subjectHarold

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by subjectHarold 7y ago
Okay, that isn't the point...but that is what you said: "why should the family whose main claim to fame is aggressive use of force"...how else is this supposed to be interpreted? Because of someone's ancestors, this grou
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by subjectHarold 7y ago
Ignoring the fact that a lot of the land has changed hands since then (the issue is concentration not identity of owners...a dangerous conflation): are you saying that a morality test should be applied to the family tree of all property pur
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by subjectHarold 7y ago
If you are a tenant farmer, you aren't being "oppressed" by not someone not selling you land. If you offer me £20 for my house, are you being "oppressed" if I don't sell it to you? The Church of England, Anders
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by subjectHarold 7y ago
...yep, and the fact that the population of Scotland is tiny and over 50% of that population live in the Central belt. Afaik, the only solid evidence against is an apparent lack of "participation" from local communities on land us
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by subjectHarold 7y ago
The reality is the opposite. In the long-term, you are screwed with this voting structure. This structure exists because right here and now, Zuckerberg looks like a good choice. Over the long-term, bad things happen. Human nature is what it
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by subjectHarold 7y ago
She pissed off most of the staff. She introduced a weird iteration of "fire the bottom performers every year". She bailed out Dan Loeb (who had hired her but changed his mind after she refused to do almost anything she promised).
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by subjectHarold 7y ago
Just to note first about the other answers: the EU Parliament is really not very important. Most decisions are made within the Council, which as said elsewhere, votes based on population weight. The Parliament does seem to exercise real pow
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by subjectHarold 7y ago
...why do I care about push notifications? By "customers love that feature" you mean, you like that feature. Most people aren't interested in having an app at all but the ones that are just want to be able to look at their ba
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by subjectHarold 7y ago
Most UK banks offer apps, Monzo is not doing anything particularly new. Their success has been in convincing investors that the competition is "ossified" whilst dropping tons of their money and failing to actually gather deposits.
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by subjectHarold 7y ago
Cool, you wrote a paper in law school. I wrote two dissertations at UG and PG level. Monetary policy is essential, none of the things you mention are more important. Why? Because the boom can't occur without monetary policy (this is us
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by subjectHarold 7y ago
Yeah buddy, that isn't right. That is comprehensive income (most of the financial websites just report the simple line items, which are usually right but very wrong when they are misleading). For HK stocks, you get the press releases&#
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by subjectHarold 7y ago
Monetary policy is everything. Read financial history. VCs aren't some unique species that have cracked investing. Human nature is the same as always: people will do stupid stuff. If someone turns up with a check for $100m, you don&#x2
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by subjectHarold 7y ago
I am confused. Is Meituan's ticker 3690? This looks like the company referred to and the actual operating loss is 11bn RMB (so about ~$1.5bn)...which is a lot but revenue doubled, and this is kind of a scale-ish business...so? The numb
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by subjectHarold 7y ago
pg.3 - this section also references, amongst others, this paper by the same authors: https://economics.mit.edu/files/15254
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by subjectHarold 7y ago
No, the reason why was France pegging to gold at a very favourable rate in the 1920s. The UK, obviously, was not short of colonies but got absolutely rolled in this period because they pegged to gold at their old rate instead of devaluing.
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by subjectHarold 7y ago
The economic effect of the Autobahn is massively overstated (I would actually look to Wages of Destruction by Tooze here). Public works were important but it is as important to look at how this was all facilitated. The reason it only shows
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by subjectHarold 7y ago
I would read the article and the source it links to again. If you do, it answers most of your questions. Yes, the performance of the German economy was considerable. But the point with Schacht for all economic historians is that the German
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by subjectHarold 7y ago
Link to trailer (I think) mentioned in article - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZXqkgFegLQ Lalalala....ACTION! Supa Kicker! The passion is inspiring. EDIT: Vice also did something on these guys (it seems all the BBC does
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
I am not - https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/talk-ba...
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
Which is exactly my point. The post I am replying to said: > workers might be much happier in countries where they can work without the possibility of being fired at any moment The reason why this is an issue is nothing to do with actual
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
Okay, what other concerns does he mention? All he says is that being fired is difficult...which he then suggests is important because you can then be rude to your boss. No other reasons are used to support this idea.
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
What part is inaccurate?
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
Denmark? Probably the weakest hiring/firing laws in the developed world (in terms of employee protection) and, last I checked, one of the happiest countries in the world.
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
The truth is somewhere in the middle. Like most sciences: a theory is put forward, and then you test it with empirical data. The issue, and I think this is something that most economists would definitely dispute, is that there are few real
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
This is kind of crazy. Presumably, there is a correlation between going to a good business school and getting a job with a good business (which generates market-beating returns). So you would expect some kind of correlation just because peo
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
Yep, that is the point...there isn't a spectrum. Countries that have tried to take the middle ground, like the US, have ended up with a political system that is bought and paid for by casino groups (because they are often the only vest
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
...but that isn't occurring in any regulated markets. The reason that is happening is because, in the US, this is a grey area. The process has been captured by casino operators (btw, a casino operator is one of the largest Republican d
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
And those problems exist whether you ban gambling or not. Do you think that no-one is addicted to heroin because it is illegal? It is kind of farcical. If you regulate gambling properly, you actually have tools to control harm. If you don&#
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
Rates of gambling addiction are tiny compared to other kinds of addiction (0.5-1%). More to the point though, the absolute worse way to help people who are sick is to criminalise their sickness. By legalising gambling you can generate money
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
I have quite a few friends who ended up doing this. It isn't easy at all. And if you are just in it for the money, you probably wouldn't get an entry-level position. That probably sounds slightly crazy but how many people actually

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