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by 988747 5y ago
There was a short spike of CHFPLN on Forex few years ago: exchange rate went from less than 4.00 PLN to 5.50 PLN, because of Swiss central bank decision to not stabilize it anymore. Some people made a lot of money (or so they thought). Few
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by 988747 5y ago
I do not see why not - performance of Apple processors is insane.
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Which also means that banks would be very hesitant to giving them any loan. Bank strategy is to avoid risk, while VC strategy is to take risks.
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Which is the reason why they are expensive...
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by 988747 5y ago
US is located more to the south than Europe, so more spending on air conditioning in southern states can make quite a difference...
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by 988747 5y ago
Similarily, 30 ounces of gold could buy you a car (Ford Model T) in 1912, and can still buy you pretty nice car now (anything that costs ca 60,000 USD)
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That's not how this works - even if you get your currently assigned amount of work done your manager will always wonder: "how much more this guy could accomplish if he wasn't constantly distracted by Facebook?" Which is
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> Laundering money in poor countries directly hurt the citizens of those countries because the government doesn't collect the taxes it is entitled to Minior nitpick: Poor countries typically have authoritarian, corrupt governments,
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by 988747 5y ago
Countries join NATO of their own free will, mostly because they are afraid of Russia. So the reason why Russian sphere of influence shrinks is because Russia acts like an asshole. Russia is not entitled to any "sphere of influence&quot
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The obvious solution seems to be to ship the waste to the US, paying them for the disposal. Or you can sign a deal with some North African countries (Libya, Tunisia), and have them store the dump in Sahara.
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by 988747 5y ago
I think all those problems disappear when you run containers with proper orchestration tools, such as Kubernetes. And not only that, I think that examples given in the article ("Assume that your Apache/PHP container is mounting th
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by 988747 5y ago
And the Player 1 has to get “Bank error in your favor, Collect $200" in their first turn, otherwise they will lack $50 to buy 5 houses in turn 2 (which I assume is significant in raising rent for Boardwalk to $1400)
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by 988747 5y ago
Today women have jobs so that they could pay for cleaning, doing laundry or for daycare for their children. Financially it cancels itself out, but women get just as little time with their own children as men.
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by 988747 5y ago
You do realize that a. People still need to commute b. higher gas price means higher prices of everything, due to transportation costs? Ideally, there would be 0% tax on gas, since it is one of the most essential things in the economy.
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by 988747 5y ago
Oh, so it was you... https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/17/tech/waymo-arizona-confus...
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by 988747 5y ago
It's 21st century - they will post some angry Tweets and FB posts.
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Living "outside of politics" means having no self-preservation instinct. Politicians are like gangsters constantly plotting against you, trying to take your money from you, or force you to do things you don't want to do. They
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by 988747 5y ago
Keynes advocated for rate cuts as a remedy for crises. His reasoning being that cheap credit will stimulate demand for consumer goods. It's almost the textbook definition of "wasteful consumerism".
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by 988747 5y ago
Hippie concept of "free love" was taking us back to prehistorical times, when humans were just like animals: fucking, sleeping, eating, and not much else in between. It's a good thing that current generation is reverting to m
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by 988747 5y ago
Sure, but sometimes leaving out Polish diacritics makes the whole sentence ambiguous, or at the very least harder to read. I personally despise people doing that. More to the article's point: there were countless times where I accident
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by 988747 5y ago
I guess the fact that they follow KYC requirements and not allow anonymous accounts? You would have to create 10 fake identities for yourself first.
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I wonder if this has anything to do with recent Tether reserve report: https://www.coindesk.com/tether-first-reserve-composition-re... Since the report does not really specify what exactly the reserves are we can expect NYA
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by 988747 5y ago
And if they simply raised prices and made huge profits, they could afford building their own fab, or at least outbidding other companies for TSMC/Samsung/whoever fab capacity...
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Keynsian demand-driven economy is the root of all evil, i.e. market bubbles that pop eventually. Everyone except market speculators would be much better of with supply-driven economy and small deflation. For one it would provide incentive t
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by 988747 5y ago
No one mines BTC on GPU, and Etherum is up 100% from two weeks ago. Ok, I understand that NVidia does not want to mine themselves, but why on Earth won't they just raise the prices to the level miners are willing to pay? "We want
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by 988747 5y ago
So why put efficiency cores in the desktop processor at all?
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It's not even about that. It's just about not wasting an opportunity to make money. Some stocks go through cycles: growth, then correction, then growth again. Shorting stock during market corrections helps you maximize your profit
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And not only drugs, much of the progress in other types of treatments (e.g. surgery) also comes from US.
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It is fun to see something with $5.5B market cap being called "esoteric" and "barely used". I wish I had a side project with similar market cap :P
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Right now in Poland home owners can get some free money from EU to install photovoltaic panels on their roofs, so many people are doing it. The catch is: once you install them and start producing electricity you can send it to the grid, but

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