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vageli
7y ago
> Of course it is not as simple as that, you could check the benefits you get from (Including recently launched zero commission trading) https://www.revolut.com/en-US/our-pricing-plans > Still, I would agree that
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vageli
7y ago
> > many places, for example, will accept Visa and Mastercard but not Discover. > But that's explicit and the same for everybody. If you accepted Discover from somebody and not from somebody else, THAT would be discrimination.
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vageli
7y ago
> Secure enough to process $50 trillion in 2018. How is that any indication of its security?
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vageli
7y ago
> +1. I’ve often wondered how these cashback services like the ones you mentioned, or, for example, the restaurant ones like aadvantage dining work. Do the affiliates get all your transactions? (I really hope not). Or, do the affiliates
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vageli
7y ago
> Then use cash? This is typically infeasible for online transactions.
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vageli
7y ago
> I think from a practical perspective the biggest advantage of the European system is that every household gets three phases. This is I guess likely the reason you have many more gas stoves in the US than in Europe where you can easily
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vageli
7y ago
> Sounds like genuine interest is worth more than number of followers. The question is, how do you discover users who would have genuine interest and would share with like-minded friends? hashtag searches? Analyze follower of followers o
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vageli
7y ago
> To be fair, I don't think humans have any way of verifying that you're trustworthy. Anyone can send email from your email address. Anyone can fake a driver's license. Anyone can get a phone number that meets their criter
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vageli
7y ago
> Don't worry about it, if they follow through and it works it won't have meant much if they said that. That's a pretty big if though, and if it doesn't work that statement precludes recourse.
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vageli
7y ago
> Switzerland would first need to be part of the European Union to be able to be part of the Euro Currency region. They voted against this in 1992 and again in 2001. I am not swiss myself so take this with a grain of salt, but a quick re
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vageli
7y ago
> The only doctrine I believe anymore is that of original sin. I've spent too much time among humans to imagine there are any who aren't broken. But your belief is that we are born broken, and not that it is the world that brea
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vageli
7y ago
> You mean the first amendment right? The US military machine would decimate any civilians wielding weapons if they were so inclined. They wouldn't even have to use troops, they could do so with drones. If this was the truth why is
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vageli
7y ago
> Is there anything an early startup employee can do to safeguard against this? Is the only viable exit for a non-C-suite going public? > Can options be traded / liquidated legally outside of the stock market? There are secondary
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vageli
7y ago
I took > It doesn't matter who is shorting etc to mean that short activity had no consequence.
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vageli
7y ago
> Is it? Wal-Mart's revenue is 500billion. 500 thosand is .0001%. If you make 200k, thats like suing someone over 20 bucks So we just accept violations of the law because of some arbitrary scale you made up? Can you cite any laws th
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vageli
7y ago
Shorters _are_ people looking to sell the stock at the current asking price with the hope that they can buy the underlying equity at a discount in the future. Your statements are literally at odds with one another.
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vageli
7y ago
Is it really though? I can understand aspects of nature being necessarily complex, but a human invention's complexity seems almost arbitrary and something to be solved for. Like, mathematics is necessarily complex because it describes
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vageli
7y ago
The fact that the response was outright hostile requires escalation either to HR or to this person's manager. > He said it was my fault for being confused and to email him when I am. That is definitely something I'd want on HR&
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vageli
7y ago
> And? Why are audits targeted to a type of organization a problem? > If doctors started forming non-profits to do financial engineering to get tax-exempt status, I'd sure as hell hope that the IRS would devote a bit more scrutin
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vageli
7y ago
> Just last week I received an email from a manager saying "Never do (this), especially with US customers." > Three days after that email I ran into (this) situation and emailed him asking what I am to do. He said frustratin
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vageli
7y ago
But, closing an account does result in all of the money coming out, avoiding any potential balance issues since the deposit is refunded upon closure, in full.
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vageli
7y ago
> Well, I don't know but for the sake of argument, yes. > But how does that account for differences in accent and dialect? Some areas of the UK can be close to unintelligible for me without a few hours of acclimatisation and they
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vageli
7y ago
> well, that and moving large sums of money isn't quite as easy as say changing email providers In what ways? If you close your account they need to give you all of your money at the time of closure. Having worked at a bank, I can t
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vageli
7y ago
> The bank informed Mr. Einaudi that it was closing all 13 of the checking accounts it provided his roofing company, CRV Construction, for a reason it called “confidential.” > Citibank did that to two of my accounts. Good thing they w
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vageli
7y ago
> Python, go, rust and other obscure or archaic languages struggle with json. I recommend using a modern language such as js/nodejs, as it is meant for the web - where json is king among formats. In what ways are the languages you l
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vageli
7y ago
> The officer should still have discretion here to let someone go if they don't feel the person is impaired. But giving them a number means they can't use that discretion the opposite way, e.g. arresting someone because "t
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vageli
7y ago
This concept is explored in ELIZA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza_(video_game)
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vageli
7y ago
> And then goes on to say "any company wide illegal behavior", and states that even if they did not know about it, it was their responsibility to know, and they would still go to jail for it. Perhaps we're reading it diffe
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vageli
7y ago
> If I want to buy a camera to place in my own home without having it light up (and without having to mod it), that's my business. > I understand what you're getting at: you want to protect average people from predatory devi
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vageli
7y ago
> "being able to prove they didn't delete it" is a somewhat higher bar that you probably need to at least consider before starting that lawsuit... > I've been discussing/arguing recently about whether being ab
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