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HDFC Bank’s invite-only program that unethically assumes you are already in and are willing to pay for it
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HDFC Bank’s invite-only program that unethically assumes you are already in and are willing to pay for it

February 1, 2017May 23, 2017 by Karthik S

Please consider signing this petition, to make HDFC Bank listen and do the right thing If you came here from the Day 60 update on Twitter, I’m sorry… that was an April 1 prank where the joke is on us customers and…

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That very-human impulse to react on Twitter…
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That very-human impulse to react on Twitter…

January 29, 2017September 12, 2018 by Karthik S

[Continued from the earlier post titled, ] December 2001. Shah Rukh Khan has just moved into his sprawling new mansion in Bandra, Mannat. It was earlier called Villa Vienna, and given his recent hits like Mohabbatein and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, there…

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The violence of words
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The violence of words

January 22, 2017January 22, 2017 by Karthik S

Much has been said and written about how peaceful the protest around Jallikattu was/is, in Tamil Nadu. It is quite an eye opener that this large a protest, started almost spontaneously, across multiple cities, has been incident-free in every possible way. Many…

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On sentience, sapience and speciesism

October 26, 2016September 12, 2018 by Karthik S

The more science fiction I read (and I don’t read anything else consciously, generally, when it comes to books), the more I ponder deeply about speciesism. You should Google or Wiki Speciesism if you don’t know what it means. In a nutshell,…

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House of Cards, Big Data and the future of targeted advertising
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House of Cards, Big Data and the future of targeted advertising

September 1, 2016September 1, 2016 by Karthik S

The following dialog is from Season 4, Episode 8 of House of Cards: NSA agent 1: Can you walk us through how the filtering algorithms work? Aidan: We’ll take firearms, for instance. If we start with everyone who legally owns a gun,…

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Android (Nougat) and voice control
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Android (Nougat) and voice control

August 25, 2016 by Karthik S

I updated my Nexus 6P to Android Nougat yesterday (I’m on Android Beta Program, so got the OTA immediately yesterday). Apart from the myriad smaller updates that dot the UX, the one thing that I was most pleased about was the voice…

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The ugly face of influencer marketing
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The ugly face of influencer marketing

July 29, 2016July 29, 2016 by Karthik S

I had good fun moderating this panel for Social Media Week, Bangalore 2016. It features, as panelists, Kiruba Shankar (of kiruba.comĀ fame), Nandita Iyer (of Saffrontrail fame) and Nivedith Gajapathy (of Tech Travel Eat Repeat fame).

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