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Some consumers are not spending money for today’s economic blackout. Here’s what to know.
Betty Lin-Fisher,  Customer Reporter  -  USA Today

Stephan: The 28 February “Don’t Buy for 24 hours” boycott doesn’t seem to have amounted to much. What that tells me is that a large percentage of Americans don’t yet realize what is going in their country with the Trump coup. Very sad.

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Trump administration orders consumer protection agency to stop work, closes building
Christopher Rugaber,  Staff Writer  -  Federal News Network | Associated Press

_Stephan: Did you vote for Trump? Is you did you are reasonable and complicit in the end of all consumer protection against scams. Your bank has implemented new fees, your credit card corporations have done the same? You were deceived into paying money for some benefit you didn’t … ⌘ Read more

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10 Things You Might Not Know About the Panama Canal
Building the Panama Canal was one of the greatest civil engineering projects of all time, but how much do you know about the history of this waterway that joins two oceans? The building caused thousands of deaths and cost an enormous amount of money, but it has bestowed priceless benefits to world trade and prosperity. […]

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In-reply-to » I have no idea what happened in/around instagram but, Holly Shi_ !! People have been pouring out of it and into #Pixelfed for hours now. 😆 way to go #Fedi

@prologic@twtxt.net IMHO: Most people like it the easy way: “Don’t make me think!”. If you do not pay money for a service, your data/content is the price to pay. Some handy mobile apps for the fediverse and the ongoing debate on social media services may get the people and their content out of the walled gardens of the 21st century.

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Doctors Against Genocide Hold Global Sick-Out to Highlight Atrocities in Gaza
Chris Walker ,  Staff Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: I want to be clear that I do not in any way condone or support what the Muslim terrorist groups did and have done to keep the wars in the Middle East going. But I see all that as no justification for your money and mine being used to finance an Israeli genocide of Muslims. More than that as this article describes is the … ⌘ Read more

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Supreme Court won’t block Donald Trump’s hush money sentencing
Josh Gerstein and Erica Orden,  Staff Writers  -  Politico

_Stephan: In 11 days the first person in the history of the United States ever convicted of multiple – 34 – felonies will begin his term as President. I think it is very important to note and remember that Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, notable as the most corrupt justices to ever serve on the court, … ⌘ Read more

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‘Dark Money’ Is Tainting Washington Think Tanks. A New Report Shows It’s Worse Than You Think.
Michael Schaffer,  Senior Editor and Columnist   -  Politico

_Stephan: Few Americans, unless they have been involved in the federal government, have any idea about the role of think-tanks. in shaping government policy. BIllionaires, American and international, as well as foreign governments, have been funding these institutes and organization … ⌘ Read more

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Why the American dream of owning property is dying
Josh Kirby,  Senior Money Writer  -  The Telegraph (U.K.)

_Stephan: Like virtually everyone I knew buying a first home for my wife and myself was a prime objective.  It was 1969, I was 27, and the managing editor of Seapower Magazine. My wife didn’t work and was in the 7th month of her pregnancy. We bought the house in Chevy Chase, Maryland just past the border with D.C. for $68,000. It was not a large house, but on a nice … ⌘ Read more

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The billionaires and tech barons vying to build a private space station
Matthew Field,  Senior Technology Reporter  -  The Telegraph (U.K.)

_Stephan: NASA for decades the U.S. approach to space exploration is dying. It is being taken over by billionaires who are using your tax money and mine coming to them through government contracts to increase their wealth and create their own space exploration programs. This is getting virtually no coverage in the A … ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » Fuck me OpenAI sucks ass. ChatGPT has to be the most stupidest fucking thing ever invented. It is so bad it's not even funny.

“Plez give me all the compute, money, and copyright allowance and i give you shitty autocomplete for fee!” - Tech Bro.

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In-reply-to » Fuck me OpenAI sucks ass. ChatGPT has to be the most stupidest fucking thing ever invented. It is so bad it's not even funny.

“Plez give me all the compute, money, and copyright allowance and i give you shitty autocomplete for fee!” - Tech Bro.

