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Investing in Gold

Like many, I keep hearing about looming recession and Gold as a hedge. But how exactly gold is going to help me and if yes, how to invest is something running behind my mind.  So here is my work on it and hope it helps you too. Why Invest in Gold ?  Fiat currency we are holding is loosing its value at the rate of inflation. But before fiat currency, gold is the standard. Based on current technology, its difficult to extract gold. so in the demand vs supply equation, supply cant balloon like central banks printing money at their will. so i dont need to worry about Gold loosing its value over time. On Supply part, As per World Gold Council estimate 190,040 metric tones extracted and another 54000 metric can be extracted from ground. Refer :  https://www.gold.org/about-gold/gold-supply/gold-mining/how-much-gold On the Demand part, Below are the key drivers of Gold demand Source: Thomson Reuters GFMS, World Gold Council As an investment, From individu...

Manual to living a Human Life - How to poop properly

Years ago, I had a question "is there a manual explaining how to use my (Human) body? " Pursuit of this question send me in different directions. In this post, I will talk about "How to poop properly?" what is the right way ? Before get into it, Why now ? My daughter going through potty training. She naturally prefers Indian style full squat. This initially puzzled me as she newer knew about this way and also this is against what she is seeing / observing in Potty training videos and what is being taught at school. Being born in India, crouching is the way for us. Now being in western world, forcing my daughter against her natural will, makes me feel guilt. So i started searching about what is the right thing to do. Came across  Dov Sikirov who researched on Human Digestive diseases. In his 2013 article (refer  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1024180319005 ) he studied straining forces applied when sitting or squatting dur...

Windows webscrapper - Parsehub

Pros web scrapping methodology very user friendly Control - Correct - Command method using in build ML Cons While using Desktop app, it is very slow. Not sure if Browser with in Desktop app running from local machine or Parsehub server. This will be a concern while passing login credentials to scrap secured data Some interesting Parsehub blog posts https://www.parsehub.com/blog/scrape-twitter-tweets/ https://www.parsehub.com/blog/ https://www.parsehub.com/blog/mining-tweets-for-sentiment-analysis-part-1/ https://www.parsehub.com/blog/mining-tweets-for-sentiment-analysis-part-2/ https://www.parsehub.com/blog/portia-vs-parsehub-comparison-which-alternative-is-the-best-option-for-web-scraping/ https://www.parsehub.com/blog/parsehub-vs-scrapy-comparison-which-alternative-is-better-for-web-scraping/ https://www.parsehub.com/blog/parsehub-vs-import-io-which-alternative-is-better-for-web-scraping/

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Howdy Modi - Uniting Indian Diaspora

As a NRI living in US, I used to various associations like Gujarathi, Tamil, Telugu, Telangana associations etc., But when India was bad mouthed in Western press after Article 370 removal on behalf of Muslim brotherhood, felt like need of United Indian voice. While Pakistani officials spread rumors in Twitter, they kept debunked by various fact finding organizations. But voice isnt enough to make it to main stream media. Refer On the other hand, India as a nation is so diversified , that each state has its own culture, norms, cousins. Traditionally these differences kept Indians abroad apart coming under one umbrella. Since there is no external uniting force, looks like Modi has taken it upon himself to bring all onto one platform. As per 2015 estimates, around 1.5Million are Indian Americans with voting rights. Refer  https://aapidata.github.io/quick_stats/national_data.html and another 300K are pending with approved green card petitions. While these folks are star...

Solution to Kashmir issue

Overview Context of the issue Key events Abrogation of Article 370 of Indian constitution Diplomatic fight Use of rouge forces Information warfare through rumors   Role of regional events US election in 2020 and withdraw of forces from Afghanistan Pakistan strategic depth China's want to deminate South China Sea Solution sdfas Latest on Kashmir Important: Update on Restoration of Normalcy in Jammu & Kashmir. pic.twitter.com/ot1Mt7DaxW — Sheikh Aadil (@AskSheikhAadil) September 9, 2019   Former Pakistan ambassador to US confirming "Pakistan's military terror must end, for India to consider talks" [[KEEP WATCHING THIS SPACE AS I MAKE UPDATES]]