On Friday, 27th of January 2017, the newly admitted President of USA, Donald Trump, has signed an executive order, titled “Protection Of The Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into The United States”. With the power of the order he has banned travellers that are not legal permanent US residents and come from seven Muslim-majority countries,
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Yesterday the exit polls have announced that Alexander Van der Bellen won the rerun for Austrian Presidency, after the first round has been cancelled due to suspicion of improper conduct of ballots. As I tightly control the information I process online and my news feed is rather liberal, it got right away flooded with catchy
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There is practically nobody, whose opinion I would trust uncritically. I believe that simply accepting a point of view acquired from any media source is not a sound state of reality for a conscious individual. Because of that, in the issues that matter, I highly appreciate articles, which give me an opportunity to clearly separate
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AirBnB era We all know AirBnB. And if we are not a hotel manager or a neighbour to a constant AirBnB apartment with loud tourists – we all love it. Why wouldn’t we? Even if we don’t use it, who doesn’t love having alternatives both for earning some quick money out from your place when
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Internet is diverse and it has cavernous depths you don’t want to reach – this is a well-known truth. We all had at least once run across something shocking, disgusting or that we simply wish to unsee. Despite that, we never get used to it, not even after so many years. For me the last
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Have you ever felt that you wasted those 10 euros watching that crappy movie in the cinema? We all did, especially lately, if you are a DC universe fan. Or, on the opposite, you watched online something so good, so incredibly awesome that you wished you could have paid for it? Or that at least
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I planned on writing an article briefing the F8 Conference, Facebook gathering for developers. I wanted the article about the way that Facebook is going to influence the world, about the Internet access facilitation for poor countries and about the fake altruistic motivation. But after spending last evening, night and this morning actually watching the
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As I have already described briefly in an article two months ago, Political situation in Poland is getting worse every month. It is not even 6 months yet since Law and justice party (PiS) has gained the full power over Polish politics and they have managed to breach the constitution, ignore the Constitutional Tribunal verdict
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I am quite allergic to the broad idea of coaching. I feel like my generation became some kind of seminar junkies – we need motivational talks to eat well, to work out well, to do our jobs well or to create relationships with others. We need other people, who motivate us to live our lives
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Living abroad brings two major changes into the way you perceive what happens in your native country. First of all, you realise that things get serious when people around start asking you: hey, politics in Poland right now, what is it about? Second, internet becomes your main source of knowledge. This is exactly what happened
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In terms of economics, assessing the value of a good is usually quite straightforward. Whether it is economic or market value, whether we’re dealing with a free market economy or a socialist one – the factors influencing value are almost the same. One compares price of a good to its quality, availability and subjective, personal
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The US has historically been THE economy, considered by many as the leader in almost every possible dimension. Nowadays, when the spread of global economic power is changing, in order to stay in control against emerging powers like Russia, China and Brazil and maintain dominance on the global trade arena, the US has to reach towards
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I bet that everyone nowadays knows how FOMO feels. Recalling from the Oxford Dictionaries, FOMO (fear of missing out) is an anxiety that an exciting or interesting event may currently be happening elsewhere, often aroused by posts seen on social media websites. An idea to spend a whole month without Internet access, therefore with little knowledge about
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The Russian embargo imposed on the European Union as a cause of the Ukrainian Crisis has been a hot topic in recent years. The ban on food imports from the EU is claimed to cause nearly 100 billion euros loss to the EU countries.[1] The Russian government undertook radical measures to make it clear that
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Fun fact about me is that I am a huge museum freak, able to wander day after day at their exhibitions. My very favourite is the Tate Modern Museum in London. Last time I had an opportunity to be there, when buying tickets for the temporary exhibitions, it turned out that a membership card would
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Last week Room for Discussion had a pleasure to have as a guest the former President of the European Central Bank in years 2004-2011, Jean-Claude Trichet. As for the President of a non-political institution, which Mr Trichet has plenty of times emphasised the ECB to constitute, he has demonstrated a stereotypically political tendency to expatiate
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