schools have become functionally soviet institutions "they pretend to teach us, we pretend to learn"

The only thing which was better in the past was that I was younger.

Then, why does passport office insist on it?

White to play

Amazon ran the same tiring ad on Twitter for months. On Prime Day, they have raised their game.

IUCAA has free planet viewing sessions. Post monsoon would be a good time to visit. Don't wait till you get rich enough to buy your own gear.

They likely travelled in the same car, though. This tells you about our risk perception.

It is supposed to be "one two ka four", and not "one three ka four." Or, maybe, they know Pragg will make it happen.

All this wasteful expenditure gets counted towards GDP twice over, which is touted as achievement! This is how cities are decidedly worse than 10 years ago, yet GDP has supposedly doubled.

Deepak has a great post on Jane Street. The tax treatment was new to me.

We need a restriction on retail trading - Only those with annual income above Rs 12 Lakhs, in any of the previous 3 years, are allowed to trade in derivatives.

Next up - o3 pro, Gemini 2.5 and Grok 4. Make it happen, ChatGPT, Google Gemini App, Grok.

"Google results are junk. I always add reddit to my search to get the real answers from users and not SEO-ed to death content."

I didn't realize fixing basic things like road, water, drainage, sanitation needs "political consensus."

Living the Indian cliche at ISS.

Meanwhile, Indian tech companies continue to pay large sums to old media outlets to produce mediocre ads. I am looking at you, Flipkart.

Apart from IUCAA, Jyotirvidya Parisanstha organizes overnight sky gazing sessions an hour's drive from Pune. They charge a nominal fee. Follow them to get updates on their upcoming sessions.

"Subject बोले तो? नाम नहीं है क्या?"

Mr Kotak says sweet nothing, may be because his group promotes cheap and easy derivatives trading.

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