Mihir Sharma

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[Bloomberg @business]

A simple tweak to the design of air conditioners could slash electricity use and lower costs for Indian households, writes @davidfickling (via @opinion) https://t.co/8vRdWuQ92F

[Mihir Sharma @mihirssharma]

Fascinating investigation https://t.co/jeg5QFO9Q6

[Mihir Sharma @mihirssharma]

Well worth reading

[Charles Yang @charlesxjyang]

New piece with @arjun_ramani3 on our trip to India & China:
> India's elite obsession with China
> Meeting Rahul Gandhi & communist MPs
> A world of "two and a half internets"
> Chinese AI researchers who wake up and scroll twitter

https://t.co/9Xvm6t4Afs

[Second World War tweets from 1941 @RealTimeWWII]

"Players must supply own beer, may not carry weapons other than grenades & revolvers." Full rules for Tobruk cricket:

[Mihir Sharma @mihirssharma]

I see that Raanjhanaa, or however its spelled, is back in the news. Apparently they’ve changed the ending using AI. That couldn’t possibly have made it worse, though. It was one of the most awful movies ever made, as I pointed out 12 years ago

[Mihir Sharma @mihirssharma]

Be very ashamed that a movie as regressive and cretinous as Raanjhanaa is a critical & commercial success. My column: http://t.co/ca2VLOT0r5

[Yejin Gim @gimyejin]

MBC's exit poll countdown is so iconic. It shows the past one century of South Korean history.

[Gearoid Reidy リーディー・ガロウド @GearoidReidy]

Japanese companies often make big decisions at the worst possible time, but I can't imagine a bigger fumble than discontinuing the Japan Company Handbook, the English version of the Shikiho, months before getting an endorsement from the world's most famous investor.

[Jonathan Brash MP @JonathanBrash]

Total nonsense from this grifter. The NI rules only apply to Indian companies in India, who send temporary workers to the UK for Indian Businesses, and not Indians on Work Visas being hired by UK businesses.

[Mihir Sharma @mihirssharma]

@arpitrage @StefanFSchubert I guess what you actually want is something like the Piccadilly line to Heathrow, which costs £6 or so. But as anyone who has taken that knows, something that cheap is also slow and inconvenient.

[Mihir Sharma @mihirssharma]

@arpitrage @StefanFSchubert Even the regular commuter train, no 40, is $20 to Stockholm central from Arlanda. Good trains are never free

[Mihir Sharma @mihirssharma]

@ritwik_priya @GWRHelp Signalling fault. That's network rail not gwr

[James Medlock @jdcmedlock]

Many of the richest people in the world are stupider than you can possibly imagine

[Mihir Sharma @mihirssharma]

@KabirTaneja Boo

[Manasi Subramaniam @sorcerical]

‘Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.’

At long last. @SalmanRushdie’s The Satanic Verses is allowed to be sold in India after a 36-year ban. Here it is at Bahrisons Bookstore in New Delhi.

📸: @Bahrisons_books

[David Bergman @TheDavidBergman]

One of the biggest concerns in Bangladesh at the moment are the attacks on @dailystarnews and @ProthomAlo, amongst the two most successful independent newspapers in the country. These attacks have primarily been instigated by YouTubers from abroad - who once targeted the Awami League government and now have a variety of different targets, including (amongst other things) secular and independent media like these two papers accusing them of being "pro-India". This is a serious threat to media freedom.

[Mihir Sharma @mihirssharma]

@zachdcarter @awprokop It seems to me that paper says the opposite? "The United States is a significant exception. The contribution of broad macroeconomic tightness to inflation remains greater than in other economies despite the significant cooling of the labor market since early 2023..."

[Mihir Sharma @mihirssharma]

@ClassicalSocdem I just want to know if Hezbollah denies knowing them or the other way around

[Vince Buffalo @vsbuffalo]

Step aside Monty Hall, Blackwell’s N=2 case for the secretary problem is way weirder.

[Mihir Sharma @mihirssharma]

India is in unprecedented trouble. We're running out of Western things to be outraged about and ban. Down to airline sandwiches now. Serious supply-side crisis facing the decolonisation industry

[Radhika Gupta @iRadhikaGupta]

I am calling for an end to airlines and makers of boxed food who serve two pieces of bread stuffed with cheese and coleslaw (veg sandwich) in the name of breakfast.

This is India not the West. We have amazing breakfast food from across the country - parantha, idlis, dhoklas, and countless others - that are healthy, tasty, affordable and have shelf life. Our moms make amazing takeaway parantha rolls with leftover sabzis that taste fab.

Please be creative. Spare us the sandwich. We can do better.