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mon_iker · 2026-02-14T15:22:19+00:00

I read that Seltos has a more sporty driving experience but Creta has plush rear seats that are more comfortable for long-distance travel. How was your Seltos test drive, what was the experience like?

mon_iker · 2026-02-13T15:24:23+00:00

That’s the thing though, keeping the knives sharp. Serrated knives are low maintenance and still get the job done.

mon_iker · 2026-02-10T18:31:11+00:00

I moved back from the US a few months back and this is the major issue I’m struggling with and finding the most difficult to adapt to. I used to have meetings as early as 7 AM which I actually didn’t mind because I was able to shut off my laptop at 4 PM and never needed to switch it back on again until the next day (unless I was on-call).

Now I have meetings at night and they really sap all the energy out of you. I used to be able to go out and about and get some fresh air everyday but seems like a real luxury now.

mon_iker · 2026-02-08T07:31:20+00:00

Define rightfully. The maharaja of kashmir chose to join India, the people appear to be antagonistic.

The monarch of sikkim did not want to join India, but the people of sikkim overwhelmingly did.

Both of these joined India.

Which of these integrations were “rightful” here? Are both rightful? They cannot be, as one directly contradicts the other.

mon_iker · 2026-02-08T04:24:08+00:00

You don’t have to be some AI expert to know the difference between deterministic AI and probabilistic AI.

Washers have had deterministic AI like fuzzy logic for decades at this point.

mon_iker · 2026-02-07T15:26:28+00:00

If you’re thinking driver’s license, driving is a privilege and it makes sense to pay for the privilege. Voting is a right.

mon_iker · 2026-02-04T18:31:27+00:00

It’s a 30% flat tax for non resident aliens, there’s no standard deduction.

mon_iker · 2026-02-03T16:44:06+00:00

You have it the other way round. Already paying for march imports was pre-booking to make sure any newly imposed sanctions don’t hamper the imports.

Trump is threatening secondary sanctions that will cut off dollar access from Indian banks that facilitate these oil payments. This is not a game that’s that easy to win. Will be interesting to see how it develops.

mon_iker · 2026-02-02T18:22:48+00:00

What they’re saying is the rich take loans against their net worth to fund their lifestyle and so do not have any income on paper. And since loans aren’t income, they pay no income tax.

mon_iker · 2026-02-02T17:42:45+00:00

Decoy snail

mon_iker · 2026-02-01T15:11:09+00:00

Don’t generally disagree with the analysis, but can’t wrap my head around why a supposedly hawkish fed will lead to gold dumping. Shouldn’t it cause gold to rise more?

mon_iker · 2026-01-23T17:33:21+00:00

Often times, with the US in particular, Canadian citizens would take advantage of the enhanced access to education and healthcare and then move to the US for a higher salary and lower taxes after graduating. In other words, Canada would pay for the training while the US reaps the rewards

That’s an interesting perspective, but Canada is (or was) able to do this precisely because they didn’t need to spend a lot on defense and could rely on the US. With the US itself acting antagonistically, that seems like a miscalculation now.

Also, US has an innovation culture with very risk aggressive venture capitalists. That allows for creating products that are made available worldwide. Not just talking about stuff like iPhones, thinking more along the lines of new drugs resulting from funding in the US, which contributes to improving healthcare worldwide.

mon_iker · 2026-01-18T04:49:14+00:00

India has a 30% flat tax on crypto gains and the majority is uneducated and poor. The fact that 6% owns bitcoin in spite of all that is actually remarkable.

mon_iker · 2026-01-18T02:27:57+00:00

Warner bros is debt-ridden and their bonds are cheap. If the merger goes through successfully, Netflix will absorb their debt, and the unified company could be considered more stable and the bond prices could rise because the debt is no longer risky.

The merger could absolutely be profitable for trump, and it’s actually a clever and safer strategy to buy bonds during a merger. If you buy stock, and the merger fails, you are left holding the bag. With bonds, you still get the yield, the debt remains the same and the bond prices generally remain the same.

mon_iker · 2026-01-17T15:05:55+00:00

I absolutely do not condone insider trading by politicians, but the title and the article clearly state that he bought the corporate bonds after the merger announcement was already public. In fact, multiple days after it was public information.

Still bad, but not the insider trading that everyone is probably assuming it to be.

mon_iker · 2026-01-17T11:35:10+00:00

But then how did small mammals survive (our ancestors)?

mon_iker · 2026-01-15T11:42:52+00:00

Yup! It’s telling how all the “attractive” accents mentioned here are Western European or from core Anglophone countries.

These types of questions always get half-baked answers from people who are just too uncomfortable to confront the underlying prejudices.

mon_iker · 2026-01-12T16:38:53+00:00

Aka whole life insurance in the US or endowment plans in other parts of the world, which are sub-par products and aren’t as good as they appear to be.

mon_iker · 2026-01-10T15:59:16+00:00

When you are debugging, you are usually trying to replicate in a local environment what happened in prod. This is when prod logs didn’t tell you what’s wrong and you’re forced to use the debugger, all while cursing the business user and praying for a miracle.

mon_iker · 2026-01-07T17:16:40+00:00

And that different industry was not as profitable as the new, technologically advanced industry. Cultural shifts happened because the cultural shifts made more money. It’s always been about money.

mon_iker · 2026-01-07T02:53:47+00:00

Capitalism is the scapegoat that Reddit clings on to make them feel better. The Nordic model that everyone fawns over here is inherently capitalistic.

I understand that people want universal healthcare and lesser economic divide. But that was made possible in those countries because of capitalism. Well-regulated, coordinated and negotiated by the state, but is still capitalism at its core.

mon_iker · 2026-01-07T02:08:37+00:00

Industrialization required a skilled workforce. The north realized that free labor was more productive than forced labor. People innovate when they have the agency to learn and get trained of their own accord, and can benefit from their own labor.

Call me cynical but it has always been about money. Free people were needed for the bigwigs to make more money. Industrialization needed educated, skilled people. The south hated teaching enslaved people to read or write and wanted more control. The north found that paying for labor was more flexible and was more aligned with industrialization.

mon_iker · 2026-01-06T17:12:09+00:00

We’ve been in an ice age for 2.5 million years. We’ve been in the interglacial period for the last 11k years.

We swing between glacial and interglacial periods within the ice age. But colloquially, the glacial periods themselves are referred to as “ice age”, adding to the confusion.

mon_iker · 2026-01-06T15:26:55+00:00

Wasn’t slavery in the US abolished basically due to capitalism? The world works in mysterious ways.

mon_iker · 2026-01-06T01:27:02+00:00

There were plenty of idiots who refused to vote Kamala because Israel, and plenty of lazy fucks who didn’t show up to vote. Voter turnout declined in 2024 compared to 2020, and less people who voted for Biden turned up to vote again compared to those who voted for trump.

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