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by retube 6y ago
I believe WeChat allows anyone to send and receive money, make payments etc, and at huge stale. No idea how implemented, but no blockchain nonsense.
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by retube 6y ago
"Safer than stocks. The stock market is volatile and risky compared to property ownership" That's a bold statement. Property markets can crash too. And what happens if a crappy tenant trashes the place, or the property turns
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by retube 6y ago
Hi - how did you lock down your kids iPhone? Am more of an android man but will be getting a refurbed iPhone 7 for my daughter (apparently they are "better" than Samsung)
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by retube 6y ago
I had not realised that Rolls Royce the car manufacturer was now owned by BMW and not Rolls Royce
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by retube 6y ago
I've always thought that these "dependency"-driven recalculations was akin to functional programming paradigms. Or am I misunderstanding functional?
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by retube 6y ago
> Is your mind blown? Yep, ours too. Hhhmm, no. I can't even understand the supposed problem / paradox here?
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by retube 6y ago
This is a very misunderstood article. The money they "create", i.e loaned or paid out, has to be funded by a deposit or similar borrowing. Making sure they can fund all their commitments is what liquidity managers and treasury dep
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by retube 6y ago
what kind of a deal do they have with Google? why would Google agree to this?
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by retube 6y ago
a bloomberg terminal isn't a physical terminal. it just runs on your PC
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by retube 6y ago
Sorry that's complete nonsense. it's routine in Europe and the UK to offer stock options. what's more you're only taxed when any gains are actually crystallised - so much more attractive / less risky than the US.
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by retube 6y ago
agreed
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by retube 6y ago
"currency"
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by retube 6y ago
Thanks. And now I have discovered the "End" button!
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by retube 6y ago
After 20 years of using keyboards, I have, thanks to this comment, discovered the "Home" button.
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by retube 6y ago
Really depends what apps the databases are supporting. Big banks have thousands of internal apps (as opposed to client facing services) to support workflows, business analysis and management reporting. Might be a fine choice for some of tha
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by retube 6y ago
How does it track individual users without cookies?
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by retube 7y ago
pretty sure a legacy interface that is gonna get killed at some point, but https://www.reddit.com/.compact is absolutely the best view on mobile.
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by retube 7y ago
and it loads at light speed
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by retube 7y ago
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
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by retube 7y ago
A bond is an asset, just as shares are, as they are securities you can buy in exchange for future cash flows (contractual in the case of the bond, discretionary for the share). Both are only a liability for the issuer.
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by retube 7y ago
> except for the fat bankers QE has been horrific for banks. Net interest income has collapsed. it's less pronounced in the US, but in Europe where central banks have taken rates to 0 (or below) bank profits have all but been wiped
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by retube 7y ago
Looks promising, thanks!
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Ask HN: Looking for an online / cloud backup solution
2 points by retube 7y ago|6 comments
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by retube 7y ago
Indeed. To select one data point: had you been born in Russia in 1923 you had only a 32% chance of making it to 1946. infant mortality, famine and then WW2 meant that 68% of the 1923 cohort died before they were 23.
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by retube 7y ago
> No middleman except for a handful of giant server farms in china
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by retube 7y ago
It's not like he's moving to the EU which I agree would possibly arguably make him seem like a hypocrit. He's moving to a non-EU country tho, so.... ?
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by retube 7y ago
> Do people actually invest in these bonds? Absolutely > Why would they not put it in a safer, positive returning, investment like US bonds? At a minimum you are exposed to the exchange rate with your domestic currency, and FX can be
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by retube 7y ago
No one "sets" bond yields. They are determined by supply and demand in the market. Buying pressure pushes up bond prices (which reduces their yield).
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by retube 7y ago
Absolutely agree. maybe its just cos I am coming from languages with braces (java) but yeah I find the lack of braces + whitespace having meaning (tabs versus spaces for example) _incredibly_ frustrating I also don't like the fact it i
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by retube 7y ago
Yup also no button for me. I am in a corp environment so possibly something blocked (youtube is for example, so am not expecting the site to work anyway)

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