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by namdnay 3y ago
Given FT had no financial interest in wirecard I’m not sure it’s insider trading? Breach of the code of conduct of FT and basic journalistic ethics of course, but using investigators to find out bad things about companies and using that inf
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by namdnay 3y ago
Lantosque very nice, and less than an hour's drive from Nice airport
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by namdnay 3y ago
the big risk is third party risk - if you fall on someone else, or bring down a power line, or drop a rock on someone below you. not having paid for the session means you won't have paid the 2-3 euros for the third-party insurance
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by namdnay 3y ago
indeed a lot of them are "free" but they clearly state the correct equipment must be worn (which is of course available for rent at various approved outlets) , or else any accident will get you into a world of financial trouble
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by namdnay 3y ago
Good news, but if this is anything like other mountain activities in the USA, I bet it costs an arm and a leg And... yep, I just opened a random one (Estes Park?) - prices starting at 199USD a head! About 4x the price of a french one (30-50
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by namdnay 3y ago
that's like saying that nearly nobody robs banks so there's no point having so much security in banks. the real question is what would the figures be if there were no checks? and KYC isn't only for money laundering, it's
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by namdnay 3y ago
> Why did it be a problem for people to move money around willy nilly? because they could avoid paying their taxes?
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by namdnay 3y ago
> It did, for thousands of years and for thousands of years the rich did pretty much what they wanted, and the rest of us lived barely above subsistence level.. fair taxation is one of the building blocks of modern society
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by namdnay 3y ago
What do you mean by “financial privacy”? Hiding stuff from the taxman?
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by namdnay 3y ago
How about we set up a parallel banking system with none of the rules and regulations, and see what happens? Oh yeah we did that a few years ago and it was scams all the way down :)
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by namdnay 3y ago
> Realistically, KYC might deter a small fraction – let's say about 1% – of these malefactors. I too can pull arbitrary statistics straight out of my backside, and use them to argue my point Why not 10%? Why not 10000% in fact (if w
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by namdnay 3y ago
It really depends on the company. Google and Meta are horrible places to be an EM/ED (apart from the cash obviously)
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by namdnay 3y ago
A manager does build things! It’s just that their tools are engineers :)
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by namdnay 3y ago
I can’t help wonder what advantage a blockchain brings to this. At the end of the day if you’re takings deposits and issuing claims on those deposits you’re a bank. You can wave your hands all you want, regulators are going to catch up with
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by namdnay 3y ago
for me "store brands" is something like parkside? a "fake" brand that is only sold inside one store. ryobi europe/us is definitely consumer focused, but not a store brand
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by namdnay 3y ago
"battery-sharing alliance " -> hardly, it's just lots of niche toolmakers using bosch batteries
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by namdnay 3y ago
Ryobi definitely aren't a store brand ;)
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by namdnay 3y ago
> Similar is happening in the cordless power tool industry the cordless power tool industry is a global industry, the author even lists german and japanese countries in their "analysis". therefore it doesn't seem amiss to
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by namdnay 3y ago
I don't know what it's like in the US, but in the several european countries I've lived in the real "pro market" is all leasing, not buying. just like their vehicles, they'll have a fleet of tools with on-site
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by namdnay 3y ago
> Similar is happening in the cordless power tool industry. There’s Dewalt and Milwaukee – in no particular order – and then everyone else. this seems to be a very US-centric analysis? if I were to look at Europe I'd say that on the
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by namdnay 3y ago
> Thought experiment for all the unrestrained free-market folk: how can the free hand of the market can solve for low birthrates tax cuts for families, subisidies for child birth and care - none of these are contrary to the idea of a fre
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by namdnay 3y ago
> It's wild that, not too long ago, you could afford a house and a car on a single income as a mailman. That is unthinkable today. to be fair it was unthinkable the day before yesterday too. in the history of human civilisation, tha
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by namdnay 3y ago
> lest HR sees some activity on your profile and buckets you into a "actively job-searching" risk group well.... yes? HR considering you "at risk" is a pretty good thing :)
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by namdnay 3y ago
This may be the only time I ever say this, but thank god for LinkedIn. At least you know you can always catch up with someone who has left
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by namdnay 3y ago
a bit off topic, but the global cultural impact of Frozen on kindergarten girls is absolutely insane. we all have memories of whatever the trend was when were a specific age, but nearly every 3-6 year old girl on the planet knows everything
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by namdnay 3y ago
And yet the Odyssey has more than double the interior space, which shows how inefficient the SUV form factor is An MPV such as the ford cmax will have as much practicality than a much bigger SUV
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by namdnay 3y ago
Before the SUVs took over, there was a French trend called “Ludospaces”, basically panel vans but with windows and rear seats. They were awesome
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by namdnay 3y ago
Wouldn’t a people carrier have been adequate? I don’t think people have an issue with the desire for interior space for families, it’s more an issue with the unnecessary extra size and weight brought on by the offroadesque styling
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by namdnay 3y ago
“Homely”? Avoiding something because it’s “homely” sounds exactly like symboling status :)
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by namdnay 3y ago
I would add the point that these dynamics are also present for any large IT system. Just search for people having issues migrating to SAP or Amadeus or whatever

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