GreeniFi

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by GreeniFi 7y ago
I think many traders are likely neurological outliers. Even as an entrepreneur, I can’t take investment until I know I’m on a really sure wicket and investors are as appraised as I am of all the risks involved. I know I could not handle the
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by GreeniFi 7y ago
Great answer. Thank you. I’ve never read any Jay-Z lyrics and had always - I see wrongly - assumed they had little to tell. I see a night spent reading hip hop lyrics ahead of me!
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by GreeniFi 7y ago
I sometimes wonder about the psychology of people who try this sort of money-making venture, ie smuggling vast quantities of illegal drugs across the ocean. Do these “entrepreneurs” understand the risk they take, or do they pretend to thems
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by GreeniFi 7y ago
I’m not sure if you’re playing devil’s advocate, but I’ll provide you with an earnest answer. On the face of it, your logic holds. However, the reality is that we don’t really know how complex social/ environmental /financial syst
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by GreeniFi 7y ago
In the real world, when you have a good idea, you prove it out at a basic level and then try and show it works in other contexts. In the environmental sector you bitch and gripe about no-one listening to you!
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by GreeniFi 7y ago
There is no basic agreement as to what causes climate change; bear with me... - Climate scientists think it’s CO2e emissions - Environmentalists think it’s deforestation - Conservation biologists think it’s over population - Neoclassical ec
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by GreeniFi 7y ago
Because Allan Savory’s holistic grazing system is context dependent. And Allan Savory is also held in suspicion because of his elephant culling policy - later much regretted - from the 80s.
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by GreeniFi 7y ago
Oh no. I meant kicking FB out altogether. Anyway, we already have a form of social credit in the West. It’s called your credit score, and you can’t buy a house without being a good boy.
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It’s analogous in that the problems associated with its use don’t disappear if only you stop using it.
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by GreeniFi 7y ago
The analogy to this is saying, “if you don’t like climate change, just stop using fossil fuels”. Great as far as it goes, but the problem still exists beyond the bubble of my own consumer preference. We’re moving towards big FB regulation i
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by GreeniFi 7y ago
The Wake is an exceptional book. It introduced me to the fact that Welsh meant slave in old English. It also led me to wonder whether the British trait of forelock tugging or deference to a supposed upper class was really just “colonization
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by GreeniFi 7y ago
In my late teens, in the late 90s I attended university in the United Kingdom. In my first year, the Japanese Emperor visited the Queen. And was met by British WW2 soldiers on the Mall, who in photos in the papers, were respectable old men,
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
An old English farmer with a strong Dorset accent once explained the difference to me: “If you see a raven, and there’s only one of them, that’s a crow that is. If you see a crow and there’s lots of them, that’s a raven, that is”. Simple!
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
Sometimes I wish that we could depoliticize the environmental debate - but as environmental damage is externality, it is inherently political, someone’s balance sheet wins at the expense of someone else’s. We probably need to recognize and
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
I wouldn’t worry too much. They’ll have HoloLens 2 soon.
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
Business idea: wooden stakes for sale!!! I’ll make a killing. Call me old fashioned, but I can’t believe this is a thing.
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
I agree. Our generation must begin to question how a world has been created where increasingly the cost benefit analysis favours not having children. I acknowledge there’s more to it than the financial case, but the whole set of reasons nee
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
This article for me seemed to miss the obvious point of endurance sport as status display. This also highlights the limit of the research methodology, because very few people will acknowledge that they participate in these events to display
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, An' foolish notion: What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, An' ev'n devotion!
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
We make a big hoo-ha about “social credit”, but I would argue that western financial credit scores function (or will function) in a very similar way given the amount of data some of the third party credit score providers pull and can pull i
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
I wonder if this is typical end-of-cycle behavior: 1. Sub-prime is back 2. UK lenders announce mortgages where loan amount is set with reference to joint child and parental income 3. Other examples of frothiness welcome. I wonder if banks
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
I’m not sure if I’ve been stuck in an information silo and have totally lost the plot, but there seems to be substantial circumstantial evidence that Russia interfered in Brexit, which throws into question whether the result can be accepted
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
If the cash is redistributed, theoretically you increase buying power, both state and individual. Holding all other variables steady.
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
Thank you for pointing that out. It could also have been their free-range childhoods. These soldiers would not have been press-ganged. I’ve read that elsewhere in Africa, child soldiers are forced by older soldiers to commit atrocities toge
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
Thanks!
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How do you do this?
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Southern Africa (although not South Africa). Just before the end of apartheid, everyone was gearing up for a fight and everyone was pretty angry. Two men talked the region off a precipice, Nelson Mandela, literally a prince of peace (he was
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
South London :-) [Edit: just joking, see response above]
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
I had a so-called free-range childhood. It’s impossible, as only one data point, for me to extrapolate its impact and given the diversity of “free-range” I suspect it’s pretty difficult to link to definitive characteristic traits. That said
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
I was reminded of this quote from The Big Short at the weekend: ”I have a feeling, in a few years people are going to be doing what they always do when the economy tanks. They will be blaming immigrants and poor people”. (Mark Baum). Many

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