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by mrep 6y ago
Still got social security and medicare though which contribute to the tax wedge on income and employers pay those for 100% of employees.
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by mrep 6y ago
For anyone that hasn't used it, they literally have a discover tab for options with things like "I think it's staying the same" with the recommendation to create an iron condor and some possible positions you can open [0
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by mrep 6y ago
Stealing your content? A quick google search for "Australia news law" shows a top stories box with just a headline and a thumbnail. Similar thing with the news tab adds but it adds on about another 20 words from the first paragr
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by mrep 6y ago
pgrote posted this tweet elsewhere in the thread [0]. They literally gave users the option for apple app store pay for $9.99 and Epic direct payment as $7.99. [0]: https://twitter.com/ballmatthew/status/1293893660
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by mrep 6y ago
Wow, what they did is brilliant. Direct way to show consumer harm due to the iOS fees.
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by mrep 6y ago
Can get close to those numbers Senior devs don't get those numbers on average in the bay either. Facebook/Google are the top (NFLX too but they only hire senior engineers) and few other companies close behind like amazon, apple
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by mrep 6y ago
It's about 180k for beginner level, 260k for the level above that, and 370k for seniors at G/FB [0]. And if you consider Chicago flyover, then you can get close to those numbers even in flyover as I'm in Chicago and pulling
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by mrep 6y ago
Looking at the most recent balance sheet [0], corporate bonds look to be under the other securities section which has 86 billion in assets or about 1.2% of the asset sheet. Most of the balance sheet is taken up by U.S. Treasury securities
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by mrep 6y ago
Your mileage may vary but verizon 5g home for example does not have a data cap [0]. [0]: https://www.verizon.com/support/5g-home-faqs/
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by mrep 6y ago
And about 1/270 the energy of a single w87 thermonuclear warhead and a single ICBM can carry up to 10 of those.
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by mrep 6y ago
A single m87 thermonuclear warhead has a detonation yeild of 300 tons of tnt, and a single ICBM can carry up to 10 of those. Absolutely terrifying.
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by mrep 6y ago
What is reasonable for you? I'm in the US and my 2018 subaru crosstrek limited does that and the current 2020 limited version has LED Steering Responsive Headlights and starts at 27,395.
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by mrep 6y ago
I wonder if it would be good time to do another equity raise. They raised 2 billion dollars earlier this year at a price of 767 (1,430 now) to fuel their growth because they thought there share price was high then. Once the inclusion is an
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by mrep 6y ago
Really? I'd say it's the exact opposite between Facebook and Google. Google gets the majority of their ad revenue from search and search ads for me at least are always based on exactly what you are searching for. The other data
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by mrep 6y ago
Revenue only down 2% from q2 2019 which is not as bad as I thought it was going be as I would assume ad budgets would have gotten slashed hard. Google cloud is up from 2.1 billion to 3 which is a nice 42% growth rate year over year and des
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Alphabet Announces Second Quarter 2020 Results [pdf](abc.xyz)
12 points by mrep 6y ago|2 comments
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by mrep 6y ago
Japans central bank has 3 times the asset sheet to gdp ratio that we do. I think we got a while before anything breaks.
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by mrep 6y ago
IOS has a 58% market share in the US [0] which single handedly is well above the threshold of market power using the Herfindahl–Hirschman Index [1] which the antitrust department uses for mergers and acquisitions concerns (they don't c
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by mrep 6y ago
Consoles are also harder to pirate games on which I'm guessing is why rockstar games always releases first on consoles.
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by mrep 6y ago
How so? The yen isn't even close to USD as a reserve currency and yet their central bank has about a 95% asset balance to gdp ratio compared to the US that has about a 33% asset balance to gdp ratio [0, 1]. [0]: https://www
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by mrep 6y ago
For americans at least: "The world's need for dollars has allowed the United States government as well as Americans to borrow at lower costs, giving the United States an advantage in excess of $100 billion per year" [0]. [0]:
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by mrep 6y ago
> Waiting in the case of a reasonable savings fund of 100k for way over a month (10k every 4 days in the example I replied to) to be transferred sucks. That 10k limit is for one shitty company. I don't have those limits because I d
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by mrep 6y ago
I like BND. Only dropped 8.7% from peak to bottom in march (back up now), it pays out a decent dividend, and it is a vanguard etf and vanguard is awesome in my experience.
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by mrep 6y ago
> It is unfair to the careful people who invest in government funds to bail out prime fund investors every time it looks like they might lose 0.5-1%. Can you explain this more? How are they bailing out prime fund investors?
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by mrep 6y ago
> It's not fair to people who buy government funds Are you suggesting our government should prioritize investors who buy government bonds over its own citizens (who at least in theory, would have to pay for those bonds in the future
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by mrep 6y ago
Some questions from an American: Are transfers that take like a day or two that inconveniencing cause instantaneous transfers would only benefit me in getting a tiny bit more interest for that extra day or two i could get interest on it? W
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by mrep 6y ago
Wikipedia describes it well [0]: Deflation is generally regarded negatively, as it causes a transfer of wealth from borrowers and holders of illiquid assets, to the benefit of savers and of holders of liquid assets and currency, and because
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by mrep 6y ago
How is it a political move when basically every central bank in the world is doing the exact same thing? Also, they have not bought any equities. They are almost entirely just buying our own governments debt and mortgage backed securities
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by mrep 6y ago
It's to fight deflation. With people losing their jobs and holding onto cash to prepare for economic hardship, businesses tend to lower prices to sell their supply as less people are buying. This rewards people for holding onto cash
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by mrep 6y ago
The bay area might have the most programmers, but there are still tons of programmer jobs outside of it. 80% of programmers don't live in california [0]. Almost every fortune 500 company has some software developers so there are jobs

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