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by Ambele 7y ago
Singapore. Amazon's had an episode in their tv series: The Giant Beast that is the Global Economy where they covered corruption throughout the world. It showed who's living with it and who's stamping it out better. Direct lin
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by Ambele 7y ago
If you don't have a credit score or a credit score of 0 due to a thin file, you can get one by using a cash-secured loan of $500. The loan amount doesn't really matter so you can pick the smallest loan they offer. Then you're
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by Ambele 7y ago
Could Sift be the next Equifax?
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by Ambele 7y ago
If someone loses 50m, it could become a problem for everyone with a margin account or everyone with a cash account and uninvested cash in their Robinhood account due to Rehypothecation Risks. But first it would be a problem for the owners o
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by Ambele 7y ago
It's funny because this is how money is created in the American Economy -- through recursive loans like this from banks. Since most money is digital now, nearly every loan becomes another person's bank balance and every bank balan
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by Ambele 7y ago
^This. I weight my allocations based off market cap so 91% of my investments would go into index funds and no more than 9% overall goes into Cryptocurrency -- 6.5% of which goes into Bitcoin and 2.5% might go into non-Bitcoin cryptos. I thi
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by Ambele 7y ago
Maybe for a couple of days a month, some cops may be rotated onto a police bicycle?
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by Ambele 7y ago
I agree. Retirees and the elderly vote much more than the youth. Unless that changes, policy will continue to be more favorable towards retirees and the elderly.
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by Ambele 7y ago
It typically takes a reduction in interest rates of 4% to pull the economy out of a recession. Interest rates are at 2% right now so if we enter a recession, it'll be a doozy. Europe has been testing out negative interest rates and are
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by Ambele 7y ago
China respects certain aspects of the U.S. That's why they steal our patents and knock-off our products. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. The best nations copy the best aspects and ideas from other nations.
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by Ambele 7y ago
I wish I could recolor the usernames of the smartest people on HN like you, so I'd be able to quickly discern in future articles whether a bright and smart person like you is commenting.
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by Ambele 7y ago
Xi and China's party enjoy the power that comes with control and unity. Heck China doesn't like the Mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the South China Sea being 4 distinct areas. Other nations might be fearing China now that it has
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by Ambele 7y ago
I think the issue is that China wants to be #1 while America doesn't want to be #2. No one wants to be #2.
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by Ambele 7y ago
The timetables could be deemphasized if you could see the public transportation moving live on a map. The homeless housing aspect could be reduced if a phone or app was required for the upscale public transport.
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by Ambele 7y ago
"Note that I am trading about $1000. Losing it all will not kill me, though it would be mildly annoying since that’s my current sum total of retirement funds." There are some things this author should be optimizing for in life a
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by Ambele 7y ago
This seems like a retaliation after Schwab then Ameritrade then ETrade reduced their commission fees. The Robinhood team never ceases to amaze me.
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by Ambele 7y ago
China also sometimes tries to hold businesses hostage that try to leave. https://www.roboticsbusinessreview.com/manufacturing/china-d...
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'Yes, We Have No Bananas': The Federal Reserve Can't Give Us What We Need(seekingalpha.com)
2 points by Ambele 7y ago|0 comments
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by Ambele 7y ago
I was surprised that £69 billion (9% of the budget) goes to Wales, Scottland, and Northern Ireland. That was until I found out that all three are part of the UK and they contribute to the tax revenue. Overall the budget is nicely balanced.
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by Ambele 7y ago
I bet with the right commands (ex:SQL Injection Commands), you could make this settlement fund print out it's records. Look at how unnecessarily verbose and pretty the error message output is: https://yahoodatabreachsettlem
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Yahoo Proposed Customer Data Security Breach Settlement(classaction.org)
1 points by Ambele 7y ago|0 comments
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by Ambele 7y ago
This is a fantastic website and I'm excited to see how it will look in 2020! It seems to be missing some political actors though which makes it appear like some democratic candidates aren't spending money on ads which isn't t
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by Ambele 7y ago
If you believe that inflating the debt away is a viable strategy then I have a 100 Trillion Zimbabwe dollar note to sell you for 40 cents. The Zimbabwe government tried that and look at what happened to their dollar! Also, I have a loaf of
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by Ambele 7y ago
Yes this will doom us if it is not taken care of but I expect the American people will get smart and elect congressional leaders that will care of the growing national debt before we default. 9.8% of all of our government's revenues (t
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by Ambele 7y ago
I'll be the first in this thread to start listing off technologies other than Flash. We're at the point now where if you include JQuery on your resume, recruiters are less likely to hire you. Ruby used to be trendy for startups, P
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by Ambele 7y ago
> WeWork could cut the valuation for its IPO to under $20 billion and may even postpone the offering, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing unnamed sources. The company had been valued at $47 billion in its last fundraising
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by Ambele 7y ago
That article was taking over 15 seconds to load and made the fan on my computer sound like an airplane taking off. Hard pass.
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by Ambele 7y ago
> Apple requires that all iOS web browsers—Chrome, Firefox, Brave, or any other—be built on the same WebKit engine that Safari uses. "Basically it’s just like running Safari with a different user interface," > As a result, A
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by Ambele 7y ago
>Bitcoin is not supposed to be anonymous But it can be used anonymously and probably in some industries is still used anonymously. A counterparty that is willing to swap anonymously acquired and sent altcoins for Bitcoin can provide a pr
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by Ambele 7y ago
Bitcoin can be anonymous though in certain use-cases. You can create a new bitcoin public/private key pair on a computer that has never (and will never) touched the internet. Once you send the coins from an address to this new address,

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