Daniel Alphonsus @danielalphonsus

verandah living, also examining at @ExaminerLK Sri Lanka Joined March 2009

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The Examiner @ExaminerLK

3 hours ago

CHART: Over the last 20 years, Sri Lanka's share of exports from developing countries to the rest of the world fell by half.

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Daniel Alphonsus @danielalphonsus

15 hours ago

Agree. We need on arrival residence visas for anyone from a country 4x as rich as us. #braingain

Sonal Jayawickrama @sonaljay8

16 hours ago

Agree. We need on arrival residence visas for anyone from a country 4x as rich as us. #braingain

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Advocata Institute @advocatalk

22 hours ago

Why does Sri Lanka still have two land registration systems? (Part 1) Sri Lanka continues to operate under both the deed system and the title system. Deeds, introduced during the colonial period under the Registration of Documents Ordinance (1864, revised 1927), record only the…

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The Examiner @ExaminerLK

23 hours ago

In this week's reading, the IMF and @Muragala_CPPP duo chew on the causes of our polycrisis and what must be done.

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Ranga Sirilal @rangaba

a day ago

As @anuradisanayake visits Japan, remember this: if not for the idiocy and corruption of @GotabayaR , we’d be on a Japanese-funded LRT today. He ditched a 0.1% loan, 40 years to repay, 12 years’ grace. That’s when capital punishment feels like a sound policy option. @jica_direct

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Tamil Nadu Geography @TNGeography

2 days ago

Chennai is gifted with good local railway transport network. As of now, Chennai has ~198km of existing "dedicated double line" railway transport(sub-urban-~120 km, MRTS- ~24km, Metro- ~54 km) with 119km of metro under construction. In 2028, Chennai will have 317km network 1/3

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Chennai Updates @UpdatesChennai

2 days ago

45% of Smartphone exports from India are from Chennai alone...📱 #InvestInTN #ElectronicsHub

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Stefanie Stantcheva @S_Stantcheva

2 years ago

Zero-sum thinking is a key mindset that shapes how we view the world. Excited to share a new paper on the roots and consequences of Zero-sum thinking with @sahilchinoy, @DrNathanNunn @SMGSequeira. A summary thread🧵1/23 scholar.harvard.edu/files/stantche…

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Michael Pettis @michaelxpettis

3 days ago

1/4 According to a new IMF study, "trade imbalances boost incomes in surplus economies at the expense of deficit economies." The reason? "This is the consequence of scale economies concentrated in the traded sector." elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/…

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Rohan Samarajiva @samarajiva

3 days ago

“Those days, they took up arms. Nowadays, they leave the country.” sundaytimes.lk/250928/busines…

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The Examiner @ExaminerLK

3 days ago

Before Prophet Jerome became a controversial preacher, he was a disciplined cricketer and smooth-talking corporate executive. Today he heads a religious empire and chairs Southern Fried Chicken. 🧵

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Daniel Alphonsus @danielalphonsus

4 days ago

Meanwhile in a parallel universe 32 kms away…

Chennai RE Updates @ChennaiREUpdate

4 days ago

Meanwhile in a parallel universe 32 kms away…

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Kaushik Basu @kaushikcbasu

4 days ago

Today, on Dr. Manmohan Singh’s birthday it’s worth remembering his huge contribution to India’s growth & high standing on the global stage. His honesty & intellect made him a special person in the global political arena. As Obama said, he was “a man of uncommon wisdom & decency”.

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Daniel Alphonsus @danielalphonsus

4 days ago

Meanwhile in a parallel universe 32 kms away…

Chennai Updates @UpdatesChennai

4 days ago

Meanwhile in a parallel universe 32 kms away…

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The Examiner @ExaminerLK

4 days ago

🧵Sri Lanka’s largest ever power sector reform is underway. The CEB is being unbundled into six companies. Transfer letters went out end August, but unions want more clarity.

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The Examiner @ExaminerLK

4 days ago

This weekend's Diary features cheating cinema, chamber quartets to rock riffs, a treasure hunt and poets unmasking their insecurities.

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Daniel Alphonsus @danielalphonsus

5 days ago

This week’s issue is electric ⚡️ CEB strikes and megachurch energy.

The Examiner @ExaminerLK

5 days ago

This week’s issue is electric ⚡️ CEB strikes and megachurch energy.

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Aviation Voice @Aviation_Voice

5 days ago

The Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka has certified FitsAir to conduct its own ground handling operations at Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA).

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Andrej Karpathy @karpathy

6 days ago

"AI isn't replacing radiologists" good article Expectation: rapid progress in image recognition AI will delete radiology jobs (e.g. as famously predicted by Geoff Hinton now almost a decade ago). Reality: radiology is doing great and is growing. There are a lot of imo naive…

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Christopher Clary @clary_co

7 days ago

"The data reveal that national security officials’ intuitions are overwhelmingly overconfident. For example, when study participants estimated that statements had a 90 percent chance of being true, those statements were true just 58 percent of the time." (h/t @rajesh_basrur)