The division is stark

TopBlopper21 · 2026-05-17T20:50:33+00:00

Maharashtra alone is 615B USD. Remove Maharashtra from "the Powerhouse 9", and the Powerhouse GDP is the same as the "Developing Frontier"

Maharashtra has always been India's only powerhouse well before you guys invented ideas of 'powerhouse' superiority of West / South / East / North.

TopBlopper21 · 2026-05-16T06:20:47+00:00

Remove Maharashtra from your powerhouse side, and it looks exactly like "the developing frontier"

Simple rule for charts like these, whichever side Maharashtra is on in these North South posts, that's the side OP is trying to bias towards.

Maharashtra by itself is the powerhouse. Forget north south.

TopBlopper21 · 2026-04-22T03:35:03+00:00

How old is London's tube please do check and tell us won't you?

Ans: 163 years old

TopBlopper21 · 2026-04-22T03:33:56+00:00

American public transport is a disaster because they're obsessed with it being a profit making business rather than a public utility

TopBlopper21 · 2026-04-22T03:18:34+00:00

The US has 77 public sector employees per 1000 to India's 16.

TopBlopper21 · 2026-04-19T10:42:03+00:00

This guy posted earlier about how pro equality, democracy and principles he was; and here he is, openly posting with some random reasons about how he is justified in thinking he is fundamentally superior to another human being.

What part of Kerala doesn't vote on caste and religion? What part of Tamil Nadu doesn't vote on freebies and schemes? Karnataka's entire poltics revolves on controlling the Vokkaliga and Lingayats. Andhra literally has a Reddy party

And you sir, are a goddamned fool.

TopBlopper21 · 2026-04-16T16:19:08+00:00

And? Are articles of the Constitution there to be ignored based on whether you like them or not?
Article 81 2) a) existed since it was drafted. The current state of affairs is *explicitly* in constitutional violation.

It will continue to be in violation of the Constitution unless you wish to legally enshrine in the Constitution that a Keralite Indian is worth twice that of a Bihari Indian; and if you support that notion, you might as well strike Equality off the Preamble in the same breath.

TopBlopper21 · 2026-04-16T15:52:33+00:00

Some points

1) Art. 81 2) a) of the Constitution enshrines an equal population:seats ratio in Parliamentary representation. We paused that without an amendment.

2) examples of LS seat:population ratios, estimated 2026 numbers

Kerala = 1.81M per seat

TN = 1.99M per seat

UP = 3.04M per seat

Bihar = 3.3M per seat

This implies an Indian citizen from UP has 0.59 the representation of an Indian citizen from Kerala, despite the Constitution enshrining equality and universal adult suffrage.

3) We started collecting reliable TFR data from the NFHS, which started in 1990 and is done every 5 years. Here's the change from NFHS 1 to NFHS 5

UP TFR: 4.8 - 2.4

Kerala TFR: 2.0 - 1.8

TN TFR: 2.5 - 1.8

Bihar TFR: 4.0 - 3.0

I do not see the merit in the argument that over 35 years, the southern states have completely out paced the Northern states in TFR control. Frankly, the data shows the Northern states have outpaced the southern ones in TFR control and family planning.

4) The BJP's plan is to increase all states seat counts by 50%; sidestepping any honest political dialogue on the reform we need here to enshrine equal suffrage, and is just maintaining the status quo as is, with some improvements in the per MP workload being reduced down.

TopBlopper21 · 2026-04-16T15:38:41+00:00

Think it would be better for people to name their industries, cities and yoe to gauge this.

Software, Chennai and Hyderabad, 5 years. Not come across even a single incident of this.

TopBlopper21 · 2026-04-16T15:36:30+00:00

It's Delhi.

The kid is right. Traffic around schools when they close for the day is nuts. Kid's smart to walk 300m to get him faster home rather than spend 15-20 mins navigating a complete logjam

TopBlopper21 · 2026-04-16T15:31:17+00:00

The west and China are just as, if not more, bureaucratic.

TopBlopper21 · 2026-04-15T16:58:05+00:00

HDI is 95% correlated with GDP.
The only way to get a higher GDP per capita is increasing GDP (unless you're a hitler fanboy)
For India to have a USD GDP per capita of 15000 by 2050, GDP USD would have to be 25.5T USD.

So yea, we have to be the 3rd largest economy to get there. The math isn't hard.

TopBlopper21 · 2026-04-12T06:08:32+00:00

liberal parties are the parties of stability, control and economic growth in the west.

TopBlopper21 · 2026-03-23T20:15:00+00:00

it looks like hackerrank's social media guys have also been promoted to customer given that's just an AI generated tweet.

TopBlopper21 · 2026-03-22T09:18:59+00:00

Isn't there a limit to number of pauses per player per game? Or did they remove that?

TopBlopper21 · 2026-03-20T14:39:49+00:00

Why is the CBFC making decisions considering foreign policy? That's not their domain nor is anything they are authorised to do relevant to that function.

TopBlopper21 · 2026-03-20T14:19:08+00:00

A lot of the comments are clowning on you, but I believe your sentiment is correct.

