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by zhte415 6y ago
If you're comparing relative returns, you need an accurate benchmark. Otherwise it's comparing apples to oranges. Would you compare returns of a cash portfolio against the S&P500? That would be ridiculous. I don't kno
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If there's a choice between web and app, I'd take web any day: Works on multiple devices, doesn't need updates or dependencies from an app store. And agree on one person show / bootstrap vs bloated VC money.
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It's not only ads.. well in the end it is, but that app's largely about stickyness and push vs. pull. By visiting the website, you're the one pulling, wanting to visit and viewing the content or messages on your time. By ins
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by zhte415 6y ago
> they are double stacked in a sumptuous interior Tangential and complimentary: if in London... The Wallace Collection [1] [2] is a fantastic off-the-mainstream collection of works focused around the time of the French Revolution. Conve
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by zhte415 6y ago
I have a dishwasher. My hands. Quite effective. Running water, sponge and soap. Takes less than 5 minutes. For hot water have a 180L solar water heater on the roof. Never paid for hot water since. It even works in freezing winters, -2
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by zhte415 6y ago
Visited the Bloomberg office in London. If you rent a Bloomberg terminal they gave free training on multiple features. Encouraged to visit the cafeteria, all free for staff and clients with visitor pass. Good stuff. Salads, fruit, cakes, sa
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It can work, but not necessarily for all people. The biggest time gap team I've worked on was east coast US and China. Great. 12 hour gap. US team changed to being in the office, or at least online, at 6am. China team started at 11am i
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by zhte415 6y ago
Also Reddit, which Tencent acquired a minor stake in.
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Saw it once visiting DLC, probably the only time visiting that airport, this was ~2008. The airport is pretty downtown; fences at each end of the runway (3,300m, pretty tight) were removed and the motorway immediately adjunct to the airpor
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by zhte415 6y ago
Like... email?
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Lots of book recommendations here already, so a complementary idea: Is it possible where you are to have your teenager attend maths lectures at a university as an auditing student?
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Background on company chops used in China for anyone unfamiliar: https://www.china-briefing.com/news/company-chops-in-china/
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Got a 2-year heads up https://hn.algolia.com/?q=encrochat
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As much as I'm dismayed at Reddit's recent purge, there's also https://old.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/ for some good ThinkPad support.
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This was Google Wave. A bit ahead of it's time.
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An experience far better than reading an ebook on a device is printing it. Double sided, scaled to 4 pages per side, that scaling works for me. The device is paper, pagination is quite simple, as is taking notes.
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print()
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Am not hip with that then. Deleted Facebook years ago.
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Messenger? Bloomberg? MSN? BlackBerry? ICQ?
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Pencil and paper with lots of boxes that we drew, with boxes inside them, and boxes inside them, all the way down because proofing code; sometimes you could get funky and draw boxes from the inside out.
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Seconding smartphone and the many apps that run on it, but not one in particular. Ten years ago few people had their head glued to a phone. Now, on any public transport (where I live) it's unusual to look up and see someone not lookin
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One that works for what you need and that's reasonably reliable. One in the cupboard as a backup. Everything backed up.
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To add in both sides of the balance sheet in this example: Balance sheet, ignoring Capital (Assets = Liabilities + Capital). In your example: Before IOU lending, the goldmith's balance sheet is: 2 Gold (asset); 2 Gold-equivalent Depos
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by zhte415 6y ago
I also groan at this. You, or readers, may be interested in this article from the Bank of England's blog, which provides a somewhat more modern/real-world version of the 'money multiplier' i.e. market operations to prov
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by zhte415 6y ago
It would have been pretty unusual to get a 386 with only 640k in 1992 - from memory. And it wouldn't make sense given the cost of a still reasonably expensive CPU despite the albeit expensive cost of memory then. Typical RAM (home&#x
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by zhte415 6y ago
To add to others' comments about mail-rooms and internal posts, a memo would commonly also have a header section with a list of intended recipients and CC (literally, Carbon Copy), plus depending on organisation, an information securit
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Rakuten is very big in Japan, pretty established. Like Amazon/eBay, but a bit different. They've also got global but quite cautious ambitions. Interesting trivia from a friend working there, and quite unusual for a Japanese comp
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A lot of 'challenger banks' do not have a web interface, they're app only.
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The irony that who appears to be the maker, https://setetres.st/ site can't load with JavaScript turned off.
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The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland(oxfordreference.com)
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