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by pokot0 6y ago
Isn't government debt extremely cheap compared to 20/30 years ago? Should we not look at how much interest we are paying compared to GDP for a better outlook?
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by pokot0 6y ago
That does not seem right unless there is something more hidden going on: 1) I issue on order and close a trade (using a broker as intermediary) 2) i have already provided the liquidity to settle that trade which is already in the broker&#x2
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by pokot0 6y ago
Yes, I never used any of those but it looks like they followed suit on the RH success and implemented something similar. I had an Interactive Brokers account for years and there the distinction is very clear. A cash account just can't
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by pokot0 6y ago
My understanding is that it does. One example (there's more like the instant deposit): when you buy a stock with money from another sale not yet settled, you are basically using margin (a loan) and thus RH have cash requirements which
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by pokot0 6y ago
They are diverting the attention from their core problem: lack of transparency. I had a RH account for years and I didn't know it was a margin account (be sure: I did not signup for their "margin" service). All RH account are
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by pokot0 6y ago
That is not at all what I am saying (or anyone else afaik). Understanding and protecting minorities is one of the core values that need to shapes policies. You can't solve the minority problem by giving them more votes, because you can
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by pokot0 6y ago
This sounds very weak. It's like saying "Ideas that makes sense to the lower class don't always make sense to the top 1% net-worth people. For example taxing the rich more. For the top 1% net-worth individuals, _everyone_ mee
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by pokot0 6y ago
Hmm.. I struggle to understand your logic. Embedded in the concept of Democracy is the fact that there is a rule by which a decision is made and once taken it impacts everyone lives. Just try to look from the other side of the fence. I can
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by pokot0 6y ago
Wait... I think I misread when I first answered: "Some states have tied their electoral votes to the national popular vote in the name of increases democracy." Is this a thing? I had no idea. Do you know what states do that ?
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by pokot0 6y ago
Yes, I am aware of how it works and indeed it would be interesting to see a change in the election laws. For all practical purposes though, people vote directly for the president (last election is the proof that even a full front effort won
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by pokot0 6y ago
I never went as far as saying the the USA is not a democracy but you did. Goes far behind my point, but that was the direction. Saying that the president is not a president of the people when people literally vote directly for that person (
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by pokot0 6y ago
You might want to look at the electoral vote and how 1 vote in Wyoming accounts as much as roughly 4 votes in Texas and California. Pretty serious bug that is enabling the far right to be over represented imo.
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by pokot0 6y ago
Apple is pretty smart when adding features most of the time. Maybe they just add strips of magnets to a usb-c so you can still use the port with a normal usb-c cable and still benefit of magsafe with the proprietary adapter. Anyway, I did e
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by pokot0 6y ago
While I agree with the author's arguments, I feel he is totally missing the point. We are not going to fix society in time to stop this pandemic. Problems that will not be solved: - our politicians will not become competent. Our select
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by pokot0 6y ago
I don't perceive Google as a ethical company and this has been explicit to me for years now. That said that's not really a problem or uncommon. Why would companies want to be ethical? The only worry is what affects their bottom li
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by pokot0 6y ago
Deduplication solves that problem. There is only one (or very few) instance(s) of that gif on Google servers. That's why encryption will not be available anytime soon. Storage requirement would explode.
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by pokot0 6y ago
My story with mistakes like these: I am not a native English speaker but have lived in the US for about a decade. I used to feel the same about those mistakes and as someone who has learned english as a second language it was impossible for
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by pokot0 6y ago
Does anyone know if any of these projects capture the h.264 stream encoded inside the webcam? I would be interested in setting up something like the nest paid subscription but on a local server (meaning record 100% of the video and build a
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by pokot0 6y ago
You are merging the reason for the funding of the project (political decision) with the motivation of the people doing the actual job (scientist). That's unfair.
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by pokot0 6y ago
To view the article, you need to accept the cookie policy. To read the cookie policy you need to accept the cookie policy. It's 2020. Ok.
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by pokot0 6y ago
GAAP is an accounting set of rules, EPS is Earning per Share. Basically means they think it will increase their gross margin and EPS but you can't sue them if it does not.
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by pokot0 6y ago
Why would they ever want to enable their competitors?
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by pokot0 6y ago
I expect the third to be 10
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by pokot0 6y ago
For those interested in avoiding the complexity of dealing with industrial bacteria strain that can't survive easily in normal conditions, I recommend looking into traditional yogurts. . They don't need sterilization at all . They