NoPie

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by NoPie 4y ago
No one is going to fall for the promises of the USSR system, that's for sure. 5 million Ukrainians already run away from it. I think they are doing great, much better than those who stayed in a war zone (where many were brutally tortur
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by NoPie 4y ago
Putin lost the war. A new leader would be a man of courage to say that clearly. And he would lead the country to prosperity instead of more killings and stagnation.
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by NoPie 4y ago
Russia does not only leave their own people behind but actively send more to die. Of course, there will be some limit how far they can go. It is expected that at some point there will be a new leader who will intervene and stop these sense
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by NoPie 4y ago
Why don't Russia admit that if Russia had not started the war in 2014, countless people in those territories and beyond would not been killed? The only way to end this conflict peacefully is for Russia to retreat.
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by NoPie 4y ago
Loss? People changing countries is not loss of lives. Not even remotely so. The way out is very simple – the war can be stopped in the same way as in Afghanistan.
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by NoPie 4y ago
Of course, they are writing good things about deceased. But what kind of good things? Mentioning 15,000 killed in Afghanistan is quite daring at this time. I remember Afghanistan very well because I lived in the Soviet Union at that time. E
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by NoPie 4y ago
Derek Lowe had a review about testing of mRNA flu vaccines and they were not better than current ones. In a way they could be even worse because they had more side effects. I heard about mRNA vaccine trials for cancer. I don't know the
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by NoPie 4y ago
Somehow I think there more parents who sometimes need to take a photo of their naked children than there are paedophiles. Or at least the ratio is clearly not 1:100000, maybe more like closer to 1:10. You would need statistics how many time
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by NoPie 4y ago
I think you are engaging in whataboutism and should not be taken seriously.
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by NoPie 4y ago
Google should have stopped business in Russia like many other western companies. They are not doing this because they hope to make money. It is a bad decision because ultimately they won't be able to juggle Russian requirements and wil
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by NoPie 4y ago
Maybe it is but maybe not. With physical SIM mailing to a physical there is at least some kind of verification to ensure that you are the one who owns it. With digital only there is more chance of fraud. And I don't even mean it when
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by NoPie 4y ago
How could they diversify with organic farming if there was not enough demand for organic tea in the world? I mean, they could diversify by not growing food at all and have some entirely different business like IT services, high-tech manufac
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by NoPie 4y ago
It seems more a problem with Costa Rica than Wise who only needs to follow the local rules. Interesting that wire transfers can be done but not Wise transfers but that is probably caused by Costa Rica strict rules.
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by NoPie 4y ago
Good point. I am reading about him on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug This is really crazy stuff: >> Western European governments were persuaded to stop supplying fertilizer to Africa. Acc
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by NoPie 4y ago
The government could have tried to borrow money internationally to buy fertilizer. If properly presented the issue (such as great risk of starvation), the IMF or World Bank would have helped. Then they could export some crops and give the c
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by NoPie 4y ago
This is strange take. Yes, there were several reasons why the country got into financial difficulties, however the decision to switch from nitrogen fertilizer to organic one was clearly predictable to cause even more problems. More than a c
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by NoPie 4y ago
Most likely this will go to courts and the likely outcome will be that Musk pays $1 billion severance fee and that's it.
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by NoPie 4y ago
It is interesting though how birth rates have dropped during pandemic. Probably due to lockdowns and other restrictions that caused people to delay dating, marriage and decisions to have a baby. Linking this to vaccines is completely unjust
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by NoPie 4y ago
While these expectations are probably false, some people do think that it should be bailed out by the government. I mean, stupidity has no bounds.
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by NoPie 4y ago
Well, gambling is legal in many places. The US does not allow it online but many other countries do. For the same reason crypto will survive as a form of gambling in many countries even if some countries won't allow it.
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by NoPie 4y ago
Interesting that many people expect that crypto which was hailed as independent of any government now needs to be bailed out by the government. Why would banks even care about crypto except for transaction fees they can collect?
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by NoPie 4y ago
Which according to the article is a minor offence.
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by NoPie 4y ago
My understanding is that initially Taleb was favourable towards bitcoin. Later it became apparent that bitcoin is not going to fulfil many promises and he changed his stance. I think it is commendable when we change our opinion when facts c
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by NoPie 4y ago
We don't arrest people (yet) on the idea that they might commit crime in the future.
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by NoPie 4y ago
Only if they are driving. If they are running away on foot, what is the threat?
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by NoPie 4y ago
I cannot access science.org, quora.com, substack.com at the moment. It shows 500 Internal Server Error. Didn't know why but now it is clear. I guess I just wait until it is fixed.
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by NoPie 4y ago
It's also a bad idea to assume that historic performance will always continue. But basically, bitcoin has no inherent value. It's a bubble that ultimately will burst.
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by NoPie 4y ago
Central NHS negotiations for the whole country also saves a lot of money by reducing expenses related to insurance, administration, pharmacy benefit managers etc. On the other hand, it may take away some choice people have in selecting heal
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by NoPie 4y ago
All NHS prescription drugs are free in the UK. Some people have to pay prescription fee (currently £9.35 per item) but diabetics get an exemption for that too (for all NHS prescriptions). The price you see is the cost to the NHS, not the pa
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by NoPie 4y ago
This is a very important conclusion about complex trait inheritance. In a similar vein, there is a growing number of supporters of the theory that some countries are poor because their population or certain ethnicities have lower IQ due to

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