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by chewz 5y ago
> True if you include Slavs who died on the battlefield This isn’t true. Out of six milions Poles who perished during WW2 most were non-combatants. Largest causualties in single battle (Budziszyn) costed Polish c.a. 50 thousand soldiers.
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by chewz 5y ago
True but there was safety in numbers. And freedom that you could experience in mass gathering. In a street protest, on a strike, in a church, discussion club, samizdat. That is why the movement in Poland called itself Solidarity. The police
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by chewz 5y ago
> the Stasi already had the capacity for that 40 years ago. I disagree. I haven't lived under Stasi but I have lived through Martial Law in Poland in 80s. Yes, when you have picked up a phone receiver you have been greeted with pre
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by chewz 5y ago
Mind that Monika was reporting for largest communist daily in Poland - her books are good reporting, lots of focus on people involved in the war but there is also a propaganda narrative. On the other hand her reporting angle is much better
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by chewz 5y ago
My ex-wife Grandmother had spent over 10 years (1964-1975) in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia as a reporter on the Vietnamese side during the Vietnam War and consecutive conflicts (Vietnamese intervention in Cambodia 1978). She was the first Eur
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by chewz 5y ago
I agree (and I am also Btc-neutral). This looks more like rapid forced positions liquidation then crypto crahs - as it spilled over to other recent hedge funds favourites (like CO2 ETS). Another Archegos perhaps?
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by chewz 5y ago
> Institutions should be allowed to fail, loose money They still can under this new law. They were just forbidden from providing cryptocurrency services to retail customers.
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Covid batters India’s aspiring middle classes(ft.com)
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by chewz 5y ago
> agriculture likely developed independently in China and certainly in the Americas and let do not forget New Guinea [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Guinea#Early_history
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by chewz 5y ago
As my meditation teacher explained to me - consumer capitalism needs to make us feel unhappy all over again in order to sell us all the stuff. People content with their life do not need to buy stuff or experience to fill their inner void, t
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The U.S. is increasingly alone, broke, and overweight(profgalloway.com)
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Hainan ‘on fire’ as luxury’s centre of gravity tilts to China(ft.com)
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by chewz 6y ago
I agree with your arguments. But there is another asset class beside real estate - arable land. People see gold as store of value which is false to some degree - gold was historically more of mean of exchange (of landed wealth) while the un
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by chewz 6y ago
> [0] For "real estate will never go down in value" fans: You realise that these properties in the picture (Plac Defilad right in the centre of Warsaw) are worth a lot nowadays. And descendants of the original owners get compen
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by chewz 6y ago
Bike frames are made from bamboo[2] today like this one [1].. There is many other... [1] https://www.my-boo.com/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo_bicycle
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China's Gen Z Adjusts to Life Without Easy Credit(bloomberg.com)
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by chewz 6y ago
These particular words and more are still used in Polish - ksywa, frajer - not just in slang. However they drop out of use nowadays...
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by chewz 6y ago
Pieseł had been first used and popularized by Michnikowski in cabaret first in 60-ties. At the time there was still enough people in Poland who were either speaking Yiddish or familiar with the language from before the war. Like my father w
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Viagra May Also Lengthen a Man's Lifespan, Swedish Study Finds(jacc.org)
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by chewz 6y ago
> As Neil Campling from Mirabaud Securities told Bloomberg: "ESG is one of the largest pools of capital and ESG funds will avoid such controversial issuances given the concerns on workers rights etc. in the gig/app economy,&quo
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Jim Keller: Most People Don't Think Simple Enough(youtube.com)
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by chewz 6y ago
> To arrive at this forecast, ARK used a Monte Carlo model with 34 inputs, the high and low forecasts incorporating 40,000 possible simulations. [1] Yeah.. [1] https://ark-invest.com/articles/analyst-research/te
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The truth is that many of us have had a good pandemic(ft.com)
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by chewz 6y ago
Stop buying Microsoft profucts
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The Whole Web Pays for Google and Facebook to Be Free(bloomberg.com)
240 points by chewz 6y ago|128 comments
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by chewz 6y ago
Strongbox is good on both iOS and macOS...
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by chewz 6y ago
> according to their own prospectus, less than 10% of Ant's revenue comes from true technological innovation -- more than 90% of their revenue comes from standard financial services, such as payments, loan issuance and wealth manage
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Why Beijing was right to rein in Jack Ma's rogue Ant Group IPO(asia.nikkei.com)
1 points by chewz 6y ago|1 comments
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by chewz 6y ago
February 24, 2021 2:46 PM Eastern Time The Fedwire Funds Service, Fedwire Securities Service, and National Settlement Service have resumed processing and are operating normally. The Federal Reserve Banks have taken steps to help ensure the
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Fed Is Down(frbservices.org)
31 points by chewz 6y ago|16 comments

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