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by mvc 14y ago
That's the idea behind currencyfair.com. The user experience is a little clunky but the rates are much better than anywhere else I've found (I send more than $2k a month to the UK so I've shopped around a lot).
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by mvc 14y ago
> I'm English, and lived in Scotland between the age of 10 and 14, and the genuine anti-English victimization I received both at school and out and about was ridiculous But please don't make out that this only happens in Scotland. I'm
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by mvc 14y ago
Attention to detail? Baaaaad. Generalizing entire nations? Gooood
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by mvc 14y ago
> And they can empanel expert witnesses to describe the kinds of errors that are typical of the method Presumably that's beyond the reach of a defendant on legal aid.
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by mvc 14y ago
> created on the fly (a crime for which any DBA would have you put to death, normally) Is the crime in creating tables on the fly? Or creating tables of identical structure on the fly?
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by mvc 14y ago
> This is what pays for the Olympics even occurring Even conservative estimates of the final cost of the Olympics are around 10bn. Visa paid only 100m so I think the games would have been fine without them.
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by mvc 14y ago
Most people don't understand basic finance either but they're still allowed to use credit cards and take out loans. A capitalist economy depends on a well educated population to function correctly. We've got to fix the right problem.
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by mvc 15y ago
Given their motto, shouldn't this particular clause be required rather than banned.
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by mvc 15y ago
I don't know because I don't have the same problems (I make few posts on Google+ and receive even fewer comments when I do), but presumably, all the smart guys and girls already have each other circled and just ignore all the spam. I can't
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by mvc 15y ago
...and wages around the world balance out giving everyone a fair crack of the whip. Whenever someone suggests raising taxes on the rich, the answer is always "we can't do that because they'll just take their money/jobs and leave". Workers
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by mvc 15y ago
Even if they send their entire income back home, they'd still be contributing to the economy. The value of their work is worth more than the wages they receive (otherwise why would their employer hire them).
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by mvc 15y ago
If you have capital, you are free to deploy it wherever you feel it can make the highest return. Why should the same not be true of Labour? I'm an H1B from the UK (admittedly Scotland rather than London) and my earning power is twice what
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by mvc 15y ago
Presumably, equity in these companies would be like being a "partner" in a law/accountancy firm.