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> my question to you: what major problem can be solved without isolated public examples and money I'm pretty sure the things Bill Gates foundation does are not about isolated public examples - they evaluate proposals based on impact
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I once read an article which was about how we are willing to spend thousands to save one particular dog, or one particular injured bird, instead of donating that money to "animal habitat preservation" or something similar which wi
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I once tried to move "forward" through old EU city streets, and instead managed to move in a circle and come back to the starting point, because I got confused about which way "forward" is, due to non-right angles betwee
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> There's no recourse, no getting your money and/or assets back. That's not true. You'll go to a court of law and you'll revert the transaction. Just like this guy did, where he went to the contract owners: >
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Oil is trading against Yuan for a number of years now: > Traders appear to embrace yuan oil futures contracts, pricing them similarly to the Brent and WTI benchmarks, says analyst > According to Bloomberg Intelligence, the volume of c
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Source is probably Mexican narco torture videos. Warning, extremely disturbing content: https://elblogdelnarco.com
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Needs TikTok song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXLicO0CRvk
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Michael Lewis wrote about something related in Iceland, when he covered the 2009 financial crisis and it's impact on Iceland: > Alcoa, the biggest aluminum company in the country, encountered two problems peculiar to Iceland when, i
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias