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by hogFeast 5y ago
I grew up in this environment. These people are extraordinarily violent: football hooligans are violent, and English hooligans are notorious throughout Europe (someone was killed during Euro 2020). In the 90s, some grounds were genuinely un
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by hogFeast 5y ago
Yes, there are a number of banned neo-Nazi organizations in the UK. Combat 18 is probably the most well-known (British Movement, White Wolves...there are a few). These groups are offshoots of political parties, as fascist parties started to
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by hogFeast 5y ago
If your business model includes: "we put people in an office in the hopes that their random interactions will create value"...then that sounds like the problem is something else. Random encounters that create value sound good. It
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by hogFeast 5y ago
The reduction in choice happened at the start of Covid.
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by hogFeast 5y ago
They have a huge database product (kdb). The company that owns Kx is a billion dollar company. It really isn't clear to me why they do what they do (not just with regards to the language). They have a large consulting business (q/
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by hogFeast 5y ago
Not sure I want to respond to someone who suggests that only people who read the Guardian care about child rape. classy But yes, take the moral high ground...you are showing everyone how smart you are.
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by hogFeast 5y ago
They pay more for non-distribution jobs. You, usually, have to pay thousands to train on an HGV, it requires substantial time and training, and it is relatively stressful job...and you can make more working in Tesco stacking shelves. You ma
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by hogFeast 5y ago
Okay, and how do you explain the fact that the statistics don't bear this out? The North East has the second-lowest proportion of young people attending university in England. Everything that I said is also based on data. There are sta
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by hogFeast 5y ago
That isn't an option in this part of the UK. There are almost no jobs. And the schools there are not good (and university isn't really an option for these people anyway, even if you get the grades). It also isn't easy to move
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by hogFeast 5y ago
So the author went to Middlesbrough, saw the total deprivation everywhere, and thought...these people just need financial literacy lessons? I accept the micro point that people in these situations make bad financial choices but the reason t
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by hogFeast 5y ago
I actually can't remember the details. I believe we were talking about Babel...so, technically, a transpiler. Or it actually could have been one of those code bundlers (I seem to remember they were using browserify...this was a while a
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by hogFeast 5y ago
That makes no sense because, presumably, the alternative is to have no-one. If you don't hire someone because you are worried about the team, you don't need to hire anyone (this risk is, also, not avoidable anyway...if your produc
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by hogFeast 5y ago
I have heard that Bezos, Brin, and Ellison have a Spades group together. Huge lessons for business strategy.
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by hogFeast 5y ago
I interviewed for a front-end dev position (it was my first ever interview in the industry, I vomited before I got there so it was a pretty crazy day). I come in. The front-end guy starts asking me questions to try and solve something he is
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by hogFeast 5y ago
This is something that I have never quite understood. In most of the places where software engineering is big, you have very loose labour laws. But companies treat hiring as if employees are signing on for life (compare this to how they tre
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by hogFeast 5y ago
I agree with the thrust of the article. Most personal finance experts are...a bit weird (I have no idea why Tony Robins is an expert...he knows literally nothing, isn't he a motivational speaker...only in America could this be a job).
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by hogFeast 5y ago
Yep, there were free-trade laws to protect independent grocers and the chain department stores set up in suburban areas which took away business from independent inner-city department stores (typically family-owned). Interestingly, I think
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by hogFeast 5y ago
That BHS in Edinburgh has been converted (I have heard, I live near Edinburgh and haven't been into the city centre for about ten years) into a mini golf, pool, bowling, etc. place...that only takes up the basement. I remember walking
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by hogFeast 5y ago
> My council claim it's a source of revenue, but then moan that they own the shops in the town This is widespread. A lot of councils (when they were complaining about central govt cuts, and threatening to cut vital services) actuall
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by hogFeast 5y ago
The US went through exactly the same phase after WW2: suburbanization, increase in car transport led to the death of single-location department stores which were concentrated in the city centre. This didn't occur in the UK because of b
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by hogFeast 5y ago
Ah, that makes sense. So it is any decline in equity assets through which the rate of selling is faster than the decline in the underlying assets (presumably...if the rate of selling was slower then the ratio would be less than 50%?). I sti
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by hogFeast 5y ago
There is always going to be some timing strategy which beats holding. If we flip this and imagine that everyone knew with certainty what the underlying values (earnings, dividends, etc.) should be then the return on stocks would always just
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by hogFeast 5y ago
I thought I understood briefly...I don't anymore. I think the part that is confusing is the 50% part...50% of what? But I am right in saying that the drop in assets has to be at least 90%?
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by hogFeast 5y ago
What timing? There are plenty of market timing strategies that will beat holding (the market is more volatile than underlying values so this is a natural certainty)...but it depends what you mean by timing. Most of the conventional things t
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by hogFeast 5y ago
They are also selecting for 90% drops in equity (why 90%? what were the results when different numbers were selected?). In these cases, someone has lost most of their net worth and so they may find the rest of their assets are being liquida
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by hogFeast 5y ago
Ah yes, that is quite a problem. I would consider carefully if it is really worth it for you. Making tables responsive is utterly hellish. But what you can do is make the table horizontally scrollable. This isn't too complex but, of co
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by hogFeast 5y ago
Very nice. I am running a similar site, and I wonder whether it isn't a bit overwhelming to have all the bells and whistles on the one page, upfront. In my experience, you get tons of bounces because people don't know (yet) what y
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by hogFeast 5y ago
Yes, what people really need when they browse the internet is to be asked every ten seconds what kind of cookies they want, every time a different form with different options that loads so many third-party scripts that my browser chokes...a
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by hogFeast 5y ago
The US used to have "fair trade" laws with these kind of agreements. These were used to protect independent grocers from chain department stores...they were the Amazon of the 1940/50s. Plus ca change. But the legality of this
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by hogFeast 5y ago
Yep, I studied economic history, I have read all of his books (including his first book on statistics in early 20th century Germany). His latest book wasn't that well received, and it is very far from the best book on the 2008 financia

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