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retube
4y ago
It's actually much better for tether to be invested in CP and similar paper. You can't leave $80bn in the bank, cos then you have gigantic concentrated credit risk to the bank. It's actually imperative you invest in CP, and p
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4y ago
> Which does not work because to quite a lot of people drowning in the Channel is preferable to what they fled back home But France is presumably a lot nicer tho?
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4y ago
Sure it is a tamper resistant log. But what is the use of that? what problems is it solving? Please give me a concrete example!!
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5y ago
I suspect one reason is that with trains there's a huge amount of infrastructure to maintain - the tracks between destinations, but with planes you don't have that.
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5y ago
100% agree. Success = less configuration, not more.
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5y ago
I know nothing about manga, but my kids are bang in to it. What's your target demographic? Are these titles child friendly? (< 12 yo)
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5y ago
Doesn't chrome + google do this by default?
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5y ago
Any recommendations for commercial email?
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5y ago
All I ever hear is horror stories about this place: environmental destruction, structural racism, serious abuse of human rights, culturally hyper conservative, corrupt legal system, plus it's absurdly hot. I can't believe anyone w
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5y ago
Thanks. Hoes does WBM get the page? Does the economist let it's crawlers through?
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5y ago
> I mean jeez, what did he even compare our status quo education system against? Where did the kids go in the counterfactual no-education scenario? Did the kids all go home to an infinite supply of stay-at-home moms? Did they go to exten
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5y ago
As if the scammers and con-artists operating in crypto are ANY better than the banks. Banks are not perfect, but they are highly regulated, and come with a ton of consumer protections. There's none of that in crypto, and people are get
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5y ago
> but overall it's a pretty difficult thing to ban in practice. That applies to just about everything. We have laws against tax evasion, fraud, murder... but people can (and do) still do these things. Just because a law doesn't
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5y ago
I am aware how big the markets are. I am also aware that transaction costs are miniscule. By your own data above, if typical fees are $0.0009 per share traded, $1tr in costs implies notional value of instruments traded each year of approx $
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5y ago
> a trillion dollars annually? lol. source / evidence?
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5y ago
TC? WLB?
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5y ago
Ha ha lol what? In the grand scheme of things its a tiny amount of money for a bank with a €1tr balance sheet, the overhead of recovering the cash, not to mention the poor publicity, will be enormously costly, but most of all, how exactly i
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5y ago
I think we're already past that point....
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5y ago
> Instead of our workdays becoming fewer and shorter, If that happened any increase in productivity would be offset by the reduced time worked, so no one would get richer (very simplistically). At the end of the day, humans are competiti
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5y ago
Maybe in some localised areas. Globally tho absolutely not; in recent years huge numbers of people have been pulled into the middle classes, probably a 1bn+ in India and China, and Africa is now the fastest growing economy, with the world b
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5y ago
So? Ever since the industrial revolution new technology has obsoleted jobs. 98% of us used to be farmers. Excel put gazillions of book-keepers out of work. But we're still at basically full employment: there's thousands of jobs no
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5y ago
> TypeScript/JavaScript (where the documentation is horrendous) Clearly you've never had to do anything in VBA....
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5y ago
The alert itself is harmless, but demonstrates that arbitrary javascript - which could certainly not be harmless - can be injected into the page.
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5y ago
"it makes both imaginary and real phone calls" wonderful
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5y ago
Not in the UK
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5y ago
I don't agree with his argument. I'd argue that it's perfectly possible for something that took huge skill and execution brilliance to create to be ugly / tasteless / vulgar, indeed completely tasteless.
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5y ago
How does the tracking work? So the birds are carrying a GPS chip? How is the location transmitted back to the researchers? - they are over the pacific for most of the flight
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5y ago
Some years ago I stumbled upon an "old" documentary on the Voyager missions, from the 80s or 90s I think. It covered the work done on orbit mechanics in the early 70s, the realisation that in a couple of years time there'd be
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5y ago
yes it's just a webpage styled to look like a terminal. not sure what the big deal is
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5y ago
what reporting requirements? The UK hasn't "noped" out of anything, all EU directives were imported wholesale, as is new regulation so we can pursue equivalence. The PRA will not deviate from Basel even slightly.
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