Sharma

Never ascribe to malice what can easily be explained by incompetence.

[Sharma @bansisharma]

1. Capitalism vs Socialism

Now that you put it that way,
-- Capitalism sounds so greedy and crass
-- Socialism sounds so good and noble

In practice, Capitalism leads to the greatest good for the largest number of people, Socialism leads to tyranny and untold misery for most.

[Controversies of Science @controscience]

@bansisharma Funny thing about that ... So does virology. Definition changes have occurred for ...

- virus
- vaccine
- polio
- isolation

(*) I would myself add mRNA to this as well, since they seem to use it to refer to any type of nanotechnology

[Sharma @bansisharma]

WSJ: Marxism Is a Gulag of the Mind

The left manipulates politics by inverting the meaning of terms like ‘democracy’ and ‘equity.’

Back when there were still two Germanys, one a parliamentary democracy aligned with the West and one a Soviet satellite surveillance state, I had trouble remembering which was the Federal Republic and which the Democratic Republic—until I realized that the one calling itself democratic wasn’t. Even today, North Korea’s official name is the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The least democratic regimes in the world pretend to be the most democratic.

Then as now, Marxists and those who have learned from them often justify abuse of language by redefining the key term. Words come to mean their opposite. To the Soviets, “true” democracy wasn’t a matter of voting for one of two indistinguishable parties, but of justice. So used, the word “true” means “false.”

[i/o @avidseries]

The #1 boogeyman of online American rightoids — Indian immigrants — are incarcerated at about 1/3 the rate of native whites.

Other rightoid boogeymen which are incarcerated at rates less than whites: Middle Easterners and South Americans.

The low-crime champs: East Asians.

[Sharma @bansisharma]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India is just like President Trump in being hands-on, decisive and unperturbable in the face of hurdles, but unlike President Trump, PM Modi is gracious to a fault and never hurls insults at anyone. Modi is adept at disagreeing without disrespect.

[Modi Story @themodistory]

Former Nagaland Chief Minister S. C. Jamir, who in his early days served as Parliamentary Secretary to Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, offers a unique perspective as Narendra Modi completes 4399 days in office, becoming the longest-serving Prime Minister of India in continuous elected tenure.

Jamir draws an interesting distinction between the two leaders. "Panditji was a philosopher. Modi ji is a practical man. That's the difference," he says.

Jamir points out that PM Modi's approach is marked by him getting involved personally in issues. “Nehru largely worked through officers and institutions, whereas Modi engages directly,” he says. “If you raise an issue with him, he addresses it personally without intermediaries.” This direct approach gives Modi firsthand knowledge of challenges across the country, including in the North East, whereas many concerns during Nehru’s time often did not reach the Prime Minister through layers of administration, says Jamir.

“In those days, we were heavily influenced by British etiquette and administrative culture. Today we have our Indian model, making Prime Minister Modi far more accessible. Modi ji speaks openly and expresses freely, unlike many of his predecessors,” says Jamir.

He also points to the shift in India's economic philosophy. “The Nehru government followed a Russian model of planned economy. Everything was controlled through licences. Therefore we could not develop like we are doing now under PM Modi,” he says. Jamir acknowledges that under PM Modi's leadership, this shift in economic policy is helping India emerge as one of the world's fastest growing major economies.

S.C. Jamir adds, "The Northeast was neglected for far too long. When Modi ji took office, he gave unprecedented attention to this underdeveloped region. The scale of funding and development support we receive today is something we could hardly have imagined earlier. When I was Chief Minister, budgets often ran into just 10-20 crores. But today the investments are on an entirely different scale."

"One of the most significant achievements for Prime Minister Modi's leadership has been the progress in the Naga peace process. For the first time, Naga underground groups agreed to sign two landmark political agreements," says Jamir.

#LongestServingElectedPMModi

[Modi Story @themodistory]

Former Nagaland Chief Minister S. C. Jamir, who in his early days served as Parliamentary Secretary to Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, offers a unique perspective as Narendra Modi completes 4399 days in office, becoming the longest-serving Prime Minister of India in continuous elected tenure.

Jamir draws an interesting distinction between the two leaders. "Panditji was a philosopher. Modi ji is a practical man. That's the difference," he says.

