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by verbify 7y ago
If you reinvested your dividends you'd be up 25% without taking into account inflation, or down a total of 1.5% if you took into account inflation. Not ideal, but not much different than when you started. I personally buy an all-world
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I think the government are damned whatever they do. A massive fiscal stimulus admits there's a massive problem (and the government has been trying to project a quiet confidence that this is something under control), so markets will tan
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If you had reinvested your dividends, you'd have gotten your money back by the end of the war (and you'd only have lost 1 or 2% approximately six years later). 35 years later you would have an annual return (inflation adjusted) of
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I presume they mean it isn't possible, as there was an attempted quarantine around Wuhan, and yet coronavirus still spread.
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I'm in the UK, and bought an original Pixel directly from Google. The bluetooth daemon would just crash for me rather than being exploitable. I just don't think I have a case - phone manufacturers don't promise security updat
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I believe this comment goes against hacker news guidelines - "Be kind. Don't be snarky" https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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> curbing CO2 (which may or may not have an impact decades down the line) is not going to be your first priority May or may not have an impact?! 97% of climate scientists believe that the earth's climate has warmed as a result of hu
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The upside is a certainty - giving a heads up to people we know are getting hacked, and whose repercussions for getting hacked could mean imprisonment or death. The downside is allowing other hackers to maybe produce an exploit in time (bef
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When you say 'authorities' that includes countries that persecute civil right activists. Amnesty International has specifically criticized NSO specifically regarding UAE activist Ahmed Mansoor. He is currently serving 10 years in
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I've read that story. I understand that his clownish behaviour is a performance - it's more the gaffes that I don't think are calculated.
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I've borrowed it from someone else (who was actually educated in Oxford, but not Eton), wish it were my own though.
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I'm not saying he's not racist/colonialist. You only have to read his article about 'flag-waving piccaninnies... tribal warriors will all break out in watermelon smiles to see the big white chief...' https:/&#
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The news story that really made me believe that the bumbling fool shtick is real and not just an act was when he went to a buddhist temple in Myanmar and started reciting a colonial-era Kipling poem about a British soldier reminiscing about
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> Estimates on the cost of doing that range from 10x to 100x the cost of creating plastic out of raw pre-cursor chemicals. The reality is that there isn't a market for $20 coffee cups over $2 coffee cups because they are "100%
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Great work! Would also work as a browser plugin.
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The UK does have land taxation, but it only happens at the point of sale - we have very high 'stamp duty' (sales tax on houses), but no yearly land tax. The net difference in my opinion is that it reduces liquidity on houses and t
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by verbify 7y ago
Precisely - nobody bats an eyelid when billionaires spend their money on yachts, if they spend their money on philanthropy, it should be applauded.
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Like this? https://www.geargeek.co.uk/type-c-to-3-5mm-headphone-jack-au...
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A down payment is usually a percentage of the value of the house (typically 10-20%). If the house is worth more, the down payment is higher. As I said before "effectively people who have bought before can buy another house, while those
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> The amount homebuyers can afford to pay doesn't change with interest rates. The amount people can afford to pay doesn't change, but the cost of the house does change. Assume a 30 year mortgage. If the interest rate is 2%, and
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I used to think so too. Now I'm on the fence. High interest rates means people can borrow less, and has a dampening effect on house prices, low interest rates means people can borrow more, so house prices go up. Our current environment
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I have no evidence, but I believe the five minute thing is deliberate - to prevent users from cancelling taxis because it will take too long to get there.
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I believe that to be a case of the Texas sharpshooter fallacy.
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It might be that London house prices were already overinflated - look at a comparison between London house prices and the rest of the UK: https://d1btnptfa0r0eu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/201... I don'
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Usually the older ThinkPads last longer than 5 years, or at least long enough for the tech to become obsolete.
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The comparison to a $1000 laptop isn't a raspberry pi - it's a second hand ThinkPad that's three years old. It will be slower, but can do pretty much all the same things for most people, and could still cost 300 dollars.
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Possibly? Maybe the issue is that it damages the elevator (uneven pressure on one side). Maybe people trip because they're subconsciously expecting the escalator to move. Maybe they're worried it'll start moving suddenly, and
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I think it is humorous that broken escalators is the go-to example of graceful degradation, when in real life I've observed multiple times that when an escalator is broken, they rope it off (this is not uncommon on London's tube).
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It's everywhere if you're on unix systems. Windows devs have little exposure to it.
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Or mediawiki

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