Quick notes: Buy, borrow, die | For-profit tutoring...

• Buy, borrow, die - How the wealthy live off their paper wealth: Wealthy people borrow against their portfolios to avoid selling in a hot market.



• China Bans For-Profit School Tutoring: “The out-of-school education industry has been severely hijacked by capital that broke the nature of education as welfare.” The new regulations are focused on compulsory subjects, meaning critical material like math, science and history. Classes for art or music mostly would not fall under the new restrictions.
  
  Among other things, they also ban the teaching of foreign curriculums, tighten scrutiny over the import of textbooks and forbid the hiring of foreign teachers outside of China.



• Why is China smashing its tech industry: Why do Americans equate “tech” with companies like Google, Amazon and Facebook, anyway? Technologies like Facebook and Amazon.com are fundamentally about leisure and consumption. But Chinese leadership have got bigger fish to fry — they have to avenge the Century of Humiliation and claim China’s rightful place in the sun. And so when China’s leaders look at what kind of technologies they want the country’s engineers and entrepreneurs to be spending their effort on, they probably don’t want them spending that effort on stuff that’s just for fun and convenience.
  
  U.S. antitrust action often focuses on strengthening consumer protections, but China’s crackdown is geared toward protecting govt policy. Neither Huawei nor ZTE have been targeted so far. China has outlined sectors it wants to prioritize, including semiconductors and artificial intelligence.



• 'Amazon bypassing Indian law': Shein was among the prominent Chinese apps banned after face-off in Galwan Valley.. Shein is now making a backdoor entry in India through the Amazon Prime Day sale.
  
  Ending the Amazon marketplace: Amazon's relationship with its third-party sellers has become a major focal point for the company's critics.



• Herd immunity? Madhya Pradesh has highest covid antibodies, Kerala has least



• German gymnasts' outfits take on sexualisation in sport: "As a little girl I didn't see the tight gym outfits as such a big deal. But when puberty began, when my period came, I began feeling increasingly uncomfortable."
  
  Sexist sports dress codes must take a leaf out of Ancient India



• Wanna excel at Calculus? A Mathematical Thread



• How to build a nation of cyclists: Tips from the Netherlands

Quick notes: Submerged subway | Food waste...

• Modi sarkar wanted China to build our railway stations: Passengers trapped inside submerged subway as deadly floods sweep central China




• Superpower surge: China’s CATL is stealthily winning the battery race. Its profitability far exceeds that of its global peers. Its technology has become at least as good as theirs, giving it the clout to outcompete them.



• 'Free-trade': UK chip plant taken over by Chinese firm was developing British military tech



• Food waste: Richer countries in Europe, North America and Asia contribute 58% of wasted harvests globally despite having only 37% of the global population. . . . . . Did Manmohan Singh lie to Parliament when he said food waste happens only where MNCs are disallowed?



• Talking out of his ass: Modi says exporting skilled manpower should be India’s key strategy

This is EXACT OPPOSITE of my position written & explained dozens of times. Are decision makers aware of my thesis?
A-No, they are ignorant
B-Yes, but they reject my thesis without explaining why
C-Sold out to US digital giants, whether they know or not https://t.co/1blNjS41F1

— Rajiv Malhotra (@RajivMessage) July 21, 2021




• The myth of India's population explosion: UP's fertility rate nearly halved from 4.82 in 1993 to 2.7 in 2016 - and it's expected to touch 2.1 by 2025



• Beating fuel price rise: Tamil Nadu man spends Rs 20,000 to make e-bike that goes up to 50 km.



• How not to build a new city: Gurugram is not a walkable city, and has very limited public transport connectivity for the masses. While it is connected to Delhi by the Metro, and its own Rapid Metro is meant for movement within the city, its scope is limited. A car is almost a necessity for even short distances.



• Using plastic waste to help solve sand shortages: Plastic use in making concrete could save 820m tonnes of sand a year across India.



