Hermel

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by Hermel 11y ago
I once paid a five-digit amount for a used car in cash, using 1000 chf bills. This would have been inconvenient with 20$ notes.
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by Hermel 11y ago
The "organization" at startups is to do whatever makes sense and to not waste energy on internal politics. Obviously, that requires the founders to be naturally well-aligned in what they do.
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by Hermel 11y ago
Cheap oil means countries such as Saudi Arabia must sell stocks in order to finance their expenses. Together, state owned oil funds own a single-digit percentage of all publicly listed stocks.
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by Hermel 11y ago
I reported cnet several times. It still has a top spot in the Google search results and no warning whatsoever.
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by Hermel 11y ago
This particular rule you are referring to was introduced as a temporary fix. Satoshi himself described how to change it later on. Thus, it is in fact Maxwell and his companions who are changing the rules of the system by refusing to execute
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by Hermel 11y ago
I wonder why there isn't more resistance against the exorbitant fines the US charges European banks every year. These fines have become a significant business risk and should be regulated in free trade agreements, just like subsidies a
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by Hermel 11y ago
In Europe, xing is actually more popular than linkedin. So there is serious competition.
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by Hermel 11y ago
In the end, it boils down to whether firms in a given industry have increasing or decreasing returns to scale. For example, there are no hairdresser empires as this tends to be a profession that can already be operated efficiently at a smal
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by Hermel 11y ago
The irony of this approach is that the lower interest rates are, the more people need to save to reach their retirement goals. If this effect is stronger than the incentive to borrow and invest, low interest rates might actually curb consum
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by Hermel 11y ago
This list is incomplete. Nestlé for example is missing ( https://www.google.com/finance?q=VTX%3ANESN ).
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by Hermel 11y ago
Switzerland has a lottery where you can win 4000 chf per month for 20 years. https://www.swisslos.ch/de/informationen/spiele/lose/sortime...
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by Hermel 11y ago
Another solution is to move from taxing profits to taxing consumption, i.e. through VAT, and then enforce it even for virtual services. That way, Apple's US tax would for example be proportional its US sales, which sounds fair.
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by Hermel 11y ago
GoPro: from 64$ to 11$ http://www.google.com/finance?q=GPRO
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by Hermel 11y ago
Here is what will happen (my guess): as Bitcoin usage continues to grow, the limited capacity will start to hurt over the coming months, with the planned "segregated witness" proposal not helping much. Also, the block reward will
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by Hermel 11y ago
I think this is a couch.
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by Hermel 11y ago
For real estate, each region is free to define their own valuation rules. In Zurich, either 70% of the previous transaction value is used, or a conservative value based on size and location, whichever is higher. This value is often also the
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by Hermel 11y ago
Yes, it is harder to implement changes in a large system than in a small system. However, you should note that Switzerland is more culturally diverse than the United States by a number of metrics, including immigration. For example, 25% of
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by Hermel 11y ago
You mean an expatriation tax? No.
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by Hermel 11y ago
Switzerland has been following the suggested approach, and it seems to work well. There's no capital gains tax (for private investors), but a wealth tax instead. Another advantage beside the mentioned incentive to invest is that tax r
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by Hermel 11y ago
It's the difference between dumb and smart money. Dumb money is passively invested, while smart money is actively invested into endeavors like startups, where the investor can make a difference beyond merely providing money.
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by Hermel 11y ago
Someone who owns the same tools should be able to replicate the results of the paper without rewriting its code. Whether these tools (e.g. Matlab or your software) come at a cost is a secondary concern as long as it is not prohibitively hig
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by Hermel 11y ago
Not if you explicitely configure the IList to be an instance of ArrayList and expect it to behave like an ArrayList. In that case, just taking an ArrayList is the more honest and more readable option.
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by Hermel 11y ago
IMHO, misleading others is wrong.
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by Hermel 11y ago
Dependency injection does not decrease coupling, it hides it.
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by Hermel 11y ago
The article itself contains formulations like "Like the Jews, Chinese, English, Scots and Lebanese, they have come to form an impressive global commercial network.", suggesting that this about more than just the community. At the
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by Hermel 11y ago
Looking at nonsense.png actually supports the Müller formula. At least to me, the best-looking combinations are exactly the two that should be the best-looking according to the Müller formula. The version you created have color and brightne
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by Hermel 11y ago
It would be interesting to know how much Apple knowingly copied and how much is just coincidence.
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by Hermel 11y ago
As a further factor, I have heard that women tend to return clothing more often than men, leading to increased costs for shops that sell to women in comparison to those that sell to men only.
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by Hermel 11y ago
Afaik, wipo and the berne convention do not require copyright infringent to be a crime. It can also be dealt with in civil law (as opposed to criminal law). As an example, breaching a contract is not a crime either in most cases.
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by Hermel 11y ago
No one doubts that most regulation has been created with good intentions. Problems start when the interest of those creating the regulations are not aligned with the population. Once given the power to regulate, politicians and officials te

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