Jamir points out that PM Modi's approach is marked by him getting involved personally in issues. “Nehru largely worked through officers and institutions, whereas Modi engages directly,” he says. “If you raise an issue with him, he addresses it personally without intermediaries.” This direct approach gives Modi firsthand knowledge of challenges across the country, including in the North East, whereas many concerns during Nehru’s time often did not reach the Prime Minister through layers of administration, says Jamir.

“In those days, we were heavily influenced by British etiquette and administrative culture. Today we have our Indian model, making Prime Minister Modi far more accessible. Modi ji speaks openly and expresses freely, unlike many of his predecessors,” says Jamir.

He also points to the shift in India's economic philosophy. “The Nehru government followed a Russian model of planned economy. Everything was controlled through licences. Therefore we could not develop like we are doing now under PM Modi,” he says. Jamir acknowledges that under PM Modi's leadership, this shift in economic policy is helping India emerge as one of the world's fastest growing major economies.

S.C. Jamir adds, "The Northeast was neglected for far too long. When Modi ji took office, he gave unprecedented attention to this underdeveloped region. The scale of funding and development support we receive today is something we could hardly have imagined earlier. When I was Chief Minister, budgets often ran into just 10-20 crores. But today the investments are on an entirely different scale."

"One of the most significant achievements for Prime Minister Modi's leadership has been the progress in the Naga peace process. For the first time, Naga underground groups agreed to sign two landmark political agreements," says Jamir.

#LongestServingElectedPMModi

[Sharma @bansisharma]

Groypers, eat your hearts out.

[IPO Newsroom @IPONewsroom_]

JEFF BEZOS JUST EMERGED FROM STEALTH WITH A $41 BILLION AI STARTUP CALLED PROMETHEUS

$12 billion raised. Valued at $41 billion. Coming out of stealth today.

The backers: Bezos personally, JPMorgan, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, DST Global, and Arch Venture Partners.

The mission: do for engineering and manufacturing what large language models did for text.

Bezos is calling it an "artificial general engineer." Instead of training on words from the internet, Prometheus ingests data from the physical world to accelerate the manufacturing of skyscrapers, smartphones, jet engines, and everything in between.

In Bezos' own words: "Something that today was going to take 100 engineers 10 years to build, if you can change that to taking 10 engineers one year to build, you're just going to get way more things built."

This is Bezos' first CEO role since stepping down from Amazon in 2021. He's co-leading it with Vik Bajaj, former Google X executive.

(Source Semafor)

[Sharma @bansisharma]

Sounds promising.

[IPO Newsroom @IPONewsroom_]

JEFF BEZOS JUST EMERGED FROM STEALTH WITH A $41 BILLION AI STARTUP CALLED PROMETHEUS

$12 billion raised. Valued at $41 billion. Coming out of stealth today.

The backers: Bezos personally, JPMorgan, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, DST Global, and Arch Venture Partners.

The mission: do for engineering and manufacturing what large language models did for text.

Bezos is calling it an "artificial general engineer." Instead of training on words from the internet, Prometheus ingests data from the physical world to accelerate the manufacturing of skyscrapers, smartphones, jet engines, and everything in between.

In Bezos' own words: "Something that today was going to take 100 engineers 10 years to build, if you can change that to taking 10 engineers one year to build, you're just going to get way more things built."

This is Bezos' first CEO role since stepping down from Amazon in 2021. He's co-leading it with Vik Bajaj, former Google X executive.

(Source Semafor)

[Sharma @bansisharma]

Space-X: Get Ready For The Mother Of All IPOs

SpaceX's projected $1.77 trillion market cap would equal nearly the combined value of the 29 biggest U.S. IPOs since 2000.

[Adarsh Hegde @adarshahgd]

"No European country has been attacked with Indian Weapons... So Keep that in Mind"...!!!

