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> You seem to either not have an understanding of ground reality (if your father was using Diners Club in the 60s, he was in the elite). Well, I wouldn't say "elite", but well off …

Well, yes, but you conflate that credit cards would've worked, had they been available/easy, in a place like India, which in many ways rejected and still sometimes rejects the kind…

The content is good, but the crore/billion toggle is fantastic. A great addition, I hope it catches on in India-specific websites. I just wish it had a tooltip because its purpose …

NEFT and RTGS are free if you do it online. UPI is free. Many banks waive off IMPS charges. NEFT and RTGS were introduced in the mid-2000s. IMPS in 2010, UPI in 2016. It's been > 1…

What does this have to do with credit cards? India always had credit cards at a scale comparable to most countries, and they always were a regularly-used of payment for medium-size…

What I am really impressed by is that experts and the army itself is open to criticism and commentary (I am sure there are limits, and censoring will be happening on the more impor…

Interesting, I am not able to see it, and I have memory enabled.

To quote Don Draper: "that's what the money is for". By all means go work for big tech if you want to, it's a free country, but then you don't get to wash your hands off the bad th…

> Employees are not in a position of strength Employees that are paid multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars plus equity, and likely can jump ship to another company without a h…

> Only it was all a ruse to ensure people didn't jump ship too quickly and make the bleeding too heavy You go when we tell you to go! Not before!

Seems that they didn't add explicit options for resination/indifference, but there is at least one archetype you get at the end which does fit that mold: The Shrug patron saint: Ma…

I figured out fairly early in my career that if a company/team really wants you, the recruiter is going to roll out the red carpet, irrespective of seniority. It's happened multipl…

India has about a billion debit cards, but people mostly use them for ATM cash withdrawals, if that (banks used to give them by default during account opening, but have stopped thi…

I use LLMs for structured learning of old economics and philosophy books out of copyright. Is quite useful for me, given that I have no background in either of these areas.

Reading the article, it seems that they didn't set out to do _only_ that, but it was one of the few things that worked.

It is my opinion that while you do not judge people who have to choose between integrity and dinner, you can definitely judge people who made decisions and structured their life in…

I for one am happy that they were only able to ban Telegram (and by the looks of it, they weren't really successful because there are reports that the app continues to work). Nothi…

Funny, when I was in the US, my Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese, Mexican, French, British, and 99% of the American coworkers had absolutely zero issues with my Indian accent, except th…

Minor nit: Fastest ever recorded ball bowled was 100 mph. I believe you were thinking 150 kmph. Also, if we're talking about street/amateur cricket, or even higher-level cricket a …

The extreme steps some of the people took according to the article is really sad. But it makes me wonder what they were thinking? I left the US a long time ago after only a few yea…

That's nice, but used to what end, especially if you are not a Instagram/Facebook user, and have a decent ad-blocker set up?

The only reason I pay for M365 family is for the 1 TB per member storage. Excel is a bonus, and Word and Powerpoint are basically not needed any more. If a better storage deal come…

There used to be a time when it was just accepted that most of the good conferences/gatherings would be in the US, and it would either be important to go to, or be relatively strai…

Oh wow, you went from one place to some totally different place at the drop of a hat. Where did me "coming" to Western Europe come into the discussion about racial stereotyping abo…