I will be curious to read it once published.
The Fall of Civilizations Podcast (nice one) had an episode on this topic. According to it, the sea peoples could instead be vast numbers of western europeans fleeing the outcome of a massive volcanic eruption in…
Humm, honest question, why did the royals from the Norman conquest on start speaking french? I guess the Normans while not being "ethnically" Frank or Gallic at the time, had already been absorbed into "Frank Culture".…
Technologically speaking, Starlink is the way to go. Economically, Starlink and its subscription model cannot compete with a hardware cost only mean of communication where all elements are modular. On the other hand,…
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…
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…
if anything it is THE natural monopoly
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…
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"?
That's exactly my point, those are run by private equity, investors willing to take the risks and wait the big payday out.
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…
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.
which of the two is John Keay?
Why unfortunately? Tolstoy and Dostoevky are generally recognized as great authors. Being Russian does not make them retrospectively Putinist, does it?
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/show/166434.Empire Basically,…
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…
or put simply, just rebelling against any attempt at modernising muslim societies. Anwar Sadat comes to mind.
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…
it's because it's not real communism.
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,…
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…
"That’s one government though. I can’t think of any other western government funding Israel in a similar way." My point, exactly!
Such dickheads the Swiss voting public, how dare they exercise a direct democracy?! So inconveniencing!
there is a time and place for everything. "Les règles de bienséance" matter more to me than the safekeeping of the exactness of English grammar, which as others have been keen to point out is hardly as strict as you…
Pedantry attracts dislike. One may be right to state something, yet wrong to call it out in public.
I will be curious to read it once published.
The Fall of Civilizations Podcast (nice one) had an episode on this topic. According to it, the sea peoples could instead be vast numbers of western europeans fleeing the outcome of a massive volcanic eruption in…
Humm, honest question, why did the royals from the Norman conquest on start speaking french? I guess the Normans while not being "ethnically" Frank or Gallic at the time, had already been absorbed into "Frank Culture".…
Technologically speaking, Starlink is the way to go. Economically, Starlink and its subscription model cannot compete with a hardware cost only mean of communication where all elements are modular. On the other hand,…
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…
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…
if anything it is THE natural monopoly
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…
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"?
That's exactly my point, those are run by private equity, investors willing to take the risks and wait the big payday out.
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…
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.
which of the two is John Keay?
Why unfortunately? Tolstoy and Dostoevky are generally recognized as great authors. Being Russian does not make them retrospectively Putinist, does it?
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/show/166434.Empire Basically,…
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…
or put simply, just rebelling against any attempt at modernising muslim societies. Anwar Sadat comes to mind.
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…
it's because it's not real communism.
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,…
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…
"That’s one government though. I can’t think of any other western government funding Israel in a similar way." My point, exactly!
Such dickheads the Swiss voting public, how dare they exercise a direct democracy?! So inconveniencing!
there is a time and place for everything. "Les règles de bienséance" matter more to me than the safekeeping of the exactness of English grammar, which as others have been keen to point out is hardly as strict as you…
Pedantry attracts dislike. One may be right to state something, yet wrong to call it out in public.