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by retube 11y ago
That's not what fractional reserve banking is at all.
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by retube 11y ago
I just can't get outraged by this. You are walking around literally shouting out a personal identifier and demanding that no one listens. People need to take responsibility for themselves. If you have a problem with this, TURN YOUR WI-
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by retube 11y ago
It absolutely blows my mind that people are happy to hand over their banking credentials to a third party. I would never in a billion years ever have believed it were possible for a firm to succeed predicated on that basis. I'm pretty
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by retube 11y ago
How much of their own capital did the employees risk?
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by retube 11y ago
Yeah but bonuses will be taxed at 50%. Corp tax is 22% so it's better they pay their staff more and report less profit.
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by retube 11y ago
Yeah - exactly my question - that's what this whole escapade hinges on but absolutely no details
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by retube 11y ago
Absurd cherry picking of random companies. Vast majority of big enterprises employee thousands of people. The fact that, thanks to technology, one person can single-handedly create enormous value is a huge boon for society. And anyway these
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by retube 11y ago
That City (big C, the administrative area) is indeed tiny, population 8,000, and is distinct from the geographical city of London (small c) population 8,000,000.
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by retube 11y ago
Not sure the Guardian is the best example. They well be growing online but no one is paying for that and they're haemorrhaging customers of the physical paper who actually pay for it.
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by retube 11y ago
Sorry but that's nonsense. It's a well known and indeed publically admitted strategy by the Saudi's to drive US shale producers out of business. Google "saudia arabia united states oil price" for many authoritive hi
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by retube 11y ago
1) Fine - so in that case as a dev I would ask that the devs start out with 50% which gets vested over time
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by retube 11y ago
2 questions: 1) Pre-weekend: why would you only accept 0.4% equity? Given there was nothing but the idea the company was worthless. So why wouldn't the guys building it demand a much higher slice? 2) Post-weekend: given the company was
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by retube 11y ago
You clearly haven't worked in a large enterprise!
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by retube 11y ago
21k for 1 user for 1 year. Your average "bulge-bracket" IB is paying for thousands of users. You do the math...
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The 21-year-old building India's largest hotel network(bbc.co.uk)
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by retube 11y ago
Like almost all policy & law there are trade-offs. Good governance is about enacting policy which attempts to benefit as many people as possible on average (but there will always be losers). People need to understand that issues are NOT
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by retube 11y ago
webhosting dismal too, takes about 2 minutes to load. Hopefully deliberate!
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by retube 11y ago
exactly, guardian trolling at it's finest
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by retube 11y ago
tube strikes driving sales ;)
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by retube 11y ago
Is not simply turning off cookies for external domains a fairly effective way of cutting a lot of tracking? What's the downside to doing this?
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by retube 11y ago
How many MPs do you actually know? Or is your opinion of them solely determined by what you read in the Guardian?
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by retube 11y ago
> The size of the global derivatives market is 1.5 quadrillion dollars No. No it is not. No 1,000,000,000 times. NOTIONAL DOES NOT EQUAL MARKET VALUE. It's also completely meaningless as most trades offset. Trades are rarely torn up
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by retube 11y ago
Yup couldn't agree more. For young children iPads, TV etc destroys development of imagination and concentration, and by extension creativity, resourcefulness etc. Plus the ability to actually cope with being bored is a vital life skill
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by retube 11y ago
This is what I've wanted to do in excel since forever: a worksheet function that takes a range to use as the table and the SQL query as params, something like: =QUERYTABLE("SELECT * FROM TABLE", A1:G1000) I actually
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by retube 11y ago
> the horrendous and repugnant direction in which the UK government is trying to take on privacy Well that's just your opinion. A lot of people would disagree with you.
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by retube 11y ago
Absolutely correct. Notional is an absolutely meaningless figure. If anything it is comparable to the total notional of derivatives ever traded: contracts are rarely torn up (1), more usually offsetting derivatives are entered into in order
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by retube 11y ago
> Toys really do not make up vast proportions of the expenditure of, well, anyone. Sure, and that's why the basket of goods is weighted according to much of them are purchased
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by retube 11y ago
Whether or not you know it will deflate is irrelevant. The point is these things, which almost all people buy, get cheaper. In fact I'd argue that inflation is grossly over-stated: it doesn't take into account the quality of goo
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by retube 11y ago
If the vast majority of people, rich and poor, buy consumer electronics, why is it "sneaky" to include them in the inflation basket?
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by retube 11y ago
Then you are paying way too much. There's lots of smart 2 beds in Putney for the same price - zone 2, close to the high street & shops/mall/supermarket, 5 mins walk from railway (17 mins to waterloo) or tube (20 mins to e

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