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> The dead body floating thing happened in 1 or 2 states.

Those were the worst hit states - UP and Bihar. What was observed during the second wave was not normal, something like that last happened in 1918 after the Spanish flu:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-57068503 "This is not the first time bodies have floated up in rivers in India during a pandemic.

"The River Ganga was swollen with dead bodies", the famous Hindi language writer and poet, Suryakant Tripathi, better known as Nirala, wrote about the 1918 outbreak of Spanish flu in his village in a province which is now India's Uttar Pradesh state."

> You may not believe it, but India's response to the pandemic has been nothing less than fantastic

Come on, India was probably the only country in the world where there were dead bodies floating in rivers. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-57154564

During the second wave in April-May 2021, which India had ample time to prepare for, hospitals just didn’t have oxygen.

https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/haryana/ex-envoy-dies-wait...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/04/21/india-hospit...

States purposely undercounted their death tolls by vast amounts.

https://twitter.com/deepakpatel_91/status/139341986118379930...

That said some states like Kerala and Maharashtra managed the pandemic much better than others like UP and Bihar, so your experience could be based on one of the better performing states.

Showing one bitcoin at 789 Billion!

This does not address the problem of “Michelle Obama is a chimpanzee” or the “holocaust did not happen” going viral in one of those communities!

or they removed the amount of plastic that we add to the oceans in 14 seconds!

Lots of retired affluent people fall into that category. A $4M portfolio would throw off $80K in annual dividends assuming an average 2% dividend rate.

That is the income (profit) growth rate.

I believe that is the income growth rate, not the revenue growth rate.

> In terms of size, diversity, and economic potential, Karachi is comparable to Mumbai, but the two cities couldn’t be more different today.

You could say the same about Mumbai and Shanghai...

by focussing on the suburbs https://twitter.com/michaelxbloch/status/1335608284338909187...

The official Indian death numbers are a vast undercount by most accounts.

He isn't exactly incorrect, judge for yourself :) https://www.digitalindia.gov.in/

Not to take anything away from Bangladesh, but the parent is correct. The current government in India has managed to self inflict multiple wounds on its economy, allowing Bangladesh to pull ahead.

Did you even read the article? The article reports work done by an unrelated journalist who compared the death certificates issued during the same periods in 2020 and 2021 to estimate the number of excess deaths, which was 15x the number of covid-19 deaths reported by the government during the period.

There is a lot of evidence that the death toll in India is an order of magnitude higher:

From this very article: "He said officially 196 people had died from the virus in Kanpur between 16 April and 5 May, but the data from seven crematoriums showed nearly 8,000 cremations."

Here is another analysis from Gujarat: https://mobile.twitter.com/deepakpatel_91/status/13930705967...

The study that you have linked to above has primarily focused on western countries, where the process of reporting and recording of deaths is much better than in India.

This was also my first thought. OP you should take a look at all the other comments, but don't loose sight of the fact that you need to optimize for her overall physical, emotional and mental wellbeing.

China has intruded and occupied Indian territory. Modi will not admit to it because it does not suit his strongman image.

That is net income (or profit) not revenue.

However, it is much more expensive on a PPI basis compared to western countries.

At what CAGR has their vehicle production scaled over the past 5 years?

Tesla sells less than 1% of the vehicles that these companies sell combined. Are you seriously suggesting that Tesla production will increase by 100x within a decade? Even if we assume that 100% of the vehicles sold in a decade are electric (highly unlikely), the majority of the increase is likely to come from the other companies. They are not going to sit still and let Tesla devour them.

>> Wikipedia estimates 90mm global users of Ethereum

This is a gross oversimplification. How many of those 90M users would consider Ethereum to their primary medium of economic activity? What percentage of their economic activity is in ETH - 100%, 1%, 0.01%?

The author was an early employee at Facebook (joined in 2006). They probably made a killing in the IPO and that's what they are investing.

Did all 70 test positive?

I don't see how it would be better for women. If Serena Williams is in a league 3 levels below Roger Federer, playing with no name male players [1], what would that do to her star-power, endorsements, contracts?

[1] http://www.tennisnow.com/Blogs/NET-POSTS/November-2017-(1)/T...

Imagine a White person, who is the head of the organization in a country sharing a post that African Americans are a "degenerate community". In any western country, the person would not only be promptly sacked, but would also become untouchable in mainstream organizations.

The Indian politics and judiciary have been compromised by right wing Hindu nationalists and it is impossible to expect anything from them. However, I expected better from Facebook. In a western country Facebook wouldn't think twice about firing any employee who shared such a post.

Where are you getting 80 from? The link says 1,043 in the past year. Did you mean 80 per month?

> The most salient part of this essay was the last section. Remote-first is forming in a way to break tech labor power. Employees will be less able to bond, and their personal conversations will be easier to spy upon.

Slightly tangential to this thread, but isn't this also tacit admission that employees will be collectively less creative when working remotely.

Not to mention, thanks to contact tracing, South Korea's tests are more targeted.

A Hyatt, whether in Delhi, Denver or Dublin will have certain minimum standards, which I would trust more than an Airbnb host in any of these cities.