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Debashis Basu retweeted
FT comments never miss. I don’t think I’ve read such a rational analysis of the situation we’re in for a long time.
I've been in France since 2002 and have never seen the streets so violent nor the politics so extreme. From the sacking of the supermarket on my street to the prospect of Présidente Le Pen, here's me @FT including thoughts from 2 French Nobel laureates as.ft.com/r/addcad57-0f9d-4e…
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The alarm bells that this year is going to be Super El Niño year is ringing since January of this year. Scan if any one in the polity, any leader in power - agri / commerce/ finance / pmo / hm, any one from RSS, wrote / said / proposed / warned / promised anything about it, assuming off course if they know that El Niño is not a narco drama. On the contrary they wrote columns arguing why chopping Nicobar is good, gifted away land for resourcing guzzling data-centres in drought prone regions, diverted food stock to ethanol, put people who are opposed forests diversion to mining and unscientific hydro projects behind bars. The political economy of Ecocide.
This is an all alarms blaring level of crisis for rural India. Distress will follow.
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The world isn’t prepared for China’s demographic onslaught of retirees taking dance classes at the local senior community center.
我他妈真的被笑死😂
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“There is not in Europe any such thing as a pure race. Russians have an admixture of Tartar blood, Germans are largely Slavonic, France is a mixture of Celts, Germans, and people of Mediterranean race, Italy the same with the addition of the descendants of slaves from every corner of the Empire imported by the Romans. The English are perhaps the most mixed of all. There is no evidence that there is any advantage in belonging to a pure race. The purest races now in existence are the Pygmies, the Hottentots, and the Australian aborigines; the Tasmanians, thanks to the British, who were probably even purer are now extinct. There is a special absurdity in applying racial theories to the various populations of Europe.” — Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays, Ch. VII: An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish
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Debashis Basu retweeted
Charity should begin at home sir.
🚨 Piyush Goyal urges Indian scientists, engineers and researchers abroad to return to India and contribute to the country's growth.
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Debashis Basu retweeted
An urgent appeal to the Government of India: Please consider appointing @KanwalSibal to some high-level committee on absolutely anything. National Dum Dum Security, Foreign Eye Laser Affairs, Cow Psychology, Ancient Wi-Fi Technology ... anything will do. This gentlemen has served the nation. Now the nation must save X from his daily intellectual bombardment. Give him a conference, a delegation, a government bungalow with unlimited tea and biscuits. Just one humble request: Please keep him busy enough to forget his X password. 😂 Consider it a public welfare scheme. 🙏
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中国花2000万买了个航母空壳?乌克兰专家:光是4个发动机就超过两千万。 ​​一开始乌克兰给这艘未完工的航母开出了4亿美元的报价,连续挂牌五年都无人问津,直到九十年代末,财政窘迫的乌克兰才把价格压到了2000万美元,几乎等同于一堆优质特种钢材的废铁价。 ​​当时西方媒体集体嘲讽,说中国人花2000万美元买了一堆毫无用处的海上废铁,完全是当了冤大头。 ​​可熟悉这艘航母建造全过程的乌克兰工程师却在旁边心疼得直咂嘴:这艘舰上原装的4台TB-12蒸汽轮机,光是出厂时的造价,单台就超过500万美元,四台加起来的价值早就超过了2000万美元。 ​​这四台动力系统,是苏联当年为了对抗美国尼米兹级航母专门研发的核心装备,单台功率高达4.5万马力,四台同时输出能让6万多吨的航母跑出30节以上的最高航速。 ​​整套动力系统的耐高温、抗冲击性能,在当时全球范围内都属于顶尖水平,哪怕放在20多年后的今天,依然是重型航母动力体系里的第一梯队产品。 ​​乌克兰专家心里比谁都清楚,这四台几乎全新的蒸汽轮机,本身的价值就已经远超2000万美元的总成交价,更别说舰体上采用的特种甲板钢、大型舰体结构件,这些东西的总造价,在苏联时期就已经超过了20亿美元。 ​​但当时的西方势力根本不可能让中国完整拿到这套核心装备,在美国的强硬施压下,乌克兰方面被迫对航母进行了“剥皮式”的拆解:舰上所有的武器系统、雷达控制系统、管路线束全部被炸毁切割。 ​​唯独这套安装在舰体最深处、体积巨大难以拆解的蒸汽轮机和配套轴系,被保留了下来。 ​​西方的评估报告里笃定地认为,哪怕留下了动力系统,没有配套的控制系统,中国人也根本不可能让这艘6万吨的巨舰重新动起来,最终只能把它拆成废钢铁卖掉。 ​​当年以2000万美元拍下这艘航母的徐增平,也没有只盯着船壳本身,他在谈判桌上咬死了一个旁人都觉得多余的条件:必须把全套完整的设计图纸一起交付。 ​​最终乌方妥协,整整装了8辆大卡车、总重四五十吨的全套设计图纸,和航母一起交付给了中方,这些图纸里详细标注了每一个舱室的结构、动力系统的安装参数、舰体的应力分布数据,这些资料的价值,根本不是2000万美元能衡量的。 ​​后续的归国之路更是走得无比艰难,瓦良格号1999年从黑海造船厂出发,在土耳其博斯普鲁斯海峡被无理阻拦了整整506天。 ​​光是滞留期间的拖船费、停泊费就烧掉了近千万美元,之后又因为苏伊士运河不让无动力船只通行,只能绕非洲南端的好望角兜了大半个地球,整整走了四年零八个月,才终于在2002年抵达大连港。 ​​算上沿途的所有通行成本、协调开销,整个项目的实际投入,早就远远超过了最初的2000万美元。 ​​后来中国的造船团队接手这艘航母之后,依托完整的设计图纸和几乎完好的原装动力系统,用了7年时间完成了全部改装工作。 ​​2012年,这艘被重新命名为“辽宁舰”的航母正式交付中国海军,中国终于拥有了自己的第一艘航空母舰。 ​​当年乌克兰专家口中“4台发动机就超过两千万”的判断,后来被完全印证了:这套原装的蒸汽轮机,为中国航母动力体系的研发节省了至少十几年的摸索时间,后来国产航母山东舰的动力系统,正是在这套技术的基础上完成了国产化自主生产。 ​信息来源:环球网《瓦良格号航母刚到中国时满是淤泥破败不堪》
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Debashis Basu retweeted
Dude... Piyush... Bro... Come on...
