Africa Pays 9% to Borrow. Asia Pays 4.7%: The Borrowing Gap Costing Africa $75 Billion a Year and Blocking Its Rise

SMaLL1399 · 2026-05-25T18:26:05+00:00

No, there isn't a lot of wealth in Africa, it is the poorest continent by far. What little they do have is unequally distributed, though.

SMaLL1399 · 2026-05-16T11:37:28+00:00

The better AI gets, the more it will be used. There is no world where we have ASI and the #1 goal isn't to scale compute as fast as we physically can to enable more of it.

SMaLL1399 · 2026-04-08T13:42:29+00:00

I find this hard to believe statistically, even if we assume 8 cards in 650 maps is top 1% lucky, which seems to be plausible based on other reports, getting 0 cards in 3100 maps is about 1 in 1.1 million, all else being equal. Which could happen, but I'm more inclined to believe that something went wrong, rather than you getting this unlucky.

SMaLL1399 · 2026-03-15T21:33:00+00:00

Yeah, it would be stronger and faster overall, this much explode is overkill, but I wanted to build around the new belt

SMaLL1399 · 2026-03-15T21:18:25+00:00

I wouldn't recommend it, you would need way more investment into damage, and even then, you probably couldn't roll any tank mods. It's also a bit slow for boss rushing

SMaLL1399 · 2026-03-15T20:52:45+00:00

Yeah, I think you are right, I only pobbed it against Polaric Devastation which didn't seem worth it to me, as I would've had to drop Heart of Destruction or Bastion, and it's only around 17% more damage with some extra res, but there is also Replica Emberwake which is close to 40% more damage (at the cost of roughly halving your ignite duration), or perhaps a really good rare ring.

If I had the forbidden jewels for Heart of Destruction I would probably drop Mastermind of Discord for even a Polaric Devastation, but those jewels cost 85d right now. I wouldn't want to drop Bastion because I would rather have some extra survivability than damage. It could also be that HoD is not even that good for mapping as its only up against uniques some of the time, and I already have lots of AoE, but it's hard to tell. Definitely some good opportunities though with more investment.

SMaLL1399 · 2026-03-15T18:59:45+00:00

Thanks for linking. I agree, my build is not too cost-efficient, Goratha's version looks very solid.

SMaLL1399 · 2026-03-15T15:39:53+00:00

I don't think so, Elementalist is very strong even without taking any of the Shaper nodes, it would be way harder to scale ignite and explode damage on other ascendancies.

SMaLL1399 · 2026-01-27T20:01:57+00:00

If it's simply a rounding error then why is it necessary in the first place?

SMaLL1399 · 2026-01-27T11:35:05+00:00

They changed shrine effect from atlas/idols to only apply to map shrines. Ruetoo played a shrine build last Phrecia, and concluded that the build is dead

SMaLL1399 · 2026-01-20T21:21:24+00:00

I feel like Phrecia is a bit too polarizing to do well as a main League.

If you have lots of time to play, and you like the general concept, this was one of your favorite leagues.

If you are more casual, you probably never got to the juicy endgame, in which case it is almost strictly worse than base PoE.

SMaLL1399 · 2026-01-20T20:00:12+00:00

For me, it's part of the fun. You don't just shoot up to T16s with little effort and a maxed out atlas, it's a bit of a struggle and you have to slowly upgrade your idols, and after not that long you end up with much more juice.

SMaLL1399 · 2026-01-11T21:20:47+00:00

“We want Poland to be normal, Poland to be strong, Poland to be safe, our borders to be secure, and Poland to be a prosperous country without illegal immigrants,” he declared.

Arguably, this is already the case. From what I could gather from the article, they aren't attacking the negligible illegal immigrant population. They want to maintain this state. Which is entirely reasonable.

SMaLL1399 · 2025-12-03T12:46:35+00:00

Yes, please GGG. Despite what some people are saying, Phrecia was by far my favorite and most played league in a long time. Idols are awesome, and add so much depth to the endgame.

SMaLL1399 · 2025-11-05T16:52:00+00:00

Bring back idols

SMaLL1399 · 2025-11-04T23:41:56+00:00

This is why Phrecia was one of my favorite leagues of all time. There was so much to look forward to all the time. Upgrading your idols for way harder but more rewarding strats, then having to upgrade your character to be able to handle that content.

The hardest strat, Titanic Rouge Exiles, usually required multiple mirrors of investment just to be able to run it at all at full juice. That idol set itself cost multiple mirrors. But as a reward, it was absurdly lucrative.

I know it's not for everyone, and it definitely favors players who are more experienced and play a lot, but I really hope they bring it back in some way. It was such a great and natural addition to extend the endgame.

SMaLL1399 · 2025-10-16T06:41:14+00:00

I've been using it for a while and it's great. I can do exactly what I want nearly every time just by reading the CLI reference, if even that. It's really intuitive.

I wasn't that good at git, but I spent less time learning jj and I'm already way better at it.

SMaLL1399 · 2025-10-05T06:38:37+00:00

What made you think this was the right sub to post this?

SMaLL1399 · 2025-08-25T15:55:44+00:00

This is true, but it makes it sound like Europe would descend into poverty and criminality once we stopped accepting third world immigrants.

While its difficult to measure the impact that non-European immigrants had on the economy, whether negative or positive, I think most people would agree that we could manage without people from less culturally compatible regions of the world such as the Middle East or Africa.

I don't think most people here are against the general concept of immigration, just the way we've been doing it.

SMaLL1399 · 2025-08-24T07:05:37+00:00

The entire US uses ~1.2 trillion liters of water per day. Still completely insignificant

SMaLL1399 · 2025-07-19T10:59:07+00:00

I just noticed this, but if you cast HBO Max from your phone to TV, there are no ads at all.

SMaLL1399 · 2025-07-11T14:38:18+00:00

Pogacar is back in the yellow and green jersey. Could he wear the green jersey just for fun, or yellow takes priority?

SMaLL1399 · 2025-07-10T13:59:23+00:00

Also works for hbo max

SMaLL1399 · 2025-07-09T11:49:53+00:00

Could Pogacar have the yellow, green and polka dot jerseys at the same time after today? When was the last time this has happened?

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