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by tonfa 9y ago
If they rent it they pay income tax anyway (or rather the company that owns the place does). The "virtual rent" added to income is for people who own the place where they live. Switzerland is not very home ownership friendly, at l
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by tonfa 9y ago
On android, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and... supports a bunch of languages (and emoji).
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by tonfa 9y ago
I think it's similar prices in France, xray+consultation is in the order of 60 EUR.
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by tonfa 9y ago
https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=commission... (Not an endorsement in any way and I'm sure there are others). Fees are min($2, 0.002%), typical spread is a few pip or much less (eg. EURUSD at the
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by tonfa 9y ago
Stock broker with FX, market spread and low fee, total result can easily be less than 0.1% (and even a lot less most likely closer to 0.01%).
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by tonfa 9y ago
According to wikipedia they are the pixel's manufacturer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_(smartphone)
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by tonfa 9y ago
You don't. Your phone needs to be on the internet tho. Personally I like this setup, it's simple and just works. And no issue about missing some messages or duplicate notifications (which is sometimes the case with multi endpoint
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by tonfa 9y ago
That matches the behavior of the speed control I've seen in Renault cars.
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by tonfa 9y ago
It's much more limited, WA is e2e encrypted so only metadata is accessible.
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by tonfa 9y ago
> The current cost to move $10m of bitcoin across international borders is about $1. Attempt the same via conventional means and you'll quickly realise it's benefits go beyond monetary efficiency. I'm fairly sure the cost
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by tonfa 9y ago
> Nobody could think of anything TfL wasn’t already trying, and the prize went unclaimed. I'd assume they did, especially if it's something that's done elsewhere.
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by tonfa 9y ago
> "Happy" is a funny word though. Google is legally obligated to release kernel changes and legally forbidden from shipping kernels that incorporate other people's GPL-incompatible drivers. I suppose the OP was also talkin
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by tonfa 9y ago
Yes, the rule is based on how much you pay for your unlimited plan compared to wholesale regulated rates. (tho they plan to lower the regulated rates over time)
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by tonfa 9y ago
It's often easier to acquire it at least partially, it's not necessarily being greedy as much as not owning the 3rd party data in the first place (but having a license to it). OSM is more of an all or nothing, everything has to be
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by tonfa 9y ago
> I can't for the life of me understand why Apple pays TomTom for maps of places where OpenStreetMap is unequivocally more accurate. I suppose they can't easily, since the OSM license change. My understanding is they'd hav
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by tonfa 9y ago
The french media are still reporting on it. Mostly to say they couldn't find anything damaging, and that it was most likely meant to push a conspiracy agenda ("press is hiding scandals"). (fr link) http://www.lemon
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by tonfa 9y ago
In case there is a misunderstanding: There are a lot of ETFs that are exactly the same as another mutual fund, especially among index funds. The only difference is that one is traded in an exchange, while for the other you buy shares from t
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by tonfa 9y ago
You can. Some mutual funds are available depending on countries. But in any case you can just buy the ETFs, either in the US stock exchanges (same as you would buy your FB or AAPL shares), or they also have some UCITS version trading in eur
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by tonfa 9y ago
Is there anything on record claiming that the Bundesbank tried to withdraw more than 300 tons but was denied (besides the speculations)? Officially, they wanted to rebalance some of their holdings. The original plan was to remove 150 tons
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by tonfa 9y ago
Also all that gold is not in open market, just in central banks and international institutions (e.g. IMF) balance sheets. So I assume the argument is that they're covering it up.
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by tonfa 9y ago
> the deposits are effectively on call, and apparently they are not IMO you need more than speculation to claim that. Besides, it is known that US gold bars are of poor quality (a lot of the Banque de France gold is being recast because
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by tonfa 9y ago
That's said you only need to take over the Bundesplatz in Berne. (Still I'm not sure what it would achieve to start an open war...)
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by tonfa 9y ago
I've always wondered: what would happen when most nations central bank's gold holding drop below say 20%? or 10%? Is there a cliff where gold as a store of value just starts crashing? Or would the fantasy continue for the non-inst
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by tonfa 9y ago
And they ended up doing it slowly, just 3 years ahead of the 2020 schedule. I wonder why there is only a conspiracy for the FED but not for e.g. the Banque de France. Just because the amounts held by Germany are smaller?
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by tonfa 9y ago
And according to that site, the US owes Germany over $400B, so not sure what the point would be.
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by tonfa 9y ago
I would assume the gold is typically never traded by moving it physically between location, but just brought into a vault where both parties have an account (like the Fed, or London) They didn't say how much gold they had at the Fed, j
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by tonfa 9y ago
It's a lot of "clearly that's how it happens" because from the author viewpoint (pro gold holdings), anything else would not make sense. E.g.: "It seems clear that they negotiated hard with the US and acted rather s
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by tonfa 9y ago
Another reason is that a lot of gold trading is and was happening between central banks. (and moving the gold physically is a pain, easier to have them all in the same location, that's what the FRBNY account is for)
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by tonfa 9y ago
They do. Switzerland sold more than half of their gold in the past 20 years, including all their holdings at the Federal Reserve in New York (that's like 1300 tons of gold that was sold, in comparison the hundreds of tons that are ment
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by tonfa 10y ago
Do you know about ETF? Most of the Vanguard mutual funds have an ETF version.

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