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by kwere 4y ago
terrifyingly, a situation in which the lucky ones would have been the ones to die in the blasts
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by kwere 4y ago
Quantopian introduction to quantitative trading https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRFLF1OxMm_UL7WUWM31i... MIT 18.S096 Topics in Mathematics w Applications in Finance https://www.youtube.com/playlist?li
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by kwere 4y ago
Classism (lack of social mobility, dehumanization of homeless, etc...) is a more pressing problem to US society than whatever remain of institutional racism, but it doesnt get nothing of the airtime in the public sphere; influential communi
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by kwere 4y ago
wasnt Mao planning geared toward a "forever war" against the bourgeoisie, to explain putting industrial capacity toward "military" needs in uneconomic areas and/or most of other nation building projects? All obvious
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by kwere 4y ago
uk was never a real member of eu, it entered the union with a lot of less strings attached, the only country to get such treatement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_opt-outs_from_E...
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by kwere 4y ago
the economy work well for its stakeholders, its just that the average joe & jane arent the controlling/beneficiary stakeholders, outside that being enough skilled to not be easily replaced
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by kwere 4y ago
funnily most welfare societies are finding out that without childrens or a good enough replacement rate their systems cant function financially. Immigration, taxes, deficit spending cant substitute healthy demographics. Such trends will wre
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by kwere 4y ago
just rational suicide with extra steps fueled by fears that arent based on reality, even if tomorrow we end up in a nuclear winter, who could survive will have a better life than our ancestors 8k years ago.
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by kwere 4y ago
Could introducing a progressive tax on margins in strategic and consolidated sectors be a possible solution? Average business margin is 8%, taxed at 21%, any more margin would be taxed at a higher rate, reaching a much higher rate on fat m
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by kwere 4y ago
> As a result, Chinese and Russians peasants are pretty satisfied with their leadership because the state doesn't have to engage in lying too much The only satisfied people would be the subsidized nomenklatura. Normal people do noti
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by kwere 4y ago
corporations and people, US obsession with gigantic green lawns everywhere is an example
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by kwere 4y ago
Italian systemic banks are fine and the permanent sick institutions are already on a watchlist/chopping block/Merger. (minor) Troubles could arise from local banks as they are too dependent from real estates values (NPL) and weak
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by kwere 4y ago
China also did a lot of its QE with chinese characteristics. If i remember correctly north to a trillion $ in 2022.
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One ancestor of modern good hearted billionaires
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fort derrick narrative
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by kwere 4y ago
funnily, foreigners can never acquire chinese citizenship unless some chinese ancestry and/or enough connection in high places. Legal Naturalizations are a few hundreds a year, on a foreign population of 850 thousands
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by kwere 4y ago
CS is a branding liability, the trust in the name is abysmal, as withdrawals shows
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by kwere 4y ago
Swiss confederacy kicked the ass of the Burgundy juggernaut[0] and was feared by all its more powerful neighbours which would have dreamed of controlling the natural fortress that is switzerland against their own rivals [0] https:/&#x2
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by kwere 4y ago
lets hope their lead engineers won't get the turing treatment, expecially when cadres will be dissatisfied about their ego petproject managed by their buddies. UK had its chance to be a tech powerhouse, and wasted it. Nobody ever cared
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by kwere 4y ago
its unfortunate there arent proofs of those times like there are for printed papers
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by kwere 4y ago
Wuhan had "pneumonia like" cases back in november. CCP is still at least responsible of keeping it quiet till it got too difficult to handle.
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by kwere 4y ago
China would simple threaten big Western capital in china, and Wall Street will run to Washington crying about antiasian hate or whatever strawmen of the day. China gave some auditing book to PCAOB after decades of request only under threat
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by kwere 4y ago
they are more offended at the algorithm of tik tok. And one need just to confront the chinese and Global algo of Douyin to undersand why. It is a digital addiction machine, with "probably" some top-down interference. Hoping it bec
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by kwere 4y ago
>a stubborn wage gap continues to keep many women, especially single mothers, from enjoying the same economic gains as single men and married couples. >Children can weigh heavily on single mother’s wealth, House and her team found. Si
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by kwere 4y ago
i think developers have deeper pockets to take low density land/property and redevelop it where it makes economic sense, no? the only low density housing that beat as pricepoint condos are Manors in the millions, but those are a minori
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by kwere 4y ago
Its the whole building over the laundromat, and its big enough. Reason did an article and video interviewing Bob Tillman[0], the owner, who has spent nearly 5 years and $1.4 million trying to convert his laundromat into new housing. [0] htt
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by kwere 4y ago
Nixon docet
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GDPs are mostly artificially pumped in all the world except maybe switzerland and few others. For example China is financially collapsing now bcs its infrastructure ponzi scheme to weather 08' slowdowns is over. A lot of other countrie
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by kwere 4y ago
USA is a lot inefficient with spending money as a lot of it get syphoned in one way or another from various interest groups, from big pharma/healthcare/insurance, hedge funds that run universities to local government that run home
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by kwere 4y ago
ironically the leverage that poor people had and have is their children, once upon a time for farming landlords & factory owners, today for government revenues, bcs poor people & middle class pay the most taxes in % as VAT, income t

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