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Re:If Philip Glass Were a Film
on Sunday April 02, 2023 @01:27PM (#35412928)
Came here hoping for the Koyaanisqatsi link
Re:Abraham Lincoln and Tsar Alexander II
on Saturday May 21, 2022 @12:02AM (#31455146)
Re:What did British officers think of the American civil war as it was...
on Friday May 20, 2022 @11:42PM (#31455074)
Russia and the US became very friendly during WW2 as well. Stalin and Roosevelt had a solid relationship while Stalin and Churchill did not. Churchill did not like Stalin for various reasons. But Roosevelt was the glue. Unfortunately, US elections at the time stipulated that the Vice President was chosen by the Democrat electorate and there was a coup to replace Roosevelts first pick (a guy friendly to the ussr) with a nobody from Missouri named Truman. Stalin never respected Truman and US relationships with the USSR deteriorated quickly after FDRS passing. Churchill and England became the dominant western voice in post ww2 trade and the iron curtain was eventually dropped.
Truman had so many financial struggles that the pension for presidents was created for him to live a dignified life after leaving office.
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/johnson/fdrpoland.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944_Democratic_Party_vice_pre...
Re:What did British officers think of the American civil war as it was...
on Friday May 20, 2022 @04:22PM (#31452077)
Don’t forget Russia sending ships to America in support of the union. The letters between tsar Alex and Lincoln are some of the loveliest pieces of writing and highest praises for America.
http://beam-inc.org/abraham-lincoln-and-tsar-alexander-ii-pa...
Re:3k-Year-Old Golden Bowl Adorned with Sun Motif Found in Austria
on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @11:57AM (#28919573)
I guess in 3k years archeologists will discover black bricks and say “it appears to have an apple motif. These people seemed to worship some apple god.”
Re:TikTokers Are Trading Stocks by Copying What Members of Congress Do
on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @07:26AM (#28615157)
Paul Pelosi acted on insider info back in 07. I’ve wonder what his position in the market was when Henry Paulson was on his knees begging her to TARP.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-insidertradi...
https://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/the-inside-job/2008/09/...
A Report on the Fatally Flawed 2016 Democratic Primaries [pdf]
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Re:RFC: Let's Disrupt Dating Apps
on Monday February 24, 2020 @10:07PM (#22410604)
I kind of think that agreeableness is a major factor in seeking intimacy that isn’t captured well enough in online dating. People are afraid to meet people that disagree with them and actively ridicule people with differing values/opinions/lifestyle. Religions, sports teams and other mass clubs obfuscated a lot of the concern away. But without those people need other groups and tools to trust a stranger to agree with them over time.
Re:Pentagon Requests $15B for Space Force
on Monday February 10, 2020 @04:13PM (#22293424)
For the first time in my life, I’m excited for a new government initiative. I’ve realized that the there is a link between home security and military budgets. I’m optimistic about the space force because we the people are bought in to spending on insurance premiums which is a defined margin above calculable risks. And so if we want government funded space exploration we can sell it as insurance and actually make it happen.
Re:Including Illegal Activity in the U.S. National Economic Accounts [...
on Sunday January 05, 2020 @12:52AM (#21959912)
Re:Medieval Price List
on Sunday December 01, 2019 @07:39PM (#21678926)
How much is community college where you are? How much is state?
Re:Medieval Price List
on Sunday December 01, 2019 @06:42PM (#21678605)
Beer .5 ducat a pint.
College starting at 640 ducats a year up to 2560 ducats a year.
So formal education started at 1280 times and went up to 6400 times the price of a pint. Which at $6/pint today would be ~$7500 to $36k a year.
Re:How the Great Pyramid at Giza Looked in 2560 BCE
on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @09:51PM (#21591025)
It’s a lighthouse for the ocean of sand!
Re:Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+
on Sunday November 03, 2019 @10:03PM (#21438670)
What’s pretty brilliant is that you could remove the word Apple and it would look exactly like what Tv is. Essentially Apple has replaced TV with AppleTV. And with that Apple is trying to become a monopoly on what was formally a relatively distributed system.
Re:Rise of the Mathematicians
on Friday November 01, 2019 @03:22PM (#21422724)
Here’s your answer to the question.
Re:Apple told some Apple TV+ show developers not to anger China
on Saturday October 12, 2019 @09:52AM (#21233104)
Why does the culture that becomes outraged by offending people’s identity also become outraged by China being offended?
Re:Why I'm Worried About the Repo Market
on Thursday September 26, 2019 @12:11AM (#21078071)
The value of the US dollar keeps going up while every other currency is going down. Off shore dollar reserves have been increasing as a safe haven.
Re:My Childhood in a Cult
on Sunday May 05, 2019 @04:29PM (#19834860)
This is the best real estate site experience I’ve ever had on mobile.
Re:'Healthiest hearts in the world' found
on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @05:42PM (#19801924)
Does anyone know if the Tsimane drink alcohol?
Re:How pharmaceutical industry financial modelers think about rare dis...
on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @09:02AM (#19787490)
I met a PHD chemist who spent 30 years developing drugs. Over that period he developed 20,000 APIs. 4 were approved. 1 made it to the market.
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Re:$1.2T in risky corporate debt showing similar warning signs to subp...
on Monday January 21, 2019 @08:04PM (#18965121)
When markets crash they tend to crash fast after seeming to be in a slow motion. I wonder what the kickoff will be?
If it’s this week it will go something like this:
1. People realize that they aren’t getting their tax returns because of the shutdown and it has an outsized effect because consumer savings rates are low. Market wobbles.
2. Treasury issues short term debt at high yields and long term debt at low yield yields Thursday, market crumbles Friday.
3. Fed meets next week to discuss the debt window and if they need to slow down QT or go back to QE. They don’t know. Market goes volatile.
4. Government shutdown ends at first sending stocks up. Then key economic data releases showing consumer spending is going to be weak because real wages were down.
Anyways, it’s more likely we’d have to see a couple of blue chips go bankrupt first like a big state utility company or a classic old American tech company.
Re:Voltaire's Luck (2016)
on Sunday January 06, 2019 @09:47PM (#18842346)
It was so dramatic that France refused to use the word Banque to describe financial institutions until Napoleon re-established a central bank almost 100 years later.
Re:'Climate grief': The growing emotional toll of climate change
on Monday December 31, 2018 @12:44PM (#18795759)
In decline and fall of the Roman Empire, Gibbons focuses a lot on the people’s climate fears. The people believed that there was nothing that could be done and that they deserved nature’s wrath.
In the 1600s, Lisbon was leveled by an earthquake. Some thought that God was punishing them others saw it as an opportunity to rebuild and grow stronger. Today, Lisbon is one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
I pray for people to end the fear and believe in a bigger future. Happy new year.