we stage, the cars we drive, and the buildings designed to offend nobody. When the Science Museum Group analyzed 7,083 everyday object photos, its researchers found that modern objects have become grayer and squarer over time. The same pattern now fills parking lots, where Axalta's 2025 global report says white, black, gray, and silver made up 81% of new vehicle colors. What looks like taste is often economics, because neutral design is easier to manufacture, sell, resell, and scale!!

@protosphinx @Phoenixx12345 You are right. Indian state is mostly extractivist, psychopathic and lethargic. Do you really expect an intelligent person to approach a dehat mla for govt protection?

@Phoenixx12345 America is full entrepreneurship - very less state. China is all state. India is stuck in the middle. Entrepreneurs are on their own. State still extracts the max without providing the infra or the tools needed to be successful.

Chinese founders are usually: - engineers - party members - capitalists In that order. So when they build or acquire a company, maximizing shareholder value is not the first objective. The first objective is acquiring know-how and industrial capability. The mindset is: "we should know how to build this thing in China for the simple reason that my civilization needs to learn this sooner or later and i don't care about consequences or optics - if it looks like stealing IP so be it, I don't have to explain..." The only people judging you are in your local party HQ. If you’re a credible founder in China, you can go to a local party chief and say: "I need x engineers, land, and some starter funds to build this widget company" And if the state thinks the industry matters, you’ll get the best resources in the province, industrial land and enough support to get going. The rest is up to you. Many, many fail. Like most people think they would be successful with capital - go to China and see. You get everything - land, capital, people and even then the success ratio is like 1-5%... OG American founders were also engineer-first. Bill Hewlett and David Packard built HP as engineers. Same with a lot of old American industrial giants. But over time those founders exited and the boards got taken over by pure financial operators focused entirely on maximizing quarterly shareholder value. A single generation of this mentality hollowed out the entire American industry. Product-first founders like Elon Musk exist today because there was a generational demand for good engineering lead founders. Indian boomer founders meanwhile were always capitalist-first from day one. Not even saying that negatively. Many come from communities that are insanely optimized around capital survival and allocation. That’s a real skill developed over centuries. But the downside of that mindset is that they were rarely engineer-first or product-first EVEN if they were engineers by training. They were always capitalist first. And that's very reasonable. They're on their own. Nobody has their back. They need to perform or die. So when an Indian conglomerate acquires something like Jaguar, the instinct becomes: - optimize margins - reduce costs - extract shareholder value But if you don’t deeply understand first principles of car manufacturing, how much value can you really compound long term ? So companies get handed to hired professionals and MBA operators. The exact same class of people that helped hollow out American industry. Now America is slowly realizing pure financial capitalism can become self-destructive because eventually the spreadsheet people cannibalize the actual industrial base in pursuit of EPS. India already lives in that reality. Infosys is a good example. A company effectively consuming itself to maintain quarter-on-quarter performance without aggressively building the future. And as I said they’re not even wrong. Anyone would do the same unless the system is realigned for long term incentives. Who in India actually has your back if you miss numbers for 2-3 yrs while investing heavily into long-term capability ? Tesla survived because retail investors and the American public effectively backed Elon Musk through a decade of chaos and losses. Toyota delivers 6-7x of Tesla's profit EVERY QUARTER but Tesla wins because try posting and see Tesla retail investors explaining you the future of automobiles. Indian scarcity markets can't and won't tolerate that kind of long-duration industrial gamble. Its a 3k gdp/capita country nobody has time for long term nonsense plus who know who's grfiting vs being serious...people talk about nationalism then take your money and run. China solved this by - serve the party - align with state goals - stay below the radar and build the system will protect you while you build. In India you are on your own. - manage the regulators - manage capital - which is very expensive - manage your own power/infra - deal with corruption - manage untrained talent All of that becomes a massive tax on operations. Nobody has the time to do any long-term thinking. Any anyone who does that would be eaten alive by those who optimize for survival.

@MaitreyaBhakal You are inconsiderate on so many fronts, its unbelievable. Industrialised economy implies immense pollution too especially if trying to sell cheap shit. India doesnt necessarily have to be an export economy. Can become a domestic consumption economy like europe, usa,etc. or mixed

Tapping the sign again: If any developing country wants to become a high-income, industrialized economy, it needs to carefully study what India has done for the last three decades - and then do the opposite. India's bourgeoisie and bureaucrats are a curious mix of malice and incompetence. Evil and stupid existing side by side. Future historians will wonder how exactly one can underperform this badly. And to think that just until a few years ago, the best "minds" in the world confidently declared that India would surpass China any day now.

