Dev Singhal

Epistemocrat | Possibilist | Manchester United nut●

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@MartienBall Yes this is a red. Messi is lucky.

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@TweetinderKaul These ME players play out of their skin for their teams. Last world cup similarly there was Arambat but he was a flop at Utd.
Looks like Mazzaroi also played like Dani Alves. Hope he can do that here at Utd.

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@cbdhage And best part is, just a 2 lane road for everyone to get in/out of this!

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@AbhinavAgarwal Yes, he is forgetting about deepseek. that didnt cost billions to beat Openai!

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@magicsilicon Balotelli was a coach's nightmare.. for both the opposition coach as well as his own!

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@RMantri Instead of RnD, I guess the IT majors could have deployed their excess cash into acquisitions in next gen tech or taking stakes in those companies (like Google did with Anthropic, SpaceX, Waymo etc). Instead they just squander money in buybacks/dividends.

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@agrawalmanindra @IITKanpur @Director_IITK This should be lot more hands-on kind of course. Are the labs already setup for this?
Nice initiative Prof. Agrawal btw. Wish my alma mater (IITD) could also think likewise.

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@Nalanda_index Good. Illegal parking is just rampant in all of Bangalore. Half the roads (even when roads themselves arent really that wide) are taken up by cars/bikes for parking.

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@TVMohandasPai Its fruitless to look at establishment (read TCS, Infy, wipro etc) for any leadership in new age tech.
Disruption comes from upstarts, not from established companies.

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@agrawalmanindra @IITKanpur Good initiative.
Impressed with the recent initiatives IITK is taking (like direct entry of Olympiad winners also)

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@AtriNeeraj @yrf @GemsOfBollywood is it a surprise. Bollywood is copy paste model. Hardly any originality.

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@Anirudh_Agrawal I dont think its about nationalism. nationalism is sweeping all countries right now even in West.
The anti-India stance is more a result of India's Russian stance. India has chosen not to condemn Russia for Ukraine war and West is unhappy about it.

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@Muskan82319 @Shubham45856917 I wrote JEE in 1997. There was a re-exam because of paper leak. The first paper I did very bad and wasnt expecting any rank. In the re-exam I did pretty well and got rank 265. I think easily the score would have been 100 marks higher 2nd time.
It happens.

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@RCBXICT @Ayush_Rajput17 @cae_sar__ @Goatlism @InnovativeOmK Pretty solid team but for tests you need a specialist keeper. That is missing. Maybe Kirmani instead of VVS ( if we are not playing Australia) or in place of Sehwag if we are playing Australia.

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@gurjota How does it fare against its benchmark in this period?
How does it fare in a 3y, 5y or 10y scale. Mutual Funds need to be evaluated on a larger timeframe as short term market volatilities can skew things.

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@kawal279 Start jailing for 1 month for wrong side driving and in 1 week this problem will be solved! Just needs strict implementation.

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@Moon_AGD Well Olise would have turned out to be an Antony if he had moved in that Utd team!
His bloody good luck that he moved to Bayern. A very stable, very well run club that plays great football and competes for top honors every year.

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I find the whole "Test cricket is the pinnacle" conversation almost sickening now. Every cricketer, former cricketer queues up to get a share of IPL riches as player, coach, commentator etc while parroting praises of Test cricket. It's like everyone trying to get a job in AI while saying how they feel civil engineering is the best.

Like it's amusing they keep running clips of Kohli saying Test cricket is the best and its the format he enjoys the most. Then what stops Kohli from turning up for Delhi in Ranji or heck play a season of county cricket in England. Jimmy Anderson is still doing that. You turn up for a domestic T20 competition because that is where the most money and maximum fan engagement is. It should be perfectly acceptable to say that "Look Test cricket was great, but we all love T20 the most now since the concept of five day cricket is outdated and the fans don't like it as much"

But no. Almost no one can say that without getting brickbats from the whole cricket establishment. No one (other than Lalit Modi) openly says that Test cricket is past it's prime and is just a niche sport now and will continue to be.

Ashwin was talking in a panel discussion on cricinfo recently where he said we should force kids to play Test cricket. It was an absurd statement. I mean T20 is simply just a bigger job market now. A kid can grow up only playing T20 and make a living play Tamil Nadu Premier League even if he doesn't qualify for IPL ever. Can Test cricket give that kind of job market to a kid today? Would you force your kids to learn abacus if they are interested in learning python coding?

The center of all this nonsense is the shadow of how cricket is still "gentleman's game". It is just an unwritten law in the old boys club that runs the game that everyone who picks a bat needs to pay homage to the holy spirit of cricket. The spirit that dictates what cricket ought to be like even when it is far separated from the reality of its existence.

Cricket is not the only game that has evolved. Of course cricket is unique in having different formats of the same sport. But tennis also changed because the racquets became superior and players became muscular and the serve and volley game of the bygone era got extinct. Basketball changed when everyone started shooting 3-pointers in NBA. And while other sports also sometimes get nostalgic about the past, they don't bring arguments or discuss methods to turn back the clock at the expense of what people actually want to watch.

And that is exactly the elitism in the Test cricket superiority argument that irks me the most. It goes against vox populi. People have spoken long back about the format they prefer. Yet the commentariat looks at empty cricket stands in Test matches and almost gets judgemental about cricket fans. As if you need to turn up to the stadium in a Test match and do your time in the stands just to be deemed worthy of being called a cricket fan.

So yea. I almost secretly hope Sooryavanshi actually never plays Test cricket. Just to piss off Test supremacists. Quietly becomes bigger celeb than Jordan and Kohli combined playing only T20. And then as he wears that highest crown in sport, he has the authority and honesty to for once state the truth. That the gospel of Test cricket is an elitist lie. That Test cricket isn't supreme anymore. And you know what, the world is a better place because of that coz it the will of the people made it happen.

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@ramprasad_c Elon has lot of idiotic views and this is one of them. He just doesnt understand colonialism.

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@naveenmzs So a ~1km Ejipura took like 10 years to build (even then not yet complete!!) So how long this one will take?? End of this century??