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Today’s EV Batteries May Last Up to 40% Longer Than Expected, Study Finds
Paige Bennett,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Here is some good news about EV batteries. If you drive an EV you will find this reassuring that your batteries  will last longer than you were originally told they would which may save you a lot of money. This means that EVs are cheaper than was thought compared to the cost of buying and operating a petroleum-powered vehic … ⌘ Read more

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Millions of Taxpayer Dollars Have Subsidized Project 2025 and Climate Denial
Chuck Collins ,  Staff Writer  -  truthout

Stephan: As this report describes, because the bribery of politicians is legal in the United States, and MAGAt billionaires and the corporations they control, have also rigged the nonprofit system, your money and mine is paying for the degradation of our own wellbeing. We are nation defined by corruption.

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Living together: Reflections on collective living
[A version of this post was initially published on 2022-05-30 (Setting
Orange, the 4 day of Confusion in the YOLD 3188) in my gemlog at:

gemini://gem.hack.org/log/collectives.gmi

It’s been slightly edited and a few photos added.]

I dreamt about Dial House last night. I’ve never been there, but it
was like I belonged, like I was meant to be there.

Last I heard anything about Dial House they were trying to gather
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Two friends with a love of coffee cross paths with Colombian farmer, changing lives across continents
Mathew Hatcher and Lewis McKenzie started a coffee-roasting business in a small Australian town, motivated less by money and more by the excuse to taste rare and expensive beans. When they met a coffee-growing family from Colombia, the business would transform lives and form a “connection with the heart”. ⌘ Read more

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Cherry Queen crowned in Pooraka as first box raises $85k
Bidding started at $50k, but Donna Mecurio was crowned Cherry Queen with a bid of $85k at the SA Produce Market in Pooraka this morning. Money raised goes to the South Australia Brain Research Foundation. ⌘ Read more

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(#ldyrryq) @bender@bender I’ve worked with this guy before. Paid him to do some freelance work. Not very good IMO. So haven’t hired him ever …
@bender I’ve worked with this guy before. Paid him to do some freelance work. Not very good IMO. So haven’t hired him ever again. But he keeps saying hi every now and then on Signal. And then every few months or so asking stuff like this ☝️ – Last time it was money for private school fees for his child.

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> I need money for my mother’s heart surgery, there is a shortfall of about 2 million rupiah from a total of 40 million, can you help me with an …

I need money for my mother’s heart surgery, there is a shortfall of about 2 million rupiah from a total of 40 million, can you help me with any amount?

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[ANN] [PROPOSAL] Add optional is_gift and txs parameter and create a new gift standard

There is currently no easy and safe standard way to gift Monero to people around you. It is possible to gift a wallet containing money. However, malicious people can use this to trick people into using the wallet they gifted them and steal the money after the recipient puts in more money, so this is unacceptable.

Link: https://github.com/monero-project/meta/issues/1100

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In-reply-to » @prologic Do you have a link to some past discussion?

@xuu@txt.sour.is I think it is more tricky than that.

https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/reform/rules-business-and-organisations/application-regulation/who-does-data-protection-law-apply_en

“A company or entity …”

Also, as I understand it, “personal or household activity” (as you called it) is rather strict: An example could be you uploading photos to a webspace behind HTTP basic auth and sending that link to a friend. So, yes, a webserver is involved and you process your friend’s data (e.g., when did he access your files), but it’s just between you and him. But if you were to publish these photos publicly on a webserver that anyone can access, then it’s a different story – even though you could say that “this is just my personal hobby, not related to any job or money”.

If you operate a public Yarn pod and if you accept registrations from other users, then I’m pretty sure the GDPR applies. 🤔 You process personal data and you don’t really know these people. It’s not a personal/private thing anymore.

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In-reply-to » @falsifian Do you have specifics about the GRPD law about this?

@prologic@twtxt.net I have no specifics, only hopes. (I have seen some articles explaining the GDPR doesn’t apply to a “purely personal or household activity” but I don’t really know what that means.)

I don’t know if it’s worth giving much thought to the issue unless either you expect to get big enough for the GDPR to matter a lot (I imagine making money is a prerequisite) or someone specifically brings it up. Unless you enjoy thinking through this sort of thing, of course.

