Migrants returning to Kerala from Saudi Arabia tend to exhibit conservative values re: gender-based violence & extreme attitudes pertaining to the perpetration of physical violence against women--when compared with those who have no migration experience https://t.co/Y72htlkQEP
Agents can now exploit vulnerable sandbox boundaries, so we are testing ours in the open.
$1,000,000 hacker challenge for Vercel Sandbox:
• Escape the Firecracker microVM
• Defeat the host-side network boundary
• Up to $50k/report via @Hacker0x01
https://t.co/6l4HL845jc
I am looking to hire a builder (max 2, if I am very impressed, we don't need more than that, trust me) in my team to work alongside with me.
Builders = Problem solvers
Problems from every domain, be you are comfortable or not.
What I can promise:
> Complete autonomy on research and innovation
> You will be challenged everyday (from me)
> And goes without saying "unlimited tokens/ unlimited tools"
Other formalities can be cleared by HR but its lucrative
What I need from you all to pitch yourself:
> Brainstorm/research an actual problem that Razorpay/RazorpayX is facing (talk to working folks in rzp/rzpX to get more context) and prepare a technical solution for that (don't dm me asking for problems, duh)
> Show something crazy you have built (not those ones hosted on vercel please).
startup founders are encouraged to pitch their company.
> Wildcard (anything that you think can win me over)
Brownie points : I like going deep into the technicalities and seeing how your product holds in extreme case.
Be ambitious and fearless!
Apply here : https://t.co/k2MPXpceAR
WHY I LEFT 🇮🇳 AND WILL NEVER REGRET IT.
More than a decade and a half ago, I decided to leave India. I didn’t leave because I hated the country. I left because I had lost faith in the system and, increasingly, in the society sustaining it.
The administration was dysfunctional. Infrastructure was pathetic. Cleanliness and basic civic discipline were treated as optional. Corruption was normalised. Crime and terrorism were recurring realities. Politicians displayed breathtaking incompetence while ordinary citizens paid the price.
But eventually I realised something much more uncomfortable: politicians do not descend from another planet. They emerge from society.
When tax evasion becomes cleverness, electricity theft becomes jugaad, bribery becomes convenience, public property belongs to nobody, aggression replaces civility and rules are followed only when somebody is watching, political corruption should surprise absolutely no one.
A society that normalises moral bankruptcy will inevitably elect representatives who reflect it.
That is why dynastic entitlement, corruption, incompetence and political mediocrity survive election after election. Rahul, Priyanka, Tejasvi, Akhilesh, Mamata, Kejriwal and countless others are not aberrations. They are products of a political culture that repeatedly rewards precisely what it claims to despise.
And here is perhaps the most damning evidence: even after more than a decade of BJP rule, supposedly the more disciplined, competent and development-oriented alternative, the fundamental problem remains. Yes, India has changed enormously since 2014. Infrastructure has improved, digitalisation has transformed everyday life, and state capacity has strengthened in several areas. But basic civic behaviour? Public morality? Respect for rules? Cleanliness? Everyday decency? In far too many places, they remain depressingly familiar.
Look at the recurring spectacle of political movements and parties promising a moral revolution only to reproduce the same behaviour they claimed they would eradicate. The Aam Aadmi Party is a classic example: born from an anti-corruption movement promising a completely different political culture, yet eventually becoming part of the very political ecosystem it once portrayed itself as the antidote to.
And spare me the response that “other countries have problems too.” Of course they do. I have lived overseas long enough to know that stupidity, corruption, aggression and dishonesty exist everywhere.
The difference is the ratio.
Put brutally: elsewhere, the asshole is often the exception to the civic norm. In India, far too often, the civil person feels like the exception.
Call it 1% versus 90% if you want to express the frustration in its rawest form. The numbers aren’t statistics; the point is the overwhelming difference in everyday experience. When enough people routinely ignore queues, traffic rules, taxes, public cleanliness, personal boundaries and basic consideration for strangers, dysfunction stops being an exception. It becomes the culture.
And wealth alone will not fix it.
You can build expressways, airports, skyscrapers and trillion-dollar companies. You can become richer, more educated and technologically sophisticated. But economic development without civic development merely produces a wealthier version of the same dysfunction.
The hardest infrastructure to build isn’t a highway or an airport. It is character: respect for rules, civic responsibility, integrity, accountability and basic decency when nobody is watching.
Until that changes at scale, India’s political problems will keep regenerating themselves regardless of which party sits in Delhi.
People may find that conclusion brutal. So be it.
More than fifteen years later, specially when I once again see a bunch of incompetent cockroaches fool the masses in name of revolution, I remain profoundly glad that I made the decision to leave.
@timesofindia If an Indian student did the same thing in Japan as they did in India, the result would have been way worse, so it's not a terrible outcome.
I made a website that plays bangers from indian barbershops
before you became fancy and started visiting salons. you once went to a 'saloon'. ₹20 haircuts. simple hairstyles with music that could fix your soul.
https://t.co/j3E8VfwiUU
@gharkekalesh Those doctors should definitely lose their medical licenses and go to jail. The hospital and its management should get the same kind of punishment too.
India continued supplying arms, ammunition, and military components to Israel despite the substantial risk they could be used in Israel's ongoing genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip – new @Amnesty investigation.
Read our latest report: https://t.co/Ih4yLbBvqT
@DrDeepakKrishn1 Lol. 98% in SSLC. 95% in PUC.
Just 11 in NEET.
If state education boards were effective, the necessity for NEET would not arise.
https://t.co/u9KJjYoVd7