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by robjan 6y ago
Leetcode is an example of a company who sells to both sides: the candidate and employers. This results in an arms race which is great for them because it results in more revenue. You don't have to participate and there are plenty of co
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by robjan 6y ago
If you do these things because you want to rather than trying to trick people into thinking you are interested you will have a more happy and fulfilling career.
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by robjan 6y ago
A lot of the time paracetamol and rest is the correct intervention. You wouldn't believe the number of people who see their GP because they have a cold, hangover or graze. I now live in a region where there aren't really public do
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by robjan 6y ago
An engineer builds systems to solve problems. It's as simple as that. I have a Master's degree in Computer Science but that doesn't necessarily make me better than someone who doesn't and it certainly doesn't mean t
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by robjan 6y ago
It's hard to calculate how many have been sold bit here. The Bible is the most widely sold/circulated book. https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/best-sell...
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by robjan 6y ago
Shouldn't any sensible person see a red triangle with an exclamation mark and read the notice?
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by robjan 6y ago
Almost every working person is invested in the stock market through various pension and retirement plans. To put things very simplistically, if the stock market goes down, people aren't going to be able to retire.
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by robjan 6y ago
Looks like the first line of the address for the headquarters of Tencent Cloud in Shenzhen.
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by robjan 6y ago
It's still inconvenient. The inconvenience ranges from slightly annoying to "I have lost all my messages and now have to find all of my friends/family/colleagues contact details again somehow".
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by robjan 6y ago
Most companies don't allow fully remote or remote in different time zones. If they did, they could just outsource all the work to nationals of lower cost of living countries.
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by robjan 6y ago
If x EUR is worth y USD, any discount results in someone losing money or taking on Forex risk through some derivative product. It doesn't matter which settlement layer is used.
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by robjan 6y ago
A Forex trade is still taking place so there must be a counterparty. The USD don't just disappear and reappear as EUR. Someone is buying them on the other side. Getting a better rate implies the counterparty getting a worse rate.
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by robjan 6y ago
If they are able to beat the interbank rate it means they are either buying the currency from someone below market value (in which case that person is being shafted) or taking on Forex risk themselves.
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by robjan 6y ago
That doesn't make it a zero sum game. The transaction is zero sum but not the market. If the market were zero sum, the indices would never change.
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by robjan 6y ago
You're not too far off it though. The people I know in back office roles at GS tend to have a better work-life balance than most other people I know.
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by robjan 6y ago
They could fork the chain and do whatever they want then influence public policy to accept the new formed chain.
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by robjan 6y ago
The difference is if you are an employee you are more likely to need to make changes to your own messy code so there is an incentive to keep it clean
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by robjan 6y ago
It's not even clear where the company is physically located. It's a Hong Kong company but all of the addresses here are just virtual offices and shell companies.
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by robjan 6y ago
When large investors sell they usually don't sell on the exchange, partially to avoid moving the market too much.
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by robjan 6y ago
Why post pretty much the same counterargument on every thread about bitcoin when it's arguing against an assertion which hasn't even been made
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by robjan 6y ago
That's a very US centric view. These are also popular in other countries, such as the Netherlands: https://expatinfoholland.nl/help-guides/transport-mobility/d...
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by robjan 6y ago
It seems that the people who need it the most are least likely to gain utility from it.
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by robjan 6y ago
The problem is that the purpose of the Blockchain is to achieve distributed trustless consensus. Any time the Blockchain interacts with the physical world you need to introduce a centralised trusted entity (the oracle problem)
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by robjan 6y ago
Way ahead of you https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/spaces
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by robjan 6y ago
It's very cheap to borrow money and has been for the last decade. The more you borrow, the more you can capture the economic growth.
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by robjan 6y ago
Then it becomes attractive for the neighbour to sell their house. There are two sides to a market.
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by robjan 6y ago
How many people use YouTube and how many people currently own bitcoin? The difference is probably currently several orders of magnitude. If Bitcoin truly does become the new money to which everyone benefits from, the price will probably go
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by robjan 6y ago
The people down in the mines digging gold / blood diamonds are replaced by computers. I don't think the people who own these computers are being exploited.
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by robjan 6y ago
Please refrain from assuming that anyone asking a question is being "snarky"
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by robjan 6y ago
Which models? The only thing I can find to support your claim is random people tweeting that they think it will be worth 1M. I guess when enough people say something it becomes a "fact"

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