IkmoIkmo

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by IkmoIkmo 6y ago
You're taking PPP figures instead of nominal figures. That's not necessarily wrong but it should be mentioned and explained. Based on nominal figures both new york state and russia are around 1.6-1.7 trillion.
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by IkmoIkmo 6y ago
eh... you make it sound as if it's not explicitly illegal for Indian citizens to bribe other Indians.
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by IkmoIkmo 6y ago
Why not? Africa has almost 1.3 billion people. The notion 0.8% could die from a pandemic which, let loose, can infect virtually everyone and has a 1% casualty rate is not so strange. Obviously measures were taken, but it's not so weird
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by IkmoIkmo 6y ago
Not sure if a disposable-income denominator is fair when there are such large discrepancies in taxation and public provision of big-ticket expenses. If you get taxed harder in Canada but then don't have to pay for healthcare or educati
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by IkmoIkmo 6y ago
> No, that's unfair, you are saying all of tiktok content is low quality noise, which is wrong I mean, just list the top 10 tiktoks ever, or even top 100... rank them on metrics like content, depth, purpose, knowledge. Then compare
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by IkmoIkmo 6y ago
I've got no clue how that's really meaningful in this case. I just mentioned there's a 1% interest government-insured savings account available, i.e. if the bank goes bankrupt, you still get your money. The only instance wher
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by IkmoIkmo 6y ago
> EDIT: However, as you pointed out, rising housing costs are an increasing issue in the Netherlands. The issue is that not enough houses are being built. I hope that that's something that'll be addressed soon. This is often sa
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by IkmoIkmo 6y ago
There definitely are investments that have a better risk/reward ratio than carrying a 0% interest debt on a mortgage. e.g. savings accounts with 1% interest in the EU which are government insured up to 100k. Plus mortgage debt tends to
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by IkmoIkmo 6y ago
I think you misinterpreted the quote. You counter by saying people have 4 hours of time to spend watching TV. But the quote never mentioned insufficient time, only insufficient energy. > This results from the fact that their active ene
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by IkmoIkmo 6y ago
That's true in part. But if you gloss over (or understand & accept) those internal differences when planning the invasion, then really the consequences are largely also on you. Every middle-east expert would've predicted the r
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by IkmoIkmo 6y ago
> https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stefan_Molyneux Stuff like: > The Left is infested with pedophiles - they promote the welfare state and feminism in order to get protective fathers out of the home, so they have ea
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by IkmoIkmo 6y ago
I mean, the apple pencil can be a nice touch which apparently isn't compatible with the 2. But mostly it's just a more pronounced form-factor of what the iPad is all about, in particular in comparison to an iPhone. The bezel to bo
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by IkmoIkmo 6y ago
Acting on racial stereotypes (e.g. by treating someone as the superior or subordinate because of racially based assumptions) is indeed racist. It means your behaviour is informed by racial profiling of an individual. It means that you'
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by IkmoIkmo 6y ago
I do not recall the metro warning signs in France. I do remember them in Japan. It's because the Japanese ones were funny and draw you in to a story. You could have the following without the pictures: https://pradt.co/i
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by IkmoIkmo 6y ago
Ah, like the sentence right before that which stated they were pirates? You think I referred to north africa holding power from its pirating entities as some kind of Disney movie piracy? Anyone who has any sense of piracy in a historical co
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by IkmoIkmo 6y ago
Sounds like an easy fix (e.g. stop depletion at 35%). And this could depend on the user as well. I live in the middle of the city, I really couldn't care less if my car ran out of miles in terms of an emergency situation, perhaps I&#x2
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by IkmoIkmo 6y ago
My understanding is quite different... north africa flourished for hundreds of years after the Arab conquest, particularly during the time of Andalusia which lasted almost 700 years. Even after, North Africa held quite some power from its p
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by IkmoIkmo 6y ago
thank you!
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by IkmoIkmo 6y ago
We've got literally record-levels of unemployment, and things are worsening still. There's no reason to believe that this has no impact on earnings. This isn't reflected in the Q1 figures, and even not fully in the Q2 figures
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by IkmoIkmo 6y ago
Would be cool if someone built a simple S&P500 or All-world stock index, expressed in gold instead of USD, or expressed in a weighted basket of all currency index. This may give a better representation of the stock market value, correct
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by IkmoIkmo 6y ago
This is a bit misleading. The urban population of sweden sits at 85%, the UK at 83%. Yes there's lots of space in Sweden, and it's also true that barely anyone lives there. I'm still hoping some researcher will publish a data
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by IkmoIkmo 6y ago
Well, yes... Assuming the mortality figure of 1-2% is correct, no lockdowns would lead to a few billion infections worldwide, which would lead to 50-100 million dead. This is roughly what world war II caused in the span of 5 years or so of
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by IkmoIkmo 6y ago
I added some extra details and nuance if you're interested. Very unfortunate to see you imply I'm presenting the facts about the UK because of my political leaning and why my contribution to the discussion must thereby be biased,
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by IkmoIkmo 6y ago
It's the country with the highest absolute number of excess death, and the 2nd highest (61%) after Belgium (66%) of relative excess death. And that's while lagging behind Belgium, which had a daily number of infection reported the
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by IkmoIkmo 6y ago
Not sure how you define not out of proportion. Look at the FT or NYT international comparative excess death studies. Excess death is definitely in the top 3 and looks to be nr 1 in all of Europe's 30-50 countries. And this is despite h
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by IkmoIkmo 6y ago
I still can't believe the prime minister said he would not stop shaking hands as all medical experts in the greatest global and UK health crisis in a century say it's literally step number one... and then he actually gets infected
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by IkmoIkmo 6y ago
Noise: In an open-office there's always going to be someone on a business or team call. Always some colleague having smalltalk with another. Always a phone ringing, a person yawning, someone's text notification buzzing on a table,
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by IkmoIkmo 6y ago
> not getting access to hospital resources is much lower than expected I don't know how you can say 'lower than expected'. Many interventions were non-medical, depending on social behaviour (e.g. adhering to social distanc
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by IkmoIkmo 6y ago
Yeah I've noticed this as well. For me, it's zero. For a colleague of mine, 6 friends/family died. What I'm very curious about is the impact of super-spreader events. There's some indication that say 10% of activiti
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by IkmoIkmo 6y ago
Is it also not the case that if you're not looking for work, but do not have a job, that you're not counted as unemployed? You're simply not part of the labour force, despite perhaps being willing and able to work in more fav

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