thablackbull

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by thablackbull 5y ago
It would appear to be Serbia. His username is supposedly a reference to celebrity, "Vladan Aksentijević, better known by his stage name Ajs Nigrutin, is a Serbian rapper and actor." From the Statistical Office of the Republic of S
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by thablackbull 5y ago
Internal retrocession is a normal practice in insurance companies. The larger entity can pool money and absorb losses better.
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by thablackbull 5y ago
No, it's pretty much an American thing, you should learn a little American history. America has no problem killing its own citizens: > That night, the city of Philadelphia dropped a satchel bomb, a demolition device typically used i
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by thablackbull 6y ago
Yea, but it gets boring. Nobody is going to call for sanctions on America for anything and you'll never see a constant stream of articles for anything the US does. When the US drops a record amount of bombs on a country[1] in a war peo
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by thablackbull 6y ago
> Even though you have multiple small teams, they still need to closely coordinate with each other. That's what a competent manager/management is for though.
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by thablackbull 6y ago
"worse" perhaps based on whatever scale you're using. Starting illegal wars and overthrowing governments to put in puppets tends to be quite atrocious, but I guess if you benefit from it, no problems then.
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by thablackbull 7y ago
> Of course, the teacher knew this, gave bonus points to the ones who did start in time, and then extended the deadline as he had expected to from the start. I think what he meant is they 'failed' to get it completed on time an
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by thablackbull 7y ago
Have you ever been to Singapore? It's hard to change views, but I'd like to leave this article with you [1]: > For example, a friend (a German national currently working in Washington) referred off-handedly to Singapore as a “p
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by thablackbull 7y ago
> Indeed. Even the relatively harmless example of going up to a hotel floor to look at the view out of (I assume) the lift lobby is something that only works if you’re the only one doing it. In Singapore, most people (80%) live in public
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by thablackbull 7y ago
When those start to have a noticeable impact on society, I'd imagine yes, they'd start to do something about it. Right now, diabetes is indeed a serious problem. > The cost burden from diabetes, including medical expenses and p
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by thablackbull 7y ago
> Now she is thinking of giving up the citizenship she worked so hard to get, and moving back to an authoritarian China where guns and drugs are strictly forbidden – at least her son would be safe. > To quote a friend, "all &#x27
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by thablackbull 7y ago
So what we've learned from this thread is: * Chinese firms are hiring plenty of locals and not importing labor as commonly accused of from your own personal experience * Chinese investments are investing plenty, even in AI, and not jus
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by thablackbull 7y ago
Thanks for your response; I was mainly aggravated by OP's original post that's essentially propaganda with no backing evidence so commonly found on Reddit. > however when they start to slip on payments they're offered rel
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by thablackbull 7y ago
Think about what you're saying, not only are you saying people hope deals fail (when deals that succeed benefit both parties), but also disparaging other countries as being so inept they can't spot a bad deal. The issues have been
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by thablackbull 7y ago
In my experience working, my theory is the over emphasis of goal setting. Everyone has to be doing something, even if it is counterproductive. No one ever says, maybe take some time to sit back to take some time to think about the best way
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by thablackbull 7y ago
> Isn't it strange that the Chinese copied facebook, but now facebook copys WeChat You've clearly never used WeChat if you're under the impression they copied Facebook. This "___ of the West" is just a simplified
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by thablackbull 7y ago
If you're referring to societies that aren't ruled by men, The Mosuo people are a matriarchy that you may be interested in. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosuo
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by thablackbull 7y ago
I don't think your anecdote is reflective at all. On Youtube, Daily Driven Exotics is one of the largest automotive channels and I would suppose you would consider all the antics you see on that channel to be quite obnoxious. Plenty of
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by thablackbull 8y ago
I'm not sure RenTech and Virtu are comparable though (although I'll admit I don't work in the industry, so correct me if I'm wrong), but based on the article from Matt Levine on his Bloomberg column "Why Do High Fre
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by thablackbull 8y ago
I completely agree with you, but the parent's comment is saying that the very people who need to be protected are the very ones who don't want government involvement. > Especially in a country like US where people don't li
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by thablackbull 8y ago
Not only that, the political rhetoric just massively overstates reality. From PIIE [1], > Overlooked are the data that suggest the popular narrative exaggerates the magnitude of China's forced technology transfer and theft and does
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by thablackbull 8y ago
Funnily enough I was just reading, locust is apparently a reference to the evils of capitalism. From Bloomberg [1], > Within hours of Heinrich Hiesinger stepping down as ThyssenKrupp AG chief executive last week amid pressure from activi
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by thablackbull 8y ago
You're probably well aware, but for those of who aren't, he moved on to Vivaldi.
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by thablackbull 8y ago
> but you have to also think whether he's biased in wanting to push the view that the next big tech hub is in China, because he's invested in the region. He puts his money where his mouth is. I made another comment here that it
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by thablackbull 8y ago
> Articles like this are great for clicks on a website. That may be true, but I do find it refreshing over the thousands of articles claiming that China would collapse over the past few decades (and yet, somehow these experts failed to p
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by thablackbull 8y ago
"China will cause the country to become indebted to it and when they can't make the repayments offer to helpfully take full control of it." You honestly can't tell me you don't see that as a loaded statement...And b
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by thablackbull 8y ago
It would be better if you could attempt to support your argument with data, analysis and research. Is Ethiopia in a lot of debt trouble? From [1], figure 1.17, doesn't seem too troubling, especially when considering its growth rate. Yo
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by thablackbull 9y ago
So serious question, do you consider Trump as a legitimate government? As I understand it (non-American here), Trump won through the electoral college and most Americans do not support him.
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by thablackbull 9y ago
> I'm not sure who's hypothesizing that a modern country has to emulate the US. I'm just going to focus on one element due to space; one of the core pillars of American economic thinking is the idea of free markets. Throug
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by thablackbull 9y ago
The problem I see is that politics in America has essentially devolved into merely 'entertainment' and not rooted in economic reality - so even if they wanted to, it is hard to make your proposal to the American public, especially

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