• None of these people are worth spying on:

There's not a govt in the world that doesn't spy on its internal &external enemies.
But if #PegasusSnoopgate
list is real, then it's clear that @narendramodi govt spying ineptly.
None of these people are worth spying on.
However, some media outlets simply deserve to be BANNED!

— Madhu Purnima Kishwar (@madhukishwar) July 21, 2021

Quick notes: Population control | Drone danger...

• Population control will prove 'disastrous': India’s TFR is already down substantially to 2.2 in 2018 from 3.2 in 2000.. “International experience shows that any coercion to have a certain number of children is counter-productive and leads to demographic distortions”.



• Group Captain Rajiv Kumar Narang on neutralizing enemy drones: A number of soft and hard kill technologies are being developed to neutralise rogue drones. Lasers can physically damage a drone while microwave systems can damage its electronic circuits. These counter-drone systems would need to be integrated with existing command-and-control centres, especially the legacy systems.



• Drone danger: According to a hard count by Group Captain RK Narang, there are 26 private sector companies who are at the cutting edge of drone tech and doing well. It seems to me that were these 26 firms to work together per a single plan and integrate their resources, they would produce a world class series of surveillance, warfighting and attack drones including drone swarms operating in distributed (artificial) intelligence mode, as also anti-drone technologies.
  
  Relying on DRDO to perfect its drone and anti-drone systems, like land-based and airborne low energy lasers to shoot down drones/UAVs, and IT systems to scramble their guidance loops, is unnecessarily to lose time and money. Most countries are fast-forwarding their drone/anti-drone projects by going commercial — that is, getting companies vending whole drone systems and related technologies for commercial use, to build more rugged and capable drones and unmanned aircraft to milspecs for military use.



• Govt releases liberal drone rules: The draft rules have reduced the yellow zone from 45km to 12km from the airport perimeter. No flight permission is required up to 400 feet in green zones and up to 200 feet in the area between 8 and 12km from the airport perimeter.



• Comac C919 and C929: China's attempt to chip away at Boeing and Airbus




• Atmanirbhar Russia: Russia To Build RISC-V Processors for Laptops: 8-core, 2 GHz, 12nm, 2025.



• China Now Produces One Billion Chips a Day: Taiwan is host to TSMC, UMC and numerous makers of DRAM. South Korea has Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, the world's largest makers of 3D NAND and DRAM memory, and a number of smaller semiconductor companies. Japanese companies no longer produce leading-edge logic chips, but the country is home to the world's largest 2D/3D NAND production facility operated by Kioxia and Western Digital. China is the world's number four producer of chips, and it is largely on par with Japan. . . . . . .India has Sardar Vallabhai Patel statue



• Andhra Pradesh in debt trap: Centre restricts further borrowing... Samuel Reddy's legacy.



• How a Mumbai family's research can help detect cancer early: “Cancer patients and the stages they were at were identified with 99% accuracy and we were also able to tell whether or not non-cancerous patients have the risk of developing cancer”.



• Europe aims to kill gasoline and diesel cars by 2035: Transport is the only sector where greenhouse gas emissions are rising, and road vehicles accounted for 21% of CO2 emissions in 2017.



• Hills don't exist to serve your privileged touristy asses:

  Hills don't exist to serve your privileged touristy asses.
  
  Stop littering and polluting water sources with beer bottles, Kurkure packets and plastic bottles.
  
  These streams might be recreational for you, but they are a lifesaver for us.
  
  One polluted Yamuna not enough for you? pic.twitter.com/BxCJnJcPgM

  — CBG-san (@OnlyNakedTruth) July 11, 2021

Quick notes: Turkish influence | Challenging ARM...

• Turkey to protect Kabul airport: Turkey's presence in Afghanistan would increase Ankara's influence in the region in the long run.. While Pakistan would support Turkey's military presence in the region, India, Russia, Iran and Saudi Arabia would oppose it.



• China marches ahead: Open source XiangShan RISC-V processor could eventually challenge ARM Cotex-A76
  
  . While those babus keep stifling India:

This is precisely what is wrong with sarkar @narendramodi ji.

