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by michalu 7y ago
The map deals with beer, vodka and wine. I'm not grouping vodka and beer, I'm setting wine apart.
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Yes but also, northern countries don't grow wine, and if they do it's very small quantities and generally not a great wine. It's a rarity to find English, Polish or Danish wine, they exist but are overpriced for what you&#x27
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by michalu 7y ago
It's not clear what was the method to measure this. The article mentions "preferred alcohol," "drinking," "drinking pattern" and "production." This can be misleading as many comments state below.
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I have also found that I often forget entire books, and that quality of reading beats quantity. I use kindle and take a lot of notes. Then whenever I am in a situation where I don't have a kindle and not much to do, such in public tran
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Nothing that new. It's been established the attraction is rather heavily linked to the dark triad traits: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/psychology-uncove... ... one of them being narcissism and the ra
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An opposing theory would be that more and more people are breaking away from 9 to 5 office jobs, that mostly require short hair and shave. Independent, rich and alike unemployed people can dress and style themselves however they like. So it
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by michalu 7y ago
I got a friend of mine into chess. First, I beat him easily. Turned out he's competitive and while I was abroad for 6 months he trained hard to beat me. When I got back the games became competitive and while playing chess we ended up h
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by michalu 7y ago
On the contrary I promised myself to only play chess over the physical board. Playing online started to feel like an addiction. Most people end up playing blitz or rapid which even reinforces the addictive behaviour. Over time I felt like t
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A friend once told me that you need to know 3 slavic languages to understand all of them very well. I learned that to be true from my own experience. If you're born in a slavic country, learning second and third slavic language can be
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Alan Turing inquest verdict is questionable(theguardian.com)
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Solving a Leafy Mathematical Mystery(nytimes.com)
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Former MCC Inmate: There’s ‘No Way’ Jeffrey Epstein Killed Himself(nypost.com)
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by michalu 7y ago
no, they're slightly bigger in size, depending on how you measure and not exactly "twice as heavy" but rather 10% - 20% heavier :)
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That's a good advice unless "being yourself" sucks. "Be yourself" is non-advice. It can be both good and terrible advice depending on many factors. Everyone is complex. There are aspects we're comfortable with
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Marshal Blücher was an impressive figure. At the time of Waterloo he was 72 years old, right at the beginning of the encounter he instantly launched a cavalry attack on Napoleon which he led himself in the front! Think of the average 72 yea
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In the film „Carving a reputation” (BBC, 1998) , it is said that when he saw the Medici Tombs (1524-31, in the Medici Chapel in Florence) during his travel scholarship when he was a student of sculpture at the Royal College of Art, – he did
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by michalu 7y ago
I take your point on joy, and art perhaps has a broader spectre, like music. I can enjoy nice simple pop song but I don't confuse with Chopin. On technical level. I disagree. There's a difference. A piano player that plays a flawl
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>Citation The anecdote is from Moore's exhibition in Krakow, it was discussed there. I will get a precise source in 2 days and post it here.
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Art is not complicated at all. Art marketers and pseudo-artists like to make it complicated to keep the "contemporary art" scam alive and profitable. That's because real art, like anything (engineering, piano, sports) takes y
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by michalu 7y ago
With 90% of modern art, the "point they're trying to make" is whatever is the most convenient at the occasion. For the artists themselves rarely know as modern art is as much a BS-industrial complex as the AI.
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by michalu 7y ago
Interestingly, all the banks in your sources involved in money laundering of "Russian money" are big non-Russian (Dutch, German, Estonian, UK, Swedish, French and so on) banks.
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The fact that CEOs father works as a deputy executive in a government owned company qualifies does not qualify as "ties," in any meaningful way. Most shareholders and the regulator in control are western based and run by people wh
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> it got it's money from DST Global So does Facebook, DoorDash, FlipKart and hundred+ other Silicon Valley companies. Revolut also has money from Seedcamp, Balderton, Index and tons of other VCs. > Revolut is Russian owned and Ru
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by michalu 7y ago
It already happened in a way. uBlock Origin is the the version maintained by its founder that stays in line with the original vision. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14335190
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The Body’s Clock Offers a Rhythmic Target to Viruses(quantamagazine.org)
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If you go by Overmans Eastern Front until 12/31/44 2,742,909 Western Front until 12/31/44 339,957 makes eastern front 91%. If you look at the size of the battles in Western front it's hard to see how would the figur
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No. Overlord was promised and planned before. It was continually postponed. The decisions necessary to start were made in Teheran. In many countries it is taught in schools that allies were simply taking their time, waiting for the lowest r
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All history is distorted. We can only learn from surviving sources (written by winners, with political agenda or simply subjectively) interpreted in whatever is the most desired way to have it interpreted at the time. A lot of evidence has
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It was all decided in Teheran conference in November 1943. WW2 was considered a done deal so Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin met to discuss the future of Europe. At the time of the conference, Red Army was about to enter Poland. While Churc
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