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exactly. While living in Germany I had an expensive supermarket in walking distance, but I'd almost never go there because I used the car to go to work and stopped at a cheaper one…

Also important to note: Germany is a car country: most ways to work, gym, etc in the average German city are done by car. Makes it easy to drive the extra mile to the cheapest supe…

I lived in Austria and in Germany and it's 100% true, prices in supermarkets are significantly higher in Austria even for products produced in Austria. The reasons IMO are: * less …

That's very interesting! Thanks for explaining! Let's assume some people would have wanted to bridge OETH back to Ethereum: with the potentially increased supply would it have mean…

As unrelated as it may seem I consider this statement to be true. It's terrible that society is not creating a tax system that prevents real estate from being an investment vehicle…

A mandate in this case is different because a) this vaccine is not highly effective at preventing the disease (especially after 6 months+) b) long term effects have not yet been st…

What I don't understand is why they complain about the high costs of setting up a business in the US (tens of thousands of dollars). Shouldn't this be pretty cheap with Stripe Atla…

That is precisely where Coinbase doesn't excel. I know several people who bought crypto on Coinbase in 2017 and forgot about it. They are now trying to restore their account but Co…

I find it remarkable how people always criticize bitcoin for environmental damage but when people are sending rockets to the orbit that's ok! One technology is apparently bad & the…

So for the vaccination it seems that: It does not prevent the virus from spreading It does not protect against certain variations that we are seeing like in South Africa This means…

I remember that in March somebody posted here an entry saying that mutation of the virus will make vaccinations only useful in the short term. Were these concerns already addressed…

"OOH, when included, is typically the biggest component of the CPI. However, many coun-tries exclude OOH from their CPIs on the grounds that it is too difficult to measure. Inparti…

if you look at how expensive gold is you would typically compare it in relation to other assets such as real estate or the S&P 500 and not to CPI. that's at least how I would make …

I believe it is not fair to only take into account consumer price inflation instead of asset price inflation. Asset price inflation in the US & Europe has been massive lately. BTC …

I don't believe that gold is predominantly used for practical use cases. The majority of people keep it stored somewhere in a vault. And yet it provided a good store of value over …

This is true for short term store of value. Both gold & Bitcoin are doing terrible. In the medium/long term gold & Bitcoin have been historically very good store of value assets

Exactly. We are in the worst crisis since WWII & the stock market is at record levels in relation to GDP

That doesn't mean you shouldn't buy gold & other hard assets. Even if the Euro and others decrease in relation to the Dollar the Dollar might decrease in relation to gold/hard asse…

The one thing I don't get is that everybody assumes there is unlimited demand for Tesla cars, Tesla just needs to be able to produce. But realistically, let's assume that in 1-2 ye…

There valuation is currently almost 1/3 of the Deutsche Bank market capitalization. Just for your reference.. VC & tech are in a big bubble

I've been reading la Repubblica a lot today since I live pretty close to where the disease is spreading. They always reiterated that patient 0 who started spreading the virus in It…

Tried it out in German. Works definitely better for German language queries than Duckduckgo. Kudos to whomever is behind this & best of luck. The world needs alternatives to Google…

I wonder how the Vikings kept warm during winter. It's mentioned in the article that there almost weren't any trees in Greenland and it must have been extremely cold there in winte…