I think Europe was not expecting that answer from Minister @DrSJaishankar 👏

[WLVN @TheLegateIN]

Design of Indian Space Station is ready: ISRO Chairman

[Vishnu Som @VishnuNDTV]

While the loss of Indian lives is a huge concern, its worth looking closely at the circumstances of the attacks on each of the 3 vessels which have been targeted in the Strait of Hormuz:

✴️The area is currently an active conflict zone with ongoing hostilities and heightened tensions.
✴️An armed naval blockade has been put in place to restrict and control all maritime movement in the region.
✴️Ships attempting to run past this blockade face real and serious danger from enforcement actions by naval forces.
✴️Despite these clear risks, the three ships still chose to evade and slip past the blockade.
✴️All three ships deliberately switched off their AIS systems to avoid detection by tracking authorities and other vessels— This is against standard international shipping protocols and safety rules.
✴️All three vessels involved are foreign-flagged ships operating under non-Indian registries.
✴️In the meanwhile, I am told 13 Indian-flagged ships continue to be stationed in the Persian Gulf. These appear to understand and respect the danger at hand. ✴️11 Indian ships returned home after they received proper clearance to depart safely.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Trump says Iran could get "the greatest deal in history" if they "SURRENDER" and declare "The US is the greatest power. Praise be to Allah."

[Sharma @bansisharma]

What about those "manufacturing jobs" that tariffs were supposed to bring. Ironically, 80% of Americans want more manufacturing jobs in America, but 95% of Americans don't personally want to work in a factory.

This is what happens when a POTUS is obsessed with unhinged tariffs.

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

🚨 OpenAI pondering big price cuts, per WSJ scoop:

[Sharma @bansisharma]

🙏❤️🙏

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Sepsis kills more people in American hospitals than heart attacks. 350,000 deaths a year, and the reason is brutally simple: the early warning signs are almost invisible.

A slightly elevated heart rate. A small temperature shift. A lab value drifting in the wrong direction. Each one looks like noise on a busy ward. By the time the pattern is obvious to a human, the patient is hours into a cascade toward organ failure, and every hour of delayed antibiotics raises mortality.

Tampa General built a system on Palantir's Foundry that watches roughly 1,000 inpatients continuously. Vitals, labs, medication records, clinician notes, all scanned in real time for the pattern no single nurse can see across 12 beds at 3am. When risk crosses a threshold, a rapid response team gets paged. Humans still make every treatment decision. The software just compresses detection from hours to minutes.

The results since 2022: overall sepsis mortality cut in half, 48-hour deaths down 68%, length of stay down 30%, roughly 900 lives saved. At one hospital.

Now run the national math. There are about 6,100 hospitals in the US. If even the 500 largest matched these numbers, you'd be looking at tens of thousands of lives a year from a single use case. The treatment for sepsis hasn't changed. Antibiotics and fluids, same as decades ago. The entire gain comes from starting them earlier.

The hardest problem in medicine was never the cure. It was noticing in time.

[Sharma @bansisharma]

@SwordOfWanghaf Enough said!

Nothing I say will make any difference to what you think.
Your mind is made up.

Well, you are entitled to your opinions. Go with God.
I wish you nothing but the best.

Good night and good bye!

[Sharma @bansisharma]

Groypers, eat your hearts out and take a bow.

American greatness lies in attracting talent from all over the world, and not relying exclusively on native talent. Countries that do the latter trail behind the U.S. for that very reason. Don't stupidly aspire to be like them.

[ib @Indian_Bronson]

The co-founder and CTO of Saronic is one Vibhav Altekar, their VP of software is Goutham Subramanian

Saronic did the "Naarth Endian technical leadership", "South Indian guy writes the software" meme

America's adversaries are about to experience the most intensely autistic rivalry that has ever existed, an engine of non-stop output

[Sharma @bansisharma]

@SwordOfWanghaf But if you have been fed a steady diet of "America is run by greedy bastards", it is understandable you think H1B visa workers are hired just because employers want to pay lower wages even if they get substandard work done, as if America thrives on substandard work. What a crock!

[Sharma @bansisharma]

@SwordOfWanghaf But if you have been fed a steady diet of "America is run by greedy bastards", it is understandable you think H1B visa workers are hired just because employers want to pay lower wages even if they get substandard work done, as if America thrives on substandard work. What a crock!

[Sharma @bansisharma]

@SwordOfWanghaf The last I checked America's unemployment rate is pretty low. Almost all qualified Americans who want a job have one.

Oh but you would want all Americans to be paid more, as if money grows on trees. We work in a global economy. Market sets the prices, not wishful thinking.