Mainan_Tagonist

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by Mainan_Tagonist 9d ago
or perhaps she was just a toxic colleague, with tons of experience in a narrow field that he did not have and making colleagues leave was just her thing. Vote me down all you want, women are just as capable as men in every way, including th
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by Mainan_Tagonist 9d ago
then again, how good a manager would she have made if she was bossing around colleagues to the point of them quitting? Management is not just about qualification, it's also about the human aspect. I have seen enough toxic femineity at
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by Mainan_Tagonist 1mo ago
if anything it is THE natural monopoly
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by Mainan_Tagonist 1mo ago
For the record, the full quote is : * think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand “I have a problem, it is the Government's job to cope with it!” or “I have a problem, I will go a
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by Mainan_Tagonist 2mo ago
On the topic of economic development, David Landes is worth reading, both the Unbound Prometheus and The Wealth and Poverty of Nations provide a solid understanding of the reasons behind the development of Western Europe over the past 5
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by Mainan_Tagonist 2mo ago
no, that's not what i'm doing, just the opposite. OP argued that investment is lead by short term thinking, yet i point out example of long term thinking and risk taking by investors.
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by Mainan_Tagonist 2mo ago
Indeed, if these are loss making operations, who puts the capital for those rockets to get off the ground? and why are they putting their capital in this when instead they could have a "nice ETF bringing 10% yearly"?
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by Mainan_Tagonist 2mo ago
That's exactly my point, those are run by private equity, investors willing to take the risks and wait the big payday out.
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by Mainan_Tagonist 2mo ago
The point I'm trying to make is that there are also investors that are long on an investment and willing take losses for a long time before the big pay off materialises, or not. But that's private equity investment rather than s
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by Mainan_Tagonist 2mo ago
The stock market works that way, it's true. But what about SpaceX, Blue Origin... there are also counter examples that show it is possible for investors to wait out the big profits.
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by Mainan_Tagonist 2mo ago
which of the two is John Keay?
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by Mainan_Tagonist 2mo ago
Why unfortunately? Tolstoy and Dostoevky are generally recognized as great authors. Being Russian does not make them retrospectively Putinist, does it?
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by Mainan_Tagonist 2mo ago
This is a pretty good read https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174501.India This is a bit lighter and not specifically about India, enlightening nonetheless: https://www.goodreads.com/book/sho
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by Mainan_Tagonist 2mo ago
Depends who you ask... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equestrian_statue_of_Genghis_K... Kublai Khan also makes for decent entertainment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Polo_(2014_TV_series)
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by Mainan_Tagonist 3mo ago
"You really need something special for the foreign terrorists to be willing to travel half a world just to blow themselves up on your doorstep" Yes, and what could be that something special? Imperialism says you? Britain and Fran
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by Mainan_Tagonist 3mo ago
Indeed, empires do not have to exist, and the world could constitute of individual nations ruling themselves independently in democracy peace and happiness. By historical standard, over the last 10000 years prosperity, democracy and peace h
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by Mainan_Tagonist 3mo ago
The more i think about math these days, the more i see it as a muscle one must constantly train to achieve its potential. Give it too long a rest and you have to go back at full blast for weeks on end to hope to ever achieve past performanc
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by Mainan_Tagonist 3mo ago
no, it's nothing specific to "The West" or the decisions it has taken. The typical "They hate us because our bad policies" does not explain why every empire (western or not) has had to contend with dissenters keen o
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by Mainan_Tagonist 3mo ago
or put simply, just rebelling against any attempt at modernising muslim societies. Anwar Sadat comes to mind.
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by Mainan_Tagonist 3mo ago
Yeah... what about those? How many retaliatory terror attacks on americans performed by citizen of those countries? What point are you trying to make? US bad? Anything more thoughtful to offer? The US are an empire and they have behaved as
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by Mainan_Tagonist 3mo ago
yet you fail to account for the fact that said people wouldn't wouldn't be in power did terrorism not have occurred in the first place. How many bad leaders in the west resulting directly or indirectly from terror attacks?
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by Mainan_Tagonist 3mo ago
And freedom fighters are supposed to actually care about "freedom" while terrorists generally do not. I fail to see what great advancements in freedom for anyone involved have come out of the terror attacks performed over the past
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by Mainan_Tagonist 3mo ago
Are you talking about income or actual wealth? Your income may remain constant while your wealth rises significantly (say... because your investments are doing well, because you inherited... etc). The two are often confused when talking abo
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by Mainan_Tagonist 3mo ago
"- Err, we have no money. - Sigh. ok. Go and attack our rivals over there." Strictly speaking, this is not what happened, and a gross oversimplification. The Byzantines were not exactly rivals of the Venetians. The whole thing wa
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by Mainan_Tagonist 4mo ago
it's because it's not real communism.
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by Mainan_Tagonist 5mo ago
Yes, Frankopan's Silk Roads was a disappointment to say the least, I was really expecting an enlightening history of the middle east, starting from the early interrelations between the various civilisations (Egypt, Babylon, Harappan) a
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by Mainan_Tagonist 5mo ago
Tim Severin is referenced in the list, so i would suggest as an addition Tracking Marco Polo by the very same author, a fun read indeed. From Goodreads: Tim Severin took up the challenge offered from antiquity by Marco Polo. Using the gre
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by Mainan_Tagonist 5mo ago
"That’s one government though. I can’t think of any other western government funding Israel in a similar way." My point, exactly!
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by Mainan_Tagonist 5mo ago
western governments funding Israel? What western governments exactly? Isn't Israel capable of funding itself through its own economy?
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by Mainan_Tagonist 5mo ago
Don't muslim citizens and foreign residents in Switzerland enjoy more rights than in pretty much any Muslim country? There is definitely some hostility to some aspects of Islam, aspects which seem to only recently have become central t

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