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by asldjajlfkj 4y ago
It’s not! Currency fluctuations don’t allow for global trade. That’s why after WW2, the Bretton-Woods system was established with fixed exchange rates. After that came to its end, Europe created a new system. Rates were not pegged to gold
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by asldjajlfkj 4y ago
Electronic voting is a bad idea. Almost no upside, but lot of downside. Nobody can proof that the system works, nobody can keep it secure (noone cares about estionian elections, imagine the US...), nobody can proof authenticity in retrospec
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by asldjajlfkj 4y ago
For totally fungible assets (e.g. stocks) that’s true. Not so much for gas, where it is sold and bought with a regional restriction. Exchange rates are transparent to the market situation.
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by asldjajlfkj 4y ago
Day to day? Not at all. Everything is denoted in EUR anyway and imports are hedged. Oil and gas are expensive, but the strong dollar isn’t the main factor.
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by asldjajlfkj 4y ago
Recognize that energy and utilities have both real value and real costs and discard the initial assumption.
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by asldjajlfkj 4y ago
On the contrary! Almost all books you buy are printed with ink. Companies buy ink for offset printing in bulk anyway and can use the same for jet printing. Ink is cheaper, faster and can achieve better quality, especially when color is in
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by asldjajlfkj 4y ago
There was some communication (forum,discord) that this would change in the future. Apparently the plan was or is to hide the IP from pages on Cloudflare as well. But no idea if that’s implemented yet.
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by asldjajlfkj 4y ago
I can recommend the app ColdTurkey, if you use Mac or Windows. You can block sites permanently, in blocks or give yourself an allowance. It’s a lot tougher than /etc/hosts: Disabling it during a locked block is very hard. That’s p
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by asldjajlfkj 4y ago
I do use a smartphone, for calls, chats, camera, navigation and sometimes music. But I deactivated Safari and uninstalled all other distracting apps. I lived a few years without one, but it was hard to keep up with friends and so many compa
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by asldjajlfkj 4y ago
Statement from Meta: Nothing in the valid warrants we received from local law enforcement in early June, prior to the Supreme Court decision, mentioned abortion. The warrants concerned charges related to a criminal investigation and court d
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by asldjajlfkj 4y ago
European stockbrokers may not lend out your shares. I don’t think US brokers do that either. Where are you from?
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by asldjajlfkj 4y ago
He may sound arrogant, but he’s not wrong. I imagine the difference in standard deviations is a good metric for cognitive distance. Mentally retarded people (-2) to ordinary people (0) are like normal people to gifted people (+2). And if ha
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by asldjajlfkj 4y ago
I think Spiegel and Telegram use different definitions of "user data" here: Telegram says with the E2E chats they had no data to share, but that only refers to the content of the chats, obviously not the IP address or the linked p
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by asldjajlfkj 4y ago
The growth of the internet may well compensate the decreased pricing of compute. Hosting Google of 1999 is much much cheaper now. But hosting contemporary Google ist much much more expensive than hosting Google of 1999 in 1999.
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by asldjajlfkj 4y ago
There are cities, rivers, companies, people named Massa in Europe. A people and it’s language in Africa. A unit in India… even in medicine: Massa lateralis. Using a TikTok trend in the US for taking offense is… petty?
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by asldjajlfkj 4y ago
Loved it! Some chapters are sadly outdated by now, more than 20 years are a lot in this space :/
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by asldjajlfkj 4y ago
No. A "Privatverkauf" is tax free after one year. If you sell before that it is taxed as income. Crypto is never taxed as capital gains in Germany.
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by asldjajlfkj 5y ago
No it hasn’t, it never will, und you reveal yourself as an illiterate if you write that way. The exception may be „Eigennamen“, but only because strictly speaking there are no orthographic rules for them. Lebensversicherungsgesellschaft is