neximo4

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by neximo4 10y ago
Even looking at Gotthard tunnel is rather bad because it's just a tunnel though in very difficult conditions and large as you say is a bad comparison against a new railway network under a densely populated city. Crossrail is large in t
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by neximo4 10y ago
Crossrail is the 4th most costly 'megaproject' involving transport both under construction and 4th including all completed projects. There isn't any way to look at it where it isn't one of the world's largest constr
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by neximo4 10y ago
> On a per-unit sold basis, Tesla Model S is wildly profitable, with a gross margin north of 30% [1]. However, they are obviously still in startup mode, so they reinvest all of those earnings along with investor capital into improving th
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by neximo4 10y ago
Hi! do you have contact details/email I can reach you on?
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by neximo4 11y ago
Never saw this card. Looks quite useful!
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by neximo4 11y ago
- Paypal in 1999? Didn't know they were free in 1999. It doesn't look like banks will start charging for transfers though, it's certainly not free to get customers. It can also be withdrawn as cash immediately as its received
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by neximo4 11y ago
1) No fees using the card abroad. Exchange rate 'at cost'. 2) No fees using any ATM to withdraw cash (AKAIK when I asked the Mondo guys) 3) Instant notifications when you make a purchase and the ability to switch on and switch off
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by neximo4 11y ago
If you ask the bank they'll let you use it. I's still in a sort of beta phase but all UK banks have to have them soon under a HM treasury directive on 'Open Banking'.
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by neximo4 11y ago
I like there's absolute no fees when using the debit card abroad and you get the exchange rate 'at cost'. There's a building society that does this but it needs 5k or 500 a month in deposits I absolutely love that becaus
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by neximo4 11y ago
One thing that's quite nice about what they're doing, and rather profitable is the OD system. With a credit card you have a seperate account, so when you get cash it doesn't have to pay off the card. With mondo it is a debit
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by neximo4 11y ago
I got stuck on their annoying typeform. I was on my mobile and agree wasn't clicking properly it kept going back. Then I was too late. So.. it could be worse!
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by neximo4 11y ago
> UK banks are slow to innovate This is hardly true. The UK is one of the only countries which has a couple of simple features in banking no other country has: - Instant, Free transfers, including from one bank to another. Even on weeke
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by neximo4 11y ago
Monese isn't a bank and neither is FFREES (they say so on their website) > https://register.fca.org.uk/ShPo_firmdetailsPage?id=001b0000... Mondo will offer banking services (lending via OD)
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by neximo4 11y ago
This is disingenuous, these aren't banks just UI. They won't have a single branch either, unlike these others (or their parents). Apart from Atom they're the only ones like this. Monese and FFREES aren't even banks by de
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by neximo4 11y ago
What they did is essentially handle crowdcube's load. They couldn't take all of them at once so they made an app that could and sent the links to the first 1m pledged users gradually, so not as to crash their servers. But it is fa
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by neximo4 11y ago
Tried in 4 countries, Australia included. Granted its better and worse at times it is consistently worse off than using fb (via web browser), Telegram (Mac app) & Whatsapp (web app). They have a better architecture under the hood it loo
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by neximo4 11y ago
Also why does your chat client take soo long (we're talking 20s+) to start up if you're not in the US.
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Fastest Crowdfunding Ever: £1M in 96 Seconds(getmondo.co.uk)
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by neximo4 11y ago
I try to avoid it because its such a tease trying to get it just load up. To put things into perspective it's faster to load up Facebook with a web browser and just chat with that than to load the Mac Slack app. It's cool they hav
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by neximo4 11y ago
I never realised the NBBO could cross because of HFT. (Technically a market type order is required to prevent this, but the quote stuffing lags price) Definitely seems wrong.
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by neximo4 11y ago
I wish they'd just make their app start up faster and improve the quality of the app. Takes nearly 15 secs to half a minute to connect, quite consistently. Would love to jump on the 'slack is awesome bandwagon', i'm alre
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by neximo4 11y ago
There aren't too may startups in the Square Mile as it's defined. Just a couple of fintech ones in Canada square. My point is still the same, not many people live in SF or in London but most of the people there during the day ther
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by neximo4 11y ago
But people still commute there right? This is the point i'm trying to make, No one (and by that I man a small minority) lives in the city centre because it is too expensive. Applies to any major city on Earth which has suburbs. I imagi
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by neximo4 11y ago
Please tell someone this in Australia with a straight face (and London, but things have slightly changed over the past 2 or so year). It is not as easy to get capital as you think.. There is a difference in company culture in the US and the
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by neximo4 11y ago
From what I read it was something along the lines of it lacks multiculturalism and is closed off. Of course that isn't the issue where an entire continent is compared to a small American town... Edit: Oh I see, of course I have never v
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by neximo4 11y ago
This comment isn't very good. For one thing Africa is very very diverse (heck the most genetically diverse place on Earth) and full of different cultures, including western cultures. Also 'Africa' isn't very closed off t
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by neximo4 11y ago
How is this different to SF (the 'city' in London isn't actually that big and smaller if you mean 'the square mile'), I assume most people commute to SF in as well? It's not an apt comparison as firms are geogr
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by neximo4 11y ago
Every country wanted something out of the EU other countries may have not agreed to, the French wanted agricultural subsidies. If you have 28 countries in a trade union, you're bound to have disagreements. The government in the UK was
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by neximo4 11y ago
I should have clarified, French people don't like the EU. More than half don't want the UK in the EU. In addition CDG infamously vetoed the UKs entry in the days of the EEC. The differences in culture in Europe divides people, tra
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by neximo4 11y ago
There are problems with being in the EEC but not in the EU. For the 'sovereignty' issue this is the worst as there is no representation in the creation of the laws. That would be even worse than being out of the EU. Keep in mind N

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