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by ewood 12y ago
There are secondary markets for most bonds so yes, you can short them. However most traders would do this through derivatives such as bond futures or ETFs.
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This Is What a 6.5M Dollar Photograph Looks Like(fstoppers.com)
1 points by ewood 12y ago|0 comments
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by ewood 12y ago
Certainly it seems impossible to construct a device that could capture the state of a system of which it was a part, to me that's the paradox of the watching TV/listening to the radio prediction - it transfers information from the
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Ken Burns Tackles Lincoln, Education and Money in 'The Address'(npr.org)
15 points by ewood 12y ago|3 comments
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Central de Abasto – World's Largest Food Market (2010)(ediblegeography.com)
13 points by ewood 12y ago|0 comments
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by ewood 12y ago
I think the most important question this raises is will Smart Pipe executives protect our sensitive 'topographical' data and only use it for 'legitimate business purposes'?
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OpenShift Startup Program(openshift.com)
2 points by ewood 12y ago|0 comments
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by ewood 12y ago
s/corrupted/alternate/ I favour (!) British spelling too but 'organization' is more correct in the etymological sense as it derives from the latin 'organizo'. The British form is in a way a corruption itse
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Participate in the building of Guédelon castle(guedelon.fr)
4 points by ewood 12y ago|0 comments
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by ewood 12y ago
I also thought the title was pretty much click bait. The FT, WSJ and others have more nuanced articles on the event. Most of the evidence seems to point to falling liquidity setting up the conditions and the jitters around the end of QE3 be
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Dwarf Crocodiles Adapt to Prey on Toxic Cane Toads(abc.net.au)
1 points by ewood 12y ago|0 comments
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The students who feel they have the right to cheat(bbc.co.uk)
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Juries can be influenced by where defendants sit in a courtroom(abc.net.au)
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by ewood 12y ago
The main page is mostly marketing no-speak apart from mentioning Google Apps implementations. This article ( http://www.techrepublic.com/article/pwc-partners-with-google... ) has more info. tl;dr - PwC are implementing A
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Google for Work(google.pwc.com)
3 points by ewood 12y ago|1 comments
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by ewood 12y ago
Good work, this looks like a great resource. I've always found your hansard alerts incredibly useful. Another interesting resource for Australian politics is the ABC's (relatively) new FactCheck service ( http://www.abc.
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by ewood 12y ago
Bundaberg sarsaparilla is the same formulation as the root beer, not the ginger beer ( http://www.bundaberg.com/info/product_range/sarsaparilla )
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MX System ICBM basing mode(youtube.com)
1 points by ewood 12y ago|0 comments
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UK Emergency Surveillance Legislation(theguardian.com)
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by ewood 12y ago
I think the 19th century story of The Strand Magazine almost being bankrupted by the 'death' of Sherlock Holmes and the subsequent outrage of their readers is a close approximation ( http://sherlockholmes.stanford.edu&#x
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Brands Use World Cup Biting Incident To Generate Social Buzz(adweek.com)
1 points by ewood 12y ago|0 comments
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by ewood 12y ago
The hearing was dealing with the wider topic of whistle blowing both in relation to governments and multi-national corporations. Snowden was offering testimony on his specific circumstances and on what protections should be offered to whist
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How the CIA secretly published Dr Zhivago(bbc.co.uk)
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by ewood 12y ago
This video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4tGaoSz14g ) at 3:20 has a good summary of how the concept works in cricket. With a ball that is equally worn on both sides it is the seam (like the latex band) breaking up the ai
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How much sugar is in your fizzy drink?(theguardian.com)
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Uber protest gridlocks London(bbc.com)
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by ewood 12y ago
Market makers are licensed by and incentivized by the exchange. They will usually have cheaper or no transaction costs, be given order priority over other market participants, have more relaxed rules on quote display times, or any other com
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Struggle to mark Tiananmen on China's social media(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by ewood 12y ago|0 comments
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For Rent – London WW2 bunker large enough to accommodate 8,000(bbc.co.uk)
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by ewood 12y ago
From the final paragraphs of the article this seems like a compromise agreement for both sides. The ISPs have pushed against becoming the rights holders' enforcers, much like ISPs in Australia and other jurisdictions that have been thr

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