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·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
It was the initial incentive, but it's the only English speaking country in the eurozone (aside from Malta) and there's a huge number of companies who have massive capital investments (pharma/biomedical). Now there's a very active tech scene, it's tightly linked to the US so it actually feels quite sustainable.
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·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
This was true, it no longer exists
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·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Spot on
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·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
I don't know what to expect exactly, but these numbers seem quite small. Wonder if bad actors are moving to other channels
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·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Hahaha. Even better, the twitterer specializes in digital detoxes (a worthy cause, but counter to Twitter's goals). Maybe his secret plan is to turn down services in a volunteer capacity
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·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
>Aztec is on the cutting edge of zero-knowledge SNARK development. Built on PLONK — the paradigm-defining universal zk-SNARK used by leading zero-knowledge projects like Mina, Dusk, Zcash, and zkSync.

I have an open mind about this area and a technical background. I really struggle to understand what any of this means and what I can use it for. My experience with cryptocurrency (paying for things) has been challenging. As the whole ecosystem is very fragmented it's hard to know what to explore.
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·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Comparing their personal lives is also interesting - Crichton, married 5 times, Grisham married once.

Not morally judging someone for getting divorced, but I suspect such an ambitious life (Crichton) left little room for personal relationships.
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·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
This isn't correct. You pay CGT on the difference between grant and sale

The one loophole is to sell with 4 weeks, that is CGT exempt.
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·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
This is country specific. The stock grant price and the vest or sale price are used in my country to assess gains, so you still have capital gains to pay even if you sell right after vesting
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·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
>Proximity to the university system breeds pro-EU attitudes because the EU enforces a similar ideology in Europe to that found in universities

That's an interesting claim - do you have evidence to justify it?

Not disagreeing entirely that degree holders benefit from EU membership based on the type of work degrees lead to, but in reality so do people without degrees if the economy is growing. There's really no economic argument for leaving the EU; it seems like it was purely ideological.
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·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
You could summarize it as fanciful brexit economics crashing into reality.

The dark irony is that it's from someone (Truss) who wasn't originally in favour of brexit.

The FT described her economic strategy as "cakeism" - getting to both eat and have your cake.

https://www.ft.com/content/f8f8d943-35e9-423a-9a9a-b6074a6cf...
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·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
I'm not sure that the electorate are educated well enough though - pro-brexit votes were higher in poorer, less-well educated areas (there was a strong linear correlation between the two published in The Economist).

Agree with your general points but would add that print media heavily influencing uneducated people allows any narrative to be justified.
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·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Not sure if this is an option, bit I have a pixel 3 Android and have explored a few custom launchers to achieve this.

Currently I use "minimalist phone", I've also used Siempo. Both are amazing, cut down on phone clutter and allow you to aggressively manage notifications.
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·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
The article clearly outlines the conflict of interest
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·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
It's definitely not a perfect solution, but one approach could have been for the author to use a consumer Gmail account and to have set up the gsuite account as an alias.
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·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Lots of capex