🚨 Piyush Goyal urges Indian scientists, engineers and researchers abroad to return to India and contribute to the country's growth.
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Debashis Basu retweeted
Eric Li argues that countries fail when they copy Western political models. It’s a controversial take. If voting can be manipulated by foreign entities, swayed by entertainment over policy, and if 'installed puppets' are the norm... Then, is the Western model working as intended?
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Debashis Basu retweeted
Stop breathing if you think delhi air is unbreathable during Diwali. I have always said that educated sanghis are the most rotten of them all. 😂
You are trying to be over smart. Be honest with yourself. Stop practicing if you have no faith in the judiciary.
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So what ? Chinese people have no freedom and democracy. We prefer our extreme corruption, elite capture, raja praja, laal batti model of governance any day
🇨🇳🚨- « L’école n’est pas un business. » La Chine a interdit les écoles privées à but lucratif accueillant des élèves de la primaire au collège. La Chine interdit aux hommes d’affaires de créer des écoles privées pour faire de l’argent avec l’éducation des enfants de 6 à 15 ans, affirmant que l’éducation de base ne doit pas devenir un commerce. Les écoles privées restent autorisées, mais elles doivent être non lucratives : les fondateurs ne peuvent pas se distribuer les bénéfices. (REUTERS)
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Fun fact: The 1998 paper that introduced Google and PageRank to the world ends with this acknowledgment: "Supported by the National Science Foundation under Cooperative Agreement IRI-9411306. Funding also provided by DARPA and NASA." Sergey Brin was on an NSF Graduate Fellowship. Larry Page was a PhD student on the grant. Google—now worth $2 trillion—exists because American taxpayers funded "the Stanford Integrated Digital Library Project." Not a startup garage myth. A government grant. Every time someone says public research funding "picks winners and losers" or "crowds out private innovation," remember: the most dominant technology company of the 21st century was incubated entirely with public money, inside a public university, by researchers on federal fellowships and grants. The private sector didn't see it coming. VCs passed. The government funded it anyway—not because it would become Google, but because fundamental research into information retrieval seemed worth understanding. That's the point. You can't predict which grants will change the world. You fund the science and let researchers explore. The internet (DARPA). GPS (DoD). Touchscreens (CIA/NSF). mRNA vaccines (NIH). Google (NSF/DARPA/NASA). Public investment in basic research isn't wasteful spending. It's the seed corn of the entire modern economy.
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Debashis Basu retweeted
Exactly. @KanwalSibal is the gold standard of the Retired Uncle genre , equal parts self-importance, selective outrage, and the firm belief that disagreement with the current regime equals treason. If he didn’t exist, the algorithm would have to generate him 😂🤣
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@KanwalSibal is invaluable. If he didn’t exist we’d have to invent him. He is the Platonic ideal of the retired Uncle made real.
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Debashis Basu retweeted
This Country is beyond any Repairs.. America: Engineering ChatGPT 🌐 China: Scaling DeepSeek 🤖 India: Coding a deceased Baba back to life just to praise Modi Ji and tell him "the country is with you" 😭
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Debashis Basu retweeted
Thank you @Tukaram_IndIAS sir for giving us your precious time this evening and leaving all of us inspired ‘we the people’ Thank you @suchetadalal @Moneylifers for the opportunity 🙏 Leave No Farmer Behind #HFN
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A turning point in the food & drug industry. What are we eating! Always ask and report if any wrongdoing. A brilliant talk by @Tukaram_IndIAS at @BSEIndia A big thank you to Moneylife Foundation for getting Tukaram Sir to talk to us @MoneylifeF @suchetadalal @Moneylifers
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The first myth of food safety is that a high cost means safe food. But that is not at all the case, says @Tukaram_IndIAS. @suchetadalal @moneylifers @yogtoday
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Every food item goes through atleast 7 different stages. It’s not one “somebody” it’s atleast 7 “somebodies”. And that is the main problem. How do you ensure purity and how to tackle the issue…asks @Tukaram_IndIAS @suchetadalal @moneylifers @yogtoday
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FSSAI report also says that India has over $15 billion USD in relation to food borne diseases says Mr Mundhe. And we all need to collectively come together to address this crisis. @suchetadalal @Moneylifers @yogtoday
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FSSAI report says that every year around 10 crore people are affected by food borne illnesses. Anywhere in the world this is not the situation, says @Tukaram_IndIAS @suchetadalal @moneylifers @yogtoday
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