IkmoIkmo

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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
Great points, although I would want to add a bit of nuance from my personal experience. One thing that often gets overlooked in pricing is depreciation. Flagship models tend to keep their value quite well, whereas budget models depreciate t
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I'm wondering... does this mean that the Pro has more battery life again than the XR, or now roughly equal? Xr had about 2-3 hours more than the Xs I think. But the Pro now leaps by 4 vs Xs, and the 11 leaps by 1 vs Xr... So it should
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
> FWIW, there are other people in the world beside you. And they have different needs and desires. Which everyone supports, if there was a reasonably priced 128gb option for the Pro, the complaint wouldn't be as strong. But there is
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
What? the 2017 iPhone was the first with 64gb base storage as far as I know. 2 years later, it's still the base. Disappointing but not so crazy, especially with the cloud option. A decade ago we had the 2009 iPhone (3GS) with 8gb base
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
> Theres also a crazy amount of enterprise purchases who dont care about storage. Agreed, but that's what iPhone 11 is for... There's virtually no commercial reason for 95% of enterprise users to have a Pro version. A Pro versi
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
Seems pretty clear to me? Flying is bad for the environment, spectacularly so. The alternative is not necessarily: flying without burning fuel. But rather: not flying. And that isn't that big of a problem. We have many alternatives to
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
Absolutely. https://www.statista.com/chart/15738/the-contribution-of-sel... https://qz.com/753244/berlin-is-the-only-capital-city-in-eur... Berlin is quite a unique capital in that it's
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
Not sure, in my city (capital in western Europe) we have similar laws, both for division and mergers. They're built to protect the housing stock. Family homes can't be split up because it incentivises landlords to create many smal
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
It's a bit like removing busstops as a municipality, in favour of car lanes. If you know that busses are used 4x as much by a low socioeconomic class compared to say an upper class, and vice versa for cars, then a law preventing the el
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
It's not like they launched a game like flappy bird that was a one-month hype and died out after, where launch-month revenue is not indicative of annual revenue. They released it, then iterated on it for 1.5 years, at the end of which
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
I think that's fine. What's not fine is removing the app itself from the app store as it was generating $45k a year, the same week of releasing its competing app. Either you remove it because it's against the TOS, anytime in
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
Millennials are typically defined as an age-cohort. So yes, you could apply that term to denote a certain generation of Africans, no problem. It may not be useful or confusing, but there's technically nothing wrong with it. One of the
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
Typically, no. It's been shown time and time again that people cannot reliably time the market. If they could, with leverage you could become the richest person on the planet in a short time. You have to understand that if indeed peopl
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
Unforgiveable doesn't mean it'll be paid back. If someone goes bankrupt and can't forgive a loan, it's more likely that they'll continue to miss interest payments while also never paying back the principal, which ju
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
Just cause of collateral. You can impound a car, foreclose on a mortgage, sell it and get back much or most of your money, which is why rates can be a lot lower. You can't compound on a college dropouts partial knowledge. And given the
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
Not just that, but educational attainment in general, demographic changes, economic changes etc. We've shifted from a population that does not die old, starts working early, stops education early, and does most of its work in the prima
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
Indeed. My story isn't entirely comparable as I didn't do it as an independent. This was indeed billed as an employee of a fin/legal company with offices in ~100 countries. For some background info for the person you're
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
I'd mostly disagree. If you have an extremely high-margin service, e.g. perform bill $10k of work for $100 of salary, there's absolutely no incentive to automate things on the seller's side. It essentially means hiring someon
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
I've got similar experiences working for corporate clients, but it was legal work, not tech stuff. It was a bit more complex than the equivalent of a static HTML, but something that anyone with an IQ of > 90 could learn in less than
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
I mean, I get why there's a discrepancy. But 17/223 is 6% vs 94%. Let's be frank here, the European Union alone has a GDP similar to the US (both around $19-20 trillion), the population is about 50% larger, with a very substa
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
I'd say there's a strong correlation between willingness-to-pay for Pinterest and being a power user on Pinterest. As such, chances are, you're a power-user, and you (or at least your power-user peers) are generating way abov
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Yeah I run into a similar story here, small modern units aren't necessarily cheaper, unfortunately. Normally you'd expect this to generate a lot of turnover because there's a decent chance you can find a better deal on a $&#x
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
You realise you're talking about building regulations that already exist? I take it then, you're of the opinion we should have no regulations at all?
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Replace 'luxury' by 'standards', among which size, but also fire hazard standards, noise standards, pollution, accessibility, height etc, and you can see why it's silly to take this libertarian idea to the extreme.
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Yeah 9m2 is pretty crazy... If you ask me, I'd be a proponent of limiting to above 15m2 units with shared spaces, and possibly age-limited. In the Netherlands we have homes which are for youth only, can only rent them until age 27. I t
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Hah, the go-to video for everyone to start with! Did anyone else think they'd make a good couple? Anyway, I wish we'd finally agree as a community to use one word for one thing, but not the other. i.e., small homes: just small hom
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Well I've got some friends who inherited about 300k. In my country the rental yields are about 6% and interest rates on commercial loans about 3.5%, and you can get commercial loans financed to about 70%. In other words, with 300k down
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Two explanations for that. 1) is life expectancy. Suppose the average life expectancy is 40, and every two people have two children at age 20. Population would be stable. However, suppose nothing changes about fertility rates or replacement
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
As discussed in this thread, they delivered 1 year of pre-orders in a single month, thereby topping the charts. It remains to be seen what sales figures will be like the next few months. This may just be another case of bad statistics.
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Duh... Any exchange can pretend it's a large reputable player by showing fake volume, it has nothing to do with blockchains. Further, any with a substantial amount of bitcoin, e.g. $1m, who might gain from their assets having a reputat

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