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by apo 8y ago
Over the past decade, companies have taken advantage of low rates both to grow their businesses and reward shareholders. Total corporate debt has swelled from nearly $4.9 trillion in 2007 as the Great Recession was just starting to break o
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It's not clear why this wordy, rambling article is being upvoted. I expected to see a deep-dive into the Stellar Consensus protocol. Instead, the article takes until its second half to finish its introduction for beginners. Nevertheles
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by apo 8y ago
According to Bloomberg, the last Chinese recession was 25 years ago: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-07-19/china-... When the inevitable happens, it's going to be catastrophic. The entire
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by apo 8y ago
Good to know. How many faculty have indicated in these discussions that they will materially change their behavior?
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The problem is that this tactic actually empowers Elsevier. Without a credible threat to the status quo, nobody at UCLA or any other university has any reason to change what they're doing. It's hard to imagine anyone at Elsevier
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by apo 8y ago
I think of China as epicenter of a gargantuine deflationary hurricane. The cycle goes something like this: 1. Chinese economy slows down. 2. Chinese leadership realizes it's only one real recession away from existential threat. 3. Chin
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If UCLA were serious it would simply walk from the negotiation. THAT would send a message to all parties. It might actually spur some action on the part of faculty to get off their collective backsides and consider how every day they perpet
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3% on checking sounds too good to be true. What's the catch? For example, I didn't see anything about how funds are insured. If Robinhood were to somehow lose depositor funds, what recourse would account holders have?
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Thanks for the link and response, but I was talking about evidence in the OP article. Like far too many pieces, it fails to highlight the evidence between human activity and rising temps, taking it instead as an article of faith. Even the l
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Many coin projects hope for a Coinbase listing as a way to boost exchange rate. Broader markets mean more liquidity, which in turn means more investor interest. I'd like to offer a counterpoint: that Coinbase listing is likely to kill
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Huh? The article does a poor job of answering the question posed in the title (please, author, just tell me which is the "classic"). I've never seen the image in question and just wanted to get that basic fact straight before
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Can't help but think of phlogiston: Eventually, quantitative experiments revealed problems, including the fact that some metals gained mass when they burned, even though they were supposed to have lost phlogiston. Some[who?] phlogisto
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Science has very few recognizable public faces. Nye, and Niel Tyson are two of them. When these people say something about science, for better or worse, they speaks for science in many people's minds.
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The problem with many discussions around global warming is not scientific, but cultural. Advocates of change often take a sanctimonious attitude toward anyone expressing the slightest doubt. Have a look at the episodes of the Netflix series
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It sounds interesting. Beyond controlling RC vehicles, what would be some applications of software defined radios (SDRs)? By the way, it looks like a USB-VGA dongle can be manipulated in a similar way: https://news.ycombinator.co
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The Alternate Universe of Pre-MTV Music Videos(messynessychic.com)
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Rudy Giuliani Doesn't Understand the Internet(huffingtonpost.com)
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Academics are highly incentivized to seek quantity over quality of publications. Reviewers are disincentivized from performing thorough peer review (unpaid, tangential relation of paper to area of interest, too many papers to review). This
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I’ve studied schizophrenia for virtually my whole professional career. I do that by looking at synaptic differences and pathology that might be present in schizophrenic post-mortem brains. Over the years I would see these unknown objects,
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Worth noting that unlike previous business cycles the Fed is manipulating both the long and short end of the curve. Quantitative Tightening (QT) is the Fed's program to sell and/or let expire the long-term Treasuries it bought dur
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This quote from a different article contrasts the structure of borophene with graphene: "Borophene is structurally similar to graphene, with a hexagonal network made of boron (instead of carbon) atoms on each of the six vertices defin
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About the future of Highrise(highrisehq.com)
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He also warned in 2017: Bogle noted that trading would dry up if the stock market comprised only indexers and there were no active investors setting prices on individual issues. Everyone would just buy or sell the market. ... Shareholders
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However, he added, people who pick stocks in the stock market do not have it. “Because, the stock market is not sufficiently regular to support developing that kind of expert intuition,” he explained. In the short term, definitely. In the
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You dont need blockchain to cut the middleman out of indusrty X. Counterexample: electronic peer-to-peer money transfer. You simply couldn't do it without a middleman before Bitcoin. Now you can. What value you place on the ability d
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It's hard to conjure sympathy for anyone booted from Facebook. They built on someone else's platform and that platform pulled the rug out. That's the price of admission to the Walled Garden.
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Stallman's views on Bitcoin and privacy make no sense. It almost sounds like he doesn't understand how Bitcoin works. From the original article ( https://www.coindesk.com/free-software-messiah-richard-stall... ): “
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They Never Went to the Moon(gavinrothery.com)
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The end of the video mentions an application: a composite material made from a renewable resource (wood). The idea would presumably be to get a transparent, strong surface with mechanical properties different from either wood or epoxy alone
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He also noted the unexpected finding of longer lifespans among the exposed male rats. “This may be explained by an observed decrease in chronic kidney problems that are often the cause of death in older rats,” said Wyde. Looking at the so

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