mRNA may yet have terrible side effects, and anyway didn't a million US people die?
famous last words, wsj?
Friday, December 30, 2022
google should do a similar "buy all hindu" in india
if they can do this in the US, why not in india?
identify hindu businesses.
if google can't do this, can hindus themselves do this? or is it not #secular?
eastern europeans and their atavistic blood feud against russia
this won't end well. that much i can tell you.
how important india is to biden
no ambassador for years. his pick is a doofus, too. rejected by los angeles, so let's send him to india. yeah. 
truly remarkable: eastern europeans will fight russia to the last american
blinken, albright, nuland, vindman, et al: atavistic blood feuds by these guys against russia are fueling the ukraine war. but this is the first time i have heard that the US in anticipation of russia invading ukraine decided to pull out willy-nilly from afghanistan ruining their reputation (even hollywood is yet to do a film lionizing US forces' valor in afghan), leaving behind $$billions worth of weapons.
Thursday, December 29, 2022
pak origin lina will do a number on US firms esp big tech
imagine, a woke pak. this will not end well.
kissinger worries about the world
in other words, leave it to us few brilliant intellects to screw up all you plebeians.
from walter russell mead in WSJ
Wednesday, December 28, 2022
Virus export
Chinese tourists can spread dangerous new variants: 1000% travel spike forces Japan and India to require negative coronavirus tests and brief quarantine periods from Chinese travelers.
Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio said China’s “lack of information-sharing and transparency” about the coronavirus, and the “huge discrepancies” between tallies of infections and fatalities from various sources, compelled Japan to take steps to “prevent the rapid increase of infections in this country.”
Risk of new variants: The lack of transparent data from China—particularly about viral genomic sequencing—is making it “increasingly difficult for public health officials to ensure that they will be able to identify any potential new variants and take prompt measures to reduce the spread”.
Tuesday, December 27, 2022
interesting thread on depopulation (of india) efforts by the US
according to me there's a logically consistent thread here:
1. wokes/Democrats think climate change is the biggest issue facing us
2. climate change is exacerbated by increasing population (never mind per capita emissions)
3. ergo, best thing to do is to reduce populations
4. which populations? why, of course, black and brown populations
5. so let's create biological warfare mechanisms to depopulate black and brown countries
6. small problem, US law prohibits gain of function type experiments
7. oh wait, chinese law doesn't. so let's fund the chinese (and others with lax rules)
8. let's create pandemics. let's even go so far as to obliquely warn about them
9. plan: pandemics mean only white (and ok, yellow) countries will have vaccines
10. other countries will be denied vaccines, and they will drop dead like flies
11. let's pick a lab... yeah, wuhan and send old peter daszak there with the funds
12. oops... idiots at wuhan released the thing earlier than we wanted
13. ok, our friends at pfizer and moderna have a funky, untested tech called mRNA
14. let's hype up mRNA and pump out billions of doses as the panacea
15. but let's hoard the doses so that only white countries get them
16. hey presto: blacks and browns will die like flies. mission accomplished.
17. oops, bloody indians invented a vaccine that actually works and isn't a carrier of further bioweapons
18. let's use the native assets to deprecate covaxin and deny it WHO certification
19. double oops. covaxin seems to work, and black countries that got no vaccine seem just fine
20. triple oops: partner in crime china is now going to have massive infections
21. ok, back to the drawing board for the next bioweapon. go to step 1.
pretty interesting stuff here. mRNA will mess with your DNA, plus it can be a carrier for even worse bugs.
see this thread about bad faith for a long time.
brits tried to depopulate india through famines. didn't quite work. so this is plan B.
but hey, biden has $45 billion for ukraine; you can eat cake
no money for medicaid for poor people. but don't worry, democracy is safe.
talk of skewed priorities. zelensky has to live comfortably, that's the big thing.
