captainpiggies

Is it too much if I hope for Oracle to bankrupt itself?

It's even worse for videos with "official" dubs. I have been jump scared by German and French dubs on certain videos recently, I distinctly remember MrBeast, Mark Rober and Nick DiGiovanni. I have set my language to English and my Region to US (worldwide) I don't know what gave YT the idea to preselect these dubs for me, I have seldomly even watched a video that is not English.

On a related note: whatever idiot started using keyboard language instead of system language for emoji autocompletion on certain MacOS and iOS Apps, please go die in hell somewhere... I have had this issue randomly pop up with the Telegram client I am using, and it infuriates me beyond belief. Every single setting on my machine indicates that the language I am using is English, why is the search text of emojis tied to the one setting I cannot reasonably change because it is tied to a physical property of my device and not the 4 settings I can and did change.

As someone who used to travel regularly between Zurich and Frankfurt (Zurich - Hamburg line ICE) I can 100% tell you that distance is *NOT* the root cause of DB's reliability problems. Infrastructure decline is. From lack of electrification, badly maintained rolling stock, insufficient tracks you find everything. Swiss railways deal with problems like lack of capacity and geography. Deutsche Bahn deals with a lack of maintenance and investment.

Why does seeing moot quoted suddenly make me feel old.

Did you even read the article? She specifically traded a million dollar long position on just Nvidia.

I can't believe people in this thread seem to be unironically defending / denying that Pelosi and her husband are front running trades based on her insider information.

Particularly during the pandemic it was just painfully obvious that she was trading based on information that was not available to the public.

Her and particularly her husbands returns are just straight improbable without some explainable edge, and the only logical explanation I have seen is her political position.

I would find it hilarious if someone would come up with a password generator that generates passwords that would pass this game.

I, too, overfed Paul :(

This game is great! Even though I will need to catch up with whatever was happening in my class for the last 2 hours, I thoroughly enjoyed my time and the fact that I have no idea what the professor is talking about is a sign of how engaged I was.

That does not describe the average /g/ thread at all.

Most boards are rather tame.

Also, I think most avid 4chan users have their filters set up in a way to get rid of most garbage simply by excluding posts with certain keywords.

This opinion may be unpopular, "gatekeeping" is good, at least to a certain degree. It essentially forces people to integrate. Now this can, of course, be really toxic, but on the other hand, it can help to preserve quality (and culture). Most "communities" nowadays aren't gate kept, and they actively try to tear down gates and general entry barriers, maybe it should become more acceptable again to put barriers up for self-preservation.

I forgot where I read about it, but there are some limits to certain human social groups we all share (paraphrasing from what I remember):

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Best friends: 2-3

Close Friends: 15-30

Friends / "Friends": 100-200

Acquaintances: 1000-2000

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Something along these lines. With the biggest kind of aha moment for me being that the army (notorious for optimizing everything to the highest degree) has organized itself in similarly sized groups:

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Squad

Section

Company

Brigade

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I just wanted to say thank you. I didn't know about the setting to always show scrollbars on macOS and them being hidden by default was bothering me for a while.

Ok, we get it, your website's design is basically bad on purpose, and it probably generates a lot of free pr exactly because it is bad and because it's novel. However, I can assure you that my eyes are perfectly fine, but your website still makes me nauseous.

I am in the process of writing a paper about retention in relation to employee satisfaction with their leadership. One thing I learned is that for Switzerland which is the country for which I am writing my study the net rotation quota (how many people changed their job in the last 12 months) is around 25% for people under 24 years, and still around 20% for people under 39. I, personally, felt like I was changing jobs a lot, but what my research made me realize is that I am not changing jobs a lot. I am changing at an average rate. Long story short, even if you change jobs yearly or bi-annually, you are not changing jobs at an abnormal rate statistically.

I highly recommend anyone who's interested in funny stories of Roman life to read the Satyricon from Gaius Petronius Arbiter (eBook available on Project Gutenberg)

This was surprisingly underwhelming. Also I can 100% guarantee you that you will not travel across the alps in the same amount of time in January as you would in July despite this page suggesting you will, so quite frankly I don't see what the season selection even does. For example Penne Locos to Augusta Praetoria leads over the great St Bernard Pass (yes where the dogs come from) has an elevation of about 2400m over sea level and in January an average temperature of -7°C and a couple of meters of snow covering it.

To be precise Lindt & Sprüngli (LISN) is currently trading for CHF 90’900 roughly USD 99’485. And as a fun fact they have quite a famous natural dividend a suitcase full of chocolate :)

ToS and Privacy Policy links don't work for me in the App on iOS. Big no no since it's one of these Apps where I don't really want to sign up and reveal my information in the first place. The sign up process kind of ruins the simplicity of the idea for me.

Correlation =/= Causation

There are way bigger fish for the US to fry other than Switzerland. FATCA wasn’t created because of Swiss banks. Claiming otherwise is ignorant.

After the 2009 financial crisis and the regulatory requirements which followed the major international Swiss banks were forced to split their retail and investment business into separate entities at about the same time they also started restructuring some other things I am pretty sure they saw this coming after FATCA / MIFID because they have all since split their Swiss business from their international business at least legally (separate legal entities under one brand and holding corp etc.)

In my personal opinion individuals entirely hiding their assets from their native governments is a thing of the past. Why hide your assets and risk going to jail when you could just pay a consulting firm a fixed amount of money to optimize your tax rate and deductibles to the point where you essentially pay nothing at all.

Very broadly speaking this is what KYC (know your customer) regulation is for which not only deals with the party in business with the financial institutions but also more importantly with the beneficiary of whatever entity this is. So in your example the bank would be under the obligation to ask prior to establishing any business relationship with the shell corporation where does the money come from and where do any gains etc. go to.

However if the controller does not do his or her job properly or gets coerced by either the client or the asset manager to enter false or incomplete information this regulation is obviously not very effective and requires regular auditing by the authority (in the case of Switzerland FINMA which is the equivalent of the FTC)

There are much better and most importantly legal ways to “optimize taxes” than a simple shell corp. Some of these “corporate constructs” or however you want to call it use loopholes “double Irish with a dutch sandwich” is one of the most notorious ones.

Swiss banking history and the process they and their US customers have to go through are entirely unrelated. The US simply created these regulations because for some strange reason the US believes it somehow has the authority to collect every last penny on every single citizen regardless of residence and or if that person gets any value out of having said citizenship. Something the rest of the world obviously doesn’t agree with.

Well obviously it's part of the Requirement Engineering process to adjust the schedule when the requirements change.

"delivered on time"

It's even better. They are about one year ahead of schedule.

On a similar note Excel commands are probably the most infuriating thing since I learned programming fro me because they are all in the regional language in my case German and make no sense to me now. (Example IF is WENN in German)

It drives me nuts.

Can't talk for everyone but I always use English in all my code for everything (Variables, Database, Filenames etc.) Because it's a real pain to be consistent otherwise. In the beginning I used to write parts of my code in German because I thought it would be easier to understand but it just made my life harder in the long run because I had to deal with inconsistencies all the time.

And after my initial trouble with some special characters like the French accents (é, è, à etc.) and the German umlauts (ä, ö, ü) I made myself do everything in ASCII.

General rule is: Code and back-end stuff 100% English and only basic ASCII characters. Front-end in UTF-8/LAT1 but when possible avoid placing special chars in code (example ü in HTML only as ü not as ü)