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[Jay @JayMenonP]

Well done Vietnam! A reminder to India that even though it has recently progressed,unless it restructures ease of doing business, removes the insane and unproductive subsidies to farmers and invests HEAVILY in innovation it will remain trapped in the low income category while all SEA countries would continue to make its people richer!

[Bloomberg @business]

The World Bank just elevated Vietnam to “upper-middle” income status. But President To Lam has bigger plans. https://t.co/t7Px7evBR5

[Jay @JayMenonP]

@brianluidog Not true if you go beyond the commonly known food. Xinjiang lamb -Indian kebab, Mapo Tofu- Tamil Puli kozhambu, Roujiamo -beef porota. there are more than the word limitations here and I have many of my chinese friends who can eat some of these and other indian food than me:)

[Jay @JayMenonP]

An often surprising thing for folks outside India has been when i tell them that all of my friends and school mates had just 1 sibling the most and a lot with none at all! The trend continues in terms of kids too!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

India’s birth rate has fallen below replacement.

Among those most educated, India’s birth rate fell below replacement many years ago.

[Jay @JayMenonP]

i never understand why people think singapore doesnt have soul! It has enough of deep culture with its heterogeneous population, traditions and values. You just need to get to meet the right people and go to the right places.

[Altcoin Sherpa @AltcoinSherpa]

Singapore has everything you need in a country: good food, efficient, clean, 0 crime, great for business, nice location, etc...

but it's missing something. Maybe some danger, maybe some soul.

[Jay @JayMenonP]

irony @virsanghvi & Harsh here is that while it maybe true and your intentions are good, this adds fuel to stereotypes! Ethnicities like Indians, Chinese have numbers that goes against them even if a small % of them are not “socially conscious”.

[vir sanghvi @virsanghvi]

I endorse everything you say Harsh and have tried to explain why Indian tourists are so unpopular abroad

https://t.co/L1abCohP4A

[Jay @JayMenonP]

3) Create an IP haven- limit tax to locally created IP
4) Reduce transfer pricing for the already existing global capability centres
5) Reduce or eliminate capital gain tax for founders and RSU’s for employees

[Jay @JayMenonP]

There has never been a better opportunity for countries to develop their local talent ecosystem than this! Rather than question US, use this an opportunity to develop your home capabilities. One can take a leaf or two from countries like Singapore on this!

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Most green-card applicants will need to go abroad to apply for permanent residency at an American consulate, rather than filing from within the U.S. as they do now, the Trump administration announced Friday. https://t.co/mTQSCLMRUK

[Jay @JayMenonP]

A few suggestions for India specifically here-
1) Create something like singapore EDB, a single point of contact not multiple ones for corporations to deal with
2)Write off the entire salary of deep R&D skills as tax credits for long term patent gains
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[Jay @JayMenonP]

@patralekha2011 @karmanomad neither is it when one uses what you see in social media to sensationalise and reinforce stereotypes!

[Jay @JayMenonP]

@CoachGoldsmith Always thought provoking Marshall! Still remember your words of wisdom that you shared when we met in singapore a few years ago!

[Aravind @aravind]

The number of people without electricity by country.
Look what happened after 2016. Someone started fixing India for real. Many things at a time. Still some way to go. The lag of last 60 is that bad.

[Jay @JayMenonP]

What many people fail to realise is that US and for that matter most of the world is not racist. The general public is much more tolerant than what gets amplified on social media so please beware of this forming perceptions

[Florida Man V @FloridaManV]

The Twitter Anti-Indian campaign has been a very effective campaign and has made people doubt their own experience in daily life.

OH Republicans are Whiter than most states' Rs, more working class, rural, and not on the coast.

If you are Indian, these are the very people elites tell you are the most racist people in America. The people Twitter says hate you.

Does it make you wonder why people are trying to manipulate you?

[Jay @JayMenonP]

@VivianBala @Gavriel_Cohen @karpathy Leading by example @VivianBala . Not many in the political world would take this step which precisely is the reason this will be closely watched and inspire many to follow.

[Jay @JayMenonP]

wont comment on what UN should do or shouldn’t but laws like this in Singapore is what makes anyone who lives here feel safe! There is a proper judicial and governance system here that ensures absolute fair hearing and treatment too! Some lines shouldn’t be crossed!

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

UN should be far more alarmed by San Francisco's 70 overdose deaths per 100,000 people which is triple the national average.

Los Angeles and other blue enclaves aren't far behind in the zombie apocalypse - open-air drug dens, tent cities, and politicians who can't help virtue signal by putting on compassion kabuki theater.

The best harm reduction policy is to execute the drug traffickers.

[Jay @JayMenonP]

@HumanLevelJen @FangYi11101 yes its common path for most US PhD. Get admissions for PhD and you have your masters along the way!

[Jay @JayMenonP]

@LawrenceWongST Hi @LawrenceWongST Been following your book recommendations for past 2 years and they have been great! was trying to take a peak at those books you had on ipad and would love it if its possible to share the list please?🙏🏽

[Jay @JayMenonP]

Grok is fundamentally trained on feed from X and even though it goes through RLHF, the amount of hate generated in X is what would stop many sensible people from using Grok. I sincerely hope @elonmusk and his team build some rail guards around this.

[Jay @JayMenonP]

@ChinaSpox_India I have been to the Xiaomi factory and it is highly impressive! More than the very cool designs, what was more notable for me was the 91% or so of automation on the production floor which is not just futuristic but in a strange way scary too of what future unfolds.

[Jay @JayMenonP]

The biggest impediment for Gemini to be the best AI is it’s safety guidelines. I asked the same harmless health related question to chatgpt and claude with chatgpt being the most vocal, claude being measured and gemini being muted! is gemini losing its probable training data?