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6y ago
Why a car though? I understand Apple are all about the mobile now, but a car? I suspect it isnt a car, but maybe some sort of information or auto navigation intergrations.
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6y ago
Adele, the singer, was photographed at the Nottinghill Carnival (a massive Carribean street festival over the August bank holiday in London) with her hair in Bantu Knots and wearing a bikini top in the colours of the Jamaican flag. As soon
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6y ago
However the first non-white chancellor in the Uk, before Rishi Sunak was Sajid Javid, a Pakistani, as is the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. But wouldn’t it be fair to say the most successful Indians in the Uk come from higher castes? How succ
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6y ago
It’s the same a catholic and Protestant.
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6y ago
I love listening to another Countries radio or watching their television. It just so interesting watching their commercials or listening to their local news and events. One of my favourite things to do is ask my google home to stream random
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6y ago
For all it’s faults, and let’s be honest it has a fair few, the USA is still massively better than China. Even with trump in charge.
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6y ago
I feel desperately sad and worried for the people of Hong Kong, and I’m hoping we do the right thing by its citizens and give them an escape path to the west. Having seen what happens to the Uighurs, the concentration camps, torture, forced
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6y ago
They said that the City would be finished if the UK didnt join the Euro, it never happened and the city actually became more powerful. Recreating a global financial centre like the the City isnt a matter of just moving to another location i
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6y ago
The EU doesnt need the departure of the UK to face an existential crisis, they faced their biggest test with the Pandemic and failed miserably.
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6y ago
Threatend by what? I cant recall NATO invading or annexing the territory of a sovreign nation. Russian on the other hand, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovkia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Georgia to name but a few European nations that have felt
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6y ago
As always with failures like this, it was the answer to a question no one asked.
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6y ago
I think the latter reason is correct. If it were an important generator of business they would never leave. Its clearly not as valuable to them as maybe Facebook thinks it is.
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6y ago
So you're confirming that colour was the only justification to detain him?
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6y ago
So the only cause they had to detain him was that he was the wrong colour. Reminds me of that that scene in Family Guy with the colour chart.
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6y ago
Which was the right strategy in the circumstances. How much of that capacity was used in the event. How many nightingale hospitals were at full capacity. You say 60000 deaths, based on what evidence, because at the moment we don’t know how
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6y ago
They wanted herd immunity, but they couldn’t do it during flu season, so they went for flattening the curve which they succeeded with. Now flu seasons over they’ve got the capacity to deal with a surge in cases so they’re easing lockdown, t
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6y ago
No, I dont think he's overated at all. See the article linked. https://www.barrons.com/articles/berkshire-hathaways-investi...
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6y ago
The banks or debt holders dont necessarily want to become shareholders. It the most junior type of debt, and they're reliant on the company recovering, which may not happen. They could be left holding shares for years before it makes a
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6y ago
Real interest rate are ususally defined as Nominal Rate-Inflation, so with inflation at virtually zero, the real rate is 10% for them. To be 35% we would need deflation of roughly that much. Though a 10% real rate is bad enough.
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6y ago
Is this a buy signal for some of these travel or travel related companies I wonder? I can see them having a issue with cashflow now, but its not always going to be like this, people will need rental cars, maybe not as many, but they will ne
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6y ago
Whne you accept VC money they will expect, demand results, they dont care about the consequences to you or your staff, they want a return on their money. Your're making a deal with the devil, but in return what are you really expecting
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6y ago
They're testing app on the Isle of Wight now, we'll soon see how effective it is. If it doesnt work, then I'm assuming they'll fall back to the Apple/Google option?
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8y ago
Yes, that comment was a not well timed at all.
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9y ago
I suspect that certain areas such as Finance might have an exemption from that rule.
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9y ago
A rather bitter article,let's not forget the last time prices crashed was after the banking crisis 10 years ago, and then subsequently recovered all their losses and went up some more. The fundamental reason for high prices in London i
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9y ago
90 minute help video, that was enough to put me off.
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9y ago
Why is it bizarre, its passionate, its enthusiastic, its physiscal, its brutal. A violent ballet with operatic storyline. Bizarre? No.
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9y ago
They're not stupid, surely they must know that constant change and fragmentation of their products just weakens thier offer to the consumer? Whats their gameplan? Are they just throwing as much as they can against the wall to see what
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9y ago
I'd like to think that medical professionals and academics in the mental health field have probably been thorough enough in their research to have looked at these finding over the years. I somehow doubt a person whose graduated in Soci
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9y ago
If a system is good at predicting prices and makes you money, why sell it to others. It would be worth millions. The quant hedgefunds spend millions developing "black boxes" to carry out trades and guard the secrets within like it
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