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by vinay427 6y ago
I think they're just trying to sound "cool" by using millennial colloquialisms. However, besides being less informative than a more nuanced alternative, it ends up sounding cringeworthy to me in a business/finance public
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by vinay427 6y ago
That's true for the fundamental part of sending and receiving messages, but at least one ancillary feature (contact discovery) requires trusting the server. They do have a setup with an Intel SGX enclave for remote attestation but I&#x
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by vinay427 6y ago
To be fair, Interactive Brokers also halted these transactions, and they're well-known for catering to hobbyist and professional traders. Granted, they're more mainstream than dedicated day-trading brokerages, but some of those de
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by vinay427 6y ago
I think it was also a timing issue. Paying per SMS was a thing in the US when texting was novel ($0.10/SMS or so, IIRC?) but the US seemed to move to unlimited texting sooner than most places. However, today in the European country I l
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by vinay427 6y ago
I'm a non-white non-immigrant in the US. They're not mutually exclusive. That's why I edited my sibling comment to include a source listing that Boise is also very low on the percentage of immigrants in the population, both i
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by vinay427 6y ago
> citizenship after 5 years of residency. This is literally false in many European countries. I live in one where it is false. Please verify details before posting with specific numbers. https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/
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by vinay427 6y ago
To be fair, this applies even more directly to the parent of the comment you replied to (GP), which asserted that you get a passport after 5 years. That's true in a few European countries but explicitly false in many others.
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by vinay427 6y ago
Yes, I wasn't presuming otherwise, which is why I specified "less famously immigrant-friendly" instead of "less immigrant-friendly." I simply haven't heard as much about the immigration there even though I&#x27
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by vinay427 6y ago
> Boise Aries is a top 5 city in the Americas Not to be confused with the far less populous and less famously immigrant-friendly Boise. On a more serious note, I'm curious what connection you see between immigration and tax evasion.
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by vinay427 6y ago
I prefer free/libre software as well. I'm really not trying to sound inane when I say that I provide my phone number for the same reason I provide my phone number directly to my friends with whom I would like to communicate. It al
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by vinay427 6y ago
What does "scam" even mean here? I know what I'm signing up for, privacy-wise, when I provide Signal my phone number and access to some of my contacts, and I clearly get something in exchange.
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by vinay427 6y ago
To be fair, I've grown paranoid about PDF metadata and redactions, so I prefer taking screenshots and making a new PDF out of those as long as the document is only a few pages in length, or using imagemagick or similar to flatten it. I
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by vinay427 6y ago
Yes, that's fair and it's certainly more accurate, but I assume the OP is comparing the fees of Robinhood to those of other platforms. Robinhood tends to not have many of those advanced features that other brokerages still charge
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by vinay427 6y ago
Most major retail brokerages in the US have eliminated fees for stock trades. https://www.stockbrokers.com/compare
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by vinay427 6y ago
There's a huge difference between limiting margin trading for GME and closing positions without asking a user or offering an option to put up collateral. Many brokerages did the former, and at least Schwab/Fidelity/TDA all se
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by vinay427 6y ago
There are cheaper, lighter, and softer but less durable solid wood pieces made of pine and similar woods. They don't feel much heavier than the IKEA manufactured wood furniture I have but at least have a decently satisfying grain if th
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by vinay427 6y ago
> without your home looking from a certain area. Did you mean "era" given that you mentioned time? "Area" also sort of makes sense which is why I wanted to clarify.
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by vinay427 6y ago
An aside, but it's interesting how quickly people can adapt to the taste of water in a different city or country. Every time I visit a new area or country, I'm immediately unpleasantly surprised by the taste of the water, but with
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by vinay427 6y ago
There's definitely more Swiss-made signage and emphasis in Switzerland than anywhere in the US I've been, having lived in both countries. You'd have a hard time finding broccoli, dish soap, or wheat flour labeled with a made-
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by vinay427 6y ago
On most legacy airlines and probably many others, international flights also tend to include announcements in English which means this can happen in three languages even when flying to places that only speak one language each. However, I&#x
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by vinay427 6y ago
> I don’t have direct experience with the Swiss system, but from everything I’ve read, conversations, etc., it’s a slightly cheaper version of the US system. You buy leveled insurance, you have to pay some out of pocket, etc. I moved fro
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by vinay427 6y ago
I feel the same about Apple laptops not having a TrackPoint which is why they need to compensate with a good trackpad. ;) But seriously, I think the larger advantage I see of touchscreens on Windows devices and potentially future MacBooks i
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I almost never ended up using that remote, quite honestly. I got a lot more use out of the remote/stylus that my smartphone came with which I could use to play/pause media, take pictures from a distance, and obviously write or dra
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by vinay427 6y ago
> the maker of the best laptops in the world agrees with you Who exactly would that be in your opinion?
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> There’s a good case to be made that Twitter isn’t Caesar and their lawn isn’t the Forum of Rome, there isn’t a good case to be made that their lawn is actually public property and should be treated as such just because they spent a dec
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by vinay427 6y ago
I think this was true, and legally it probably is true in many places, but there's increasing support for more regulation of popular social media platforms as something resembling utilities. I see this from both the conventional left a
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by vinay427 6y ago
The displays on iOS devices already ruin the experience for me nowadays. The perceivable smoothness from a 90-120Hz display still surprises me but now I can't really go back to an older display for daily use. Flagship Android devices a
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by vinay427 6y ago
I posted this above, but at least for me, this project seems to do the trick: https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher I did use a terminal to install the AUR package on my system, however. ;)
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by vinay427 6y ago
This solves this problem for me quite well: https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher It asks whether an AppImage should be integrated (with .desktop files, etc.) upon launching one and does everything automatica
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They did say there are a few exceptions. Most every country I looked at with the exception of (most of) Germany and one or two others had substantial tuition fees for non-EU/EEA/CH students that were on the order of my in-state un

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