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Greta Thunberg doesn’t want you to talk about her anymore(politico.eu)
7 points by chewz 4y ago|4 comments
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A Powerful Dynasty Bankrupted Sri Lanka in Just 30 Months(bloomberg.com)
20 points by chewz 5y ago|2 comments
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by chewz 5y ago
Babylonians knew 7 planets and named each day of the week as ruled by a planet... It had also been subdivided into planetary hours... https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/days/7-days-week.html
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by chewz 5y ago
Don't read. Just open a laptop and code... When you hit a problem google.. Start from small problems and grow them...
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by chewz 5y ago
It takes time. More then four years. Sometimes ten years or more. But one day the the pain will end. And you will be able to look back without overwhelming feelings. What is important is that you will not do too much damage to yourself in t
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by chewz 5y ago
> Blocks sites you specify from appearing in Google search results This extension prevents the sites you specify from appearing in Google search results. https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist https://chrom
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by chewz 5y ago
> Give me links to websites. There are no more websites worth linking to anymore... If you filter out all SEO spam there is barely few webpages left... Google is desperately trying to hide that fact. Most of the web 1.0 can nowadays fit
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Humans Infected with 'Mind-Altering' Parasite Seen as More Attractive(realclearscience.com)
4 points by chewz 5y ago|3 comments
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by chewz 5y ago
Egypt - arable land 2.9 pct (more or less constant from 1961). Population - 105 milion (1961 - 26 milion). https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/egypt-populat... https://data.worldbank.org/indi
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by chewz 5y ago
Perhaps because refuges from Ukraine are mostly women and children while Ukrainian men stay in the country and take arms to fight Russians. Many Ukrainians even come back from imigration in Europe to fight for their country... While refuges
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All under one roof: Ukrainian refugees in Polish spare rooms(politico.eu)
2 points by chewz 5y ago|2 comments
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Cheap Russian Urals Crude Is Finding Willing Buyers in India(bloomberg.com)
4 points by chewz 5y ago|0 comments
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Saudi Arabia Just Beheaded 81 People in One Day(spa.gov.sa)
46 points by chewz 5y ago|32 comments
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by chewz 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bardc Account created 15 days ago...
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by chewz 5y ago
> So saying a haircut costs $50 in a big city now The cheapest haircut I had was 1$ in Colombo, Sri Lanka on the street. It was actually pretty decent. You can get a haircut for 3-4$ on the street in some countries in SE Asia. Also in co
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by chewz 5y ago
Yeah sure. Russians are bombing Ukrainian cities because Russia is the victim of NATO expansion. Same true as Germany being a victim of Treaty of Versailles and Jewish "stab in the back".... Can't you guys moderate Russian pr
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by chewz 5y ago
> “If farmers in Ukraine don’t start planting any time soon there will be huge crisis to food security. If Ukraine’s food production falls in the coming season the wheat price could double or triple,” said the Dutch national, who has bee
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by chewz 5y ago
Well said... All this total IQ at Google is much, much less then sum of parts...
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by chewz 5y ago
> Isn’t Western Europe still taking Russian oil and gas? Not really. It is still possible technicaly but traders are afraid of buying / making market as they predict sanctions to escalate and traders could be left with unsellable as
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by chewz 5y ago
> I seriously think that about 3/4 of Europeans could get by without any heating for about 3/4 of winter time. The temperatures in UK are stable during the day due to sea climate. In Central Europe we get +/- 10 degrees du
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by chewz 5y ago
I spend couple of days/nights each week in my cabin. It is poorly isulated so when the stove goes cold the temperature drops quickly. It could be 15C (59F) after few hours and 4C-6C (39F-43F) in the morning. On the other hand it is sma
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by chewz 5y ago
Every Russian general is born with the ambition of driving his tanks to the Atlantic Ocean. And that won't be much different from what Tsar Alexander did in 1812/1813 with similiar meager resources. So yes, Putin probably is consi
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by chewz 5y ago
It is originally a thesis from works of Ibn Khaldun, 14th century Muslim scholar from Tunisia who is considered a father of sociology and athropology.. Ibn Khalodoun had described a cycle of four generations of rulers and his theory echoes
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The One Percent's Carbon Footprint(statista.com)
5 points by chewz 5y ago|0 comments
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by chewz 5y ago
True. Amazon Music have incredible catalogue in CD quality and very nice apps (not bloated, pseudo-AI, pushing pop songs right into my face, half-music-half-podcasts app but just simple music service with minumum fuss) on most platforms...
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Gundlach Periscope(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by chewz 5y ago|0 comments
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by chewz 5y ago
With freezing December, wind output lowest since November, gas flows from Russia practically stoped, last German nuclear reactors being turned off forever and French reactors under maintenance, coal seems like the last option left for Europ
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by chewz 5y ago
You are right. This is observed phenomen not a law of physics. But bond investors are considered smart money investors (smarter then equity investors) so them voting with their money counts...
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by chewz 5y ago
Dollar strength is nicely explained by Brent Johnson's Dollar Milkshake Theory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4lz2NF6qkc And more broadly with zombification of EU economy and balance sheet recession as explained in
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Aqua Tofana: slow-poisoning and husband-killing in 17th century Italy(mikedashhistory.com)
2 points by chewz 5y ago|0 comments

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