Monday, December 26, 2022
meta and privacy, and in passing, cambridge analytica
the latter were friends of the sonia congress until they shut shop.
so $5 billion, $725 million. non trivial fines.
huawei cannot be excluded from telecom
they have standards-necessary-patents, i imagine.
when will reliance have these?
totally cool name for weather reporter
doesn't suryatapa mean 'sun's heat'?
that/he would be most welcome in most of the US!
Friday, December 23, 2022
Quick notes: US meddling | Origins of Indian IT...
- US State Department to sponsor transgender activism in India: To support the creation of transgender activist groups inside corporations in India.
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The untold story of Indian IT industry: Dr Homi Bhabha was actually the creator of many things that are relevant to India today, including computers. Bhabha wrote a report at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in 1959 on the need for computer education and the need for India to embark on a computer industry.
“In 1962, TIFR released the first digital computer for scientific applications - ‘TIFRAC’. Joined MTech computer science in 1965 when IIT Kanpur started the first computer science school. We need to recognise all these events and people and as the starting points for this industry in India”. -
Apple Suppliers Accelerate Buildup Outside China: A legion of skilled workers who'd received some education and training has been the backbone of China's rise as the world's factory. A direct replacement for China isn't immediately in the cards, however firms like Foxconn Pegatron are putting the foundations in place to handle more of the final assembly and packaging of products outside China.
- Apple looking to move production of Mac Pro to Vietnam. Vietnam has attracted 21 Apple suppliers to operate in the country.
- Foxconn building hostel to house 60,000 employees in Tamil Nadu - Cars? In this economy? Car-free streets are here to stay. Here’s how four cities took back miles of pavement from cars, making a popular pandemic solution into a permanent fixture.
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A trash heap 62 meters high in India: Over decades, dangerous toxins have seeped into the ground, polluting the water supply for thousands of residents living nearby. “The methane leak from this landfill would have the same climate impact as emissions from 350,000 US cars”.
- 'Asking for a friend': Salesforce co-CEO Marc Benioff told employees in a Slack message that the company’s newest hires aren’t being productive enough, and he asked for feedback as to why that’s the case. “Are we not building tribal knowledge with new employees without an office culture?” he asked in a message viewed by CNBC. He said he was “asking for a friend,” a phrase people often use on the internet to humorously reveal their curiosity about a topic.
Management lessons from Marc B:
1. CEO poses important directional issues as questions rather than commands.
2. CEO shows gratitude for feedback.
3. Trust as a primary company value. - Kalapini Komkali: Ram Niranjan Nyara re, Kabir nirgun bhajan
Wednesday, December 21, 2022
Friday, December 16, 2022
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Friday, December 09, 2022
Quick notes: Separation of powers | Tech secrets...
- ‘Respect the Laxman Rekha’: Vice President takes on the Ayotollahs of Supreme Court. . . . . . Finally, someone steps up to put India's SC in its place, which has been making a mockery of separation of powers. No one relinquishes power voluntarily. You need to seize it by force.
- FTAs and their discontents: Do free trade agreements benefit India? India's balance of trade has worsened with countries with which it has signed free trade agreements
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Tech secrets: Taiwan govt looks to protect TSMC tech from the US
3nm by 2026: TSMC commits to $40 Billion investment on Arizona Fab.
Pointing to high costs and a US skills shortage, TSMC has reported challenges to the completion by next December of its new 4 nanometer semiconductor plant north of Phoenix - The incredible shrinking future of college: The population of college-age Americans is about to crash. It will change higher education forever.
- Gambling Addiction: Online gambling ravaged UK. America could be next.
- Kumar Mardur: Raag Gaud Sarang | Kirana Khayal.
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The eight negations: Nagarjuna's eightfold negations are that there is no becoming, no not being, no annihilation, no persistence, no unity, no diversity, no coming, and no departure.. "Substance does not exist, non-substance also does not exist, nothing that is to be designated by words exists at all. All the things that are designated by words similar to 'nirvan' are void of an own being".
