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obv. your discount rate will reflect the higher default rate. one comp are student loans extended by trade schools; there is a massive amount of loans outstanding by students that either never graduate or never find a job in their trade. th
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there are tons of investors that would want to invest in this. a loan with a time horizon of 3,5,10 years is certainly worth a look and would fit in with any consumer finance type investment (micro loans, car financings, etc). the investor
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this is a phenomenal idea. priced like a fixed instrument, the stronger a relationship, the lower the price and the higher the interest rate. the site should allow wedding guests to hypothetically buy or sell a share of this loan (it must b
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This title is very misleading. Flirting connotes a two way interaction. In fact, it isn't flirting until a romantic advance is reciprocated either explicitly or implicitly. This is just hitting on someone.
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or the balance of empathy/emotional intelligence
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I think his chart tells the greater point which is: no, we aren't angry.
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there is no dissonance. spying is about privacy. guns are about lives. spying can lead to loss of life but guns do lead to loss of life.
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this sounds like salt lake city
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if it's in oakland i'll bring the 40
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about as fun as i am here apparently
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that parenthetical is not enough for me
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to your point, imagine the bed-ridden mother of a tribesman of a remote village in Sub-Saharan Africa and you easily tack on 2 more degrees of separation (the tribesman who has infrequent contact with a nearby city and then his senior-aged
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> How connected is the world? ... we've crunched the Facebook friend graph and determined that the number is 3.57 Agreed. this statement is presumptuous and self-aggrandizing and just incorrect. They should re-word this sentence a
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did they disclose the standard deviation or spread?
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You're kidding me. You actually believe all of this is about sexual assault?
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anti-muslim. just read his tweets.
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the oil curse? come on. natural resources are neither a blessing or curse. norway is a small country with lots of oil and isn't a disaster. i don't know what the problem is but don't blame it on oil.
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:)
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I agree with your point and will add that such movements are not isolated to the non-scientific: Dawkin's use of his own public platform to push his own shockingly bad agenda. Which is to say, emotional outbursts of any kind are noise
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where the heck does code sound like cat??
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that link is great
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"just" 8 have won nobels and "just" 1% end up in the national academy of sciences? this is unimpressive compared to what? this article is just bad science and lazy writing. before we can even entertain his conjecture we
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_top_title_holders_in_G...
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sprint headquarters
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what's happening just north of charleston, south carolina? google earth shows what seems like a cleared foundation in the middle of undeveloped land. Unnamed Rd, Charleston, SC 29492, USA 32.912336, -79.862333 https://www.g
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if your people are traditionally discouraged or outright banned from (A) large swaths of roles including land ownership, politics, military and farming and (B) intermarriage with the host country then they are more likely to (1) be filtered
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it's happening today to Asian students in a less overt fashion
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could this ultimately lead to the invention of that now familiar sci-fi trope: deep hibernation for long-period space travel?
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Yahoo is a farce. Ostensibly it is a kind of passive index fund that only holds two assets: Alibaba and Yahoo, which is rapidly declining in value and should be cashflowed out (remove overhead, no add'l investment and collect cash til
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True. But the article is not stating that he was influenced by Japanese ideology, it is stating that he based his ideology on it. Which is a radical idea. I have not read BR Meyers but I have read Lankov, Cumings and other more well-known
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