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by mmarq 4y ago
It seems that we need a government to provide deposit guarantee and a central bank that acts as a lender of last resort. Welcome to the 19th century.
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by mmarq 4y ago
It’s worse than that, the crypto-people are learning the lessons of the 1800’s financial crises by reenacting them. Soon they’ll realise why central banks exist and after 10-20 years they’ll learn why the gold standard stopped being cool.
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by mmarq 4y ago
Which is, in some sense, what happened with Brexit. And the result is that the average Briton is poorer than 6 years ago, while London is kind of holding, but for how long we don’t know.
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by mmarq 4y ago
> When it comes to growth, Britain’s politicians will the ends but not the means. They run scared of the homeowning elderly, who turn up to vote and make up a growing share of the electorate. So tax rises are heaped on businesses and wor
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by mmarq 4y ago
Because the flow of fiscal transfers never stopped. Turn London in an independent state that keeps all its tax income and see how long it takes to Brexit England to realise where the benefits have been coming from.
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by mmarq 4y ago
Because cheap labour from the EU, an area of the world generally richer than the UK minus London, was mostly a marginal phenomenon that didn’t have an impact on the lives of the British workers. EU citizens earn more than the locals and are
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by mmarq 4y ago
Now it’s 50K£, because the government increased NI. So you pay roughly 40%, which is quite a lot considering that if you want access to decent healthcare you have to pay privately. Also nurseries cost 2K£ per month and public education is e
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by mmarq 4y ago
> I don't follow you. GPs go through specialist training and assessment (general practice is, perhaps paradoxically, a specialism). You spend 20 years prescribing paracetamol and homeopathy to old ladies and you eventually stop bein
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by mmarq 4y ago
No, the UK spend on the NHS slightly more than the EU14 average. The NHS is more expensive than the Italian and Spanish healthcare systems, while being significantly worse. Among Italian expats we wonder how is it possible that a paracetamo
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by mmarq 4y ago
Your mother was quite lucky, the NHS doesn’t do much prevention compared to other healthcare systems. Everything goes through GPs, that are the medicine homologues of a guy that works in IT and can set the background of his Drupal blog. GPs
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by mmarq 4y ago
My (rather horrid) pattern to address this problem is to wrap the goroutine in a function that returns a channel receiver. When the goroutine ends it sends something to the channel and whatever called it can await the result or completion u
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by mmarq 4y ago
> What is it with the Musk hate? After he accused a random guy of being a pedophile because he saved a dozen kids, after he lied about making Tesla a private company, after he lied about Tesla accepting bitcoins as payment (just to specu
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by mmarq 4y ago
I’d expect people to still want to live in cities with a decent cultural offer. I’d be more worried about what will happen to places like the dormitory district that is London outside of zone 2. Why would one want to live in Brentford when
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by mmarq 4y ago
Turkey was actually going through the process of joining the EU. It was Turkey that stopped the process, not the EU. Besides, Turkish immigrants are very unlikely to cause real issues in the EU. I will concede that they may cause some imagi
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by mmarq 4y ago
Yes! Thank you!
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by mmarq 4y ago
> I wouldn't say that means Coinbase is healthy, or unhealthy I’d say that a company that makes an offer today and reneges it tomorrow is not a healthy company. It’s certainly not a company I’d work for. We aren’t talking about cont
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by mmarq 4y ago
No, it was just a list of startups with some filters (location, size, stage, etc…). Maybe it was UK specific? I don’t remember. Thanks for the suggestion.
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Ask HN: Website listing interesting pre-IPO startups that are hiring
7 points by mmarq 4y ago|4 comments
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by mmarq 4y ago
Can I edit it?
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by mmarq 4y ago
Sorry, I didn’t know that. I thought the site would recognise duplicated links.
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What rr does(rr-project.org)
880 points by mmarq 4y ago|81 comments
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by mmarq 4y ago
This sounds more related to unfair immigration laws than to caste discrimination.
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by mmarq 4y ago
I just need a way of filtering out idiotic content produced by people with limited cognitive abilities and professional trolls and provocateurs.
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by mmarq 4y ago
There’s also how much it takes to hire 5 developers ”fast”. At least for now, Rust is not that performant on that respect.
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by mmarq 4y ago
A good senior developer makes 70-90K in London (which is not even close to 80% of Bay Area), a place where a 2-bed flat cost 2K a month and nursery cost 1.5-2K. A junior dev making 50K in Berlin or Munich or Hamburg is much richer, let alon
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by mmarq 4y ago
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/high-potential-in...
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by mmarq 4y ago
> The UK just codified this into visa law. It’s going to be very funny when they realise that nobody with a Harvard or a ETH Zurich degree is going to spend 3K£ for the privilege of moving to the UK, where they will earn a third of what
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by mmarq 4y ago
Pointers being used as option types and that weird back-tick thing to deserialise JSONs still give me nightmares after 3 years.
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by mmarq 4y ago
France is historically much more uniform than countries like Italy, Spain or the United Kingdom. To give you an example of the Italian language diversity, I don’t understand my mother’s dialect and she was born 30 kilometres from where I wa
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by mmarq 4y ago
Is one supposed to be anything but a mercenary? Should I believe in the product for the sake of making the CEO a billionaire? People should care iff they are given meaningful equity, as in life changing, otherwise they should be professiona

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