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Powell Sees Fed Resuming Balance-Sheet Growth, but It's Not QE(bloomberg.com)
2 points by aazaa 7y ago|0 comments
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by aazaa 7y ago
1/2 of the way in and the premise in the title still hasn't been explained. Not going to stick around for the next 1/2.
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by aazaa 7y ago
> Jira, Trello, Asana, the stickies on your wall, or reach out on Slack In a nutshell, the article claims that these electronic tools render a daily standup pointless and/or disruptive. First, note how many different tools are menti
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by aazaa 7y ago
Depending on the fund, there may in fact be another option: more risky assets. As noted in the article: > In the meantime, pension funds have been coping by buying up riskier assets. The Dutch, ranked with Denmark as the world’s best per
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by aazaa 7y ago
> The warning comes as pension firms across Europe struggle to generate the returns they need to cover their growing obligations. In Denmark, some funds saddled with legacy policies guaranteeing returns as high as 4.5% have had to use eq
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by aazaa 7y ago
> "What was interesting during the Wave was that the very bright kids were excluded and martialed out of the classroom by guards early on. That left the middle group, who then felt empowered. That's probably what's happeni
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ArXiv Vanity(arxiv-vanity.com)
12 points by aazaa 7y ago|0 comments
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by aazaa 7y ago
> The company doesn’t cite a specific reason, saying only in a statement given to The Verge that it decided “to forgo further participation in the Libra Association at this time and to continue to focus on advancing our existing mission
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by aazaa 7y ago
> Carell, an organic chemist, and his collaborators have now demonstrated a chemical pathway that — in principle — could have made A, U, C and G (adenine, uracil, cytosine and guanine, respectively) from basic ingredients such as water a
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by aazaa 7y ago
For those who don't need all the inside baseball up front, jump to the lengthly footnote for the gist, which itself doesn't exactly get to the point: > ... The policy is an update to the Code of Conduct that requires us to use
911.
by aazaa 7y ago
Worth reading the "Limitations" section of the original paper: > The main limitation of the present study, as with most open-label studies, is that all subjects received treatment (single-arm) without inclusion of an untreated&
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by aazaa 7y ago
The training you get during a PhD is mostly your responsibility. There are good academic PIs who know how to actually mentor students. From them you can learn a lot about research and people. Most professors lack the soft skills needed to m
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Limited Hangout(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by aazaa 7y ago|0 comments
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New Instrument Makes Music with 2k Marbles (2016)(thisiscolossal.com)
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What Is the XY Problem?(meta.stackexchange.com)
4 points by aazaa 7y ago|0 comments
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by aazaa 7y ago
I find this article more clearly written, and the historical background is also helpful: > To understand the roots of India’s plan for a massive detention system, we need to go back to the 19th century, when the British set up big tea pl
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by aazaa 7y ago
Zooming out, here are some points I've been considering: 1. A repo intervention on this scale hasn't happened since the 2008 crisis. 2. Experts seem divided on what's causing the extremely tight overnight liquidity phenomenon
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Eloquent JavaScript(eloquentjavascript.net)
8 points by aazaa 7y ago|0 comments
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by aazaa 7y ago
> Since the law passed, tech giants have pulled out their last card: pushing for an overarching federal bill. >In doing so, the companies would be able to control their messaging through their extensive lobbying efforts, allowing them
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by aazaa 7y ago
> Gradisher said the Navy's transparency about unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP, is largely done to encourage trainees to report "incursions" they spot in the airfield, which threaten pilots' safety. > ... &gt
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Trump: California's Ability to Set Its Own Emissions Standards Will Be Revoked(npr.org)
4 points by aazaa 7y ago|1 comments
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Why do fusion and fission both release energy?(physics.stackexchange.com)
3 points by aazaa 7y ago|0 comments
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by aazaa 7y ago
> Sort of like jury duty, but with guns. Jurors often report how serving on a jury changes their views on criminal justice. I suspect that a similar mandatory, limited-time requirement to serve in law enforcement would do the same. And i
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NY Fed rescues overnight lending market with $53B(cnn.com)
338 points by aazaa 7y ago|177 comments
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by aazaa 7y ago
> Several analysts said in recent weeks that China’s economic growth was already testing the lower end of Beijing’s full-year target of around 6-6.5%, which is likely to spur more policy easing. Second-quarter growth cooled to 6.2%, the
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by aazaa 7y ago
> What’s the slippery slope here? The slippery slope is that today RMS is the kook, ejected without due process or objective standards. Tomorrow, you'll be the kook.
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by aazaa 7y ago
Who decides which are the questions that a representative of the university can ask and which will lead to punishment? As far as I can tell, the discussion was on-topic given that a former professor, Minsky, was being accused of "assau
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by aazaa 7y ago
It's something that unfortunately needs a name now.
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by aazaa 7y ago
> ... Supposing as you do that society currently holds the wrong opinion on "does sex with minors constitute sexual assault?", the right answer is unlikely to be hashed out on a MIT list for CS activities. I expressed no opinio
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by aazaa 7y ago
Forget about the content of the statements for a moment. Imagine a person expresses skepticism of an idea you consider "settled." Do you: 1. demand the person be let go from his/her current position 2. provide evidence that c

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