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by kwere 4y ago
in a world of privatized losses they would be rich for 3 generations at best, Vanderbilt style.
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by kwere 4y ago
any important sum should be kept with more custodians unless its not possible. As a retail investor with retirement savings i think 3 different reputable (insured) brokers/custodians are the minimum. Bad practice for "professional
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by kwere 4y ago
crypto and investment should never be togheter, at best crypto believer
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by kwere 4y ago
legends say they could have been saved by Warren Buffet, who was interested to buy them at a certain price, but the deal never went on bcs he was in vacation where satellite phone wasnt working. wikipedia says he turned it down due to risks
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by kwere 4y ago
Funds are Safu -Bizonacci
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by kwere 4y ago
QC?
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by kwere 4y ago
>A lot of areas that are now declared as poverty zones today may have been poor in the past, but were self-sufficient and self sustaining. everthing was on a razorthin margin, just a minor floods or droughts could kill double percentage
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by kwere 4y ago
Golden rice was specifically developed for human consuption in low productivity and famine prone areas
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by kwere 4y ago
these countries were always agrarian economies that had enourmous GDP numbers due to their sheer population numbers which supported a minuscule wealthy landed elite, nothing comparable to industrialised and service based economies. Explotat
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by kwere 4y ago
and still it seems a lot of india fetishes socialism/commando economy USSR style. why?
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by kwere 4y ago
The David of Michelangelo is the most famous italian sculpture, but it dwarf in comparison to other works, like the Bernini David [0], made a century later [0] https://www.theartpostblog.com/en/david-bernini/
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by kwere 4y ago
a city of 60-80k, heart of slavic world razed to the ground, paving the way later for Moscow ascension. Makes me thinking of the Khwarazmian Empire or Jin, Chu Kingdoms where millions where killed
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by kwere 4y ago
>Dismissing long-standing ethical objections to the lottery, these new advocates reasoned that, since people were going to gamble anyway, the state might as well pocket the profits >The whole thing was hugely counterintuitive—the wors
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by kwere 4y ago
the dumping of agricultural products is bad for local farmers but good for low income folks, no one forces jordans to buy the 3x cheaper imported wheat over the local variety. this is still a win for the people. I only hope these variety wi
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by kwere 4y ago
hoping it will not deflate further the value of public education in favour of private institutions or R&D companies which could gatekeep even further public uni graduates from "performative diploma mills". "The road to he
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by kwere 4y ago
tangentally/ironically burning saudi money should grant masayoshi a nobel prize for peace
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by kwere 4y ago
spaking about 19° century, there is a yt channel "life in the 1800s" which takes old black&white videos of that time and adds/restore audio/color: https://www.youtube.com/c/Lifeinthe1800s
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by kwere 4y ago
chinese data is what the central gov want it to be or else bureaucrats get trimmed, making the next data survey compliance with central gov estimates. the farce is so big that in 2022, the gov asked to redo GDP calculations "honestly&q
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by kwere 4y ago
the supidiest thing european people (italian here) did was trusting politicans into handling their pension contribution and return it 40 years later with inflation adjusted distibution, its literally a ponzi scheme
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by kwere 4y ago
Yes, but chairman Xi is stupid enough to launch an invasion even involuntarily due to military provocations (misfires) to quell unrest at home by projecting anger outside.
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by kwere 4y ago
slavery is a drag for any economy, slaves dont generate taxes, dont upskill themselves and dont build wealth. profits generated from their labour is directed towards a owner class that usually is against any technological progress than can
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by kwere 4y ago
GMO's are really a telling story of misinformation damages, look up to golden rice, a variety that could save millions of lives, held back by tinfoil hat conspiracies. Conspiracies that take hold even on the "educated" West.
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by kwere 4y ago
a cool thing about late business cycle "speculation" (VC in this case probably) is that really pie in the sky projects get cash, creating sometimes successes
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by kwere 4y ago
couldnt internal devs be "procedure definining" secretaries?
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by kwere 4y ago
how much is the average farmer net income? in italy, as a son of farmers i see the biggest problem being the average size of holdings, too small to live on with the peace of mind, and the really absymal ROE of the sector, below 2%, making i
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by kwere 4y ago
>small family offices interesting, hat kind of work they request? some investment , data feed, etc.. automation?
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by kwere 4y ago
crumbs, Naples (italy), a city of 1M (55b$ GDP metropolitan area,3M people,2019), is out the money of 5B euros at FY 2021 [0], of wich 3.9B+ of unpaid taxes, fines,rents or other credits. only 17% of people pay road fines and 52% pay garbag
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by kwere 4y ago
Territorial taxation, one pays taxes only on what is generated inside the country and often remittances. Working as employee is taxed at Thai rate, working as a contractor for foreigners is not taxed
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by kwere 4y ago
for context, a pre Clovis society wuold mean that human came before the 13k yrs ago mark, the problem is ths the bering strait and a giant ice sheet in NA are believed to have been traversable 14k yrs ago and 40-50k yrs ago. if true, it wou
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by kwere 4y ago
could that be selection bias? a lot less of niche people today on big apps, and more casual(superficial) mainstream "scene"? like in those time people were selfselecting on certain traits and really motivated on soulmate search?

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