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TV Cord-Cutting Hits Record as Coronavirus Shuts Businesses(wsj.com)
3 points by chewz 6y ago|0 comments
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by chewz 6y ago
It was 'Invincible' for me. And Pilot Pirx stories - the atmosphere that flying spaceships is just dirty, demanding, lonely job like driving a lorry. 1978 Polish-Soviet film based on 'Pilot Pirx Test' was very good ...
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India faces surge in cases as economy forces ease of lockdown(ft.com)
1 points by chewz 6y ago|0 comments
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by chewz 6y ago
> Just a few years ago, the Kindle was being blamed for the death of the traditional book. But the latest figures show a dramatic reversal of fortunes, with sales of ebooks plunging. So what’s behind this resurgence? https://w
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One-Third of All U.S. Coronavirus Deaths Are Nursing Home Residents or Workers(nytimes.com)
32 points by chewz 6y ago|3 comments
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‘50 cent’ gold fund tops European performance charts(ft.com)
1 points by chewz 6y ago|0 comments
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by chewz 6y ago
> nothing that would help me believe that slavery is the thing that ended secessio plebis. It's like saying that steam machine and industrial revolution bancrupted landowning class and abolished serfdom in Eastern Europe in XIX cent
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by chewz 6y ago
Good one. World never really change I guess, its human nature.
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by chewz 6y ago
Secessio plebis could be compared to XVIII century emancipation of middle class. It was a struggle between hereditary wealthy (aristocracy) vs acquired wealth of middle classses. Like American revolution and similiar emancipation in England
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by chewz 6y ago
> Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/56217-times-are-bad-childre...
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by chewz 6y ago
> Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/56217-times-are-bad-childre...
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by chewz 6y ago
> Nexum was a debt bondage contract in the early Roman Republic. Within the Roman legal system, it was a form of mancipatio. Though the terms of the contract would vary, essentially a free man pledged himself as a bond slave (nexus) as s
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Global personal luxury goods market set to contract 20-35 percent in 2020(bain.com)
1 points by chewz 6y ago|0 comments
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by chewz 6y ago
> I hope our democracies can find a better solution to the issues of wealth inequality, before this story happens to us too. Do you see any chance for revolution in United States? People are too meek, too intimidated and cleverly divided
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by chewz 6y ago
> After a while, the wealthy depended not on their poor fellow Romans to farm or make goods, but on slaves. Now it did not matter if the plebes didn’t not show up. Also small landholders and artisans in Italy could not compete with large
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Exponential phase of covid19 expansion is driven by airport connections(medrxiv.org)
2 points by chewz 6y ago|0 comments
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by chewz 6y ago
And yet last year in July Germany observed record-setting cold. The summer in Eastern Europe had been very cold from July on. The moderate climate of Western Europe is changing probably due to changing jetstream (which is probably result of
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by chewz 6y ago
Don't you have mountains in Switzerland? I have been living in Sumatra and Flores where you usualy get moderate climate from 1000 meters above sea level..
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by chewz 6y ago
Nothing
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by chewz 6y ago
In Thailand and SE Asia there is a lot of retailers based on pick-up truck that is making slow rounds along country roads, through remote villages selling necessities like vegetables, food etc.
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by chewz 7y ago
I have paid 40€ for my second-hand 1973 Peugeot road bike. Best bike I have ever had.
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by chewz 7y ago
As Margaret Thatcher said - there is no such thing as society, there are only individual people. Seems like over last 50 years many people had been brainwashed to believe it is so. But people are not the largest, quickest or most dangareous
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Banks Gave Richest Clients ‘Concierge Treatment’ for Pandemic Aid(nytimes.com)
8 points by chewz 7y ago|0 comments
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Singapore tycoon is US$1B richer every month as ventilators sell out(scmp.com)
1 points by chewz 7y ago|0 comments
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by chewz 7y ago
E-commerce is booming, courier services are hiring, small mom and pop local retail is quickly embracing internet orders. In my country we are introducing parcelmats at scale and preparing for 'foodmats' or 'fridgemats'.
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by chewz 7y ago
And a lot of new industries will arise. They already do.
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by chewz 7y ago
The idea of solidarity in crisis is that you circle the wagons and protect the vulnerable. Every man for himself is usualy a net loss for everyone.
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First female co-CEO at DAX company, SAP's Jennifer Morgan, leaves within months(dw.com)
1 points by chewz 7y ago|0 comments
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28,000 Missing Deaths: Tracking the True Toll of the Coronavirus(nytimes.com)
8 points by chewz 7y ago|0 comments
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by chewz 7y ago
Please remember to put on YOUR air mask FIRST, before helping children or other people.

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