Hermel

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by Hermel 10y ago
> "My first marriage was ruined by feminist indoctrination" It seems many Trump supporters feel they are victims of feminism. Another example that comes to my mind is Scott Adams, who hit the glass ceiling twice in his early ca
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by Hermel 10y ago
In Switzerland, this is even more extreme and there are even fewer home-owners. The Swiss can deduct their mortgage payments from their income, but you are taxed the virtual income of renting your house to yourself. Furthermore, the capita
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by Hermel 10y ago
The newer victory options, such as "cultural victory" always felt a little artificial to me. Did they improve that in civilization VI? Also, I watched part of the AI battle royale this week, and one of the developers commented tha
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by Hermel 10y ago
I find the American rule of having one representative per district flawed, as it gives an unfair advantage to large parties. In the Swiss system, I can cast 20 votes if my state has 20 representatives. This allows a party who get 5% of the
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by Hermel 10y ago
Also, it does not seem to be an accident that they have chosen the range 3% to 7%. The historic average excess return of stocks vs. government bonds is 6.5%. If their range was 2% to 6%, the graphic might look very different.
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by Hermel 10y ago
Am I the only one who finds the word "organic" stupid? Taken literally, it means that there are no anorganic ingredients, e.g. no salt and no water. Most countries use the term "biological" instead (implying an absence o
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by Hermel 10y ago
No, everyone wins.
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Not every cell changes the same way. So if you have a large enough set of DNA samples from distinct cells, you could probably reconstruct the original.
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by Hermel 10y ago
It depends on where the inequality is coming from. If I own more than you because I worked harder, it is ok. But if I own more than you because I stole from you, it is not.
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Also note that Google acquired Swiss company Endoxon for their maps technology, providing them with many Swiss employees early on. Endoxon was much more advanced technology-wise than Google's own service at that time. That acquisition
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by Hermel 10y ago
I find Bitcoin already quite an impressive achievement. It is the first digital currency without central point of failure (in the physical world, gold can be used for that). Also, consider rouleth.com, which is a provably "fair" o
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by Hermel 10y ago
Really? What kind of people are you talking to? Note that Bloomberg, the source of the above news, is American. Note that the reaction you get might not only stem from the message itself, but also from the way you deliver it. How do you rea
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> Everybody seems fine with European snobbery That's simply not true. The French, for example, are often seen as arrogant by other Europeans. Also, sometimes their view of being "la grande nation" is ridiculed. Generally,
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A PhD in two years?
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Technically, you are consuming your own man-hours during leisure time.
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When the same person who gets 250'000 for a single gig regularly performs for free for other audiences, something is fishy.
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by Hermel 10y ago
Social control. When everyone is watching, not properly declaring your income is much more risky.
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by Hermel 10y ago
Enforcing arbitrary password rules. "Must contain at least two '$' characters", "Cannot contain more than one '?'", etc. However, I think being able to use the same stupid password on all sites I do n
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by Hermel 10y ago
Morals are very relevant when deciding what's right and what's wrong. In this particular case, I fully support the European Commission. Note that there are laws against setting up artificial corporate structures with the sole purp
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The question is: is the EU the symptom or the cause of peace in Europe? According to the Nobel price committee, the EU is the cause. But I have some doubts... a badly governed EU could even spark nationalist resentments instead of containin
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by Hermel 10y ago
The US should adobt the single-subject rule (1) on a national level. (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-subject_rule
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If the less informed shareholder move to passive allocations, the market actually gets more efficient: http://www.philosophicaleconomics.com/2016/05/passiveactive/
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by Hermel 10y ago
This example does not work. If Apple raises from 5% to 8% of the SP500, it also raises from 5% to 8% of your portfolio. No rebalancing is needed when weighting stocks by market cap.
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As someone who has suffered a significant loss from the Bitfinex hack, I still prefer technical over regulatory solutions. You should also note that Bitfinex used to have a much more secure setup, with most of its Bitcoins being stored in c
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by Hermel 10y ago
The ETH camp still defends the "code is law" principle. The point in which ETH and ETC proponents differ is how that principle should be prioritized relative to "the majority is always right" principle.
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An academic career should never be your only option. Make sure you study something that is useful in the real economy.
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It certainly did not execute as intended.
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Musk founded Tesla with a vision to make the world more sustainable, and not with the vision to become obscenely rich. Being profitable is a means to an end for him, and not the other way around. And that's fine. The founders of a com
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The title says "destroy all ifs". The author already did take the idea to the extreme himself.
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Are you saying the EU is basically a clever hack to get around constitutional restrictions?

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