IkmoIkmo

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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
1) Agreed. None of this increases the total housing stock, perhaps even lowers it. Limiting renting may reduce demand from investors, reduce prices below the rate you'd find in a market without rent-restrictions, and thereby reduce the
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
It must be noted that this applies only to new homes, which are sold, temporarily. Amsterdam builds around 5k homes a year (or about 1% of total stock). Of those 5k, about 40% are sold, 40% are rented to as social housing, the rest rented a
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Yes it's problematic in the sense that studio apartments typically go for €250k, whereas the median salary lets you borrow around €180k, and prices rose 10% last year, i.e. at a median salary even with 100% savings rate of net income,
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Paying journalists to research and report the truth...
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Of course, I always do, too. Funny thing is that some of this stuff wouldn't be worth watching at 1x, but are worth watching on 2.5x. For example I really enjoy watching replays of strategical games, but much of it is frankly quite bor
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
I'd very much consider speeding up your videos. I watch things like educational videos, interviews, news videos etc mostly on 2x. Movies I often watch on 1.5x, not always but typically at least 1.3x. Sometimes I go up to 2.5x or 3x whe
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Because it's a non-negative return Because the ECB had negative rates for a while, i.e. some parties had to pay to hold cash. And lastly, because economic developments which don't affect cash, may affect bonds. i.e. if the interes
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
> they can do it, regardless of the quality of the content itself. Yes they can do it but, not without consequences. I thought Bird Box was pretty lame and given a dozen experiences like these, it'd completely destroy their reputati
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
So there's a strong correlation with being female and being a sex worker, as opposed to male. Now replace the correlation with other undesirable traits, like being a thief and having a certain skin colour. Do you still call that a &#x2
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
As I understand it, we are not required to incriminate ourselves. e.g. we can not be told or forced to confess, similarly we cannot be told to open a lock. In fact, there is no way to determine wether you indeed do know (or remember), or do
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Cue the guy assumingg weak performance in China is solely due to macroeconomic and trade issues, and not, say, due to Apple making an uncompetitive value offer with its products in a major market, where some (not all) competitors do fine or
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
People from Denmark are Danish, people from the Netherlands are Dutch :)
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
> Almost nobody ACTUALLY want to pay more in taxes. That's a silly conclusion. I'll gladly vote for a policy measure that benefits a group of people at the expense of a group of people among which I find myself. But I won'
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
I mean, there's several answers to this. The most fundamental one is this: capital is mobile, people are not. If you increase taxes on capital, it will flow to a lower-tax jurisdiction relatively quickly. A decent legal system and fin
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
What the hell is Greater China... Odd context to use as a company when better alternatives (that are less politically charged) are available. Very strange to see such an appeasement term being used.
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
They should rename this improved in the last 20-30y, as shown by graphs with a y axis that starts and ends on the first and last datapoint. It's a nice article but as so often, a misleading title and suggestive charting choices. Hopefu
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Hah, throughout the article I kept thinking: this guy probably just read Jacob Solls book, it's basically a brief summary. Of course, he ends up signing the article haha. I enjoyed his perspective but I can't help but wonder what
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Yeah honestly I don't get it either. So many simple things like for example, quickly opening 8 hackernews links on the front page in a new tab for future reading takes me about 5 seconds. On an iPad you'd have to long-press and op
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
None of what you said explains why you would want to change names every couple months. That would tell you changing names is trivial, commonplace, cheap, frequent. In other words, you can advertise virtually any generic name you do not own
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
No that's not what shelf companies are attractive for. It's all about age and quick access to an incorporated entity, the name barely matters and can easily be changed on request. Advertising or testing names by using a public com
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Because that's how embargoes work? They impact not only goods, but also services. The US has one on Iran. And as Slack is a US company (or rather, a company which has an interest of maintaining operations in the US, regardless of where
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
It's a census, so they're taking a sample. I would assume that 75% of counties had statistical outcomes that weren't statistically significantly different from the previous measurement. Consider if you sample the same county
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Put it all in a mix of a worldwide stock and bond index, look up the suggested distribution fitting youe age, probably like 60/40, then take a supet conservative take on the trinity study which suggests a 4% safe withdrawal rate and ma
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
I don't really get it. Reddit can do porn and has an iOS app. A blanket ban just doesn't seem necessary, especially if it's a large part of your community and technically Tumblr isn't a particularly novel product in 2018
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
I don't know, I've heard him come up so many times now but it never really checks out. For one I sort of put him in the category of Jesus Christ... yes he existed, was a wise person and had a great following, but he didn't wa
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
He's in the very first sentence of my post...
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
I mean... sure... but then, Mayweather is one of a handful of people who's ever grossed more than $1b in personal earnings, together with Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods. And some boxers have done terrifically financially outside of box
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Behavioral economics, in short. It's the reason why people rent a $1k TV that lasts for 10 years at $50 (5%) a month ($6k spent) or pay 2% a month on a creditcard. We tend to overlook the small amounts and get slapped in the face by th
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
That's just nonsense, you can't. Feel free to add a source that is transparent about all non-fuel costs. There's tons of false advertising, e.g. rent a car for 1 euro a day (service charge), but also pay a maintenance charge,
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Plus I don't really see why a crazy-spec SSD is really key here. It's not going to be the bottleneck for most use cases in a Mac Mini that has an integrated graphics card (at $2.5k...) A regular SSD would do.

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