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Setu Shah

@setu4993

Strong opinions, weakly held. https://teapawt.net/t.co/Nz0ifs9k4q

 San Francisco, USA / Mumbai, India
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I might define it like this
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Exaggerated relief maps do a good job of explaining India's crazy population density map.
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There's a segment of Americans who seem to lack any politics of their own but have passionate political antipathies. They don't have their own rightist views, but they're ready to go to war with leftists. Don't have climate, immigration or poverty policies, but fight those who do
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◾ WC winner at 19 ◾ WC finalist at 23 ◾ Golden Boot winner ◾ A hat-trick in a WC final ◾ 1st man to score 7+ goals at a single WC since Ronaldo in 2002 ◾ The most goals by a 23-year-old or younger in a single WC Let's all take a moment to appreciate Kylian Mbappé 👏
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The government serve us. We don’t serve them. We employ them. We pay them. As such, the government should be completely accountable and transparent to us in all of their actions. So instead of them wanting surveillance on us, we should be surveilling them.
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Imagine not wanting the window seat
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Adults are at times farther from comprehending the world than children. Children have yet to educated, but remain open to learning, while adults have often been 𝘮𝘪𝘴-educated, and so jealously guard the granite of their preconception from being cracked by a contrary truth.
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Silicon Valley types when discussing YOUR location privacy: what do you plebs have to hide? Same crew when it's THEIR location: literally assassination coordinates.
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Vir Das
@thevirdas6 Dec 2022
You can tell EVERYTHING about a person by how they treat the people who serve them food. A simple please and thank you to someone who isn’t important to them may seem like a formality, but it reveals everything about their approach to life.
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ICYMI: Bharat Biotech, which filed a Rs 100 crore defamation suit against Indian journalists writing about Covaxin, acknowledges that it made mistakes during Covaxin development, due to political pressure to launch the vaccine fast statnews.com/2022/11/15/vacc…
'A very worrying scenario': Internal documents on India Covid-19 vaccine raise troubling questions...

'A very worrying scenario': Internal documents on India Covid-19 vaccine raise troubling questions...

A STAT review of documents on Bharat Biotech's Covid-19 vaccine found that regulators endorsed the vaccine despite discrepancies in the number of enrollees.

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The Mercator projection overlaid with countries' actual sizes. [reddit: u/neilrkaye]
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Tim Urban
@waitbutwhy9 Nov 2022
No relationship is perfect. There will always be some elements that would be better if you were with a different kind of person. But the positives should significantly outweigh the negatives. The same logic can be applied to careers.
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nilay patel
@reckless8 Nov 2022
This is a good thread but I will continue to remind every tech person that you cannot reduce policy issues to “first principles” as though the history of human civilization is just so much tech debt
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The Prime Minister, the party that the PM represents, and his followers, all together are presently the biggest global proponents of misinformation. But is also well known that the PM's hypocrisy knows no bounds.
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Can we just agree not to cover outages of popular apps until a minimum of a day has passed? Like, if WhatsApp being down affects you, you already know. If it doesn't, you probably don't care.
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Pillars by @NASAWebb. The longest "finger" is 4 light years long. If you could fly an airplane inside of it, it would take you 4.5 million years to get from the knuckle to the fingertip.
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Big US tech firms have remarkably benign public image for the amount of power they wield China has one app with a billion overseas users, TikTok, and the US is petrified of its national security implications Why are rest of us unworried about the dozens of US billion-user apps?
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Science is just a particular truth-finding process. If a piece of “indigenous knowledge” was generated and tested using scientific methods, then it is science. If it wasn’t, it isn’t.
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Indigenous knowledge is science Indigenous knowledge is science Indigenous knowledge is science Indigenous knowledge is science Indigenous knowledge is science Indigenous knowledge is science Indigenous knowledge is science Indigenous knowledge is science
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People in the early 1900s thought soda was healthy. People in the 1950s thought white bread was healthy. People in the 1990s thought margarine was healthy. What's something most of us think is healthy today that future people will shake their heads at?
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