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Winter soldier: scale down Kubernetes made easy
Member post originally published on the Devtron blog by Bhushan Nemade TL;DR: Stop wasting money on idle resources! Winter Soldier, an open-source tool, helps you automatically scale down non-production environments, saving you up to 28% on your annual… ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » @bender Sorry, trust was the wrong word. Trust as in, you do not have to check with anything or anyone that the hash is valid. You can verify the hash is valid by recomputing the hash from the content of what it points to, etc.

@bender@twtxt.net Yes, they do 🤣 Implicitly, or threading would never work at all 😅 Nor lookups 🤣 They are used as keys. Think of them like a primary key in a database or index. I totally get where you’re coming from, but there are trade-offs with using Message/Thread Ids as opposed to Content Addressing (like we do) and I believe we would just encounter other problems by doing so.

My money is on extending the Twt Subject extension to support more (optional) advanced “subjects”; i.e: indicating you edited a Twt you already published in your feed as @falsifian@www.falsifian.org indicated 👌

Then we have a secondary (bure much rarer) problem of the “identity” of a feed in the first place. Using the URL you fetch the feed from as @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org ’s client tt seems to do or using the # url = metadata field as every other client does (according to the spec) is problematic when you decide to change where you host your feed. In fact the spec says:

Users are advised to not change the first one of their urls. If they move their feed to a new URL, they should add this new URL as a new url field.

See Choosing the Feed URL – This is one of our longest debates and challenges, and I think (_I suspect along with @xuu@txt.sour.is _) that the right way to solve this is to use public/private key(s) where you actually have a public key fingerprint as your feed’s unique identity that never changes.

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In-reply-to » Bought a motorcycle this summer, I did not want two cars, and Marlyn would like to have the car more when I'm at work. So I bought a new cheap motorcycle, KTM Adventure 390. It's been 10 years since I last had a motorcycle (back then I had a KTM 990cc). Here I am with my daughter on the new bike :) My kids love to go for rides, so does Marlyn as well, so it's a lot of fun for all of us. Media

@bender@twtxt.net It cost what you mentioned here too, but they had a special discount, and the shop gave 20% discount for all the gear we needed (since I bought the bike + gear for two persons), so all in all I got a really good deal on it. Also interest rate is locked for 3 years (low rate) so that was also a good deal.
I just took the longest time I could on the loan, to have a low price each month, and then i just pay extra whenever I can to get it payed down faster.
Luckily the Marlyn, my son, and my daughter all fit the same gear, so the 3 of them share that, that saved a lot of money too :)

When i met Marlyn (before we had kids) I asked here to go on her first trip with me (I had a bike before I met her back then), and we went on a 2 week ride from Norway to Italy and back (venice) through the alps and all that. Was super fun, and I think it’s pretty cool of her to say yes to a 2 week trip as passenger :)

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This alternative to supermarkets can help you save on groceries, but most people don’t know it exists
Families and neighbours shopping through informal co-ops are saving hundreds, but the business model could help apply major competitive pressure to the major supermarkets. ⌘ Read more

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Apple Promotion Boosts iPhone Trade-In Values for a Limited Time
Apple today launched a limited-time promotion that increases the trade-in values for select iPhone models in the United States when customers buy a new iPhone.

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The promotion lasts from today until June 3, and means anyone trading in their existing iPhone 11 or newer will get more money knocked off the price of a new iPhone. As you can see fro … ⌘ Read more

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go-money 實現貨幣運算的金標準
在進行金融領域的軟件開發時,貨幣值的精確表示和操作至關重要。由於浮點數帶來的精度問題,傳統的處理方式經常導致數值上的細微誤差。針對這一問題,go-money包提供了基於 Go 語言的解決方案,實現了 Fowler 的貨幣模式。本文將深入解析go-money包,演示其具體的使用方式,並通過豐富的示例讓您掌握如何在 Go 項目中實現精確的貨幣計算。起步:安裝 go-money————- ⌘ Read more

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The town that chocolate built: How a global cocoa crisis poured money into these remote PNG villages
Over the last few years, a peculiar change has taken place in Papua New Guinea’s north-west, with remote, traditional villages modernising at a rapid pace. Here’s how the price of cocoa is fuelling development. ⌘ Read more

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Mark Cuban says to focus on money instead of following your passions
In emailed comments to Fortune, Cuban advised against starting a business on the basis of passion, urging workers instead to remain eagle eyed on money and building wealth. ⌘ Read more

