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by misja111 7y ago
I got inspired by your calculation to fact check the article's claim of the 2.2mm see level rise. They apparently base this on the reported melting of 600 Billion tons of ice as stated in the article. 600 Billion (metric?) ton = 600000
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by misja111 7y ago
Still, in 2000 the situation was quite different. IT companies had been hiring like crazy based on the assumption that infinite Internet growth would require infinite resources. And then, it turned out it was all a bubble and most of the IT
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by misja111 7y ago
There is some deep truth in your comment, however simple it may seem. Joe Kennedy, a famous rich investor in the 1930's, exited the stock market in timely fashion after a shoeshine boy gave him some stock tips. He figured that when the
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by misja111 7y ago
But the 2008 credit crisis was structural in nature and this one is not.
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Many Italian banks were being kept alive by the government already, so this is effectively the Italian government sponsoring house owners.
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by misja111 7y ago
If you believe the market is overpriced you could consider investing in long term put options.
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by misja111 7y ago
Well that's not what the former ECB chairman Mario Draghi thought about it. According to him they were a success .. See e.g. http://www.ekathimerini.com/245837/article/ekathimerini/busi... But even mr. D
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by misja111 7y ago
I find this article a huge overreaction and at the same time an underestimation of the spread of the coming Corona pandemic. To start with the latter: this virus cannot be contained anymore, at best it can be slowed down. Which means that s
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by misja111 7y ago
If you'd like to see some good players in action: there are a few backgammon tournaments in Sweden with some world class participants. For instance https://dubbel5.se/tournaments/SO2109.html
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by misja111 7y ago
Backgammon has gained some new popularity since computer programs appeared that were able to beat humans and more importantly, analyze the games afterwards. The game is now played more as a game of skill than of luck: there are some backga
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by misja111 7y ago
>> They always revolve around how other people are stupid and can’t be trusted with power/freedom/expressiveness/etc. It's not the stupid that can't be trusted with Scala's power and freedom but it is tho
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by misja111 7y ago
The fines are bad for Airbus but the individuals who committed the crimes don't have to pay anything, what's more, they probably have already cashed their bonuses. So fines for only the company are not enough to prevent these lucr
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by misja111 7y ago
Bribery is forbidden by law, for obvious reasons. A law is useless if it is not somehow enforced. One could enforce it by holding the company accountable, however history has shown that this does not withhold individuals from breaking the l
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by misja111 7y ago
I don't agree that the Finnish grammar is highly systematic. Take instance, the partitive case. It seems to be applicable to a mixed bag of situations with all kinds of exceptions. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pa
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by misja111 7y ago
OP was referring to the EU. If it would be about Europe, then the population would be 740 million.
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by misja111 7y ago
You are right, there exists no such law in quantum mechanics. But even if it would exist, then there would still be no justification for assuming that this law should still hold in a place as extreme as a black hole. A black hole is by its
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by misja111 7y ago
I have been living in Amsterdam for the last 25 years, here is a bit of background. 25 years ago the red light district was a no go area for except for people looking for sex or drugs. But in the recent decades that has slowly changed. At s
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by misja111 7y ago
Scala is suited best for those who like to do FP in an enterprise environment. With Cats or ScalaZ you can get Haskell-like syntax, and the advantage over Haskell is that Scala runs in the JVM and it provides interop with Java libraries.
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by misja111 7y ago
Most of the birds were not even infected yet, so they were not in any painful condition. I guess the word 'euthanized' was used because typically those birds are gassed with CO2, which is a relatively humane way of killing them.
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by misja111 8y ago
OP did not write that rents would go up until l00% of people's income. IMO what he meant was that certain flats that used to be priced at the level that everyone could afford them, would go up in price when everyone's income would
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by misja111 8y ago
I googled a bit, and it even seems that the reverse is true: higher birth rates hamper economic growth! https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/rest.89.1.1...
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by misja111 8y ago
The current low water level in the Rhine has nothing to do with the glaciers, the lack of water is caused by the unusually dry last couple of months. The global warming is actually making the glaciers melt more rapidly and increasing the Rh
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by misja111 8y ago
It also would make the food more expensive.
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by misja111 8y ago
There is nothing in a democracy either that prevents minorities from being oppressed. Examples of democratic countries with oppressed minorities are plenty.
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by misja111 8y ago
Those are small fires, but there's a sleeping volcano as well which is fed by the historically low European interest rate. This is leading to inflated housing prices, company valuations and increasing private and corporate debts. The l
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by misja111 8y ago
The extra yellow egg yolks are from hens that got food with high carotene content. Also Marigolds are frequently mixed in with the food.
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by misja111 8y ago
>> Pointing out fascism and racism doesn't turn people fascist or racist. First of all you're slightly modifying OP's comment. He was not talking about actual fascism or racism that was pointed out, but about the abuse
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by misja111 8y ago
Don't know about Germany but in the Netherlands, Belgium and France the rise of the right wing parties started way earlier than 2008.
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by misja111 8y ago
Since the majority of the FED members are the largest US banks, it is not really surprising that the stress tests they devised gives those banks a favorable result.

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