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Rahul Ramchandani @Rahul_Ramc
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Finally managed to extract my pocket data.

A thread on reading stats from my pocket:
1/ Stats for 2017

Number of articles added: 2014
Number of articles read: 870
Number of articles favorited: 25
2/ Top tags from 2017
3/ Word cloud for tags from 2017
4/ Stats for 2018

umber of articles added: 2436
Number of articles read: 1080
Number of articles favorited: 118
5/ Top tags from 2018
6/ Word cloud for tags from 2018
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Mimetic desire (or triangular desire) and influence run the show at elite universities.

An object of desire becomes desirable by virtue of being desired by someone.

Add a pinch of scarcity effect, risk aversion and throw some money - you've got the perfect bait.
Aversion to failure (and more generally risk) is magnified in middle class indian kids because failure is associated with extreme shame.

The result - a risk averse generation that doesn't know what to do and thus follows the herd.
The resume arms race at IITs and IIMs is real. I'd promised myself in freshman year not to fall prey to it but ultimately I succumbed to peer pressure.

It's amazing what risk aversion and zero sum mentality can do to you.
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Founder as victim, founder as God.

A brilliant application of Girard's theory of mimetic desire, violence and scapegoating to startups.

blakemasters.com/post/245786838…
I knew there were class notes available for zero to one but this is like finding a small treasure.

Excited to dig in.
Bill gates as God and as victim.
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This is a great article on the NPC meme doing the rounds. There's a lot more substance here than most memes.

Courtesy @EvanPlatinum and @jacobitemag

jacobitemag.com/2018/10/02/emp…
1/ “NPC” is an acronym for “Non-Player Character.”

As the name implies, NPCs are counterparts to the Player Characters (PCs), the protagonists controlled by most of the participants.

They exist to facilitate the narrative’s flow and give it a sense of immersion &verisimilitude.
2/ If PCs are human agents, albeit ones constricted by code, then NPCs are unthinking expressions of the code itself. Before the game even begins they are utterly predetermined. Their words and actions are not their own.
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#Thread of responses from women in aerodynamics to the question, 'what would you like to see in order for women's career progression in your field to be sustained and better supported?'

Responses incl. career flexibility, mentoring and more women in leadership roles #WomeninSTEM
1. "I think young female engineers need to see more female role models and mentors in my field. Having a visible example of someone that looks like you and is succeeding in their field is important. Having an opportunity to meet with a mentor like that can be very powerful."
2. "I would like to see that any career promotion is based on own merits and value added to the company or the society independently of the gender. I want that women are measured with the same rules as men and are given equal opportunities."
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Finally got time to map these across. This is one for EU Citizens in the UK. #Thread @The3Million

The Charter of Fundamental Rights (CFR) codifies a body of case law into a series of 50+ articles built ON TOP OF the European Convention on Human Rights.
The ECHR was built and ratified by convention in 1953. Way before the EU & is distinct from it. We are not losing the ECHR post-Brexit (thus, keeping the UK's HRA)

However, the CFR is tied into membership of the EU & is often the conduit by which the ECHR is activated.
And this is a problem. Since question LS the CFR hasn't answered yet, are points of case law (yet to be determined) not statute. The CFR codifies a number of key elements of legislation (including clarification) across a body of cases across all 28 member states.
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Below is a list of 35 projects completed by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) in between 2016 and 2017. These new Power Transformers, and Mobile Substations have added more than 2,000 MW of new capacity to the national Grid.
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1. 300MVA 330/132/33KV Power Transformers at Alagbon, Lagos state, added capacity-240MW (2016)
2. 300MVA 330/132/33KV Power Transformers at Lekki, Lagos state, added capacity-240MW (2016)
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I was asked a lot today what I wish I had included in that thread on the Sears catalogue. And I definitely missed a few points. But there was one that I wish I had included because in my classes I always foreground it. #thread
Violence.

I should have (if I had known more than 6 people were going to read it) talked about how Jim Crow shopping always contained the threat of violence. #thread
Insist on your place line? Hell, just insist on owning your own stuff? That could bring death. White people were deadly serious about Jim Crow. #thread
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Is there any news channel that has taken the time to educate themselves & viewers about the difference betw civil & criminal offences in matters of marriage, divorce, while discussing Ordinance against Instant Triple Talaq? #Thread on #TripleTalaqOrdinance
Most channels spread the false idea that the Ordinance by criminalising Muslim husbands who desert without a legal divorce, is ending a 'privilege' that Muslim men alone enjoyed. Men of all communities do it, Muslim personal law sanctioned it b4 SC verdict #TripleTalaqOrdinance
How can desertion of wives without legal divorce be treated as a criminal offence if a Muslim man does it and not if a Hindu man does it? Deter qazis etc from sanctioning it by scrapping registration if they sanction ITT. #TripleTalaqOrdinance
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#Thread on #NPAs. Stay with me.

RBI revealed this in an RTI: At the end of March 2018, a record high 7,990 borrowers of above Rs 5 crore had not repaid a whopping Rs 3.71 lakh crore to banks for 1-30 days after due date. That is a four-year high record of early defaulters! 1/n
2/n. These early defaults rose by a record 281.9 per cent over December 2017 when they stood at only Rs 972 billion . On a year-on-year basis, the rise is almost 228 per cent - the highest growth of early stage overdue repayments in 4 years.
3/n. More than 5,000 of these 7,990 were new and unique early defaulters of loans above Rs 5 crore. What does this number tell us? We have been told that all bad loans are of UPA era. This number tells us that Modi govt might be brewing its own banking crisis as well.
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