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Bitter news for wine exporters as more people choose not to drink to save money — and health
Australian wine exports have been hit by a global trend in people drinking less alcohol and cutting costs, but hope remains for the re-opening of a major market. ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » Evernote Pushes Users To Upgrade After making steep cuts to personnel earlier this year, Evernote's Milan-based owner Bending Spoons is now experimenting with a new plan that would push more users to upgrade to paid versions of its service. From a report: The company confirmed to TechCrunch it's been running a small test that placed limits on the number of notes free users could create, but said the new plan is not yet finalized. TechCrunch was al ... ⌘ Read more

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net I feel like this is a bit of a common pattern? Company builds an awesome product, makes it free for a lot of users, then create additional features and paid plans, makes a tonne of money. But then later decide they need to make more money, so focus on converting the free users to paid users. Hmmm 🤔 Surely this can’t be the only viable business model? 🤔

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Переиздание Hitman: Blood Money с механиками из новых частей выйдет на iOS и Android уже 30 ноября
Порт для мобильных устройств можно предзаказать за 15 долларов.

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In-reply-to » Did not expect anything less from meta. Pay or we will track you. Should be illegal. Media

@prologic@twtxt.net I only use it so that family that follow me can see the images I post.
I do not browse around and spend time there, just check what family and friends have posted.
But still - makes me mad that they put that tracking infront of a paywall like that.
Hate putting money in zuckerberg’s pocket.
Same with VR - you need a meta account to use the oculus.. and you get full screen notification inside the VR headset if you do not use that.. Luckily there is a trail going on in Norway now..

https://www.datatilsynet.no/en/news/aktuelle-nyheter-2023/meta-case-brought-to-the-european-level/

https://www.datatilsynet.no/en/news/aktuelle-nyheter-2023/temporary-ban-of-behavioural-advertising-on-facebook-and-instagram/

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I acquired a new, fancy domain for a new side project. A site with tips on how to save money on purchases is something I would like to start. The search for a CMS reminds me of why I built GoBlog: all available options are not optimal. But GoBlog also isn’t optimal for this project for various reasons, as it shouldn’t be a typical personal blog. And now I have this really cool domain and question my plans. 😅 ⌘ Read more

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Snikket: State of Snikket 2023: Funding
As promised in our ‘State of Snikket 2023’ overview post, and teased at the end of our first update post about app development, this post in the series is about that thing most of us open-source folk love to hate… money.

We are an open-source project, and not-for-profit. Making money is not our primary goal, but like any business we have upstream expenses to pay - to compensate for the time and specialist work we need to implement the Snikket vision. To do that, we need income.

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Release Radar · July 2023 Edition
After the last Release Radar, I promised the next one wouldn’t be far away, so here it is. This is the low down on some of the best open source projects that shipped major version updates in July. There’s lots of cool stuff from natural language processing, to APIs, money, and SDKs. I won’t spoil […]

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In-reply-to » today Its my 40th birtday :)

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, I got some cash that I will put aside for a rainy day. I initially wanted to buy a kickbike for the dog with that, but he should not be pulling too much until next year’s fall, so I decided not to buy that now.
I’ll put the money aside for next year.
Other then that I got a new harness for me that I use for the dog, we’ve had one but this one is more solid and fits better to my size. That is super useful - and will last for many many years.
Also got a new hiking jacket, cotton jacket, green, outdoor type jacket, that is also something I really wanted, since I do not like those synthetic jackets (sweat too much in that). Also got some chocolate from my kids (Which I love). So I’m very pleased with the gifts :)

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In-reply-to » I'm curious. How many people truly believe blockchain social networks are the future?

@rrraksamam@twtxt.net I honestly dislike web3 platforms, and especially blockchain social media.
It’s just filled with people trying to make a dollar. That is always the focus on those blockchain based social media sites. I like what I can host my self, no money or tokens \ crypto involved etc.
Tried nostr for a while, but I cannot get into that either. Only reason it’s popular is because of jack (that’s just my opinion), and they are always pushing bitcoin lightning network there - and I get tired of that pretty fast.

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I’m curious. How many people truly believe blockchain social networks are the future?

