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by jayalpha 8y ago
I don't think you understand debt enough to understand how unlikely it is that a country pays off its debt. You can debate if it is good or bad to pay off the debt but it is definitely unusual without a jubilee.
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by jayalpha 8y ago
More like a piece of advertisement for DDG. Avoiding google is tricky.Not impressed.
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Tue, 15 Mar 1994 00:38:07 EST Subject: anti-foreword To the contributers to this book: I have succumbed to the temptation you offered in your preface: I do write you off as envious malcontents and romantic keepers of memo- ries. The systems
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Wiki "The economy grew between the 1950s and 1970s at one of the fastest rates in the world, changing Romania from a predominantly agricultural country into an industrialized country. Almost 30% of the population moved during this peri
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by jayalpha 8y ago
People are friendly, alcohol is good: https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/53j9n3/i-went-to-a-c... And a 1000 left their lives that this small strip of land can exist. https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Probably likely with the WWW and the very complex competing version. Too complex and takes too long to deliver.In the end, the winner takes it all.
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Pff. Transnistria. I have been there. I liked it. There are many disputed areas in the Caucasus, I am aware of this. But just recently I heard that Armenia holds an area inside Azeribaijan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by jayalpha 8y ago
I started using anki too late. Repetitive vocabulary learning is a must. Start using Anki from the beginning.
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by jayalpha 8y ago
If you are learning Chinese and want to try, I created a file a while ago. I downloaded a youtube video (sorry, can't give creds, don't have the link anymore), extracted the audio and added a long silence at the beginning, so that
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by jayalpha 8y ago
"Solving this isn't going to be as simple as saying "the flight software should defer to the pilot" or vice versa." Actually it is. 2 sensors: Defer to the pilot with alarm that sensor data is unreliable if inconsis
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Yes man, was fun to build it. But I pussied out with the layout etching and ordered them custom etched from ebay as a service. During high school I would have done it myself. BTW, Do you have an up to date software. I remember I run into tr
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by jayalpha 8y ago
I build an avalanche random number generator based on this: https://emergent.unpythonic.net/01257868826 More fun
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by jayalpha 8y ago
You can't feel superior or pretend to have secret knowledge if you believe the facts and scientific method. So feel free to ignore the article.
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by jayalpha 8y ago
I made some decent profits by looking into investments of Bain Capital and following some. You could look up who was buying and selling shares here: http://www.fatpitch.biz Unfortunately the site seems dysfunctional now.
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by jayalpha 8y ago
They guy may have been a low performer or not. But the whole system is very very broken. "My take-away from the careers aspect of the book is that if you (1) love competition, (2) have a huge appetite for risk, (3) don’t mind working l
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Aeroflot is one of the best airlines. Good service Fair bonus miles Super cheap dog transportation One of the most modern fleets Very cheap tickets. Not sure why your experience was so bad. By the way, the stock performance reflects my poin
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by jayalpha 8y ago
"It's an odd selection as population size isn't indicative of aircraft size. Congestion of airports and slot constraints is." I disagree. Since it is the wrong solution for the problem. > Which is why you find most A3
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by jayalpha 8y ago
You misunderstood my post. I said, there is market for this type of plane, but not for the A380. I was 10 years too early. - Needs other engines - Needs to be lighter - Needs to be bigger. The wings are build for the long version. The quest
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Nope. It is not an odd selection. I named Asian centers. Shanghai has 20 Million people. The Yangtze Delta is an aggregation of probably around 200 Million people. So I named big population centers in Asia. The big airlines in Singapore and
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Your analysis is wrong from many points. There is a huge market for the plane. The plane came too early. Build now with lighter materials, better engines and in the long version (the wings are designed for a much longer version, this also m
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Why the downvote? 1. Unites flight was not overbooked. They wanted to put some of their own employees on this flight. This has nothing to do with overbooking. 2. Law stats that you can deny boarding if a flight is overbooked. Let someone on
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by jayalpha 8y ago
"Then the stupidity of United and the ignorant backlash of the public ruined it. Infrequent fliers associated overselling with the United incident and completely ignored the functioning 99.9% of cases that benefited all fliers overall.
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Good luck. https://qz.com/1258198/conspiracy-theorists-believe-wild-ide... "It's possible to get through to these people if you're willing to argue in terms they understand" No, because they would l
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by jayalpha 8y ago
It is useless to talk to such people. You are using the scientific framework, they are not. Trust me, I tried. Funny thing on the side: Since a vaccination is rarely 100% effective but most people in the western world are vaccinated, more
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by jayalpha 8y ago
I doubt that the apple watch will be able to do this reliably. But if someone is interested (speak investment interested) in non-invasive blood glucose measurement feel free to inquire. Peer reviewed publications available.
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by jayalpha 8y ago
"freeze dried" "Freeze drying is a water removal process typically used to preserve perishable materials, to extend shelf life or make the material more convenient for transport. Freeze drying works by freezing the material,
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by jayalpha 8y ago
"What doctors and researchers get wrong about diabetes is that pin-pricks and injections are not even remotely bad. I don't know a single diabetic who cares about injections and blood sugar tests. You get used to that within the f
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by jayalpha 8y ago
"In 2011 I left my job as the second employee at Pinterest" Does this shitty website have a business model besides spamming google picture search? Sorry for the rant.
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by jayalpha 8y ago
You can get every kind of bug on some markets in China. They taste disgusting. In Korea you can get silk worms in cans. They taste neutral. If prepared fresh on the street the taste is hardly bearable for any Westerner. You now buy an insec
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by jayalpha 8y ago
I bought a Wizz "membership", promising a 10 US$ discount on all flights. Somehow I was not able to apply this membership to flights I bought after the first booking since it took them some time to internally activate it. The dis

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