namdnay

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by namdnay 5y ago
I don’t get your second paragraph. They had to raise collateral right now. Once they raised the billions they could and did
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by namdnay 5y ago
In France 99% of mortgages are fixed rate, for the entire term.
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by namdnay 5y ago
Your example of the IRS being evil is their director publicly apologizing for overstepping the line? Wow, I wonder what you think of the other 3 letter agencies then..
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???
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by namdnay 5y ago
Of course they are, major investors regularly push boards to do more ESG for example
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by namdnay 5y ago
The problem isn’t that there is a fiat step, the problem is that only one side of the transaction is in crypto. Expedia aren’t “accepting crypto” - they’re sending you to someone who will swap your crypto for cash and then taking the cash.
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by namdnay 5y ago
On top of querying the travel agency APIs, Kayak will also query each airline directly. So you also get fares and airlines that aren’t published to agencies
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by namdnay 5y ago
ITA wasn’t in any way to e main provider of flight information in 2010. It’s a relatively minor player, but with great features
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by namdnay 5y ago
The product was called ITA Matrix, Google bought them a while back
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by namdnay 5y ago
the fact that if you cancel they give you USD means it's not "paying with bitcoin". it's "converting bitcoin to USD then paying with USD". it's a pretty fundamental difference - Expedia aren't making
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by namdnay 5y ago
I think if the payment processor does that, they will also reimburse you in your currency, not the local one
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by namdnay 5y ago
That's not "accepting payment with bitcoin" - it's just a link for coinbase to convert your bitcoin to USD before booking. Look at the T&Cs, it's a USD booking underneath Accepting payment with bitcoin means usi
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by namdnay 5y ago
hmmm yes in which case calling it "paying in crypto" is a massive stretch. I can also "buy a flight ticket with a used car" if there's a dealership next to the travel agency
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by namdnay 5y ago
book flights with crypto? which airline or travel agency accepts crypto? I don't see how it could work with so much volatility. You could buy fully modifiable/refundable first class tickets and use them as free options to bet on t
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by namdnay 5y ago
You still have diesel trains ?!
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by namdnay 5y ago
To be pedantic, they never were on the continent :) Apart from Gibraltar I guess
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The major subsidy to planes is that you don’t have to clean up the CO2 you spew out
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by namdnay 5y ago
Flag-carrier Airlines are heavily subsidized by the implicit guarantee that the state will do everything it can to bail them out
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by namdnay 5y ago
why? we tax cigarettes at the point of consumption and that has worked fine.
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by namdnay 5y ago
That's jsut not true. A county sheriff has far more power than a software developer, despite being far less wealthy
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by namdnay 5y ago
Quake actually got really hard in the last chapters. Those annoying purple blobs were murder
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by namdnay 5y ago
> I am always surprise when well funded startups hire former big-tech engineers, rather than experienced startup engineers i'd say that if you plan on scaling, you need a bit of both. a lot of tricky scale/process/architec
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by namdnay 5y ago
Le monde diplo has no relationship to le monde afaik
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by namdnay 5y ago
ah ok a bit like the french used to do prunes wrapped in bacon. do the spanish grow dates? never seen a spanish date
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by namdnay 5y ago
> I dont drink milk any more due to lactose intolerance Do they sell lactose-free milk where you are? it's quite standard in France, you can get full/semi/skim in lactose-free variants
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by namdnay 5y ago
now you've got me wondering what is the subset of countries that both grow dates and eat bacon :)
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those are plantains I think, not the "sweet bananas" referred to here
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by namdnay 5y ago
It’s childish to condition your own good behaviour on others’
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this one? https://vineyardgazette.com/sites/default/files/article-asse... if sea levels rise by two feet he'll lose a bit of land around the edges, but it's hardly "at sea level"
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by namdnay 5y ago
That's a very childish attitude. "daddy doesn't brush his teeth so why should I?" What is there to "believe"? No belief is necessary here. It's a cold scientific fact that if we don't drastically redu

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