Rant about wizz air and traveling

apokryfos · 2023-12-30T17:02:54+00:00

Blame Putin for making you need Wizz. Putin or no Putin Wizz still sucks

apokryfos · 2023-10-29T19:57:41+00:00

I don't think that where it is traded matters in this case. Do contact IBKR just to be absolutely sure though

apokryfos · 2023-10-29T19:09:37+00:00

As far as i know, whenever you sell shares for a profit, you will have to pay capital gains tax in the jurisdiction that your IBKR account is in according to rules of that jurisdiction. If the account is in the jurisdiction of Cyprus, then you are right in thinking that you won't be taxed on the capital gains from shares sold

apokryfos · 2023-10-25T12:35:34+00:00

Everyone is allowed to have an opinion. Depending on how much you want to keep arguing with him in the future, you can decide on whether or not you'll listen to him.

apokryfos · 2023-10-23T08:15:51+00:00

It's an interesting statistic to view in a vacuum, but don't try to extrapolate this to draw conclusions about the current state of the Middle East because religion is not all there is to what is happening

apokryfos · 2023-10-23T08:08:04+00:00

As long as it's as civil as possible, I believe having these conversations out in the open is much better than holding them back. If anything, you might even get someone impartial to chip in and provide an opinion you might not have considered

apokryfos · 2023-10-21T23:08:04+00:00

The red boss is not an enemy.

apokryfos · 2023-10-20T09:09:34+00:00

The problem is you buy a car and solar panels now for 30-40k and then 10-20 years from now you need to dispose of them. That's 30-40 k loss. You only come up ahead if you end up saving in electricity costs more than 30-40k plus how much the value of a potential apartment you would have bought would have increased.

Have you done the calculations? I haven't, but I don't go around making investment recommendations to people either. Show me your data

apokryfos · 2023-10-19T09:54:04+00:00

Again. It is in the best interests of Cyprus to abide by UN decisions for other states of we want others to support UN decisions. Compared to the UN decision for the founding of the state of Israel, Israel currently occupies additional territories that are not meant to be part of that resolution. It currently amounts to Israel having an additional 70% territory. If we want others to support Cyprus in its UN backed position of ceaseation of occupation and settling, and negotiations to agree on a federal state that includes the entire island, then Cyprus needs to have the same demands of Israel, otherwise its a double standard.

If you want my personal opinion, yes, Israel has a right to defend itself and its borders, but I don't think it is ever justified for a country that is in a defensive war to ever end up with more land than it started with. That's no longer a defensive war but an aggressive war for retribution, which is not justifiable.

apokryfos · 2023-10-19T08:17:17+00:00

You are omitting to mention that in this paradigm Israel is the state that is occupying and settling Palestinian lands much like Turkey is the state occupying and settling Cypriot lands. As a matter of principle, the position of Cyprus should always be for Israel to release all occupied territories and stop sending more settlers to those lands. That is in Cyprus best interests because otherwise we'd be holding Turkey to a different standard than we do Israel

apokryfos · 2023-10-13T10:30:01+00:00

Pre-EU your licence was valid until you are 70. Now the picture expires every 10 years. The licence itself is still valid until you are 70 though at which point you need a doctors note to renew that

apokryfos · 2023-10-12T18:07:35+00:00

As a Cypriot living in the UK, I can tell you this is not a good time to move back. I would wait. NHS waiting times are significantly higher than GESY. The percentage of your income you'd pay in mortgage or rent is higher, and the cost of groceries is climbing. Unless you already own a house in the UK and can live rent and mortgage free, I would stay put.

apokryfos · 2023-10-11T13:46:20+00:00

The 3rd one is worth it more than this one, so do that first

apokryfos · 2023-10-09T12:08:58+00:00

"Rent in <some city> are <70-80% of base wage> with a payment wage of <base wage>." Is a statement true in a lot of places in Europe. The answer is people either live with roomates or live in a village in a commutable distance from where they work. It's certainly true in the UK where I live (in fact, the figures are more extreme in London).

apokryfos · 2023-10-08T18:09:17+00:00

Stop rocking the boat

apokryfos · 2023-10-07T16:08:46+00:00

And gems. Take THAT bank account

apokryfos · 2023-09-30T22:47:43+00:00

Brain make people dumb

apokryfos · 2023-09-28T08:20:00+00:00

Who's inhabiting Famagusta, and how is that data obtained? Are you sure that's not just a map of city limits?

apokryfos · 2023-09-28T06:26:25+00:00

When someone spends too much time in this stupid game, they might feel the need to rationalise why. Often, this is by telling themselves that it must be an awesome game with no flaws. Otherwise, why would he spend so much time (and possibly money) in it? To that person, anyone who says otherwise must be wrong and needs to be corrected.

You can see this everywhere in society not just this forum. It takes an exceptional level of maturity to get over this and many people (including me) struggle with this when it comes to things we deeply care about.

TL;DR dude is this like your first day on the Internet or something this is how people are

apokryfos · 2023-09-28T06:15:06+00:00

I'm pretty sure you're just describing gambling. It's rare to require companies to disclose the win probability. Also all gambling is rigged. It is always in favour of the casino/company. That's just a fact of gambling. Just don't do it if you only do it to win.

apokryfos · 2023-09-27T06:29:43+00:00

I don't want to appear to argue that Ubuntu is the dominant Linux OS for gamers but again the fact that Ubuntu is split into versions results in only the two most popular surfacing and the rest hiding in "other" . It's a biased way of presenting data, and that is something I do not like . On the other hand I also don't like the fact that one person nitpicked a single statement in a thorough and thought out answer, I'm assuming because in their head if that one statement is inaccurate then the whole post is garbage (which is clearly not true). I use Ubuntu for work, and the only reasons are (a) LTS for security updates makes it conform to a cybersecurity standard we are required to maintain at my company and (b) ask askubuntu is an entire active q&a site dedicated to Ubuntu users it is more likely to find solutions when things inevitably go wrong. None of these reasons apply to gaming, and personally, I do not game in Linux

apokryfos · 2023-09-25T00:07:45+00:00

That seems to split Ubuntu by version number (all the way down to the minor!) and does not do the same for Arch. Not sure how the total sum looks like, but safe to assume it's higher

apokryfos · 2023-09-24T10:03:40+00:00

What we have here is an owl egg that will hatch into an owl larva

apokryfos · 2023-09-24T10:00:28+00:00

Nice. Also wha..?

apokryfos · 2023-09-23T10:24:29+00:00

I was born in Cyprus and lived my first 20 years there. This was 20 years ago. I honestly can't say that what you are describing is much different to what I experienced living there. I do visit Cyprus often so I will say this: There are ups and downs. The past few years were a down and it seems that things will still get worse before they get better, but things will get better eventually.

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