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by dia80 5y ago
By "fill their pockets" I mean actively engage in political corruption. The royal families relatively static wealth makes little difference in the grand scheme. The £85m figure from the crown estate mentioned in this article is 0.
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by dia80 5y ago
How would you say democracy has been performing lately in the English speaking world? Yes, the royal family is wealthy by birth but it's a tiny fraction of national wealth and the country gets something in return e.g. stability, some s
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by dia80 5y ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
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by dia80 5y ago
Wouldn't it be funny if it were established no one had any free will, in a strict sense, all along. We'd still feel like we had it but know that we didn't. From this layman's emotional point of view I never really liked
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by dia80 6y ago
Deflation. The price of the burger in BTC has largely been falling. Why spend your appreciating* bitcoins when they will bu worth more tomorrow. If the price is stable this effect goes away and you might as well spend them. * Who knows if t
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by dia80 6y ago
The postal system runs on post codes. It's a 5-8 letter code that usually identifies 1-20 ish addresses. You usually only need a door number and and a postcode to uniquely identify an address. There is free reverse look up as well.
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by dia80 6y ago
I'm enjoying 900Mb symmetric from G-network for 48GBP / month. It's been pretty good so far although I wonder if it'll get slow as more people join.
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by dia80 6y ago
Rather error prone but it was starboard & larboard before the Royal Navy changed larboard to port. Although larboard related to loading so your reasoning was correct.
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by dia80 6y ago
The opinions on consultants in the thread is largely negative and it's suggested hiring them is a sign of organisational dysfunction. If you can find information on consulting spend in annual reports you could create a "consultant
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by dia80 6y ago
I think Color Labs was close. While I'm sure they shared a plan with VCs I remember a lot or surprise that they had raised so much cash pre-launch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Labs
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by dia80 6y ago
Seemed to take a surprisingly long time. Let's hope the time had been well spent planning the roll out.
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by dia80 6y ago
Enjoying my moonlander [1] which I bought after reading about it on HN. I went the whole hog and switched to a colemak variant as well. Typing speed is still far from my peak but feel I'm on track to a longer term pay off. The configu
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by dia80 6y ago
Lots of criticism of various points in TFA here. I really need to make a senior hire. Where can I learn to do it right?
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by dia80 6y ago
Can anyone comment on the authors book? https://www.holloway.com/g/technical-recruiting-hiring/about
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by dia80 6y ago
This is fantastic but I think you need more detail on the toilets. Just because it lacks one of the features you list doesn't mean it's useless. There are relatively few accessible places in London so you can't be too choosey
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by dia80 6y ago
I'm up to about 30 hours of general anesthesia after a near fatal snowboarding accident left me with a spinal cord injury. I like to think how smart I'd be if I hadn't needed it!
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by dia80 6y ago
I used to work with a bit of a "geezer". He would use what I termed 2nd order rhyming slang. "He got it right in the Aris!" Aris => Aristotle => Bottle => Bottle & glass => Ass
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by dia80 6y ago
In my limited experience these objects are complicated and unintuitive enough that it would be hard to come up with a short simple descriptive name for them. So then you are back to applying an arbitrary label, like a name!
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by dia80 6y ago
In Siena, you walk.
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by dia80 6y ago
I saw the article refers to the Prenda Law saga, I just looked it up and saw the main protagonists had been sent to jail. This line from Wikipedia made me chuckle as sounds like the exactly like a game of the prisoners dilema In 2019, Steel
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by dia80 6y ago
Still waiting for the inflation from the last crisis.... You 100% sure it's coming?
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by dia80 6y ago
Not under the UK definition. Insider trading requires material non-public information. Being in news media means information is now public. However disclosing such information is also an offence. So it's not like you can tweet the info
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by dia80 6y ago
It's a fun personal discovery in mathematics when you realise there are different degrees of infinites.
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by dia80 6y ago
I was in a cellar once with some really old wine and the necks of the bottles were drooping down the way. Any idea why that might be?
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by dia80 6y ago
Just jumping into to say I am loving the article, thanks! I'm dealing with a lot of exps in an optimization problem right now and frankly only have cursory understanding of what's going on under the hood so this was very enlighten
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by dia80 6y ago
Hey, I spent a few hours trying to get those headphones working yesterday. Everytime I selected HFP on Ubuntu 20.04 the selection just went blank. Any tips greatly appreciated! Thanks.
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by dia80 6y ago
My bad, I missed that. Still I don't think your are going to see a meaningful fraction of highly rated CLO tranches default.
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by dia80 6y ago
The "haircut" on risky assets stops you leveraging it too much. I think it's about 5% for US treasury bonds. So for every 100 I want to finance I need to have 5 cash on hand. Itsuch higher for riskier assets and that keeps l
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by dia80 6y ago
Meh, the article doesn't mention recovery rates. If a loan defaults it's not usual you are getting 0 back. Typically 30-40% is the assumed rate. That means if all the loans default then the top 30% of tranches shouldn't take
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by dia80 6y ago
Can someone kindly explain what this is used for?

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