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by borism 16y ago
my point was that while loss of some paintings is unfortunate, the change of history which unfolded was magnitudes more tragic but also forward moving. you should worry more that this revolution moves Egypt more on the progress path (whiche
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by borism 16y ago
When we had revolution in Russia in 1917 they attacked and looted czar's palace. Then they made it into world renowned Hermitage museum. King Tut's relics are the least of my worries.
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by borism 16y ago
terrorists disable vibrate, enable auto-answer and start using voltage going into speaker as detonators... ...now automated periodic calls are mandatory in America.
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by borism 16y ago
I'm sure you can get a Nokia for half the price and hassle.
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by borism 16y ago
but have you seen the effects of "rational social planning" by the unenlightened?
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by borism 16y ago
there's no civil war!? wtf are you smoking?
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by borism 16y ago
well, I've been all around the island by car and sure the places locals live in are not posh, but far from being "shanty towns" you'll see in India (where many mauritians are coming from) or Brasil or most of Africa for that matter. But tha
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by borism 16y ago
is it something different in American climate?.. :) one can live in a cardboard box in California but not in Scotland?
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by borism 16y ago
unfortunately investment advice written from personal experience is pretty useless if not harmful.
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by borism 16y ago
I've been there in 2007 too and I think you're wrong. If anything I think they're too dependent on tourism. And actually they seem to understand it by trying to diversify into tech and other industries. Regarding rubbish and immigration, th
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by borism 16y ago
I recall not so long ago the freest country in Africa (and the whole World) by Mises Institute standarts was Somalia? http://mises.org/daily/2066 http://blog.mises.org/7128/the-rule-of-law-without-the-state... BTW, I love Mauritius!
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by borism 16y ago
Did I not write I guess ?
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by borism 16y ago
well, I recall few months ago you criticized climate scientists for using incomplete models for their simulations...
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by borism 16y ago
Here's favorite story of mine on this topic. My favorite philosopher Slavoj Zizek quotes this often as well in his Reality of the Virtual themed lectures (it is disputed whether the story itself is true or not): An American scientist onc
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by borism 16y ago
70-02 period is pretty irrelevant in today's world though. how did such portfolio perform during Great Depression, which is more like what we face today?
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by borism 16y ago
I wouldn't bet on it. How many people on HN would recommend investing in MSFT? Close to none. And yet Microsoft is still unrivaled cash machine of tech world.
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by borism 16y ago
because it's not Argentina but Venezuela
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by borism 16y ago
yes, but the article explicitly defines "flag being visible" as stripes of the US flag being visible. for that you would need a tad better than 6-foot resolution.
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by borism 16y ago
mkey, but one will have to build 3.5+ mile wide optical interferometer... largest being built right now is 400m wide: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalena_Ridge_Observatory_Int...
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by borism 16y ago
it just isn't physically possible to resolve a flag on the surface of the moon with anything less than 3.5 mile diameter telescope. The technology used can't help much with physically impossible things!
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by borism 16y ago
The only method that could be used to (in theory) see something as small as the Flag on the Moon would be to use two optical telescopes set (for example) 1000 miles apart. This would easily provide the required resolution, the huge problem
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by borism 16y ago
you should learn to take criticism then.
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by borism 16y ago
fail-safe meaning you're ready to lose up to 50% of your investments? cause quite a few things on that list are mutually exclusive...
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by borism 16y ago
it doesn't matter $ man bless
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by borism 16y ago
they want you to have a perspective
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by borism 16y ago
not so great either. (unless you think keeping your money in the bank while the economy is reinflating is such a good idea, like some of you downvoters do)
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by borism 16y ago
it seems you forgot that you created your 100th job not all by yourself but with the help of 99 of your previous employees. so I applaud all 101 of you "job creators"!
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by borism 16y ago
it's great to see people finally starting to get it 20 years after initial Plan 9 development :)
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by borism 16y ago
well maybe that's the point?
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by borism 16y ago
that's absolutely correct.

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