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by kwere 4y ago
4% is specific to 60/40 US portfolio with 30 years horizon to not die poor at the end of it , a safer rate would be 2/2.5%[0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FwgCRIS0Wg
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by kwere 4y ago
its really convenient and by refurbishing older buses can be really price competitive if you do the conversion yourself[0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1L53KMj-xY
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the constraints of cited issues (affordable insulin, housing) are due to cartel-like behaviour from stakeholders in the market. It is not a characteristic of (freemarket) capitalism in itself (like, the rest of the world make it work), but
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by kwere 4y ago
wealth taxes exist
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by kwere 4y ago
underperforming at FAANG is more than enough for 90% of workplaces
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so how will the country do if foreign loans/cash transfers stop? will it break into smaller states? will the people run towards better countries (Iran & India or Europe) ? will the country turn into a open prison dictactorship to k
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by kwere 4y ago
i read there is now a big divide across religious lines, muslim in the north an christian in the north, with muslim voters being more tribalist and in group biased, resulting in some of the most flashiest corrupt leaders in office, is it re
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by kwere 4y ago
the space mining industry will need a lot of specialized work to function, one could focus on less (relatively) capital intensive sector like consultacy, mapping, software, simulations, training, specialized tech patents (mining gear, trans
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by kwere 4y ago
africa is quite huge, farmland in hectares by person is "abundant". Stats about Arable land (hectares per person) in 2020 -> SubSaharian Africa : 0.19 Mena : 0.11 China : 0.08 India : 0.11 European Union : 0.22 U.S.A : 0.48 Sou
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by kwere 4y ago
too bad one can be identified also from the way they walks [0] [0] https://www.cnet.com/science/china-surveillance-tech-ids-peo...
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by kwere 4y ago
retail trading is quite a difficult skillset to learn and one needs hundreds of thousands $ to do it as a main source of income (less if your target is like 10k$/yr ), its like a business/trade with 95%+ failing rate.
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by kwere 4y ago
for my layman education, i came with the idea infinity is always divisible by one or by himself but it is "impossible" it can be divided by two, so it should be an odd number if the question has sense, right?
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worked well for Rome
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a reason for having specialized courts in specific domains of law instead of laymans in the 18th century enlightenment inspired (outdated) system we have. Also checks and balances on judges, one of the most unaccountable caste there is
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by kwere 4y ago
>Set higher building code standards instead. the opposite should happen to incentivize to build, too much single family zoning in USA, there should be only residential zoning /mixed use with the freedom to build whatever on owned lo
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by kwere 4y ago
sole proprietorships are taxed at personal income level but pay pension contributions and/others at a % level, the game became unwhorthy at six figures levels. the way out are paying the lifestyle like SUVs with company funds (deductib
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by kwere 4y ago
a "simple" solution would be requiring companies to set up legal entities/subsidiaries into the countries they make above xx millions of revenue, getting taxed at the local level, keeping simultaneously things simple for sm
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by kwere 4y ago
>Between 1880 to 1920, British colonial policies in India claimed more lives than all famines in the Soviet Union, Maoist China and North Korea combined. This subtitle tells all the value this opinion piece has.
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by kwere 4y ago
the wealth of egypt, its fertile floodplains dwarfs in comparison to mississipi river basin and Rio della Plata basin agriculture wealth and lower population to deal with.
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North Korea has a class of Entrepreneurs, companies are state owned in nature, but can be rented for "private purposes" after them reach mandated quotas[0]. [0] https://www.goisc.org/englishblog/2015/09&
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by kwere 4y ago
It's like company wanting to paying people with scrips redeemable to company-mart ( china market) and that locks you in, BCS it could be worthless if you don't use the money quickly and/or outside company premises
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also being a multimillion $ system it will/should have pretty trained people behind controls
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execution should be only for the "lost losers" of society, like school shooters & similia; rich and powerful people who value their own life, time & status would suffer immensily from being demeaned as "simple prisone
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by kwere 4y ago
Plato had quite a few issues with populism[0] [0] https://scroll.in/article/943564/does-not-tyranny-spring-fro...
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the problems outside NIMBYS are the costs of drilling and the "short life" of plants. Usually 20 years or less. Innovations on these fields could bring costs down dramatically
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democracies need an ulterior separation of powers, let "deeply techinical" sectors like defense in the hand of an elected body of people by people with "junior level" "theoretical"/"practical" ba
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>Elon’s key influences are the “PayPal Mafia” capos, Peter Thiel & David Sacks. They urged him to buy Twitter, advise him on running it. Both with childhoods in apartheid S. Africa, angry culture wars at Stanford, now working on Thie
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one thing is a selfsustained reaction in ITER, another is to commercially scale it. Literally a multidecade iteration of various designs. I cant immagine political and public support to build the firsts inneficient fusion powers at a price
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peak History of reddit here: "In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessing. But because, I am enlightned by my intelligence" - Aalewis
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thats why most of US towns are bankrupt or near bankrupt and need federal funds to function, literally a ponzi scheme[0]. Strongtowns is an organization that study better urban policies[1] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

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