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by chumali 8y ago
Acceptance of Amex stands at just over a third of retailers UK wide. For London it is more like 50-60%. Source: used to work as a CC payments analyst.
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by chumali 8y ago
I think you might have misunderstood. JPM will not create a market for the coin or use it for lending. The coin will be 100% backed by deposits in client accounts and used to facilitate instantaneous transfers between clients in order to re
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by chumali 8y ago
You set up a false equivalence by equating monopolisation with outright coercion when in fact there are multiple types of soft and hard market power that define the degree to which a company has a monopoly in a given market (network effects
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by chumali 8y ago
> If you don't like the App store don't buy Apple products. The main issue with the App store (in terms of antitrust) isn't one of consumer choice but rather of taking advantage of network effects to enable rent seeking be
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by chumali 8y ago
It's all well and good saying he was wrong but the principles he outlines have been largely vindicated by the market. Many things worked fine 30 years ago and yet have been immeasurably improved since - it's a tempting argument to
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by chumali 8y ago
The question was what makes it immoral, not what makes it illegal.
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by chumali 8y ago
This is the same argument leveled against sweatshops and it is frankly a fallacious one. It proposes a false dichotomy where the worker has to either be in well paying and fulfilling employment (which obviously is not an option given their
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by chumali 8y ago
I'm not convinced that more academic information will benefit anyone other than the most fastidious individuals (a minority unlikely to ever participate in recreational use). The majority of use is recreational and rarely entails the k
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by chumali 8y ago
This is effectively a restatement of Pascal's Wager and therefore suffers from the same problems as the original formulation. The promise of a blissful afterlife is an insufficient basis for a morally authentic life, and the individual
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by chumali 8y ago
Might be worth checking out ReviewMeta - it scans Amazon product reviews for unnatural review patterns and provides a report highlighting suspicious activity. They also offer a browser extension.
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by chumali 8y ago
AFAIK you can still access third party app repositories such as AppValley or TweakBox on iOS without jailbreaking (you have to install/trust their configuration profiles however).
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by chumali 8y ago
This completely ignores the fact that climate change is not local problem, as well as the difficulty that has preceded all previous attempts at multilateral action. Good luck convincing the manfucaturing lobby that they should have to pay a
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by chumali 8y ago
>But even without that, the cost of green energy is going down every year. The moment—which might be forthcoming in a few years—when owning a fossil fuel vehicle becomes an exorbitant deal, people will switch in droves. This is one case
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by chumali 9y ago
Actually, both capital and labour shares of output have seen a relative decline at the expense of profits. [1] Conventional theory suggests this would occur under conditions of increasing market power. Most of the symptoms of this (of which
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by chumali 9y ago
> "It means they are holding $2000 of your money. And if you send it to another bank then it means they send it to them and now the other bank is holding your $2000. Nothing hard about that." This isn't even close to how m
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by chumali 9y ago
It is because of nationalist propaganda such as this that the 'conflict' will never die. Despite all the blood that has been shed in pursuit of Greater Serbia (Balkan wars, WWI, Yugoslav Wars) people like you continue to push thei
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by chumali 9y ago
From a game theory perspective the aim of the administration is going to be to make the threat of instant retaliation seem credible to any outside observer therefore preserving the effectiveness of nuclear weapons as a deterrent. In practic
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by chumali 9y ago
Blur by Abine offers a similar service, it includes a password manager and the ability to mask phone and card details on the premium version. Generated email addresses can be managed on the site or through the mobile app.
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by chumali 9y ago
There is currently no legal requirement for UK ISPs to enable content filtering however all the major ISPs have agreed to voluntarily implement this. Whilst in theory users have an option to 'opt out' in practice most users are un
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by chumali 10y ago
If the amount you receive is inversely proportional to how much you earn then this effectively creates a marginal tax on earnings, therefore creating a disincentive to seek further employment for fear of losing existing benefits. This is on
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by chumali 10y ago
Didn't this already happen? https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.06230
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by chumali 10y ago
Assuming export volumes fall - which is the likely scenario - then we should see Sterling fall relative to the Dollar. This is not considering any external pressures on Sterling however.