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by namdnay 5y ago
I’ve never seen Gruyère develop those strong flavours (18m+), then again to be fair in France Gruyère is rarely aged
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by namdnay 5y ago
visually, maybe. in taste, not at all. Comte and Beaufort maybe, Comte and Gruyere? no way
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by namdnay 5y ago
No we don’t
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by namdnay 5y ago
Even if you can’t sell the mortgage itself, I’m sure you can sell on the “economics” of the mortgage - just like you can invest in gold without actually having a vault at home
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by namdnay 5y ago
It’s a service for you the consumer, but those loans are packaged and sold as investment products
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by namdnay 5y ago
> Do people just pay the principal and interest for 30 years? If interest rates go down, you refinance. If interest rates go up, you hold onto that cheap debt as long as you can. It’s a pretty unique product in that one party (the consum
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by namdnay 5y ago
Not unique, standard in several European countries I’ve lived in too
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by namdnay 5y ago
Yes, such as fact checking from real journalists. They’re not asking for less journalism, they’re asking for more
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by namdnay 5y ago
> Corporate journalists have many incentives to not publish the truth or to be stenographers for the establishment Agreed, if the establishment locks you out it’s impossible to do your job, so it’s difficult to bite the hand that feeds
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by namdnay 5y ago
So there’s still lots of space then!
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by namdnay 5y ago
What’s interesting is that the 90s Ibiza/UK electronic scene had its roots in young brits listening to 80s Detroit and NYC techno . What goes around comes around
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by namdnay 5y ago
I love the soundtrack but it wasn’t exactly “before it was cool”. Music for the Jilted Generation was already number 1 in the UK
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by namdnay 5y ago
most of us are anonymous here I think? And the cancel culture has been here for at least 20 years, I remember what it was like to dare say that you didnt think it was a good idea to invade Iraq.. my comment was more on suspicious accounts t
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by namdnay 5y ago
I think the main thing that gets people accused of being shills it using new accounts to send shrill calls to action
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by namdnay 5y ago
>Both pieces cite a Sky News interview with Gates that ran this week, wherein Gates is asked if it would be helpful to change intellectual property law in order to enable "the recipe for these vaccines to be shared." > Gates
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by namdnay 5y ago
Yes it’s literally a machine that learns!
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by namdnay 5y ago
so what, taxes now become a voluntary contribution to whatever charity you want to donate to? And you don't see any scale issues with that?
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by namdnay 5y ago
There's no-one on a cruise ship to wash you and take you to the toilet. And there are no hospitals to take you to when you have a stroke
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by namdnay 5y ago
I doubt the Indian government pays those sweet referral fees :) Edit: I wish the UN would provide a free honest alternative to this kind of scammy “visa information”site
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by namdnay 5y ago
I'm not sure why you're exploding on the parent poster - none of what you have described is in any way related to what you or they were discussing
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by namdnay 5y ago
it's like reading something from Derrida.. you have to abandon all assumption that technical terms mean what they're supposed to
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by namdnay 5y ago
I don’t think anybody is complaining about the initial barrier to entry. These interviews would be more like asking a surgeon who’s worked for 10 years in one hospital to pass an anatomy multiple choice quiz when transferring to another hos
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by namdnay 5y ago
Like a company recruiting a hacker to manage their security
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by namdnay 5y ago
It’s more a question of Emirates being a relative newcomer with no strong unionization, and therefore not having to align with the absurdly high salaries the legacy carriers are saddled with. Compared with other new airlines (EasyJet, Ryana
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by namdnay 5y ago
using git with github is still a DVCS. You can branch, commit, merge, whatever without access to the central repository. None of that was possible with the classic VCS - if the central server went down, you were stuck with your current work
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by namdnay 5y ago
It should be floor right? Math.floor(Math.random()*userAgents.length)
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by namdnay 5y ago
Indeed, just like an olympic medal. The MOF is a better example IMHO
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by namdnay 5y ago
> Licenses that anyone can get, but are purely graded on a curve in order to protect existing members. Finally we get to the actuarial licenses! Similar licenses would be Michelin star restaurants and wine sommeliers. Only a very small c
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by namdnay 5y ago
would definitely make sense... shame OP disappeared, I'd be interested in knowing what exactly they were doing. and TBH i'm not sure why they needed to hide what they were doing, it seems a legitimate use of Stripe Connect? Althou
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by namdnay 5y ago
or 3) OP is misrepresenting their business (they're a payment provider themselves, not a merchant), and is staying deliberately vague because they're never told their customers they were actually relying on Stripe. From OP's

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