I am now fully vaccinated from COVID to help myself and the community to stay healthy return to usual life. I started searching for appointments as soon as I got eligible. I am very sad that many people distrust this work of the amazing scientists, and hope with my example to help others make their choice.
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My family of origin friends, Svetlana Andrukh and Gennady Toschev were the lead specialists on archeology and Scythians, highly mobile warrior nomads of Iron Age into the Classical period on Ukrainian territories, with 1st millennium BCE urbanism and millet agriculture.
Svetlana Andrukh had invited me to participate in their work on the archeological sites when I was 17-18, and I regret not going with them for a Summer month or two.
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These concise notes on Holodomor is a part of my attempt to explain why I so worried about global food industry monopolization, restricted access to seeds, destruction of small farming, declining small land ownership, mass disconnect of people from gardening, widening food deserts, and partially why I am against any signs of totalitarianism, extreme urbanization, forced confinement to the area of displacement, and even breatharinism.
Please do not read on an especially good day - it took me years to look into it, in stages.
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English word "systemic" has a much broader meaning than in German (systemisch or systematisch), and if you grew up in Germany, you would call systemic only something planned, consistently implemented, and constantly ongoing, or without exception.
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A while ago, Ukrainian Association of Football had published the new national team shirts (sport jerseys in the flag colors: blue for the sky and yellow for the Earth) with Crimea included on the map on it for UEFA EURO 2020. My husband wanted one but could not find them anywhere.
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Wow, sometimes I make mistakes that make my face burn when I realize what exactly I have done. This last one I made last Friday, and several friends had witnessed it.
Dear guys, I apologies for my ignorance in using the word "obnoxious" even in that context!
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My critical notes on Jordan B. Peterson's books:
- 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
- Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life
I knew this professor from his lectures on behavioral biology recorded for Youtube. I thought back then he were a well-read down-to-earth educator. After reading his two books years later, I reject the proposition of him being an interesting philosopher. Here is why.
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In my old blog at 1L7.org, I categorized information by its linguistic content and originality.
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I was watching this course of lectures on human behavioral biology by Robert Sapolsky, a professor of Stanford University, to learn more about human beings, because I realize I really need to understand them/us better after resent tragic events in my life (a betrayal of a very close friend). I combined the experience with reading Dostoevsky, Camus and Gide, but it is another story.
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Financial bubbles are a relative newcomer to the motley collection of Ponzis. The recognition of their status as Ponzis came about because it became clear that the psychology of an investor is the same, whether or not money is going to a realtor, a stockbroker or a fast-talking conartist. In all cases, it is the sustained rise in prices—or, more precisely, the expectations of an up swing—that keeps the process going. This is what led economics Nobel laureate Robert J. Shiller of Yale University to call it a “naturally occurring Ponzi”—that is, a bubble that forms not in response to a manipulator’s baton but to natural market forces, with one person’s expectations stoking the next person’s.
We have seen this happen in the housing market and, through the ages, in the markets for gold, whereby you want to buy a good only because others have the same motivation, and so the prices will rise.
Many forms of legitimate business activity can also camouflage a Ponzi. Consider the widespread and perfectly legal practice of giving stock options to employees. It can generate profits even though the company’s practices may create low-cost products of trifling value.
An iconic example would be a Silicon Valley start-up that hires highly skilled graduates by offering a starting package with low wages, below the prevailing market rate, while adding in stock options that carry the promise of large future returns. The paltry wages guarantee that the company can still make a profit
even if it charges customers cut-rate prices for its products. The owner, meanwhile, keeps a part of the difference between the low-cost goods and the even more menial wages while giving away the rest as supplementary earnings to senior employees.
As the firm grows by employing more workers, the entrepreneur can earn a very high profit, even though, like all Ponzis, this one will eventually crash and leave the employees without jobs or in possession of worthless options.
The rationale for TBTF (“too big to fail”) hinges on the belief that if a big investment company goes bust, the collateral damage for ordinary citizens will be so large that the government needs to save the company. It has now become evident, however, that a well-meaning TBTF policy—or, for that matter, one that is ill meaning but well disguised—can exacerbate a crisis by assuring financial honchos that if they make a profit, it will be theirs to keep, and if they experience a loss, it will be for taxpayers to bear.
Scientifi c American, June 2014
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Kaushik Basu is senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank and a professor of economics at Cornell University.
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My notes in preparation for a discussion that I was hosting for a friend, which I knew would require remembrance of these definitions by some participants to keep us all on the same page. I fused together multiple definitions to cover most interpretations: reason, intuition, logic, deduction, induction, fallacy, critical thinking, opinion, argumentation, evidence, and skepticism.
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In 2017, I started building this website after I got this domain with my name, to replace my company site. I was living in Orange County, California, then. In 2018, I moved back to San Diego, CA - North County this time.
I will continue to move my publications from the previous sites and blogs, and hope to start linking to this domain by the end of 2021. The next significant steps should be:
- uploading my body of work in fine art, over 300 pieces;
- moving my various writings into the blog;
- adding photographs.
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