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by nandemo 12y ago
Besides what stygiansonic said: The article does not claim that UK bonds have been paying 2.5~4% since 1720. That range refers to the current nominal rate for those bonds. Those bonds have been restructured/refinanced several times alo
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by nandemo 12y ago
> Someone mentioned alcohol at fast food chains. It's only at special unique fast food restaurants. I don't know about that. Heineken is part of Burger King's menu. Granted, BK isn't nearly as popular as KFC or McDona
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by nandemo 12y ago
I think you might be misinterpreting it. Yes, there was conquest and genocide, but mere conquest and genocide weren't the reason the US became a superpower. > On paper, the Nazi empire of 1942 represented a substantial economic blo
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by nandemo 12y ago
It could be so, but I doubt it. From talking to Europeans here, and reading about it on the net, after-tax salaries in most of Northern Europe and France are roughly on par with Japan, taking into account the differences in cost of living.
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by nandemo 12y ago
> b) Salary range where you are is broken Depends on the point of view. I'd say the salary range where you and I are (i.e. not in the US) is broken. Despite all the talk of "programmers can work from anywhere", labour is s
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by nandemo 12y ago
I'd say it's US vs rest-of-the-world difference. I recently applied to a senior dev position at the Tokyo branch of a certain American company, which shall remain nameless. They pay 120~160k in the US. They offered me 60k.
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by nandemo 12y ago
The president of Estonia, Toomas Ilves, can code. > Ilves moved to Leonia, a borough of 9,000 people a short trip over the George Washington Bridge from Manhattan, when he was three years old. He grew up there and learned computer progr
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by nandemo 12y ago
Agreed. That said, IANAL but: > He's stopped paying most employees and arbitrarily pays vendors. That's questionable, and probably illegal. In many jurisdictions, your company will have to pay fines for late salaries. Also, i
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by nandemo 12y ago
Not sure what is non-obvious to you or what kind of recommendations you're looking for... Anyway, there's a semi-regular HN meetup going on in Tokyo: http://hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp/ There's also Mobile Monday a
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by nandemo 12y ago
> Japan doesn't allow stock buybacks for most types of corporations. Where did you get this? Stock buybacks are commonplace in Japan. Try and search "ＴＯＢ株" or "株式公開買い付け" on Google News (use Google Translate if y
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by nandemo 12y ago
I think that's mistaken. You can invest the not-yet-taxed amount, but eventually you're gonna pay the tax. The real advantage (apart from the lower rate) is that the taxes are deferred.
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by nandemo 12y ago
It's arguably the most important advice. Nobody said that you need to match Facebook and Google. First, it's not like the BigCorps will hire every single person that your startup is interested in (e.g. Facebook rejected Brian Acto
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by nandemo 12y ago
> a certain number of extra days/weeks of vacation per year, above the standard 5. No doubt you mean "standard 5 [weeks]" and not "days", but note that won't be obvious to many of us in less enlightened coun
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by nandemo 12y ago
Nah, he just doesn't have the skillset: not enough {Ruby,Node,my pet JS framework} experience.
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by nandemo 12y ago
Nice, but if I were the interviewer I would expect the candidate to also implement foldr for Tree, since that's the core of the problem.
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by nandemo 12y ago
> This suggests to me that running distributed databases in multiple AZ's has almost no latency penalty (e.g. you won't even paying eventual consistency / replication lag taxes that you might think are a danger). Yes, Ha
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by nandemo 12y ago
> (...) preparing severance packages (...) Do US startups typically pay severance packages?
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by nandemo 12y ago
I'm looking forward to Brazil and Uruguay's unification.
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by nandemo 12y ago
It's not even pedantic. Golden parachute: you're forced out (by a lay-off or takeover) but they're obligated to give you a pile of money. Golden handcuffs: you volunteer for corporate servitude (by being acquired) in exchange
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by nandemo 12y ago
Fair enough, I misinterpreted it.
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by nandemo 12y ago
Did YC shutdown yet? It sure seems a lot of them YC companies fail, so...
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by nandemo 12y ago
At a high enough rate (e.g. war time Germany, 1980s Brazil, Zimbabwe), hyperinflation will turn your nominal returns into next-to-zero real returns. Conversely, default doesn't have to be "we won't pay nothing". A countr
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by nandemo 12y ago
> It's literally impossible for Japan to default on their debts, which are almost completely in Japanese currency. False. Many countries have defaulted on debt denominated in local currency. E.g. Brazil in 1990 and Russia in &#x27
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by nandemo 12y ago
> you aren't really increasing per-capita income, Even countries that are relatively open to (legal) immigration, like Canada and Australia, tend to limit immigration to working-age adults qualified to work in technical, professiona
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by nandemo 12y ago
My comment is an example of why the reasoning below incorrect. My comment does not say "it is impossible to make money by trading stocks/derivatives". > Being net positive 80% of all days traded with all your winners and l
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by nandemo 12y ago
> Being net positive 80% of all days traded with all your winners and losers falling in a relatively tight distribution -- luck can't create highly specific, repeated outcomes like that. Yes, it can. E.g. you could sell deep out-o
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by nandemo 12y ago
> [A Macquarie Capital researcher] expects that this year alone, Apple's iTunes, software and services business should generate about $30 billion on a gross revenue basis, which would be more than 83 percent of S&P 500 companie
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by nandemo 12y ago
Misleading article. The main (official) reason for the new cable is to decrease latency and costs, and also to decrease the almost total dependency on the US links. Currently there's only one direct link between Brazil and Europe, it&#
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by nandemo 12y ago
> Tokyo has 35 MM people, almost double the second largest first world city (Seoul, 21 MM), and has housing prices to income ratios far lower than London, New York, or Los Angeles. What about house size? I looked into the original stu
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by nandemo 12y ago
> Telescreens are fictional devices which operate as both televisions and security cameras [... and] are used by the ruling Party in Oceania to keep its subjects under constant surveillance, thus eliminating the chance of secret conspira

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