AmirS2

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by AmirS2 2y ago
Because what matters is _Capital_ requirements, which differ by the _risk_ of the loan. A bank's Capital is what limits their ability to lend. Reserve requirements are irrelevant in the modern banking system.
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by AmirS2 9y ago
You can give any amount to your kids tax free ... if this is within 7 years of your death then Inheritance tax applies to amounts given over 3k per year (on a sliding scale). So works fine if you want to give away large amounts of assets lo
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by AmirS2 10y ago
> what concretely happened: a poaching of a key employee Not quite the reason for the fine according to TFA: > Instead, it ruled that Luckey, who was working as a contractor for Zenimax before starting the Kickstarter for the Oculus R
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by AmirS2 10y ago
> fulltime labor for everyone is simply not going to happen. We just don't need it. and from the article > there’s not enough work to go around I disagree. There's not enough paid employment to go around, but there is an eno
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by AmirS2 11y ago
The $1.8 billion in consumer relief is not actually a penalty, since most of it is money that has already been lost, and is only being recognised now under the pretence of it being a penalty. > "The consumer relief will be in the fo
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by AmirS2 11y ago
Don't forget that the money that the "big equity market players" invest is mostly held on behalf of members of the public, in their pension and investment funds, so the public is definitely affected.
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by AmirS2 11y ago
Sounds like the EU versions of US cars are currently re-engineered to meet EU standards, and that costs manufacturers money. They're trying to save that cost by saying all rules are equivalent. From the article: > under current rule
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by AmirS2 11y ago
This concern about economic growth in 1000+ years is entirely academic. The more relevant question is whether exponential growth (at whatever rate) is feasible for the next few decades and even centuries, and to me the answer to that questi
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by AmirS2 11y ago
> Also, why is the cost of employees with overhead lower? I think that's the cost of the employees for the 9 months (not 12) it takes them to do the required work.
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by AmirS2 11y ago
> normal to the rip tide as an engineer, I assumed this ('normal') meant across/perpendicular/90 degrees to the rip tide, not against it ... I believe 90 degrees to a rip tide is the correct thing to do ...
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by AmirS2 12y ago
These buy-to-leave flats are generally newly built (and were bought off plan), in high rise buildings with concierge / security, so there are no worries about heating, burglary or squatting... I'd guess the price of these is aroun
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by AmirS2 12y ago
> Not sure you should be selling your house, then deciding to look. It's buying a house before you've sold yours that's a problem, not this way around (think cashflow), especially if you don't mind putting your furnit
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by AmirS2 12y ago
Apparently there was top level code (that couldn't be changed as it was needed several other places) that DID free the pointer though... hopefully the controller id was just the lowest bit or two, which would then align back to zero or
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by AmirS2 12y ago
Well, in our hyper simplified economy, the macbook airs are produced domestically - it's the only thing produced in fact (apart from ditches I guess)!
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by AmirS2 12y ago
In Economy C, the workers who've been paid by the govt can then purchase 5000 Retina Macbook Airs at $1k each, the govt receives sales tax, apple employees get paid and pay income tax, and apple employees then spend their remaining mon
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by AmirS2 12y ago
>Sure, maybe a Chinese middle-class person can buy more Beijing Frappucinos than a middle-class person in Minneapolis, No, this isn't what's being said as the number we're talking about isn't per capita. I guess you c
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by AmirS2 12y ago
Looks like the author explicitly considered that: > To try to understand whether people really were this bad at the task or whether perhaps the task itself was flawed, I ran some more stats. One thing I wanted to understand, in particula
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by AmirS2 12y ago
I believe that, as a written rule, it took 90 days minimum to become a regulated bank, in addition to complying with all the other paperwork one would expect. GS and MS were able to sidestep all the rules, and with the Fed's help, beco
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by AmirS2 12y ago
Please find me a single CDS contract that allows that definition of "default"? Or a law or a solvency judge who would agree? If your contract stated that you are to pay back 100 USD or JPY or whatever, on a certain date, and you p
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by AmirS2 12y ago
>It's "literally impossible" only in a very literal sense of the word. The literal sense of the word "literally"? Yes, I think that's exactly what was meant! Has the word "literal" been so badly ab
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by AmirS2 12y ago
It's certainly a large scale problem, but a smaller problem than learning all the points of interest in the first place ... no one is saying it's easy ...
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by AmirS2 12y ago
Kenya has pretty good rates for prepaid data, approx 1 US cent per MB if you buy a 500Mb bundle: http://www.safaricom.co.ke/personal/internet/data-plans/prep... 500KSH for the 500Mb bundle, current FX rate is
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by AmirS2 12y ago
> There was hope that the Japanese would figure out something. 25 years later, they haven't. They've built up their safety net and put money into infrastructure projects, so that fewer people are suffering. That's the best
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by AmirS2 12y ago
Looks like it's an Apple / iPhone 'feature' [0] so not directly EE's fault or intention. EE's initial response was quite unhelpful though, probably through misunderstanding. After all, who expects an unlocked p
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by AmirS2 12y ago
Is routine use of pesticides on 'organic' farms an american thing? I'm not familiar with the US organic standards / regulations. In the UK, the Soil Association (organic standards body) claims [1] that pesticides are use
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by AmirS2 13y ago
Why bother with exponentially increasing costs? Even a token fee would ensure that copyright expires on abandoned/orphaned works.
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by AmirS2 13y ago
> It'll be owned by a shell company in the Vigin Islands or some other tax haven & only the ownership of the company will ever change hands so no stamp duty will be due in the UK. I believe this isn't true any more. Legall
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by AmirS2 13y ago
With the latest hike in British tuition fees (to around £9000/year from around £3000), studying in the US probably costs around the same as studying in the UK, so I'm not surprised that many more kids are suddenly considering going abroad.
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by AmirS2 14y ago
Agreed. Looks like they know they cannot offer a video platform without providing DRM, because the media industry demands it, and they also know that trying to implement unbreakable DRM is futile. Therefore, they just need to implement th
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by AmirS2 14y ago
+1 for "assertive riding" and "taking the lane when necessary" Cyclists need to be assertive, ride a safe distance away from parked cars and the kerb (so you can't be doored or have pedestrians step out in front of you), and generally expec

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