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Georgia is reopening their economy(nytimes.com)
5 points by bawana 7y ago|2 comments
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by bawana 7y ago
And there will be NO inflation because this money is largely going to corporations who will figure out ways to maximize ROI -> invest it in the financial market. So although there might inflation of equity prices (as seen by the recovery
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by bawana 7y ago
can I say 'bullshit' here without being rude? Hospitals ONLY provide services they can profit from. They could have a doc in an office to do the stitching you refer to. And save a crap ton on overhead. By offering a 'luxury p
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by bawana 7y ago
I ama surgeon in MA. I get less than $800 for a hernia repair. That includes all the face time with the patient, explaining everything, doing the procedure and taking care of him after. The hospital gets $8000 and lets me use a 'specia
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by bawana 7y ago
So what do we call it when an algo trading event results in the same - 'oil futures algo bug trading incident'?
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by bawana 7y ago
We need to separate the accounting of ‘financial flows of money’ (money spent on financial instruments) from money spent on goods and services that are not financial. We need to be able to compare the gross financial product with the gdp. T
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by bawana 7y ago
The money the fed injects into the financial system is staying in the financial system. Too many dollars chasing too few equities could result in ‘equity inflation’=stock market bubble. (I am using the word equity as a symbol for any financ
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by bawana 7y ago
The more I read the Atlantic, the more I realize it's a nihilistic rag. Ok, there are shortcomings, but it seems they only like to trumpet inflammatory remarks-perhaps they think they are counterbalancing our govt.
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by bawana 7y ago
I ran this on ubuntu 18.04. It took a little work to get around a small bug that will be squashed when the v412loopback library gets officially rebuilt but here is a solution https://github.com/alievk/avatarify/iss
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by bawana 7y ago
The sad truth is that most patients cannot communicate their symptoms clearly and a computer will fail them. More importantly, the nonverbal communication, the compassion, and the reassurance from personal interaction are what drives the de
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by bawana 7y ago
No amount of govt money will ever cause inflation again. The tools for govt intervention (the Fed rate, quantitative easing through the purchase of Tbills,etc) may have been effective in the time when the world was simpler (Remember 'I
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by bawana 7y ago
Weinstein acts right but talks left. He hoards his hundred millions and goads students to take back MIT. He gives lip service to Aaron Schwartz without doing anything to reduce the digital divide. He is an establishment hypocrite. He is a w
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by bawana 7y ago
It's not about getting rid of rich people. It's about the relative flow of wealth and the behavior of rich people that makes life miserable for 'the rest of the 99%'. how about housing? The digital divide? These are nega
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by bawana 7y ago
There are no grandmas that can save money anymore. The wealthy can afford to pay so much for housing that real working people can even afford it. The wealthy consume so much simply because they can. And there are a LOT more of them thanks t
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by bawana 7y ago
When you go on bypass(needed if the heart is stopped to replace a valve) air emboli (very small air bubbles) go into the brain and can get lodged in capillaries cutting of blood flow. Personality changes are documented to occur after bypass
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by bawana 7y ago
Unfortunately, when wealthy people get money they do not spend it on goods and services that employ people and drive the economY. Rather, the invest it in the financial vehicle with the highest ROI. Giving money to the rich does not trickle
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by bawana 7y ago
+1. I just watched Eric Weinstein on Lex Fridman's podcast. He is angry about how students have been emasculated by the establishment. That the death of Aaron Schwartz was a tragedy and the students should 'rise up and take back&#
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by bawana 7y ago
I remember when google went on an AI buying spree with DeepMind, and other professors, etc being hired. Why isn't sergeibrin buying up these professors? His fam hx and interest in this field are at odds with the lack of headlines of g
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by bawana 7y ago
I just saw a netflix documentary, 'operation odessa', where two guys were buying russian helos and even a sub for the Cali cartel. I am not amazed at the resourcefulness of the human animal. Anything we make (including information
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by bawana 7y ago
If a site within a tail scale net is compromised, does that make all of the other sites instantly compromised on that net?
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by bawana 7y ago
conda makes cudatoolkit available. That can save a lot of time not having to figure out how to install CUDA and cudnn
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by bawana 7y ago
Will this be the 'spam' that destroys our civilized world? When we cannot believe our own senses, then our only refuge will be a construct that WE made so we know we can trust it? Will we voluntarily enter the matrix to escape the
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by bawana 7y ago
"CEO pay is usually an insignificant fraction of a company's revenue" What is insignificant? For example, the CEO of Aetna walked away with 500million. That's money that should have gone to insured, injured and sick peop
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by bawana 7y ago
hmmm....subliminal mind control
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by bawana 7y ago
^THIS. The system of lowering interest rates and 'printing money' only helps banks. Back in the day, banks made money by lending money and that WAS their job. The whole Keynesian move to 'pump money into the economy' was
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by bawana 7y ago
And since a put is an agreement to sell at a certain price, how can you even sell such an agreement if it’s value has skyrocketed beyond the value of the underlying stock? Certainly the counter party would like to buy the put and let it exp
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by bawana 7y ago
I don’t mean to be dense but I am still missing something. I appreciate the fact that the counter party is locked in when you buy a ‘put’. But what if the counter party wants to get out of a bad deal and they declare bankruptcy? After all i
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by bawana 7y ago
How the world has changed. 100 years ago governments glorified war and sent their youth to their deaths. With what narrative did they blind everyone to the common sense that killing is bad.? Today, the possibility of illness closes entire s
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by bawana 7y ago
How valid is it to look to the past when there is so much cash floating around? With so much more demand for roi, I would think that in itself would bias the markets up. Almost like an invisible Keynesian injection eager to happen
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by bawana 7y ago
warhol would have been all over this

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