The eight negations are actually four pairs of neither birth nor death, neither end nor permanence, neither identity nor difference, neither coming nor going. - Revathi Kamath: Lake activist breathes new life into polluted wetland in Bengaluru outskirts
- Journalism Competition and Preservation Act: US legislation pits Big Tech against news outlets.. Big Tech benefits tremendously from journalism content, yet they refuse to pay local publishers fairly for the content that fuels their platforms.
- New Zealand plans law to require Facebook, Google to pay for news: The legislation will be modelled on similar laws in Australia and Canada. "It is critical that those benefiting from their news content actually pay for it."
- Pathetic record: Western medicine has failed people with chronic pain.
The Supreme Court can have 34 judges.
— Anup Surendranath (@asurendranath) December 3, 2022
Chief Justice DY Chandrachud will have the opportunity to fill at least 18 vacancies during his tenure as CJI.
Once you understand the significance of that, you can see why the Law Minister and the Vice-President are wading in so heavily.
Thursday, December 08, 2022
Tuesday, December 06, 2022
Monday, December 05, 2022
will the US balkanize before russia, china, or india?
scary prospect of the Untied States of America.
Thursday, December 01, 2022
Quick notes: Anti-drone | R&D spend...
- Anti-drone predator: Indian Army shows off birds-of-prey trained to destroy armed drones.
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Where Indian Army Scores Over PLA: An oft-overlooked military advantage that India has against China is the resilience and fighting quality of our combat forces. In contrast, the average Chinese soldier is a lone male child, pampered by an adoring family and ill-prepared for the hazards and discomforts of the Line of Actual Control.
This man-to-man advantage that Indian jawans on the LAC enjoy over the relatively comfort-loving Chinese soldiers would be eroded once the ranks of hardened jawans, enrolled on long-service tenures, are diluted by significant numbers of so-called Agniveers -- soldiers enrolled on short-service tenures of four years. - Kumbhaka (Breath Retention) and Bohr Effect: According to the Bohr Effect, buildup of CO2 during breath retention (hypoxia) triggers release of oxygen. Oxygen is attached to hemoglobin in the blood, and is then unloaded into the tissues.
Most people have a blood oxygen saturation level of 95-98%, which sounds very high. However, this number is only a measure of oxygen in the blood—not the tissues, where oxygen is needed to energize and repair. Once oxygen is unloaded from hemoglobin due to a breath hold, it can be utilized by tissues. CO2 is then picked up by hemoglobin, escorted to the lungs, and breathed out. - Take One Minute to Discover the Timeless:
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Annual R&D spend as a percentage of GDP: India? We spent it on Sardar Patel and Kempegowda statues.
- 'Most countries won't forgive deaths of children': 'The deaths of the children in the Gambia would batter India's reputation as the developing world's pharmacy.'
- Supplement fetish: Intake of popular commercial dietary supplements like nicotinamide riboside (NR), a form of vitamin B3, could actually increase the risk of serious diseases, including cancer. NR could not only increase the risk of someone developing triple-negative breast cancer but also cause the cancer to spread to the brain, the study said.
- Dylan Patel: China's Biren is a bigger threat to Nvidia’s AI training hardware dominance than the competition from Intel, AMD, Graphcore, SambaNova, or Cerebras. How China is attempting to evade US sanctions.
- 'There really is more to life than posting on Instagram': "I would find myself scrolling at night, and then having a bad night's sleep, and then waking up not feeling refreshed. Now I'm not making comparisons in my day-to-day life, and I don't really know what celebrities are doing".
- TikTok is China's Digital Fentanyl: They show a very different version in China than in U.S. “China only allows people to be on TikTok for 40 minutes a day”.
- Climate hypocrisy: U.S. to auction almost 1 Million Acres off Alaskan Coast for oil drilling.
#WATCH | Indian Army demonstrates the capability of the trained Kite to take down small drones at Auli in Uttarakhand pic.twitter.com/AkZvbTJjSi
— ANI (@ANI) November 29, 2022
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