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by tonfa 9y ago
Index funds might be forced to invest though.
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by tonfa 9y ago
Why not? Isn't that what they should do in case of a kernel security issue?
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by tonfa 9y ago
You don't need Swiss level of labor costs, self checkout was pretty common in France 8 years ago. Most likely it's a combination of cost + faster checkout (since self checkout are always all open, while regular lane staffing depen
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by tonfa 9y ago
Even if they run Android apps?
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by tonfa 9y ago
At least on my twitter stream, there were people reselling tickets since they couldn't make it. Maybe another way to get one?
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by tonfa 9y ago
They usually have a mortgage. (And tax incentives might help to increase home ownership)
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by tonfa 9y ago
They can prosecute the operators of those sites, not like it didn't happen in the internet before. Usually some things survive, but at the cost of extra hurdles (e.g. only accessible via tor, but even there, some people got busted thro
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by tonfa 9y ago
The trend is towards KYC compliance and automatic sharing with tax authorities. I assume after a while very few countries will tolerate exchanges not complying.
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by tonfa 9y ago
> I think your dilemma is largely an imaginary one, fretting over a resource (disk space) that is too plentiful to require micromanagement. I think the need for GC in git is likely also tied to its original resource intensive implementat
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by tonfa 9y ago
> I have seen people get in trouble with rebasing and generally while manipulating history but never with the staging area. I think that's what mercurial tries to solve, it makes manipulating history safe (by tracking the state of t
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by tonfa 9y ago
Can't you use futures for that? No risks of hacks.
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by tonfa 9y ago
So that's more fee than the worst wire transfer or credit card currency exchange?
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by tonfa 9y ago
I guess it's convenient not to have to deal with a payment processor when selling the kittens. I'm not sure how happy PayPal et al would be to take their business.
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by tonfa 9y ago
Do you know what is the current status for Hg on PyPy? (I guess that besides portability that was also a motivation for keeping the pure python bits around.
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by tonfa 9y ago
You really keep your savings in cash beyond your emergency fund? (I'd think most people don't)
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by tonfa 9y ago
I don't think e.g. wikipedia agrees with such a restrictive view (there are many form of socialism). Also many of those countries have their main left wing party named "socialist party". (I think it's cultural difference
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by tonfa 9y ago
I think the word is a trigger in US politics somehow (since the Cold War and maybe McCarthyism?). While outside it's just a normal political current (and most of the western democracies besides the US will recognize and embrace some el
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by tonfa 9y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12439826 (I'm sure there are others tho)
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by tonfa 9y ago
There are some proposals to have the 300k be actually created by the central bank. For example the Vollgeld initiative in Switzerland: https://www.vollgeld-initiative.ch/english/ One of the logical extension is to allo
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by tonfa 9y ago
With most dual taxation treaty, and automatic sharing between countries (incl. almost all those you cited, starting this and next year), that is slowly going away.
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by tonfa 9y ago
Capital gains from active trading is taxed in Switzerland though.
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by tonfa 9y ago
It works with u2f as well.
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by tonfa 9y ago
Looked at one randomly, looks like some University fund is a shareholder (with over 200 other funds) of a Warburg Pincus fund (a private equity company). I'm not exactly sure how that's a big deal, nothing there implies they avoid
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by tonfa 9y ago
I wonder if it's just a coincidence with the fact that germany is one of the countries where tax authority can use (and pay for) stolen banking data. https://www.thelocal.de/20170705/german-investigators-pay-5-...
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by tonfa 9y ago
You can still avoid dual taxation, they would just pay tax on the max(all country with worldwide taxation).
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by tonfa 9y ago
Nice, good to know!
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by tonfa 9y ago
> I'd rather store my savings in something that is not (by design) decreasing in value. That's why you don't want to store your wealth in "cash" for investing, you most likely want to lend capital to new ventures
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by tonfa 9y ago
I also use routing code to force long layover (e.g. go from Europe to SF via London, and spend the night in London to visit friends, on the same ticket).
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by tonfa 9y ago
If you get a typical 4 years grant, on average you already had 2 years of stock market exposure on the price...
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by tonfa 9y ago
Out of curiosity, why do you think so? I've used fingerprint sensor from both front and back, and I find back more natural (my fingers usually rest on the back of the phone).

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