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One half of the world wants to phaseout oil and coal by some specified date (usually 2050 is mentioned). The other half (India, China, Russia, some African countries) maintains that their current and future economies need to continue extraction and trade in fossil fuels beyond that date. "Total...

The world is becoming increasingly centralised. Today’s major powers consolidated and as such earned the ability to compete and dictate their will on the international arena. Politics is merely a reflection of the economy, within the global economy centralisation is taking place as a natural...

So I've been browsing a certain respectable database and stumbled upon some ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) scores. Database constantly accumulates all sorts of financial data, which is consequently sold to various data vendors, resellers, including financial news agencies, etc. Curious as...

President Biden brands all those who engage in stock buybacks, rather than investing in operations, “wealthy tax cheats”. Warren Buffett, the investor, begs to differ. In his opinion, (paraphrasing a bit) “Anyone who’ll tell you all buybacks are bad is either economically illiterate or...

I was thinking where to acquaint wonderful people of CFC with interesting developments in crypto space and it dawned on me we haven’t got a general thread! We do have bitcoin and El Salvador threads, but both are relatively narrow manifestations of a much larger process, which is unfolding in...

There you have it. Pillars of technological community are conspiring to sell us the new version of connected world, this time with augmented and virtual realities and no doubt utilising the metaverse money - bitcoin, ethereum, etc. Much like the famous authors of old predicted, some of us (the...

Elon Musk presented the Neuralink update yesterday in a livestream, you can watch it here: What are your first impressions/opinions of the tech? P.S: Included a little poll, feel free to participate. I’ve voted undecided.

So, COVID-19 is loose, the trade war aftermath, a long stretch of quantitative easing, political/economic uncertainty - all culminated in a symbolic 1000 point Dow plunge yesterday. Or “the economy”, i.e. cats with full bags of liquid assets, are looking for an excuse to burst the bubble a...

I was watching fresh Ed Snowden interview today and as a mental exercise (I guess) was trying to figure out what I really think about this fella and his story. On the one hand, he clearly betrayed the agency that took him in, abused the trust placed in him and ran off pockets full of secrets...

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/technology/us-accuses-huawei-cfo-of-iran-sanctions-cover-up--hearing-adjourned-11009956 Meng Wanzhou, CFO of Huawei, was arrested in Canada on December 1, the day Trump and Xi marked a 90-day halt to trade wars. US prosecutors insist that she should be...

As you may be aware, Elon Musk is serial tweeter. While most of his tweets were harmless, some of them do stand out and make one question his sanity, really. On 1st of April he cracked a little joke that Tesla is going bankrupt. The market was closed, but on the next day shareholders took the...

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/18/politics/luis-elizondo-ufo-pentagon/index.html So, what would you do if Pentagon gave you 22 mil p.a. in secret and told you to find some aliens? Personally, I'd spend most of it on whiskey and stabilizers and attempt to establish contact. I don't see any...

Little bit of background - I consider myself a trader/investor. Been doing it on and off over the last 10 years, lately it became full time job and something I still feel passionate about today. The way I do it is I try to find market leaders based on one important metric - technological...

Here i am, trying to pull off a culture victory, playing as Ethiopia on huge continents. The game is slowly going downhill, with me repeating "never give up" in my head, however just that doesn't help too much. Anyway, i had extensive early warfare, where i secured the whole continent to myself...

Hey everyone. I am trying to get my head around the way tourism really works. Last night i was playing a game, where i was Greece on huge Pangaea, standard speed. Domination in mind. Here is what happened: I am slowly capturing city after city. Since the level is deity, AI is swimming in works...

Hello, fanatics! With fall patch out i was dreaming of playing on huge map. Now that the new hardware is buzzing quietly under the hood, the new let's play is underway.. Boudicca is one of the best choices to play domination oriented games in "huge" environment due to the fact that most...

Hello, Players! This is the first in (hopefully) series of hall of fame unofficial deity gauntlets, so, all of you wishing to take a test against horrible deity AI [:scan:] & your fellow fanatics are welcome to try. Standard HOF rules apply and you have time until next gauntlet (approx...

Babylon is one of the best civs for domination victories, that is fairly obvious. I have been fiddling with this civilization for the past few days, trying to figure out the best way to play it. My preferred play style is to be engaged in wars from as early as possible without cooldowns. From...

Pretty much. I've long waited to play out a culture game on a huge map (deity). And finally, yesterday evening opportunity presents itself. I roll Isabella in the middle of the desert. Pangaea. I rarely pursue culture, usually domination seems more natural and easy. But this time with random...

Been a while since last one, so here we go again: Decided to give this map script a try after failing it once, back in gods and kinds. It is all tundra, with vast expanses of snow, occasional plains tiles and very low amount of sea level. So, basically, the entire map is the way you see it now...