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@realJeremyCarl @paulg Building unicorn companies is not a mandate of Heaven that everyone aspires to necessarily. If a cohort has more people wanting to build startups, it’ll have more startups. A higher fraction of immigrants from low-income nations aspires for stability than, say Europe.

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@chloemarcusofia @ihrtguts “Same music progression, keys.” Ed Sheeran fought this stupid argument in court

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@WayOfTheGloves @unfiltered_ajit @sting_punk You’re overestimating. Not every 9 pointer becomes a quant

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@i9241 @SauravS72278065 @KalingaArya Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they’re yours.

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@i9241 @SauravS72278065 @KalingaArya Lynn-Becker has emboldened more midwits than every other trash study combined

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@ItsAllDandy_ The quoted tweet is from a day ago. I don’t get why we’d expect the hate/fame moving away so quickly. She published her book less than six months ago and is running the marketing for it now. It’s like the only book published in the last year in India that people know.

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@ItsAllDandy_ It moves on from everyone in due time though. That’s how fame works. Nobody’s dragging One Direction or Rebecca Black now for the same reason.

Kanan Gill isn’t being made fun of because people aren’t reading his book.

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@ItsAllDandy_ That’s my point though. If you didn’t mention it, I wouldn’t even know he had published a book in the last 10 years. The zeitgeist has moved on from him. Nobody talks about him. This is Ria’s first book. She is the limelight now. And with fame comes criticism (unfair or not)

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@ItsAllDandy_ Of course this is not to trivialize Ria’s experiences. I do think she’s unfairly targeted too, but this line of posts is on her promoting her book now with Ruskin Bond. This is not bringing something up from years ago or anything

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@ItsAllDandy_ It was like a non-stop drag everyday in the mid to late 2010s even though his last book had come out in like 2011? It stopped now because frankly no one cares about him anymore. There used to be entire Facebook pages devoted solely to laughing at his books.

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@ItsAllDandy_ That seems self-contradictory though. Those other books didn’t get criticized bc nobody knows about them/they aren’t in the limelight. Chetan Bhagat faced the same criticism when his work was in the limelight and called a joke in most literary circles.

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@threeoneonetwo @_zeroxinfinity_ Indian doesn’t have a large native PE industry like the US. What it calls “PE” is in most cases mid-to-late stage VC. And the IB to PE (or VC) pipeline is pretty standard, no connections required

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@RafiSahabGhalib @sirfaditya Salman Rushdie kind of height & depth is missing from everywhere in the world. He’s a once in a generation author.

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@NailedJew2 @metal00008 Used one of those 5000 BTU ones for my room in NYC, around 175 sq feet. It was adequate without having to put it on max even on the hottest days (35 degrees or so).

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@BobRosic @Linahuaa Back-of-the-envelope math to estimate something

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@BobRosic @Linahuaa It’s meant as a hyperbole that can be analyzed if needed. You can’t perform statistically significant experiments for every question but you can still use a guesstimate to establish a confidence interval around your claim.

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@SoundsHarsh @Linahuaa So, then why state an exact percentage when posting? Why not provide context?

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@BobRosic @Linahuaa The whole point is you’ll never get an exact number. Just as a starting benchmark, the qualification rate for AIME is 0.044% of the American student population for a year. That’s already at 99.956. The curriculum for JEE Math is vastly higher. Then you have Physics and Chemistry

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@BobRosic @Linahuaa Eventually all of these are guesstimates. No one is conducting peer reviewed experiments for every claim in existence. That being said, the JEE questions and cutoff are public info. You can benchmark using an exam like the MAA/Putnam to establish a lower bound

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@AbhinavXJ NYU has no campus. They’re forced to host convocations at Yankee Stadium or MSG

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@impostersyndrum @nickbii10 @CameronCorduroy The whole point of his appointment was to work with the constraints and identify avenues where you could make the spending more efficient.

Any 5 year old can just point to the system and say “Cut everything to save money”