Entrepreneur, Chief OTP Officer @karooya (Contact: [email protected])
Pune, India
Joined November 2008
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प्रा. दीपक देशपांडे हे केवळ एक (न)कलाकार नसून मराठी संस्कृतीचे इतिहासकार आहेत.
त्यांच्या विनोदाच्या थोडसं मागे डोकावलं तर तुम्हाला अनेक क्षेत्रांचा व्यासंगी बुद्धीमंत दिसेल.
youtu.be/nHGnBwpkK3U
Construction workers in Pune building 20th century structures with seemingly 16th century tools, while grappling with a 21st century problem of labour shortages.
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but while I have this story to trash an incompetent vendor with some massive political backwind... let me praise UPI as a whole
I was sceptical, there were techbical dififculties at first but the scale of adoption, and creating a free, realtime payment instrument was incredible to see at India scale
People eg in the US cannot imagine something like UPI serving 2-3x the US popularion
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I will have to admit that I ran into this before
story time: don't ask me how (b/c even I don't know) but at Uber, in Amsterdam, my team (Rider Payments) owned all Indian payment methods: PayTM, credit cards (via Zaakpay), UPI, and... Jio Money
Jio Money was this absolute BS piece of crap: reliablity like 98% or less (terrible), constant downtime, barely anyone used it.
Our team suggested to do the needful: drop the whole damn thing. It's unreliable, no one uses it
Apparently it was added in to satisfy some Very Important People in power in India
Which is fine: but why did it not work?
Never got an answer
I made the exec decision to turn off all alerting. We knew it was broken; told the team it was broken; no one seemed to care; but apparenty it was some soft mandate to stay in someone's good graces
This was 2017 or 18 so long time ago, but still a weird story. I'm most surprised by how no one cared that CUSTOMERS could not use this thing
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How can it have taken this long for them to grasp this. If you really want non intermittent non fossil fuel energy, this is the only answer.
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Even well-aware educated and conscious people are clueless about the EXTENT of corruption, dismissing it with "there is corruption in every country".
Govt bureaucrats in Sangali used Google Translate to convert Marathi names in Devanagari to English. Some of the results are
भगवान - Lord
उत्तम - Best
आनंद - Happy
शरद - Spring
छाया - Shadow
सुतार - Carpenter
कोष्टी - Spiderman
esakal.com/paschim-maharasht…
More translation horrors
Election Commission’s software has made a massive blunder. It’s translating Hindi/Urdu names by treating them as if they were English.
For example, the name was Muhammad Iqbal Beg, but the software turned it into “Mohammad Iqbal Bheek Mangte Hain”.
Another example: A woman’s name was Phool Kali Devi, and the software changed it to “Murkh Kali Devi” .
Absolute chaos, what’s going on?
Indian laws are extremely gentle on white collar criminals.
Give up your gains, pay a modest sum as a fine, pinky promise that you won't do it again for a few years, and you are a free bird.
These criminals need to be sent to Yerwada for enough time to write a biography, which becomes a bollywood film.
#MarketsWithMC | SEBI orders Avadhut Sathe Trading Academy to refund Rs 546 crore, imposes Rs 11.5 crore penalty
-Academy and founder barred from securities markets for two years.
-Total penalty of Rs 11.5 crore imposed on academy and directors.
@BrajeshKMJi reports:
moneycontrol.com/news/busine…
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“During the French Revolution, when the price of bread rose, they would cut off the bakers’ heads, and the more bakers’ heads they cut off, the higher the price of bread rose.”
— Armando Ribas
Next time a white collar professional makes mistakes in their work, I am just going to share my Claude session with "please review and advise".
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The blanket ban on re-using single use medical devices addresses a symptom rather than the actual problem - hospitals overcharging for resterilized equipment.
Modern sterilization technologies have long made this practice safe and effective. In fact, top tier government hospitals and premier institutes used it to subsidize care, distributing the equipment cost across multiple patients.
Ethically managed centers took explicit consent beforehand, reserving new devices for those who requested them.
By removing this option entirely, the government hasn't protected patients. It has taken away their autonomy and made essential medical care significantly more expensive.
The only real winners here are the medical device manufacturers.
Union Health Ministry Issues Advisory Prohibiting Reuse of Single-Use Medical Devices
The Union Health Ministry has issued an important advisory prohibiting the reuse of single-use medical devices and disposable surgical items in hospitals across India.
@MoHFW_INDIA
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Just Eat apologises for AI food mistakes after social media ridicule bbc.in/4jAIj9J
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Every methodology eventually collapses into this one. The rest are just what we call it in the retro.