NFTs, tokens, monetization, revenue…

I’m sorry, but how are your random social media blabbers worth any money?
Unless you’re Shakespeare or Einstein or some philosophical or scientific genius, I don’t see why anyone would want to read your posts, let alone cash out some “crypto” from some “wallet”.

And that applies to most people. Sure, your lifestyle and your thoughts may be interesting. But who’s going to start paying to view what’s going on in your life?

As if likes, upvotes, hearts, and subscriptions weren’t narcissistic enough, let’s make people think someone wants to pay them with crypto to view their random posts online.

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Cut food waste and save money with five tips from a famous foodie
Australians each throw out a whopping 300 kilograms of food every year. But these tricks from award-winning author and broadcaster Alice Zaslavsky can help reduce your waste — and put money back into your wallet. ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » Today one crypto I invested in went up over 70%, the other 20%. The bank I have fucks us over with the current economy, and earns record amounts for themselves. This is why I put savings in crypto and not in the bank. Im not trying to come across as a cryptobro or anything like that with this post (I rarely write about it).

@prologic@twtxt.net haha, money goes out fast. but its nice too see some savings grow a bit.

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In-reply-to » Had to add all my crypto to my taxes, damn that is a painful process. There are online services that helps with that part, so I use that to help. but I have transactions all over the place, so it takes a lot of time. But now it's done for this years tax report :)

@prologic@twtxt.net The good thing here at least is that you get back on your taxes if you loose money, so that helps a bit, and if you buy mining gear you can write some of the cost up as well etc. So it’s a pretty nice that they have done it that way here. The only downside is what I mentioned already - the complexity of filing it all.

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@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, apparently it was a bit of old new (according to twitter), but still - looking forward to have a risc-v desktop system. :)
Hopefully it’ll not be too long until something like that hits the market with a price that I can pay for it.
I do have 2 risk-v devices already, one mangopi (like a raspberrypi zero), and one HiFive1 Rev B (like a arduino).
The Hifive rev B was a waste of time and money for me - but I bought it anyways, too ‘embedded’ for my liking, so not easy to make things work on that. The mangopi is perfect, got all my desktop stuff set up on that running debian.

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Minimizing Liabilities Is Making It.
The default way to look at financial “independence” nowadays is to think that means “making a lot of money.”
That’s understandable.

But then you see stuff like this:

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Or this:

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Minimizing Liabilities Is Making It
The default way to look at financial “independence” nowadays is to think that means “making a lot of money.”
That’s understandable.

But then you see stuff like this:

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Or this:

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It takes until 30 for a person to be as rich as they were when they were born. (And this is average net worth, … ⌘ Read more

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good hobbyist internet science writers & scientists are afflicted by a peculiar disease: they produce some (or a lot of) good output, and then someone gives them enough money to start an organization, and they never write anything interesting again.

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Taiwan stocks facing ‘big bully’ prompt Goldman retreat as cross-strait tensions inflict 20 to 40 per cent fund losses
Cross-strait tensions are rising several notches as military threat escalates. Goldman has downgraded Taiwan market, worrying about a spillover of risk from related stocks to the broader market. ⌘ Read more

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Fear grips cryptocurrency traders and magnifies the global rout in US$247 billion DeFi market, Binance’s founder CZ says
The crash in cryptocurrencies shows how the fundamental principle of DeFi – the pursuit of higher yields in the era of cheap money to disrupt and replace traditional banks – has been upended by rising interest rates. ⌘ Read more

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Hong Kong slips one place to fourth most expensive city for luxury spending as hotel rates take a huge hit from pandemic, Julius Baer report finds
Hong Kong is the fourth most expensive city globally for luxury goods and services, a notch lower than last year, as a dearth of tourists crushed hotel room rates, Swiss private bank Julius Baer says. ⌘ Read more

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Yesterday I ordered a blanket for an incredible amount of money, more precisely a weighted blanket. Now I hope that it will be delivered quickly and that it really has the positive effects that are being advertised. Although I can usually fall asleep quickly in the evening with a sleeping mask and earplugs, I never manage to sleep through the night, I am never woken up by the alarm clock because I wake up earlier. In the morning I feel tired almost every day, sometimes even the whole day, which then also limits my c … ⌘ Read more

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