IkmoIkmo

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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
Agreed. In fact, I think I'll mind it less. On my iPhone the only time it looks funny is in landscape, otherwise it just sits in the top-bar. On a laptop that isn't an issue. I think for me it'll fade away, especially with a
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
same: search results with advertisements (zoekresultaten met reclame)
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
No, it just matters if countries are willing to implement consequences for non-membership. And that's frankly a pretty trivial thing from a political and technical perspective, so I'm assuming it'll come. Various countries al
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
I mean, VAT is not a tax on revenue, it's a tax on added value. In essence it's a form of profit taxing already. If you buy $10 of flower (including VAT) and turn it into $15 of bread (including VAT), you effectively only pay valu
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
Not sure I'm a fan. Certainly very interesting and I'm happy to see a significant country run the experiment, it's going to be a useful data point. But at the end of the day, what does it solve? And what does it leave unsolve
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
It's not about replacing forest with cows. It's about replacing forest with cow-feed. 1% of US cows are grass-finished, the rest eat grain. These grain-eating cows may be located in a place that has grass, couldn't be forest,
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
Yes it'll be helpful for you and your clients, until everyone does it, at which point hand-written becomes meaningless. At that point it's both no longer helpful for you to drive commercial results, but also it means anyone who wa
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
> The dogmatism of putting all women to work for the last 50 years. > The problem of childcare cost is unsolvable with women at work, it's as simple as that. What kind of nonsense is this? One in six women never go on to have chi
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
> The housing market is complex, but one point I would like to make, is that if there is now a (global?) opportunity to borrow capital, buy houses on a mass scale and rent them out, that implies to me that there is a failure in mortgage
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
Edit for correction: I should've said "As long as you're transparant about not giving equity*" instead of "not selling"
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
Whether they promised to sell, or not sell, either way, they never promised equity. Not promising equity if you never sell can be a sensible decision, because otherwise you create expectations of a cash-out that never comes. Not promising e
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
Pretty sure that was SwingVision, an app based on real-time video analysis of your swing, rather than the hardware on your watch. The watch is just a screen to relay feedback to the user. https://swing.tennis/
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
Damage wise it’s really hard to say. I personally feel I used to have quite a good memory, able to remember things I was told without being interested. Now I feel my memory is sharp with those items I find important to remember, but details
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
Was this another close call major issue indicating a new pattern, or was this one of tens of minor incidents that typically happened in Suez and didn't get reported on until Ever Given? Not that the two are necessarily mutually exclusi
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
I think I'd say the same, although it's hard to say if it was 'the greatest experience' (and what that means) or just 'pure bliss' due to the drugs. I've got a bit of a love/hate relationship with MDM
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
It must also be noted that the vast majority of these deals aren't homes on the market for locals, they're existing investor real estate. Sometimes you see articles stating '25% of all homes last year were bought by investors
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
It does just move supply/demand around, that's the waterbed effect. If you remove buy-to-let investors, then buying a home becomes easier, but not necessarily any cheaper, because the rental supply (from buy-to-let) drops and ther
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
We're talking about rich people occupying social homes intended for the poorest people. However bad it may be for 'medium-rich' people, it's much worse for poor. Any extreme outcome (like living on the streets) would hav
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
Our social housing stock is already intended to be mixed (although the balance is often not great). You'll often find social and non-social housing units in the same apartment building, and definitely in every neighbourhood there will
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
> Show your sources. I've read the exact opposite of what you claim. For example: https://www.kadaster.nl/documents/1953498/3407456/Onderzoek+... Happy to read your sources as well. > The CIA even
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
So the study you referenced was ordered by the Minister of the Interior, and it's been the most heavily cited study in the past few years. If you read it, you'll find it explicitly states they could not establish a causal relation
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
No, that's not the claim. There's waterbed effects. Buy-to-let is done for the purpose of renting. If you take that rental supply away, rental prices go up, and demand for homes go up. Taking away buy-to-let demand thereby creates
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
Well, I'm sure this is true for every industry. Nonetheless, in the Netherlands the law is 30 days per year max, that law has been around for years, and penalties are heavy. The Amsterdam municipality is laserfocussed on enforcement (w
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
Not 50% anymore, the max deductible rate is now 43% and in 2023 it'll be 37% at which point there won't be anymore scheduled reductions. (but I'd be surprised if further reductions won't be announced the coming years). I
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
I don't see the contradiction, could you explain?
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
> All the apartments in and around me are all the time rented out as airbnb. During peak of pandemic, it was pretty much a ghost town. What you mention around Airbnb shouldn't be addressed through a buy-to-let ban, but an airbnb or
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
Making use of any scarce resource intended for the poor, while you're rich, because it's so scarce, is beyond backwards... I have trouble being generous and playing devil's advocate because I simply can't see the argumen
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
I agree that evictions is an extreme measure and to be used as a last resort. I think it should be part of the policy instruments to be used, under the right circumstances. e.g. if you make 1.5x the wage that would give you a right to a soc
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
No. For homes purchased after January 1st, you can still get a license to temporary rent out the home. But you'll need to have lived in the home yourself for at least 1 year. Temporary rentals can be done for 2 years at the moment, and
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
> And people who currently own multiple houses that were not meant to be rented out (but are rented out to other people) would need, by law, to either sell those properties (the current renter should get the first option on the house&#x2

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