> Exogamy between castes remains very low, even between different high castes.

What are you basing this on?

Not the GP, but I can anecdotally confirm this. Breaking caste barriers remains unusual in most of India. The Indian HN community is biased towards Bangalore, Delhi and Bombay where rates of exogamy amongst the upper middle class are far higher than in practically all other parts of India.

The Caste survey conducted in 2018 found that only around 5.8% of all marriages in India are intercaste:

https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/in...

> I wish journalists would stop simply reprinting intentionally misleading company spin like this without any attempt to refute it.

That's exactly what reporters _should not_ do. Why would i want them to mix their opinions in when reporting an actual statment from the company.

People are perfectly capable of forming their own opinions.

You report that "Amazon 'claims to absorb costs' but gave no specifics when asked". Or something to the effect.

Don't print a company claim without doing some digging to back up or refute it.

Or if you do make it clear that you (the reporter) made no effort to back up the claim.

Exactly. I am not asking for the reporters' opinion. I am asking for the reporter to try to reveal the truth to the reader. That is their job. Their job isn't to reprint press releases. They should ask for clarification and evidence.

There needs to be a greater degree of skepticism in the way the media covers powerful people, companies, and organizations. Amazon saying something doesn't mean that statement is true. It is the reporter's job to determine if it is true before passing that statement along to the reader. When the reporter is unable to confirm it as truth, the reporter should denote that lack of confirmation before repeating the statement. When the reporter can confirm something is false, such as the implication that fuel price increases are permanent, the reporter should note that as a lie.

Flat Earth News is a good book that digs into why news outlets pushing PR statements verbatim (alongside other problems) became a thing.

Basically fewer journalists with more column inches to fill using syndicated pieces and barely editing them mean the same company release can appear across all the platforms with minimal contextualisation.

This isn't what a hostile takeover is. Is it?

Buying a company through a tender offer in order to replace the management is your textbook hostile takeover.

I understand hostility isn't a term-of-art or something special, but in business parlance the sources I've read seem to point at hostility being the practical term for "without board/director/management approval"

The board determines management, and it appears the offer is only to the board at this time. Hostility depends on the board's lack of approval and continuation of the offer.

Maybe I've missed some news, but I only see Musk making a request to the board at this time. Although everything else seems to fit the normal fact-pattern of hostility (wanting change, not being satisfied with current power, escalation, etc.), technically I don't think we are there yet.

It wasn't true even when they wrote the blog. Realistically this should read 2018 because apparently they waited two years before writing this blogpost.

I remember when this article came out, everybody was pointing out the fact that they used a go version that was several releases older.

Perhaps if the intent wasn't to convince their managers to let them write it in Rust, they would have tried using the latest Go version at the time?

Then why publish it at all?

Not to mention, the article made no effort to establish that it's describing the world 2 years prior to this being written

The difference between the last 3 realme phones would be: a different camera, a different screen, a different brand of processor between each of these and they would have been released 3 weeks apart.

here you go, probably the same thing for iPhones

> They've been making iPhone SEs in India for a while now.

They've been making 11s,12s in the same plant in the OP

The 13 production started only now.

> vs. $799 in the USA

vs. $829 in the USA

799 includes carrier discounts. You get bank discounts in India which would get the price down to little over $800

iPhone 13 costs about the same as it would if you bought it in the US.

But 13 Pro is a different story It costs $1580 compared to $1099 (incl. tax) in the US. I guess they don't make iPhone 13 Pros in India

Several Indian states have a lower gini coefficient than the US and it's still possible to hire household help here.

So SV pays 4-5x or 0.85-0.9x adjusting for cost of living

And EU/Uk pays 2x or 0.4-0.5x adjusting for cost of living.

Devs in India are getting paid _more_ now adjusting for cost of living..

It's just that, cost of living stops making sense after a specific amount. For a lot of things $1 = $1

You want to buy a laptop in India? still costs $2000. Vacation to Exotic Islands? Would still cost the same.