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by verbify 5y ago
£1000 is relatively cheap for a one off transport cost. An annual tube fare is between £1480 and £2708 depending on how many zones you want to travel in.
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by verbify 5y ago
I think the phrase 'proofing yeast' in bread making has the same connotations - you're testing that the yeast is still alive.
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Anecdotally I recall the beer aisles being relatively empty during the so-called panic buying, except for corona which were untouched. Companies spend a lot of money to associate their brand with a good feeling, I can't imagine that th
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by verbify 5y ago
Abuse detection is more important at scale. If you have a local app servicing a single city, they're less of a target than Uber.
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by verbify 5y ago
Tragedy of the commons
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by verbify 5y ago
His companies are marketing/branding companies. They lease the name Virgin and in exchange they handle the branding. Virgin Management doesn't actually own the hotels or planes.
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That's a pretty bad statement, but not close to "kill the Jews".
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Not SEC, but US attorney for the Southern District Preet Bharara apparently made his fame by going after Wall Street bigwigs. I don't know much about him besides his Wikipedia page (which could be edited by a PR firm), but it seems tha
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by verbify 5y ago
Reagents generally test for presence, not purity, so all you can conclude is that there is some ketamine in there.
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by verbify 5y ago
> "Every single ancestor I had from my parents back to algae had offspring. What if I don't? A large proportion of your ancestors offspring didn't themselves have offspring.
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by verbify 5y ago
Presumably they specialised in coronaviruses because of the proximity to a bat population with coronaviruses, making sample gathering much easier? Are there other areas with significant coronavirus hosts? Are there other labs that specialis
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You can restore a foreskin to some extent, an early form of this was practiced in the 8th century BC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreskin_restoration
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The NIKKEI would've given you a positive return if you bought and held and reinvested dividends. And picking the worst point in one of the worst indices does not mean much - most investors are not investing a lump sum (they're usu
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by verbify 5y ago
Not only that, but 24% of the ruling Conservative Party members of parliament are also landlords, including the housing minister. Partly that, but also partly that in a constituency based system, there will be a bias towards those who are i
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by verbify 5y ago
In the UK there are lots of government policies/incentives by the Conservative Party to encourage people to buy a home. These policies can be revoked.
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I think it's generous to attribute reusable rockets to Musk - the Space Shuttle Columbia went on 17 missions - Musk didn't develop the first reusable rocket. As for electric cars, I believe the limiting factor was battery technolo
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by verbify 6y ago
Electric bikes mitigate some of your concerns.
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by verbify 6y ago
Sorry, you're right I meant marginal.
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by verbify 6y ago
The 60% effective tax rate is only on earnings between 100k and 125k, and only because of the loss of certain tax benefits. After 125k it drops back to 40%. It's really silly that it exists, but isn't representative of UK tax rate
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by verbify 6y ago
They do, I'm thinking of certain Ultra Orthodox sects (not all, but Skver for example). Most of their literature is religious in nature (the plays of Sholem Aleichem would be anathema to them), and religious books are traditionally wri
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by verbify 6y ago
Yiddish always borrows from the local language.
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by verbify 6y ago
There are more native speakers of Yiddish today than there were 10, 20 or 30 years ago. The trajectory is going in the opposite direction.
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by verbify 6y ago
Couldn't they have implemented mute in software? There would be little outrage if they had (users don't care about the difference) but spy agencies (e.g. NSO Group) would have a backdoor. The fact that they used a hardware switch
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by verbify 6y ago
What about the cost of gas? Larger cars often have worse miles per gallon.
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The remaining Western wall of the Temple mount today was rebuilt by Herod almost 1000 years later (20 BCE). You can tell by the distinctive stone-dressing - the border around the stone known as Herodian masonry. You can also see this featur
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The reason why you get better yields from being a landlord or investing in shares than from keeping it in the bank is because you also accept risk. These people accepted the risk, and their reward during normal times is a better yield. By b
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by verbify 6y ago
Definitely, that would be a better outcome. However the rent isn't being forgiven - it will possibly be sold to a collections agency, who would hound the renter to get something back from some of the renters.
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by verbify 7y ago
Chromium is open source, so there's no chance they can be called a monopoly.
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Encryption is not future proof (encryption that was previously thought of as secure has been broken). Writing zeros is future proof.
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by verbify 7y ago
Sure, but that can happen if: 1) Shares were massively overvalued compared to their yields. E.g. if P/E ratios were 50:1 then I wouldn't buy the market 2) There's a fundamental issue in the economy. Plague, war, asteroid, cli

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