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This is just not true for at least the first 15 years of a doctor's career.

Source: Worked with multiple surgeons all over the country.

It sounds like you feel your dream is unachievable, not that it's the wrong dream. I'd at least spend some more time exploring how else you can achieve it. Transfer to a different school without switching fields? Do the 5 year program in six years? Do a different program that still leads to a career in machine learning? Just take a break and go back to school in a few months?

Just throwing some thoughts out, but it sounds like you're burned out because you've lost touch with what made you passionate about this in the first place and it seems a pity to abandon it without exploring other paths to the same goal.

I've encountered various situations that could all be described this way but for very different reasons. eg.

1) The feedback is not actionable because the manager is themselves not clear in their head or is skirting around the real issue on their mind.

2) The feedback cannot be actionable because the manager only has partial information and can say there is an issue, not diagnose it and recommend corrective action. They are relying on their report to introspect and diagnose themselves.

3) The feedback is actionable, but the person wants the action plan itself to come from the manager. Not always possible.

In my experience the answer to all three is to develop the action plan together. Any blind spots and vagueness on both sides get cleared by this forcing function. Helps set expectations too.

In a societal collapse scenario, you probably want to live in a country with decent defence ability and enough clout to throw its weight around in international diplomacy, even if quality of life is lower than some of the smaller, better located, better governed countries. Eg. Germany over Sweden.

I've been to this shop. Interestingly, his 'new' business is also something of a relic of the past. At some point in history the post office in Panjim started insisting that it is mandatory for international packages to be sewn into a linen enclosure to protect the package. I remember this being a common practice a few decades ago everywhere in India but I haven't seen anyone do this in Delhi or Mumbai for at least the last 20 years. Yet it continues to be 'mandatory' here, and he has a monopoly on serving this market.

The source quoted in the article is a local language newspaper, the wire is not the original source. Others have carried it as well. eg. https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/61k-covid-deaths-n...

Other reports from cremations in multiple cities have been approximately similar. https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1384782984138694658?...

You're right that it isn't 10x everywhere. India as a whole is probably 3-5x, but the point that it is 10-100x in the very worst areas is also true. Some places in UP and Bihar are reporting no COVID deaths at all. People are dying of 'cough and fever'

Finally, at a pan India level, while the government refuses to count deaths accurately, it has done sero-surveys. Those have consistently shown antibodies in 25-60% of the population (before this new wave) with the higher figures reported from poorer denser areas.

As of now, even after the new wave, official figures say about 2% of our population has been infected.

Here's one state's 10x. https://thewire.in/health/not-covid-stunned-by-data-gujarat-...

>> I am quite sure you can do without spreading FUD here though.

With due respect, our entire country is experiencing fear, uncertainty and certainly despair. Giving voice to it is not unreasonable.

Yeah. The foreign known brands are mostly imports and quite expensive in India. No one here regularly pays $3 for a beer at a supermarket. Even a higher end local microbrew is $1.50 - $2. Mass market lagers are more like $0.80

Speak with the other investor, negotiate a buyout or negotiate exit terms and equity. I'm guessing you'd own 10% if you left after one year and left the rest unvested. You may need to risk a small chance of owning 40% of nothing to get this fair settlement. It's worth it.

The worst thing you can do is stay. Any compromises you make for the greater good in hopes of getting past this and putting it behind you are likely to come back to bite you 9 out of 10 times. Cofounder conflict doesn't go away so easily.

I read it as implying that the workers have no faith in public institutions to give them justice.

I'm not very familiar with US taxation, but when you do this, don't the transfers end up taxable? Eg. Shouldn't the Nevada company license fee have some sort of CA sales tax on it?

What I specifically found useful about poker is helps you internalize the process of applying theoretical knowledge through repeated practice playing and analyzing thousands of hands. The incomplete information and multiple factors involved also are a good training ground for the real world.

It has already spread to villages. The ridiculously haphazard implementation of the lockdown led to a widespread migration of people back to their homes - which are often villages. Lucky for the government, theres no one there to challenge the official numbers and story.

In the urban centers at least it's now being questioned https://scroll.in/article/966898/how-many-people-in-india-ha...

> On the other hand, locking in a monopolistic player, particularly in the context of a government that has shown a desire for more control over the flow of information is a real downside.

This may warrant more than a single sentence. The government has in the past gone as far as turning the internet off in areas it doesn't want in the public eye. Censorship and banning of outlets is fairly common, and rarely as high profile as the recent tiktok ban.

Think it's only a matter of time before one of the new age banks or investment management startups do this as a customer acquisition hook.

You own a widget factory and I buy widgets from you. All of a sudden I don't need widgets, and I no longer need your products and stop paying for them.

You may have bought raw materials, hired people, set up a warehouse and stocked it with products anticipating my orders, but I don't understand why I should be obligated to pay for your products if I no longer need them.

All contracts generally include terms for termination of the contract. The tone of indignation is in the US, employers determine them unilaterally and employees don't have the bargaining power to do anything about it.

People are using their offices on large discounts

They also own close to a majority stake in OYO, with pretty much the same story. OYO is also entering coworking now after Softbank had to scale back on their planned wework investment. The common thread seems to be that real estate has a massive market size, in trillions, making it easier to tell a bigger and bigger story and boost valuations.

I think it's still done by Foxconn, just at an Indian facility. Chinese company in India, not domestic capability.

You mean a sparse enough area? I've generally found dense areas are more homogeneous while even neighboring villages in sparsely populated areas with bad roads and no telecommunications tend to be very different. Makes intuitive sense since transmission of culture is easier.

Um. They've overtaken flipkart in market share and revenue

Bigcos often tend to name products after their project name/strategic initiative /new business model instead of what they do/ what it means to their customer

Bitcoin? That is, if Satoshi is a single person

You could try sendy (sendy.co) - self hosted with a one time cost. Worked well for us on a $5/month vps. The UI is not as slick as mailchimp and the composer isn't as good, but it works if your needs are simple.

Buying power is largely concentrated with the English speaking though, even if it isn't their first language. Most people who do not speak English are also lower on the income scale. As in less than $500 per month in income

From a grad student perspective, pretty easy, long as you live that lifestyle. You don't need a car. A bike gets you most places, and if you don't have one, the campus buses are pretty good and free. On campus housing is cheap relative to local prices and Stanford's graduate stipends are better than most other schools. We also mostly cooked ourselves, taking turns in a group, so that's pretty cheap too. If you have to eat out, the dining halls have some good options at a reasonable price. All in all, I could make ends meet and I generally had enough left over for the occasional dinner/drinks out, going skiing, life in general. I did have to dip into savings or borrow money for larger unexpected expenses from time to time though.

I would find the poorest billion people and give them $1000 each.

Reduced transaction costs also allow greater internal coordination in corporations, leading to higher integration.

I don't think it's clear that smaller is better. I feel pretty sure the world is not heading towards an ocean of microservices. The full stack startup is a parallel trend after all. I don't know if there's better terminology for this, but it seems like we simultaneously have unbundling along one axis and integration (bundling?) on another.

I think others have given you some pretty solid answers. Find work at an interesting company and make friends with the people you admire there.

What city are you in? I might be able to introduce you to a few startups in Delhi/NCR (or a couple in Blr and Bby as well) if you're looking for a job after graduating. Send me an email.

Subjecting employees who cannot sign their own name to the whims of their employer is not the solution either. Without unions, working conditions would be disastrous. Look up the shipbreaking yards of Pakistan or unlicensed coal mines in India as an example. Most white collar jobs are not unionized, many blue collar ones are. I think that's ok.