Quick notes: War-by-remote | WSR economy...

• ‘War by Remote’: Most countries are insufficiently prepared to deal with the growing security challenge posed by combat drones — drones that drop bombs and are reusable. “The thing is, drones are cheaper — you don’t risk pilots by using them as it’s all remote-controlled.” UN investigators have suggested that the Houthis’ new UAV-X drone may have a range of up to 1,500 kilometers.



• Pakis may use it next: Pak drones dropping weapons into Punjab highlights the need for drone-disabling tech... The US has anti-UAV defence systems that scan the airspace for unmanned drones and disable them using radio beams..The Israelis have mastered this technology and at least two Israeli companies were identified some months ago to provide Indian agencies drone-disabling technology. Field tests had been conducted for the purpose, but no decision was taken and the issue remained unaddressed. 



• The WSR economy: The Wheat-Sugar-Rice economy and the polices used for 6 decades to promote & protect it, have reached a complete dead end.

#IndianEcon The Wheat-Sugar-Rice (#WSR) economy and the polices used for 6 decades to promote & protect it, have reached a complete #DeadEnd. A paradigm shift in Policy & institutions is necessary to empower farmers & provide critical #Public (& Quadi-Public) #Goods to Farmers. https://t.co/1ouktsSsso

— Dr Arvind Virmani (@dravirmani) September 20, 2019




• Grab this opportunity: Taiwanese businesses look to India as alternative to China



• Amazon's copycat ways: Amazon can easily identify popular products. With its unprecedented scale, it can then offer those products at a fraction of the cost that other companies sell their wares. It's an aspect of the company that regulators have struggled with for a while. One potential solution to the problem is to not allow big e-commerce platforms to sell their own products on their platforms. This is something India does.

Amazon is now straight copying Allbirds.

We have reached "peak cloning" in Silicon Valley.

There are no rules anymore - if you build a product that works, Amazon or Facebook will copy it.

People used to care. Not anymore. pic.twitter.com/73bDMgruMX

— Jeff Morris Jr. (@jmj) September 19, 2019




• Choiceless Awareness: Ashtavakra says that you are already pure and there is nothing to be renounced. You are pure.
  
    न ते संगोऽस्ति केनापि किं शुद्धस्त्यक्तुमिच्छसि ।
    संघातविलयं कुर्वन्नेवमेव लयं व्रज ॥ ५-१॥
  
    Nothing touches you 
    What is there to renounce?
    Let it all go,
    The body and the mind.
    Let yourself dissolve.
  
  
  
• Vehicle pollution can affect unborn babies: The black carbon particles load found in the placentas were directly proportional to the mothers' residential black carbon exposure during pregnancy. 



• 'Earth lost forest area the size of India since 90s': More than 10 per cent of the planet's wilderness has been destroyed since the 1990s -- an area about the size of India. . . . . . Bird populations in US and Canada down 3bn in 50 years



• A bull will not attack if it is not threatened.: The Spanish bull run is Christian Europe's crude pastime.

A teacher shows that a bull in a square full of people will not attack anyone if it is not threatened. pic.twitter.com/vopiw6diKw

— The Unexplained (@Unexplained) September 23, 2019