gautam
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gautam
@grayap9
Abundance environmentalist, Liker of good tweets
Katılım Ekim 2011
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One of many issues in Indian policy thinking is everyone wants China like growth, but few actually attempt to understand Chinese policymaking, history, nor economic thought. Few read even translated Chinese texts, much less the originals.
The left is stuck in the past, the right cant see past its own nose, the center is too narrowminded
Keji Mao (毛克疾）@kejimao
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.
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@envisionedluna Biden will be one of the forgotten greats and so will you
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In Bushwick and Girls at the club are fawning over me like "it's so hot how evil you are"
All I said was that Joe Biden passed some of the best legislation of the past 80 yrs and he gets no credit for it
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@Noahpinion All the stuff till the Crusades is just Eastern Mediterranean infighting lol. Levantines and Greeks are closer to each other than either are to the Dutch or Saudis
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Europe vs. the Mideast is the most epic, long-running Clash of Civilizations in world history.
- Trojan War
- Greece vs. Persia
- Alexander
- Rome vs. Parthians
- Byzantines vs. Sassanids
- Arab conquests
- Crusades
- Turkish conquests
- WW1
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@Noahpinion
There are only two real Clashes of Civilizations throughout history: 1) Europe vs. the Mideast, and 2) Central Asia vs. India. Cases where semipermeable geographic boundaries allow invaders to establish beachheads for centuries but not permanently.
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@frontierindica Honestly a large unified market is a massive advantage. That's the primary strength that the US has compared to say Europe. Indian state needs to reform and improve and things could really rip
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People just think that India has a low base and a lot of "pent up growth" so it can just keep growing at 6-7 per cent for the next 20-30 years even without any major reforms.
shanky shah@shankysanghi
@frontierindica I never understood an attraction of investing in India anyways. There is no significant product development going on in India. People would struggle to name single company in India, whose product sold worldwide. Most of the companies just runs on rent extraction.
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@SatlujAthabasca Indian immigrants are very working class whereas Chinese immigrants are either professionals or wealthier.
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In America-white collar America- East Asians and Brown guys hang out-Harold and Kumar style. In old Canada; pre-2008, if you had non-Punjabi friends they would likely be Chinese. Today, in Canada the brown man and the yellow man have gone their separate ways. Not often remarked on.
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@IndieNat5 @VinamreKasanaa Oh you're a "nationalist" sorry. That means never asking questions of dear leader and trying to improve things. Fucking retard
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@IndieNat5 @VinamreKasanaa Do you think making cola is what makes the US a developed economy? What percentage of the US economy is cola and cola related services.
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@IndieNat5 @VinamreKasanaa Anyone can make ice cream. Advanced countries move up the technological ladder to produce more complex goods and services
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@VinamreKasanaa But why are ice cream brands not a solution, if you become a global brand and dominate foreign markets? If cola companies can be behemoths, why can’t we have same in fmcg?
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@the_ref14 @edwardrow Put in more cameras then. They're cheap and they save lives
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@edwardrow Brother everyone knew where that camera was, slowed down, then immediately went back to whatever speed they were at. Me knowing s camera is not there but a cop might be hiding somewhere along Parkside makes me more conscious of my speed tbh.
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@hecubian_devil @JeremiahDJohns @zikakuto Right yeah it's brutal tendencies are restricted to its own citizens which is way better
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@JeremiahDJohns @zikakuto I think mass murder is bad; that’s one reason I’m sympathetic to the foreign policy interests of China—a country that, unlike us, hasn’t waged any foreign wars since 1979!
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Yeah this is totally the message voters care about, dude. Really got his finger on the pulse of America
Chuck Schumer@SenSchumer
Trump must not sell out Taiwan, period.
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You should be worried about your Dubai investments
India is atleast Missile Safe
Akshat Shrivastava@Akshat_World
- INR falling: deep state. - Forex going doing: deep state. - No jobs: deep state. - Indian market getting crushed: deep state. - FIIs exiting: deep state. - People talking about these issues: deep state. When people are in deep sleep. Everything looks deep state.
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4.5% annual depreciation. About the same rate at which Korean Won depreciated during the South Korean boom.
AgentSaffron ANTI WAR@AgentSaffron
1 rupees was 56 dollars just 12 years ago.
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“50% Lebanese 50% Spanish”
So basically a Latina???
Melian Refugee@escapefrommelos
people posting 50-year old Salma Hayek as an example or “Latinas Aging Gracefully” is incredibly funny when you know her actual ethnic background is 50% Lebanese and 50% Spanish
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@ryxcommar @buccocapital There are ways to do hard deep work using LLMs. But ofc most people aren't doing that
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@buccocapital I highly doubt it. Not because it won't suck or doesn't already suck, but because everyone is getting dumber and lazier because incremental deliverables are "good enough," and we're starting to forget how to do hard deep work.
