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by shjake 4y ago
It seems to be only a question whether they will receive 80-90% or the full 100% though.
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by shjake 4y ago
It’s not unimaginable that he managed to delay the bad news from coming for a couple of days before the sale went through though.
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by shjake 4y ago
I think those were “just” the yearly bonuses all employees receive.
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by shjake 4y ago
It seems that SVB had enough assets cover 80-90% of all depositors regardless if they fall under the FDIC limit or not
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by shjake 4y ago
It’s usually how it works, I mean it would indicate that they are unable to plan ahead by more than one month which doesn’t look great at all… If they wanted 0.5 they could just hike it by 0.25 and add another 0.25 later. Exactly the same o
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by shjake 4y ago
Sorry, you’re right. For some reason I thought it happened at the same time as the Icelandic banking crisis back in 2008-2009.
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by shjake 4y ago
It’s not though? Deterministic non black box models are superior unless the only thing you’re after is a coherent(ish) reply in English.
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by shjake 4y ago
Back then 9% was such a spectacular yield, “only” 2-3% above what many other more reliable Euro banks were offering
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by shjake 4y ago
> 50bps It would be very damaging for their credibility if they hiked by 50bps after already doing 25. Of course it depends on what’s the CPI next week but if it’s good/as-expected 50bps would be very surprising
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by shjake 4y ago
Twitter already had a much lower workforce than FB or Google, etc. After a the cuts it’s even smaller so I guess there is just way lessons people who can or are interested in talking about it.
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by shjake 4y ago
Same applies to drugs? No? Isn’t the point of the FDA to limit the consumption of potentially harmful substances despite the willingness of someone to consume it?
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by shjake 4y ago
Annualized inflation in last quarter was just 3.1% and Core was 4.6%. The peak in Q2 was 10.5% and 6.6%. So looking just at the YoY figure is problematic cause it’s a strongly lagging indicator. Of course it depends if the current trend con
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by shjake 4y ago
Or rather it discourages people from attempting to apply at multiple places to get the best offer..
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Toblerone to change design under ‘Swissness’ rules(theguardian.com)
99 points by shjake 4y ago|179 comments
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by shjake 4y ago
How do you know it was 1000€? Maybe if it was closer to let’s say 500 and an extra 300 was seemed like a reasonable price to them for the additional convenience.
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by shjake 4y ago
I thought an overwhelming majority list to music on headphones/earphones? As for the rest it seems for me that cheaper (“non-smart”) HomePod style speakers are pretty prevalent at least in higher income countries
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by shjake 4y ago
Porsche is the majority shareholder in VW and VW itself owns 75% of Porsche (100% before the IPO)
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by shjake 4y ago
They don’t. But it’s not like anyone could buy VW it’s partially owned by the state and the trade unions could easily block it. All of that is reflected in VWs share price. Without all this ‘socialism’ VW could probably easily buy Ford itse
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by shjake 4y ago
The EU parliament doesn’t directly appoint the EU government and it can’t propose new legislation. They just approve what’s sent to them.
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by shjake 4y ago
True. I guess I just meant that it’s way easier to hide something if you know what you’re doing.
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by shjake 4y ago
You don’t get to vote for the members of the commission they all are appointed. And the parliament is a joke it can’t even propose legislation they just rubber-stamp what’s sent to them by the commission. They also don’t get a say in appoin
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by shjake 4y ago
That’s just false… They vote for the president of the commission that’s true. However all the members are appointed by the governments of the member states. The parliament only gets a vote whether to confirm the commission in its entirety.
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by shjake 4y ago
The parliament is a joke. It can propose legislation and most people don’t vote at all during EU elections and those that do rarely take it seriously
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by shjake 4y ago
Commissioners are not appointed by the parliament they are appointed by the governments of the members states. They often use it as a way to get rid of influential but incompetent politicians for a fee years..
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by shjake 4y ago
Not really. They are usually a sum of some clique of useful idiot/lobbyists and somewhat competent busybody career bureaucrat desires.
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by shjake 4y ago
The government of Germany does officially support it. So I guess if they are serious about it we’re sort of safe for the next few years.
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by shjake 4y ago
What does some random EU bureaucrat know anything about it? The commission is even worse. Most countries just send their loudest/incompetent/etc idiots to get them out of the way for a few years. Just look the commission president
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by shjake 4y ago
Software has close to zero cost and very low barrier of entry. Also it’s much harder to enforce, the police can’t really “raid” your computer (yet) the same way they could an illegal gun making workshop.
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by shjake 4y ago
It’s probably gonna be closer to how they enforce GDPR. So open source developers whose apps have very little market share will mostly be ignored. Of course it doesn’t really matter the few big companies which control 99%+ of the market wil
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by shjake 4y ago
Unintentional mistakes in text books are usually very different though. ChatGPT tends to just hallucinate facts which would make zero to the people (95%+) who are writing text books. Alternatively it can just parrot random (pop history myth

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