but microsoftgenuinerewardsrc.com is! shameful!

it is time we have a good industry standard for this stuff

I dream of a time I don’t have a bank, or not in any traditional sense.

I’d been hunting for ways to use a Wisecard standoff a bank but got a bit wary of what would happen if they went bust. Government backed guarantee do not exist for Wise.

this doesn’t sound reassuring. there is not a nationality test on buying shares

i don’t understand what in context means here. how is this different from a regular agent like claude code

people are now being encouraged to use ai notetaking features under the guise of productivity.

a worker is just the sum total of all work related context. to collate, verify and organize this context is just asking to be replaced.

both countries reached peak coal this year.

Peak coal that was dead killed by far cheaper renewables 30 years ago? That's amazing, let's see for ourselves...

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/04/india-coal-power-heatwave-ln...

"Coal-fired power generation in India in April increased to 164.9 average gigawatts, compared with 160.7 average gigawatts last year, according to data shared by S&P Global Energy. According to the data, coal-fired power generation rose sequentially by 5.6 average gigawatts, or 3.5%, in April."

Yikes.

very few people move out permanently. if you exclude the gulf workers that is.

india and china should just split into 30 countries respectively (for tax purposes)

it would put all these arguments to rest

aqi of bangalore is 36. please do not repeat racist tropes mindlessly

Been to Dehli, Bangalore and Shanghai in one week. The contrast in air quality was huge. See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45332705

oh cool. I was in Shanghai last week as well. Which part of the city were you in?

On the very outskirts, Changning District.

oh cool. I was at Qibao District

200k is the cumulative number