Govt has advertised for the director of SCL (only semiconductor fab in India) and look who is eligible. Only government babus. These people have zero subject matter expertise. ZERO. NADA. This is not what you promised pic.twitter.com/Lu9aX5FgrA

— CBG-san (@OnlyNakedTruth) March 29, 2021




• Britain at the receiving end: China seizes control of Britain’s largest Microchip factory.



• Capitalizing on chip shortage: Fake chips proliferating in China market, spreading overseas.



• Slaves of CCP: Twitter restricts account of expert who mocked China leader

Some of the biggest names in social media, from @Twitter to @LinkedIn @Zoom & @Facebook, appear to be getting into a habit of silencing CCP critics. Yesterday it was my turn to be censored. Thanks for your support in getting it overturned @edwardlucas https://t.co/1V0L2qdPa3

— Professor Anne-Marie Brady (@Anne_MarieBrady) July 5, 2021




• When do electric vehicles become cleaner than gasoline cars? If the electricity to recharge the EV comes entirely from coal, as happens in countries such as China and India, you would have to drive 78,700 miles to reach carbon parity with a Toyota Corolla... An EV charged from a coal-fired grid would generate an extra 4.1 million grams of carbon a year while a comparable gasoline car would produce over 4.6 million grams.



• Perils of Betting on Beijing: After the meeting with China's regulator, Tesla issued a statement so apologetic it verged on groveling, declaring it had “sincerely accepted the guidance of government departments” and “deeply reflected on shortcomings.”. There’s little-to-no concrete evidence there’s anything wrong with the brakes in Tesla’s China-built cars.
  
  What is clear, however, is that the remarkable honeymoon Elon Musk enjoyed in the world’s most populous nation is over. After receiving red-carpet treatment from govt officials, who granted Tesla the unprecedented concession of allowing it to wholly control its local subsidiary, the carmaker is now being forced to rethink its strategy.



• Solar Is Dirt-Cheap and About to Get Even More Powerful: Perovskites, Bifacial panels and Doped Polysilicon are changing the dynamics of energy market.



• Penalizing Mother Earth: Bitcoin power plant making part of glacial lake ‘feel like a hot tub’.



• Boy wonder: Polish kid from UK sings in Telugu

Quick notes: Aluminum-air battery | India's first VCs...

• Aluminum Air battery: A drive to reduce dependence on imports, especially from China, is pushing India to invest in a battery technology that uses aluminium rather than lithium as the key ingredient. Indian Oil Corp., the nation’s largest oil refiner, has teamed up with startup Phinergy Ltd. to develop the Israeli company’s aluminium-air battery.




• Strategic blunder of India's education ministry: Instead of turning our STEM graduates into functioning engineers and scientists, India is turning them into Humanities and Social Sciences people, who can only view society through the lens of the westerner.




Big blunder by India to train its best brains for sale to foreign firms. Should have used them for Indian R&D. Now at mercy of foreign hiring. Unemployed coolies? Injustice for Indian youth.⁦@NITIAayog⁩ ⁦@nasscom⁩ ⁦@TVMohandasPai⁩ https://t.co/goE8q0YKX0

— Rajiv Malhotra (@RajivMessage) July 1, 2021




• India's first venture capitalists: The Tata Group is a unique institution because of its expansive philanthropic work and commitment to nation-building, and this has imbued Tata businesses with a special sense of purpose. In addition to creating IISc, Tata Group established the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in 1945 to promote fundamental scientific research. TIFR became the academic home for dozens of talented scientists who came back to India after independence to contribute to the nation's progress, and it was where India's nuclear program was seeded before being moved to the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in 1954.



• Zero-carbon world: Why Mukesh Ambani’s gigafactory for hydrogen could be a game-changer.



• Prodigy: Abhimanyu Mishra, 12, becomes youngest grandmaster in chess history



• Anandaiah's Covid cure: After Andhra, the Anandaiah potion has now gained prominence in Karnataka. The herbal medicine is believed by many to have helped in the cure of Covid infection.