Manish Bidasaria

@CoderUday Indians aren't dumb (in terms of IQ or innate intelligence). But they cling to an absolutely toxic culture out of pride and history. @mbidasar/indian-courage-cowardice-23dd63f126ed" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@mbidasar/indi…

On day 1 of my high school history class, our professor got up and said You are 15 or 16 years old. 200 years ago people your age were married, planted crops, had children, and built a cabin by winter. You can do your homework. The bar set for you historically is embarrassingly low. You are not dealing with regional famine or plague. You do not have to save your family from marauders or go into battle to destroy your enemies. You have to sit down and learn from someone who cares about you in a safe, air-conditioned room. You have no excuses.

@parmita Brilliantly retarded. The most racist person alive couldn't imagine this.

This is kind of brilliant.

A government is the “biggest gang,” with a local monopoly on violence. It’s good at preventing and stopping things. It’s bad at building and running things. Its main job is law and order, and a government which fails at that, is a failed government.

@iWomansplainer Leftist women should be put on the front lines in case a civil war breaks out. Men who voted for strong borders, strong law enforcement, strong prison sentences for violent offenders, and strong 2A rights....should not risk life, limb, or liberty.

@FutureJurvetson Turns out starting a company is the best form of philanthropy. Who would have guessed?

@nikitabier @BillyM2k ELI12 > ELI5

@BillyM2k What if it showed a tooltip when tapping it and gave you some options? • Fact check: Is this true? • Summarize this • Explain like I’m five

i find myself using the “ask grok” button on the upper right of posts very frequently these days, especially since grok 4.20 feels a lot smarter than previous iterations it’s really helpful when something looks like fake news and i can quickly check if it’s been vetted anywhere

@nikitabier @BillyM2k Often I have a specific question about a post (e.g. a definition), and compute is wasted until I quickly hit the stop button. So that would be a helpful option (no output until I prompt).

@HayekAndKeynes GDP optimization is both Keynesian and a gross violation of Goodhart's Law x.com/GammaOverTheta…

I had dinner with some old Bridgewater colleagues a couple weeks ago and of course we started debating nonsense and the one question that I’ve chewed on more than any other is “what is GDP and how do we measure it” - specifically what happens if AI “productivity” surges and we were able to do lots things, but there is no value ascribed to it (not measured) because the output is essentially free outside of the power used to generate it? Interestingly, in this sense, productivity could actually collapse if you look at the number of workers vs the value of their output with AI (it won’t - workers will just do a lot more work with AI that will have lower value per task). Clearly that’s not how we intuitively think about productivity which makes me think that the measurement of GDP isn’t really capturing what we want it to - it captures value not quantity. But then when you start to run with the idea, it challenges the basic idea that higher GDP growth is inherently good thing. Is America really better off because we spend 20% of our GDP on healthcare? Does that realistically mean we can support the same Debt:GDP even though that healthcare portion is heavily paid for by the government? Is America now worse off if a lot of value that doctors used to provide is now handled by AI (massively deflationary)? Others have proposed things like the gross national happiness index - alongside GDP it’s clear we need some sort of index that weighs basic things such as healthcare, access to housing, educational attainment, family, structure, crime, ability to provide for oneself in retirement - some sort of average quality of life score. I’m sure someone else has already done this. A lot of this isn’t new - there were probably similar debates during the Industrial Revolution as mass production became much easier but in a world where these metrics are more front and center I think it’s a measurement issue that will become increasingly important in the coming years. A lot of it has just been ignored during the digital revolution - email vs paper, zoom vs plane. Ultimately we need a richer data set to evaluate countries than a single GDP per capita number.

In conventional markets people get liquidated when they're wrong. Here (auto-deleveraging) you get liquidated when you're right (often hugely right). Why? Not because you have a capital issue, but because the person on the opposite side of the trade does. Their losses are your gains, but since the exchange has to limit their losses, by extension they must limit your gains. So forcibly exiting the other guy unfortunately also means forcibly exiting you (the winner) because every sale requires a buy (and vice versa). This is *not* an issue w/ regulated options, futures, and stocks. Only an issue with crypto perps (because no clearinghouse).

@dethective can you tdlr it for us chaps

I had 4 short positions on HL opened and you might think I made a lot of money in this crash. Nope. But I learned what is auto delevarage

@idiotonline781 Lesser animals. Not good enough.

They are called lounges

There should be paid bathrooms in airports. Charge $100. Let the animals use the regular ones.