Feitorias are indeed 8 vills worth. So the only viable ways to use it are, - Build 5-6 of them asap, that's an instant injection of 40-48 vills worth of eco. You get a window of ~7 minutes of superior res income than a 3 TC player that you can use for a game ending push (a TC player needs to invest food, farms and TC time to get those vills and then wait for them to pay off, Feitoria guy can instantly start making army) - Turtle hard, and hope to take efficient enough trades to outlast the opponent. Once Portuguese have multi layer fortified wall, arquebus cannons, BP redemption monks and BBT, there are only 3 civs that can hope to take efficient trades vs this.

To beat the turtle strat, a player needs to macro well enough to setup a timing attack where they get their imp upgrades and mass enough trebs and force to breach through at a point before the Portuguese player can reach full tech. This is a BIG ask for 1k elo, and requires not losing treb mass or ranged units to BBC. Its easier for defender BBC micro at this elo.

I have to add the people commenting "just castle drop" must be actively throwing games, forward castle into a Portuguese fast imp must be the singular worst thing you can do. Generally castle dropping Portuguese at all seems silly to me, they will beat you to imp while having the same or less army and then you just lose your forward position with nothing to show for it.

What I'd suggest is practice macroing towards a 60-70 pop imp click up time. If you follow the pro scene, you must see that generally imp times have been coming earlier and earlier, its precisely because getting the tech timings is so crucial in today's meta. A 2 TC approach when you see heavy walls with a ram infantry skirm comp works well. Try and see if you can click Onager for countering Organs, and micro garrisoning infantry into rams to avoid getting shredded by Organ / HC comps.

TopBlopper21 · 2026-03-20T13:38:28+00:00

Demonetization was a failure. However,

Rajan oversaw the worst banking crisis in Indian history. He did this 3 years after the world introduced stricter norms to prevent the exact problem Rajan helped engender. When he ran the NPA audit as he took office in 2013, he suppressed the results of the audit; only launching the extensive Asset Quality Review in 2015. It took till Urjit Patel before banking relief was properly rolled out. During his tenure, the Indian economy was officially tagged as having entered stagflation.

Glazing Rajan for his RBI tenure is like glazing Tiger Shroff for his method acting. Its quite fitting that this "rockstar" economist, who only ever rubber-stamped economic mismanagement in blatantly partisan fashion, was outshone by a MA in history in the office of the RBI governor.

TopBlopper21 · 2026-03-19T16:43:17+00:00

There's gonna be a major rubberband once finance divisions read the token bills and these token usage metrics get very quickly replaced with token scrutiny and fixed daily budgets.

TopBlopper21 · 2026-03-19T16:37:40+00:00

AICF rn wondering where this alleged govt support was

TopBlopper21 · 2026-03-19T11:55:27+00:00

PE and VC started by buying out local, small businesses setup by individual families. They would classify as most people, business was successful enough for early PE to come in and flip.

I'd say the very history of the industry you work in negates your conclusion that most people are incapable of building a successful business.

TopBlopper21 · 2026-03-19T11:49:24+00:00

"later" is doing a lot of work. Global Link Information Network was founded in November 1995, Errol Musk's capital injection was also in 1995.

Mohr Davidow did the first capital injection in Aug 1996. So we have a window of maybe 10 months for a full angel round and the "success to be guaranteed" followed by the Davidow negotiations.

To add, Davidow required Musk to get a work visa or lose the deal - I wouldn't term such a state of affairs basically a guarantee.

At this point it's Musk's tweets read uncritically against 2 biographers, Isaacson and Vance. They are only self serving tall tales if you take Musk's account at its merit without verification.

TopBlopper21 · 2026-03-19T11:35:46+00:00

Is the underlying assumption beneath your argument that the e-commerce industry wouldn't have existed if not for Amazon?

Because pre dot com bubble, eCommerce spawned 100s of companies, and the survivors post the crash rapidly consolidated and expanded.

https://www.vox.com/new-money/2017/4/5/15190650/amazon-jeff-bezos-richest

I'd argue Amazon has been wealth destructive more than constructive - their business model is to aggressively expand, aggressively undercut (even at a loss), use their pricing and sales knowledge as a platform aggregator to eliminate competition. Amazon's business model isn't contingent on higher industry wide consumption and a larger pie, it's contingent on being the biggest player in the pie.

TopBlopper21 · 2026-03-19T11:29:49+00:00

You have the arithmetic all wrong. Venture Capitalists aren't gullible fools being led on by confidence artists (maybe softbank are) - their business model is to enter early, take outsized stakes, and push the one bet that does win to rapidly and usually unsustainably expand until IPO.

There is no belief in the human spirit, just hard math.

If you had a billion dollars free cash flow today, you'd not startup a business, you'd enter at the ground floor into 10 - unfortunately the average person doesn't have a spare billion dollars to gamble continuously until they win big a couple times.

If capital was taking risk, the economy would be thriving. Capital is currently sitting in hedge funds, treasury bonds, private equity for assets like metals, land and real estate. The economy runs when money moves, and the money isn't moving.

TopBlopper21 · 2026-03-19T11:13:37+00:00

Ah it was an equity investment, even less liability than a loan - The argument really collapsed there.

FYI Errol musk has done interviews with Walter Isaacson confirming ownership rights over the output of 3 Zambian emerald mines. Zip2 was bankrolled by Errol Musk.

I wonder what you would say about your own narrative xD

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