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by lbotos 7y ago
> Allowing banks to draw down their reserves in their entirety isn’t going to change their behavior is my point. If you are a bank in fractional reserve banking, who had a 10% capital requirement that is now lifted, you just got 10% more
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by lbotos 7y ago
you can also get 4-5 smaller CDs (whatever smaller means for you) so if you did need some funds, you wouldn't have to lose all of the interest.
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by lbotos 7y ago
Here is a question: Why don't we have more smaller unions in America, but instead these GIANT mega unions? I get collective bargaining is better with more numbers, but it feels like there is no way to have a "new" union exist
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by lbotos 7y ago
Examples? Would love to get your feedback to our UX team.
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by lbotos 7y ago
> the Fed is injecting new fiat money into the economy and it's going straight into the pockets of rich financial institutions which add no value whatsoever to the economy or society. Financial institutions control who gets levered
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by lbotos 7y ago
trite response: If you are asking this question, you shouldn't. Actual answer: Most brokers will allow you to buy options and some specialize in it. Options are very dangerous because you can lose more than you invested. (Which can hap
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by lbotos 7y ago
Uh what? Fed = Monetary policy == Make sure money can flow "appropriately" Government = Fiscal Policy == "Who gets money" I don't know how your quote is relevant at all.
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by lbotos 7y ago
It's mostly related to employment entity complexity vs. organizational demand for that location. To operate legally as a business in most of those countries on that list adds complexity that leadership has deemed "not yet". D
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by lbotos 7y ago
Most large multinationals do not pay everyone the same. Remote or not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21127827 Google uses pay scale based on your location. I'm sure hundreds of others do as well.
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by lbotos 7y ago
I wish more outlets were doing more to give us age data. I saw this released earlier today: https://www.epicentro.iss.it/coronavirus/bollettino/Bolletti... Basically, of the 357 deaths in this report from Italy Ma
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by lbotos 7y ago
how does one actually technically go about that? I have no plans to do it, just been curious about it over the past few months.
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by lbotos 7y ago
That said, sometimes a savvy customer can become scared, if say, adopting a new feature. I agree that TAMs and other account managers may be able to feed data into that model, support may be the front line as it shifts (but also a TAM or an
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by lbotos 7y ago
You are highlighting something that we are trying to quantify on my team right now. Customers come to you either scared or savvy, or somewhere on that spectrum. You are often a savvy customer, that is being treated like you are scared. That
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by lbotos 7y ago
Your post reminded me of the poem pruno which has always stuck with me: https://pen.org/recipe-for-prison-pruno/
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by lbotos 7y ago
this one or something else? https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=asvetlia... I've been waiting for someone to make that work before diving into vscode and if it's solid looks like I have my weekend
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by lbotos 7y ago
I actually think Healthcare. https://www.sagaftra.org/sag-and-aftra-health-plans-merge
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by lbotos 7y ago
I'm fairly certain that is because "Active Major Construction" is a specific classification, and it does not apply to road construction.
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by lbotos 7y ago
Size of the resulting container is my understanding.
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by lbotos 7y ago
This feels... backwards, but it's probably because I'm indoctrinated to external configs. Do you have references to companies that are developing software this way at scale?
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by lbotos 7y ago
Can we all agree that the "now playing" screen is objectively worse. I had to google how to set repeat and shuffle. (You have to "scroll up" from the bottom. Not swipe, but a scroll like motion. I studied Human Computer
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by lbotos 7y ago
One of the things that blew my mind was that in the USB-C spec, you can't have a male to female cord, but I was only able to find two hubs on amazon with a detatchable cable. Why you ask? I have a mac and a PC on my desk, and i plug my
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by lbotos 7y ago
You think that DO sent out a shill to pretend to be a throwaway to give hackernews confidence in the DO platform? My read of this is very different than yours: Naive IC who doesn't have optics into the actual mechanization of the busin
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by lbotos 7y ago
My favorite joke about MtG: "The magic is the gathering" a draft is such a good env to just hang out, and we'd usually end up with a ringer or two, so it was a good way to socialize. I've waned a bit because I didn'
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by lbotos 7y ago
I've been remote for 3.5 years now, and that's the first thing I tell new team members: You currently have a community at your office that you don't realize. You will need to be intentional about building that community in ot
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by lbotos 7y ago
I do agree that valuations are inflated. Also, I think that the total addressable market for luggage vs. a Black Hawk are very different.
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by lbotos 7y ago
My understanding is that Support Engineers following CI/CD & Code Review process can't be a "lone ranger" so it follows the spirit of Segregation of Duties. But that laugh out of the meeting is real. I've experi
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by lbotos 7y ago
Hi, Support Engineering Manager here. This is an okay approach. But let's talk about where it breaks down: Bugs. Some premises: - The majority of Support Requests are around bugs or administration. - Product teams are incentivized to s
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by lbotos 7y ago
links to these savings accounts > 2% that don't have any "deposit 200/m" or "need to be over x balance for 12mo to get the interest?
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by lbotos 7y ago
I enjoyed http://philosophizethis.org/ for another option!
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by lbotos 7y ago
You've hit the nail on the head for bigCo. It's alllll about what's being measured.

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