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by tonfa 7y ago
The FED is not very happy about narrow banking so far: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-08/the-fe...
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by tonfa 7y ago
Even in Roman times currency were debased though. Financial technology has a pretty long history (Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible, was a pretty cool read on that).
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by tonfa 7y ago
FYI this is discussed in the conclusion: > First, the use of lipid-lowering medication was unaccounted for. The risk associated with high cholesterol might have been underestimated. However, in Korea, IHD mortality accounted for only app
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by tonfa 7y ago
The documented way is the noindex tag (in html or http headers): https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93710?hl=en
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by tonfa 7y ago
The market cap (valuation) is the value of one share times the number of outstanding shares (those part of the IPO but also all the existing ones). $8B is the amount of capital raised during the IPO.
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by tonfa 8y ago
The checklist was given elsewhere in the thread: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/44186/97892... it really doesn't strike me as something that dumbs down the job...
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by tonfa 8y ago
And phone CPUs can be more complex than most desktops, afaik big.LITTLE is fairly common (multi core, with different performance / power tradeoffs between the cores). https://lwn.net/Articles/501501/ has some
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by tonfa 8y ago
That argument might seem ok if you compare satellite vs. hq (tho I doubt that's actually true), but breaks down if you compare two non-hq offices (e.g. Boulder vs. Zurich).
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by tonfa 8y ago
https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/backtest-asset-class-all... You can backtest it there. BTW 100% stock will likely beat the stock+fund, but at the cost of higher volatility (which can be an issue if you need the money eg
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by tonfa 8y ago
What's the issue with what they are doing? Isn't it the case for most pension system that the retirement age has been increased over time to make up for life expectancy improvements? Also the assets under management sounds pretty
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by tonfa 8y ago
Headline is somewhat misleading, since that advisory seems to be the same as previous year (and maybe previous years?).
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by tonfa 8y ago
My understanding is that since 2018, tax deferral is no longer possible and all the offshore profit of US corporation has since been taxed. Was that wrong? Also my understanding is that even before, the income moved to tax haven was still s
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by tonfa 8y ago
But airlines sometimes requires it (and afaik they're allowed to). (Not all, I've done quite a few flights without being ever checked, seems to depend on airlines and/or airports).
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by tonfa 8y ago
Is that tenure at the time where people leave, or avg tenure of current employees? (if the later it's expected to be short, given the 40% y/y growth).
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by tonfa 8y ago
Isn't it standard that grants are renewed yearly? If so you'll always be "leaving money on the table" (but then if you switch company you'd probably get a new grant, right?)
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by tonfa 8y ago
Would instagram work? (I have some photographer friends and they seem fairly active there).
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by tonfa 8y ago
> The only kind of business that is seriously affected by VAT is highly price-sensitive B2C, and technology startups usually aren’t that. Even there I'm not sure it matters, unlike corporate tax it's a local tax, so it's s
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by tonfa 8y ago
Most qualified jobs have a 39h/week contract (with extra vacation day to compensate), and among those people many seem to do much more with no extra pay (without realizing they actually get a pretty shitty pay for the amount of time th
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by tonfa 8y ago
Does Gmail show ads? I had the impression that was not the case now.
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by tonfa 8y ago
it's a non fish-able token, a password can be fished a security key can't. For most people I'd think the biggest risk are non physical attacks.
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by tonfa 8y ago
I think the point of a key like the nano is to permanently put it on your device, not carry it around.
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by tonfa 8y ago
Isn't making concrete a large emitter of co2 as well?
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by tonfa 8y ago
I can't find the link to some Matt Levine's article explaining it, but iirc it's not that the company has to be public, but that it has similar requirements from the SEC as a public company. At this point since you have to ab
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by tonfa 8y ago
Yes, and they do vote. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-30/iss-tells... has some useful pointers.
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by tonfa 8y ago
Do I get it right that in the US charity donations are a tax credit, with no limits? Where I'm currently resident we simply get to deduct it from income, iirc you can deduct up to 20% of your yearly income. That might avoid the ethical
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by tonfa 8y ago
I thought they started from an existing microkernel actually.
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by tonfa 8y ago
It's not that uncommon. Many Swiss cantons have a progressive wealth tax. France used to have one but it's now limited to real estate holdings.
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by tonfa 8y ago
Beer might be a bad example, isn't alcohol generally very expensive in Scandinavian countries? (Though indeed cost of living is probably on the higher side)
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by tonfa 8y ago
Also isn't that specie not native from a bunch of place where it currently is anyway? (at least Europe/America/Australia/Pacific islands)
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by tonfa 8y ago
Are you referring to a particular GCP feature that got turned down after reaching GA?

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