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I'm currently re-reading For Whom The Bell Tolls. It's important to strip away the legend surrounding the author and appreciate the writing itself, and it's clear Hemmingway is a great writer.
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I've been spending the extra time learning to DJ, just for fun.
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Yes I agree.
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"Until today no one knows who started Marne counter offensive. What matters is that someone did." Good point. It's the actions and deeds that count rather than the person.
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Do you think the European political leadership will take any lessons from this? It's been good to see some doctors stepping up and spreading information, particularly from Italy.
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Ask HN: Examples of good leadership during the pandemic?
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My 2 cents. Interest rates are so low that central banks will no longer be able to use that lever to stimulate economies. One idea is salary tax holidays i.e. do not tax wages for a period of time such as one or two months. More money will
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Russia closed its border with China in January. Article (pay wall) https://www.ft.com/content/75adafb6-4306-11ea-abea-0c7a29cd6...
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Ask HN: Second order effects of Coronavirus
4 points by smarri 7y ago|1 comments
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Ascent of Money - Niall Ferguson The Long and Short of It - John Kay A great place to look is the second hand study books for professional qualifications like the CFA, Chartered Banker and so on
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Europe to US travel halted over coronavirus(bbc.co.uk)
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I found 1Password to be good, used in a 500 person organisation
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Credit risk in finance e.g. forecasting bad debt.
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Legend
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Just to add another angle. Do you need the money? If so take it. Or, if you think it'll be worth more or more useful later then wait. Time value of money.
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Comments. And they are often more insightful.
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If true, this is absolutely outrageous behaviour from Facebook and companies involved or doing similar things. It's stalking branded as advertising.
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Highlighting is an obvious answer. Children do it at school. I wish the guy well, but it's as I said, underwhelming.
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Absolute turbo geezers
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Good luck to him and his system. This line amazed me by how underwhelming it was "The core of the system is highlighting."
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Yes. Contrary to the other comments, the UK is a great place to live and there are plenty of places beyond London where house prices are sensible and £500k can go a long way. Depends what you want the house for though.
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Edinburgh is great, worked there for 5 years. Great work life balance and city. I like London too.
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Financial Times. Articles relevant to work and comments section makes for good reading i.e. often well informed commentators and debate, usually the journalists chime in too.
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Part time job
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Hand sanitizer, work from home, cancel non essential travel
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To answer your question; Regulation could disrupt the networks. Building a new network piece by piece. A new globally accepted currency, a distributed network, and a new card issuer (virtual and physical). TLDR; I think it is very difficult
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Do you need investors?
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TLDR some people are rich, some are less rich, and some are not rich. SF developers probably earn more than developers in London.
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You're right I missed that!
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Spreadsheet

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