Nitin Pai

How much room do auto manufacturers have to degrade the quality of their output while keeping sticker prices constant?

What a great endorsement of Signal!

“How many divisions does the Judge have?”

Don’t ascribe to malice what can be more simply explained by incompetence. Some idiot might have created an excel sheet, noted Bhutan is doesn’t have diplomatic relations, and put it on the red list.

Autonomy Has Outpaced International Space Law - War on the Rocks In 2021, a Starlink satellite and OneWeb spacecraft came dangerously close to colliding in orbit.  While both companies’ automated systems detected a

Really interesting discussion on how the rise of autonomous space systems challenges existing space law frameworks

Come join us for a discussion on ancient Chinese philosophy in the contemporary world at BIC #Bangalore #Bengaluru this evening at 6pm.

Poonam Surie and I will be discussing Confucius and other masters and what Chinese people think of them today.

Tesla sent an unsigned letter to the USTR complaining that tariffs would hurt their sales. 🤣

Looks like new AirPods will be the babelfish

Love Signal. Recently got my mom on it as well.

nitopadesha-translators-note Buy this book at Amazon This is an unedited draft of the Translator’s note that appears in the book. There may be minor changes in the published

How the manuscript of the Nitopadesha came into my hands www.nitinpai.in/nitopadesha-...

The Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā or The Perfection of Wisdom In 8,000 Lines, a Sanskrit manuscript that is about 1,000 years old and features events from Buddha’s life.(University of Cambridge)

The human relationship with writing is so strong, and hard to measure in numbers.

The National Mission for Manuscripts estimates that India has ten million manuscripts. That doesn't include lost, destroyed, uncollected manuscripts.

All those minds from the past, placing their faith in writing.

Security experts analyzing the assassination of the United Healthcare CEO criticized the shooter’s opsec, like using Citibike & leaving bullet casings behind. But the latter apparently very intentional:

“Officials said casings…appear to have been inscribed with words including ‘delay’ and ‘deny.’”

Pluralism. The answer.

A good, private library is a research tool, not an ego boosting appendage.

"The library should contain as much of what you don’t know as your financial means allows. The more you know, the larger the rows of unread books."

Umberto Eco in his library, Modena, Italy, April 1977, by Leonardo Cendamo

This forms the backdrop for William Boyd’s spy novel Gabriel’s Moon.

I’ve seen this on a lot of books. The paperback is much more expensive than the hardback.

Trump’s moves to contain China will be contained by his other moves This is from The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. After Donald Trump first became president of the United States in

Trump’s moves to contain China will be contained by his other moves.

To many countries China will look a lot more attractive, not least because America's shine is dimming fast. (Biden’s double-standards of Ukraine & Gaza precipitated it)

www.nitinpai.in/2024/11/18/t...

A lone man facing a crowd telling them “yes, you are all wrong.”

Diaspora politics is going to get even more complicated This is an unedited draft of The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. Diaspora politics is going to get a lot more

Diaspora politics is going to get a lot more complicated and....society in India will have to deal with uncomfortable challenges to what it considers its internal affairs.

https://www.nitinpai.in/2023/07/16/diaspora-politics-is-going-to-get-even-more-complicated

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