IkmoIkmo

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by IkmoIkmo 6y ago
There are student loans in virtually every country, including Europe, and I'd say they're quite commonly used. The difference is whether they're required to pay for tuition or not. For example, in Norway public universities (
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I bought one of the philips wireless lights working on wifi or bluetooth, can't remember. It worked fine after 2 minutes of set-up, and then stopped working about 1-2 months in. The light still works with the regular switch, but I can&
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Well for one, that's not quite the case. You'll for example regularly see the king wear a fes hat when receiving foreign dignitaries, it's not quite like a Mexican sombrero. Second, even if that was the case, I can assure you
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What was so bad about the scene? The food, way of eating, the tiles, couches and way of dressing is all pretty authentic. I just don't see the fez hats much outside of such tourist-oriented restaurants, or certain occasions or function
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Plus they dropped it for the lightning which didn't have as many accessories back then, compared to the myriad of usb c accessories available today.
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> You're making the same assumption that people with the same skin color will have the same culture. He said ethnicity, not skin colour. Ethnicity is a quite broad and fluid concept which you could assign to any distinguishable cult
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Once the tech is there, working, viable, EU will start a gradual move towards tax optimisation to include the externalities and level the playing field.
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Obviously, but the reason is unclear. Quality issues? Or people abusing it by taking a 5 day citytrip and bringing it back? etc
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Well I did just talk to the auditor of my company (100m ebitda, not massive but not small), last week about their questions regarding fraud and it seems you're entirely wrong...
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That's not true. Plenty of people get sick on this mountain, it's not the norm and plenty of elderly and children climb this mountain, but there's definitely a not-insignificant number of people who could not handle the altit
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It's not really odd at all. For one, we're testing at about 10x the rate that we saw in the first wave, while we're at 3x the number of daily infections as during the first wave. If you test 10x more people in period B as in
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That is simply not true. Infections were way higher, hospitalisations were way higher, intensive care way higher, and death way higher, earlier this year. It's not in any way worse than it has been this year.
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Great, but if it doesn't translate into quality of life metrics for a large portion of the population, you're still not there. US Tech stocks is in large part a matter of highly-international companies with international revenues,
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Not even that but, you can't change icons. What you can do is create a siri shortcut, assign an icon to that, and make the shortcut just open an app. Everytime you click it, it'll load siri, then siri loads the app, visibly and wi
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I see your point but as OP mentioned: 1) Where is the data that shows each street is equally/proportionally scanned by parking attendant vehicles? There is potential discriminatory policy there. 2) Where is the data that shows that sca
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> I don’t see if one neighborhood is full of parking attendants and rich one is less proving discrimination. Suppose only a poor neighbourhood has laws enforced, while in another there is no enforcement. Would that be discriminatory? I t
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In short: interest rates & tax benefits. Mortgage rates are typically far lower. My rate is about 1.5%. In Denmark it's -0.5%, yes you get paid to borrow. If you look at mortgages, you have two negative cashflows: the principal you
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I know it's quite attractive to compare one-dimensional statistics internationally, and I won't say it has no uses. But it can also be misleading and we have to be careful about understanding the appropriate context. For example,
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Good for you, but that really doesn't add much to the discussion... Norway has > 800x the oil reserves per capita of France and has not gone through what you could call a political crisis over the past few years regarding aligning t
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Similarly, unfortunately it is also unlikely that the rest of the world magically bands together against the US (bearing all the economic and political consequences, which would be significant for all parties), for the sake of prosecuting 0
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Source of pessimism? For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls Assign a non-zero probability that it'll actually go wrong, then extrapolate 10.000 years into the future. The odds aren&
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I'd be interested in the throughout then, instead of annual snapshot figures. If the average homelessness is say 5 weeks /1.2 months roughly, then you may be servicing 10x as many homeless people or 160 thousand, for 20k each. Wit
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He gets a solid 8 hours of sleep, 19:30 to 23:30 are his to spend with friends/family/hobbies/reading. His working days are arguably packed working on the cutting-edge of business and technology, working with the individuals
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> Unless you got in early or are one of the 1%, it's not a great place to try and build a life in I mean, even if you got in early, you're still locking up lots of wealth in housing, an opportunity cost that could be differentl
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I mean, you can say the same about plumbers, to an extent. Many charge $100-200 an hour, more for the first hour, plus travel fee and service charge, and may skim a profit on the parts they use as well. Either you're an entrepreneur, a
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Sure I already mentioned this caveat regarding that population density figures, but the caveat is nowhere sufficient to defeat the point. Sources will state about 80% of Canada is uninhabited, and 47% of the US. In the UK it' 1-2%. In
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> He doesn't believe Bezos would have not started Amazon in the US if there was a wealth tax. Did he elaborate? That seems like such a joke to me. Denying yourself access to the world's biggest market because, if you make it bi
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> Someone forgot to model growth in the value of the asset, and/or putting the wealth to use. It's surprisingly not different. If you have an asset that is dormant, is $100, and you tax it with 1% for 20 years, you get to $81.7
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I wonder to what extent it's actually true though, to what extent are higher prices not simply driven by higher costs, rather than some kind of tacit collusion to drive excess profit? Population density in Canada is about 4 per square
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Not historic at all... better to see annexation being suspended than continued of course, but let's not pretend this means much. The majority of the west bank has been illegally occupied for almost 60 years. Nothing in the text reverse

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