@LizzyStarrrdust @ArtemisConsort Abilene Paradox

@ArtemisConsort Oh no. What's this called? There's a name for it.

Okay, time to explain guns to our new friends. Every day, when I leave the house, I attach a holstered handgun to my belt, under my shirt or coat. I would no more leave the house without a gun than I would walk around outdoors without shoes. Is it because I "need" a gun? No. I live in rural Tennessee, which is state in the American south. It's very safe here. The dangerous parts of America are big cities where the local government is leftist, and they shelter illegal migrant from the third world, and won't send violent criminals to prison. Places like Chicago and New York City. Yet, any time I leave the house, I put on a gun, knowing that I will probably never have to use it, and if I do, it will probably be on an aggressive stray dog, not a human. So why do I do it? Why do many other people who live around me do it? Why do we do this so much that carrying a gun is considered totally normal? If someone spotted it, it would not even arouse a comment, much less any fear. In fact, it is legal to carry a gun openly here, without covering it up. Covering it up is just considered polite. So.... why? Well, try thinking of an English nobleman, during the reign of Elizabeth the First. When he dressed to go ride to court, he would hang a slender fencing sword, called a rapier or smallsword, from his belt. He didn't expect to be attacked. He didn't even expect to fight a duel. And if he was challenged to a duel, he wouldn't need his sword right then. He would meet his challenger later at an agreed-upon place and time. No, he wore his sword because it was an expression of who he was. He was a gentleman, a person of status, with the legal privilege of carrying a sword. By carrying a sword, he asserted his rights and prerogatives as a nobleman. In Japan, you had the same sort of thing happening. The samurai, members of the bushi class, wore the two swords not because they expected to be attacked at any moment, but because the two swords were an essential part of who he was. So, in these two cases, weapons were carried by noblemen as an assertion of status. They had the right to do so, and they did so in order to assert, exercise, and retain the right. Americans carry guns because every American citizen is a nobleman. When we fought the British for our independence, that war began on April 19th, 1775, when British troops, fearing American rebelliousness, marched out from Boston to confiscate guns from people living in the surrounding countryside. Our ancestors did not submit to this. We shot them instead, and they fled back to Boston with their tails between their legs, to cower under the cover of the guns from the warship HMS Sommerset. Thus began several years of war. And when we won that war, we made a country where no government, and no man, would ever be allowed to disarm the people. No agent of the government may say to us, "I may have a gun, and you may not." Because to say that is to say "I am a nobleman, and you are a peasant. I am a master, and you are a slave." We are not peasants here. We are all noblemen. That is the most basic principle of what it means to be an American. I can be impoverished, so I can to be so poor that I live in a van down by the river. But however reduced my circumstances, as an American, I still have the rights and freedoms of a nobleman, of a daimyo, because that is the basic founding idea of the nation we forged on that day. If you come to America to visit, if you walk among us, you will pass many people carrying guns. You will not notice this. You will not see them. You will witness no violence. Everything will be normal. But the guns will be there. Because that is who we are. We don't carry guns to be violent. We don't wish to be rude, or to intimidate people. We keep our guns covered up. But they are the deepest, most essential part of what it means to be American.

@TechCrunch 11 vertebrates are killed every *second* from cars just in the U.S. alone.

A self-driving car in Austin killed a mother duck, sparking neighborhood outrage techcrunch.com/2026/04/08/a-s…

Gas station owned by Indians - PASS Subway owned by Indians - PASS Tim Hortons or Dunkin owned by Indians - PASS I pay 10x extra for brand pharma just to avoid Indian generics. Yes almost 50% of my entire wealth is invested with the very best and brightest Indian-Americans. But think in bell curves 🛎️. The MEDIAN Indian is a rapacious scumbag with whom I avoid even the most superficial transaction. Non-violent legal discrimination against Indians is wholly justified, wise, and dutifully earned. I will never apologize for pattern recognition, even as I myself lose business. Who needs enemies when you have your own fellow ethnics.

@Simon_Ingari Because most people believe their own hiring judgment to be stunted, so they lean on social approval by other people who are likely equally retarded as themselves.

I've never understood why it’s easier to get hired when you already have a job than when you’re unemployed.

@battleangelviv xAI should open up walk-in clinic powered by Grok do some scans and interpret

AI is so much more useful to me than any doctor has ever been

As a European, I apologize to Americans for all the idiocy coming from our side. You save your pilots no matter the cost. You send humans to the moon. You fight authoritarianism head-on. It's truly inspiring. We're on the wrong side of the moral equation.