@frontierindica it already taxes it. gst plus income tax.

The government's first instinct when it cannot license, tax, or capture a sector as a vote bank is to ban it. Rapido and bike taxis solve two genuinely hard Indian problems at once: abysmal last-mile connectivity that sarkari babus never fixed, and the shortage of flexible income for someone who owns a bike and needs to top up his monthly income. That is a rare double win. Naturally, this makes it more threatening to the gormint, not less. "How dare this 20 year old boy with a bike from a tier 3 town make 25K in extra income from a part time gig! This sounds like anti-national activity funded by George Soros!"

@mxtaverse how do you measure it?

Don't let the headlines mislead you. The economy had a major slowdown in 2019, the year before lockdown. The economy also started doing badly a year before the middle east war. Blaming their incompetence on external factors will not solve any problem.

@GoshawkTrades Such a brilliant allocation of resources....

Jane Street just showed the inside of their AI training data center in Texas. 4,032 GPUs. 56 racks. 8,000 km of fiber. liquid cooling running through every server because air cooling can't handle the heat anymore. but the part that got me was the origin story. Ron Minsky, who co-heads their technology group. said their first compute cluster was literally six Dell boxes stacked on top of each other at the end of a desk row. they called it "the hive." the trading systems sat out in the room with the traders because they wanted to be able to unplug them if something went wrong. at one point, someone vacuuming the office unplugged a live trading system in the middle of the day. from six Dell boxes and a vacuum cleaner incident to a liquid-cooled GPU data center processing trades in under 100 nanoseconds. that's a 20-year arc.

@kapsology Very clever move.

We are not hating this government enough for destroying our kids’ future!

@RoshanKrRaii which car is he talking about??

I don’t care about Petrol and Diesel, I travel in vehicles which run 100% on Broken rice, Corn and Sugarcane : Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari on Shekhar Tonite 😭😭😭 The audacity to give this statement on a day when Petrol Prices have been hiked, Bro has 0 Shame.

I'd pick a generously sized McMansion in a prime residential area of a southwestern coastal town over the most luxurious apartment in DLF Camellias anyday.

@Kapil_Jyani_ electric cars?

ग्रीन SM नामक वियतनाम की कंपनी… भारत में बड़े स्तर पर अपनी टेक्सी सर्विस शुरू करने जा रही है… इच्छुक व्यक्ति सम्पर्क करके रोज़गार पा सकता है…

@om_patel5 what's the name of the app?

THIS GUY GOT TIRED OF FAKE NEWS SO HE BUILT A LIVESTREAM MAP WHERE ANYONE CAN SHOW WHAT'S ACTUALLY HAPPENING ON THE GROUND you open a map, tap a location anywhere in the world, and see live video from someone standing there right now basically a raw livestream from the person who is physically there this would be amazing for documenting civil unrest and protests think about what this means for breaking news. earthquake hits somewhere, you open the map and watch 50 different people streaming from different angles in real time the moderation challenge is going to be insane though (live unfiltered video from anywhere in the world with no delay isn't exactly easy to maintain on an app) but if they figure it out this could be one of the most important apps built this year

@sidpatankar @GlobalNCAP @ToyotaMotorCorp @Toyota_India @ToyotaSA @NBrenwin @HannesCars @woodstoday @ameya_naik @AckoDrive Holy shit, the japanese have fallen too :( :(

#BREAKING The made in India Toyota Glanza (exported as Starlet to Africa) gets ZERO stars from Global NCAP. The car is essentially a rebadged Maruti Suzuki Baleno of course. The test is part of @GlobalNCAP’s Safer Cars for Africa programme. Watch the video for more details. SVP

@arcticinstincts Because its not an actual nobel prize. ineteconomics.org/perspectives/v…

Funny how 57 Nobel Econ prizes were awarded yet the “top” Econ thinkers failed to predict illiberal China’s growth/rise, & democratic India & Africa’s persistent lag regardless of institutional type. At least Nobels in Medicine require discoveries proven to cure some illness

@mxtaverse When the state's currency is in jeopardy, dont buy the alternate that's working.

Gold jewellery stores should shut all their shops for one year in national interest. Jai Hind!