Tried building baseaccount.com / Pretend Physicist / Amateur coffee geek / Hardware Hacker / Devops enabler etc.

Joined October 2007
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Everytime I pass through immigration smart gates in Dubai - I am both amazed and little spooked. I remove my glasses, stare at a camera, it prints my name and opens the gate. No scanning my passport or any other ID at the smart gate.
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Sigh. Spam from harvested contact social graph. @CRED_club
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Clean up
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Looks like NBFC AA PR machinery is revving up. Its hard not to assume bias when seemingly independent articles all get published around the same time.
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#captainobvious - sometimes it is amazing how the economy of the world is connected. Having coffee from Costa rica roasted in Russia brewed on a Japanese V60 paid through a German Card by an Indian sitting in Georgia, who is paid by entities in Europe and USA 🤯
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After years of using only card/wallet for Taxi rides. I am now considering switching the default to cash. All this while I was not paying attention when someone would request for cash instead of card/wallet.
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The Dubai experiment.
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Flying after a year. Everything feels weird. PPE suites remind me of the time spent in clean rooms back in satellite days.

ALT TWD Stuff And Things GIF

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Since we are all discussing whatsapp Privacy policies. Lets checkout their payment service terms in India. whatsapp.com/legal/payments/… Focusing on whatsapp.com/legal/payments/… Thread

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For every tiny UPI transaction - Money, Rights and Data moves hands. Money transfer is free but...
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Which brings us to the NBFC-AA - The so called answer to consented data flows. NBFC-AA push without a privacy bill seems to have all the ingredients of a data disaster. The consent here seems more about the intermediary liability cover rather than user rights.
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Praneeth Bodduluri retweeted
Good to see our article on Account Aggregators in EPW part of the reading list for this Lok Sabha session. cc @lifeeth loksabhaph.nic.in/writereadd… #onlineprivacy #accountaggregators
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Praneeth Bodduluri retweeted
Some lessons from building a personal finance startup:
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#CashlessConsumer #PaymentDeepdives We also have @benichugh of @dvararesearch and @lifeeth of @base_account analysing @Lyciast 's paper on "New Era for Credit Scoring" this Sat 4 PM RSVP hasgeek.com/cashlessconsumer…
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Praneeth Bodduluri retweeted
18 Jun 2020
TRAINS WEARING MASKS THREAD😷
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