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by jayalpha 8y ago
No English citation available. But this English article implies basically the concept: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2014-02-12/limits-to-grow... "Unfortunately, the problem this appears eventually to le
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The funny thing about Mises is: He understood socialism and its' problems much better than capitalism. He never understood capitalism but got stuck with his understanding in something reflecting a middle-ages barter economy.
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No, I use ubuntu sed: can't read s/^127.0.0.1 facebook.com/#127.0.0.1 facebook.com/: No such file or directory
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How does this work? I get an error? sed: can't read s/^127.0.0.1 f....
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by jayalpha 8y ago
My knowledge of computation theory is not good enough to judge the book. Why he used the strange quotes. Who knows. But he wrote more books. Like this one: https://www.amazon.com/Emergent-Computation-Emphasizing-Bioi... You
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There is a link between sugar intake and diabetes. Some people also suggest Alzheimer is a 3rd form of diabetes. I read a study that nasal applied insulin actually helps Alzheimer. So, no slamming of sugar, just some preliminary evidence th
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If it is a Pyramid scheme. Bronte capital doubts this and they give, as always, decent reasons.
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Yes. Has been in the news since a few years. More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... Connected?
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by jayalpha 8y ago
I know. A bet that did not turn out too well for Ackman, didn't it? As mentioned by someone here and in my RSS Feed: http://brontecapital.blogspot.com/2015/06/herbalife-very-lon... [I don't have any posi
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" It's as if you took Herbalife as a valuable/honest/model player in the dietary supplement market..." Are they not? Shakes can be a decent way to lose weight. Seems to be that people are willing to pay a premium fo
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"It's a bacteria that, apparently, lives in the digestive tract of half the world's population." Surprised by this. But Seems not to be the best of the germs. A nobel price was given due to the discovery of Helicobacter
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"Russia cannot produce next-generation fighter aircraft" Russia may not have the money to build it in numbers, but for sure they have the technology. The fighter aircrafts are very capable and the F-35 may well be a one trick pony
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I think Paul Kennedy would disagree with you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_and_Fall_of_the_Great...
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"Their website was a nightmare to book on" I book 90% of my flights on Vayama, so no problem here. I once decided to book direct only on airline websites to make a possible ticket change easier and cheaper. The one time I tried it
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Sorry for being naive but: "A lot of 30+ women decide they don't want to piss their pants and have painful intercourse for the rest of their lives. " Is this a real risk of vaginal child birth? And how risky is it?
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"Being Indian, I agree with statement about AirIndia. I would never fly in AirIndia even if the ticket price is too low, laughably they usually cost way above than any other competitors." Since I have flown with Air India, would y
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I would have tried recoll that can work with tesseract in the background. https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/ Abbyy is in my opinion by far the most powerfull OCR software. Linux command line OCR is available but un
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The US (and now also Israel) siding with Saudi Arabia and condemning Iran has always been madness in my opinion. See also: http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2015/02... http://globalgu
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Maybe less mercury, but by definition the fatty acid composition that makes fish healthy should be much inferior since algae are lacking from the food chain.
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Yeah, good luck when the Chinese will confiscate your assets. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/12/world/asia/sri-lanka-chin... Make a list of islands you want to give away for 99 years.
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Maybe they should never have joined the Euro? They already cheated to join with the help of Goldman Sachs. Not paying taxes, retirement with 50, not playing by the rules, people go blind very quick: https://www.csmonitor.com&#x2F
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By the way, maybe you are the troll. Read up how SV became SV https://siliconcowboy.wordpress.com/2010/07/11/the-secret-mi...
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I am not trolling. I love portugal. But it is not a tech hub and I don't see it being one. IT? Maybe. But for high-tech you need the supply chains. If I call a random B2B supplier and ask "Can you do X?" they often answer: &q
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Golden Visa is irrelevant for me. Trust me, I checked the prices in Lisbon for some time. What do you consider "outskirts" of Lisbon? Sentubal?
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California or Florida of Europe? * highly educated Universities are not very good. * and english speaking Don't they speak Portuguese? *youth and a will to conquer the world. Unlikely. And Silicon Valley is not about guys with laptops
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I prefer Portuguese people since I speak Portuguese and Portuguese are much more welcoming and friendly. This could change with overtourism which also makes Lisbon comparably expensive. Spain is more diverse and still has cheap big cities.
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I wanted to buy an apartment in Lisbon (I speak Portuguese). Forget it. You don't get anything decent below 500k (speak Golden Visa Program). Big chunk of change for a comparably poor country. "visa issues"? Portgual is Schen
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Facebook fixer https://socialfixer.com/
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https://socialfixer.com/
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Passive funds were never meant to be used on this scale. I don't have time to explain it to you, but this post outlines the problems with passive ETF pretty well: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-09/horse

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