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by chewz 3y ago
I remember reading about Battle of Atlantic. Statistically on a sinking ship a sailor who couldn’t swim had better chance of surviving than a sailor who was a good swimmer. In a cold Atlantic water the former had been expending less energy
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by chewz 3y ago
That's harsh. In my personal experience over years Thai policemen usualy politely refuse bribes (handing back my 1000 baht bill) and still giving me a pass. Also (and I have seen this many times) on one of these rural police checkpoint
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by chewz 3y ago
Venice was thalassocracy and never focused on real colonies - only military/trading bases. And it dominated Europe by the strength of ducat being both Venetian and global currency. Venice was skilled at setting gold to silver exchange
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by chewz 3y ago
Venice was the precursory of modern Western states. It had invented many things that we take for granted now. Read "Inventing the World: Venice and the Transformation of Western Civilization" [1] > Whether it was boats or money
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by chewz 3y ago
Re 19. Horse Archers Were Unstoppable People do not realize, that Carrhae was a special case. In normal circumstances horse archers would run out of arrows quickly and Roman infantry would simply wait them out in testudo formation. Surena (
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Why Germany Is Rich but Germans Are Poor and Angry(bloomberg.com)
46 points by chewz 3y ago|86 comments
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by chewz 3y ago
Ten Charts That Explain the U.S. Economy in 2023 https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2023/12/19/...
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by chewz 3y ago
It says between the lines that some PE investors are getting worried about high valuations vs the real value of underlying assets and slowly start withdrawing money. Which is smart as markets come to the realization that PE's had been
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The Plastic Chemicals Hiding in Your Food(consumerreports.org)
2 points by chewz 3y ago|0 comments
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by chewz 3y ago
The shares of game producer Starward Industries lost 80 pct YTD... CEO and main shareholder quit... https://stooq.com/q/?s=sta&c=1y
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Unmasking Ray Dalio and Bridgewater Associates(youtube.com)
9 points by chewz 3y ago|1 comments
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Ukrainian Marines on 'Suicide Mission' in Crossing the Dnipro River(nytimes.com)
8 points by chewz 3y ago|1 comments
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by chewz 3y ago
Exactly what I have meant. New building code is heat-pump friendly but lots of people with older (not old just older) houses had been sold on heat pumps and now pay the price in electricity bills.
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by chewz 3y ago
In Northern Europe heatpumps are simply not effective (yet). Heating at colder nights means heating with electricity, where gas is 1/3 of the electricity price. 100s of stories of people who converted to heat pumps (being oversold with
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by chewz 3y ago
The War is over. It had been for about a year now. US and Europe won (crippled Russia without loosing single soldier and spending just a bit of money). Russia lost (diminishing industrial base and costly hot border for years to come). Ukrai
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by chewz 3y ago
Most women agree with you and feel safer in a SUV…
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Matthew Perry died from the effects of ketamine, autopsy report says(apnews.com)
1 points by chewz 3y ago|0 comments
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by chewz 3y ago
Polish Cipher Bureau had been also using leading mathematicians for breaking Soviet ciphers before WW2… During Polish-Soviet War 1920 Polish HQ had such a complete knowledge of Soviet movements that they had to stage a deception. Polish cav
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by chewz 3y ago
> ruby -e 'C=`stty size`.scan(/\d+/)[1].to_i;S=["2743".to_i(16)].pack("U*");a={};puts "\033[2J";loop{a[rand(C)]=0;a.each{|x,o|;a[x]+=1;print "\033[#{o};#{x}H \033[#{a[x]};#{x}H#{S} \033[0
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by chewz 3y ago
It is relevant as most migrations in Eurasia for centuries were not of replacement but of assimilation kind.
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by chewz 3y ago
> However, after that experience, I'm starting to think there's no way in hell a massive multi-product conglomerate like Apple/Amazon is going to overtake a single-product music streamer like Spotify. Amazon Music Unlimite
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by chewz 3y ago
> The inefficiency of Google always amazes me. It's the kind of people they attract. IBM types...
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Tiger Global's Biggest Venture Fund Has 18% Loss After Markdowns(bloomberg.com)
34 points by chewz 3y ago|35 comments
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by chewz 3y ago
> An interesting alternative to consider, is money that intentionally depreciates value at a fixed rate ("demurrage" [1]). This is exactly property of coins (gold, silver or copper). Even without debasement (like clippage) they
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by chewz 3y ago
> jesus overturning the money changers' tables was because they were the equivalent to payday loans Jesus apparently didn't appreciated that a Jew coming from say Alexandia or Gallile had been bringing a bunch of coins of diffe
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by chewz 3y ago
Read Goldman’s Prime Book reports… and similar… like BofA flow desk.. OP meant 90% of the market is now dumb money - CTA, L/S HF, macro, passive funds etc. Actors that have to stick to certain script outlaid in their strategy - which m
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by chewz 3y ago
Cool analysis....
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by chewz 3y ago
Nice poetry ...
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by chewz 3y ago
> Belief in astrology is seemingly harmless, but it’s a sign of underlying irrationality that I find unacceptable. How about spirituality or religion?
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Typora.. https://typora.io/ And keep each chapter as separate file…

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