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Everyone will realize this sucks in 2 years and go back to doing their actual job.
Lenny Rachitsky@lennysan
Engineers don't write code. PMs are shipping to production. The design process is dead (there's no time). Marketing can ship their own campaigns. SDRs are being replaced by AI. Everyone's a data scientist now. What a time to be alive.
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@MariGO2thepolls I mean they just keep getting crazier every year but that doesn't mean he was particularly reasonable
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Anyone who is happy about this is delusional and naive. Shapiro is the voice of reason in the right and you will miss him
New York Magazine@NYMag
There was a time, not very long ago, when Ben Shapiro could reasonably call himself the king of all conservative media. That’s all over now, writes political columnist Ross Barkan. Shapiro’s company, ‘The Daily Wire,’ is instituting significant layoffs. Its YouTube channel’s subscriber base is starting to shrink, and its website has emerged as one of the great traffic losers in conservative media. There are ‘Daily Wire’ YouTube videos that now, after a few days online, have less than 10,000 views, a catastrophically small number for a channel with more than 3 million subscribers. The top comments all mock the low view counts. “If a variety of poor business decisions can be blamed, in part, for the ‘Daily Wire’’s fall from grace — ill-fated investments in feature films, an epic fantasy series, and peculiar merchandise — the greater story is the collapse of Shapiro’s constituency,” writes Barkan. “There are two realities to Shapiro conservatism in 2026: It retains a significant foothold among Republican elites, and it is fast being rejected by the future grassroots of the party.” Read more: nymag.visitlink.me/KtpIKV
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@RishiJoeSanu Never seen it in Mumbai or Hyderabad either. Only seen it in movies
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I don't think I've ever seen a cycle or hand rickshaw in Kerala during my lifetime. Malayalis would consider it too demeaning.
Arjun*@mxtaverse
I have always found the concept of hand rickshaw weird. It shouldn't ideally exist in 2026.
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Bravo. As the rupee sinks past Rs 96 to the dollar and Brent crude has been flirting with $110 for much of this month, the government's genius macroeconomic response is to identify the one small escape hatch left for the aspirational middle class: foreign travel.
It is not enough that this government has already imposed TCS of 5% on overseas tour packages of up to Rs 10 lakh and 20% beyond that. It is not enough that airline tickets already carry GST of 5% for economy and 18% for non-economy. It is not enough that international passengers already pay airport User Development Fees (UDF) on both arrival and departure.
Apparently we need one more special cess/surcharge on foreign travel because middle class wagies must be compelled to enjoy Amrit Kaal by putting a gun to their heads.
If you cannot be persuaded that Vishwaguru is paradise, your Bali, Dubai, Thailand, Europe trip will be fiscally disciplined until morale improves.
Also, remember that Temporary taxes have a habit of becoming permanent once the state discovers people can be emotionally blackmailed into paying them.
By 2027, IT selliyas will be explaining how this foreign travel cess is actually your sacred contribution to Bharat Mata, how your cess pales in comparison to soldiers' sacrifice on the border, how Hindu civilization will be in grave danger if you don't pay the cess on your boys' trip to Phuket.
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Only such politician I can think of is Arvind Kejriwal. Both his children cracked JEE and went to IIT Delhi.
The Kaipullai@thekaipullai
Is there any Indian politician of note whose kid actually goes thru the Indian grind and studies in an Indian institute? And Sharad Pawar, whose might is behind so many educational institutions in Pune, but somehow not one is good enough for his own heir?
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@atrembath Thermal power plants, refineries and factory farms are clearly bad!
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You see factories are good, unless by factories you mean data centers, factory farms, fulfillment centers, refineries, aluminum smelters, or thermal power plants.
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@SometimesSoftly wdym? cancel all agri subsidies, cancel all fossil fuel subsidies, cancel all highway subsidies. EZ
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It's true that they usually won't actually name any welfare programs that red state citizens shouldn't get. Many seem to want to keep giving out the money... *while* stigmatizing the red-staters as poor, dumb free-loaders.
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There's a famous conservative tweet that goes something like "When I say liberals are bad, I mean I think you're dumb but would save you from a fire. When liberals say conservatives are bad they mean they should all die."
🏳️🌈Mar G-O 🌐🇺🇦@MariGO2thepolls
Rural Appalachian: I hate urban libs and I hope they die Urban liberals: another trillion to rural Appalachians. They are just misunderstood Suburban conservatives: fuck I don’t wanna hang out with rural Appalachian this sucks. Maybe if we elect Trump Urban libs will have to invite me to parties
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