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by fspeech 9y ago
How much of the $1 million apartment is the price of the land? How much of the land price can be accounted for by things like very large investments in infrastructure such as the subways and preferred access to top universities that are sti
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by fspeech 9y ago
If one sees a shanty town in the developing world one may wonder who would want to live there. What one does not see is what the conditions were before people moved into the shanty town. China actually completed rural electrification (and r
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by fspeech 9y ago
Right. And keep in mind that Chinese GDP per capita is about one fifth of the U.S. If everything in China were up to US standards Chinese GDP would be 3 times that of US.
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by fspeech 9y ago
With their real estate boom people will eventually live in larger and more modern housing units. The process to get there may be more wasteful than necessary but it can be eventually productive even from a very utilitarian perspective. Duri
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by fspeech 9y ago
"A lot of the extra liquidity is being sopped up directly into real estate" It doesn't really work that way. People who buy lose liquidity but people who sell gain liquidity. Cash just changes hands. The question is what are
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by fspeech 9y ago
Right that is the process of money creation. However it does not change the accounting identity that asset and liability are the flip sides of each other.
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by fspeech 9y ago
I think there is one fundamental point people should understand when pondering macro issues: for a closed system the amount of savings is equal to the amount of debt. Every dollar of debt is a dollar of savings for the debt holder and vice
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ETF funds themselves do not buy or sell anything. They exchange their own units for the indexed basket of shares.
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"Wang Jianlin meets Hong Kong’s ex-chief executive Tung, quashing talk he’s barred from travelling" http://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/2110610/...
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Caixin reported that this is based on clause 3 of the regulation issued on 9/4.
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Caixin report in Chinese: http://m.finance.caixin.com/m/2017-09-08/101142797.html Gist: exchanges are banned, off-exchange one-to-one trades okay.
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This is based on a Caixin report, which is a reputable source. Do you have any reputable source to refute it?
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Gold should just be an instrument of accounting. These exchanges are not the central bank and the central bank's holding is not very relevant. This should be meant to alleviate traders' concerns with capital control and RMB conver
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Search for the author's home page, which has a link to his Ph.D. dissertation. The thesis provides a lot more background material and examples.
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by fspeech 9y ago
Have you tried Cython? That seems like a much smaller leap than a new language.
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"I do agree that they should at least make a search option to filter them out" They have a filter "Free Shipping by Amazon" under "Eligible for Free Shipping". It should filter out most if not all items not ser
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by fspeech 9y ago
Any reason why it couldn't use air jet to create linear motion? It is floating in air after all. Okay, just saw EDIT2 of TeMPOraL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14795857 , it appears to move around using micro fa
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by fspeech 9y ago
The "creative" moves may very well come from the search part of the AlphaGo algorithm, though of course the networks have done their jobs of pruning the search space.
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Very nice! The covering transforms have similar structure to the Galois theory. It is cool to see them in action visually.
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The 43% number already includes provincial government debt. Direct debt of the central government is about 20%. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_...
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Is the implementation any good? Anyone knows a good implementation in any language?
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by fspeech 10y ago
Will US withdraw troops from a unified Korea or will troops be stationed on the Chinese border?
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Ah I see. There are two issues here: making a configuration option hidden or accessible and making the change interface GUI or text based. I only commented on the second aspect. Depending on one's point of view making a configuration o
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It is about feature discovery. One can poke around the GUI and see what is possible or one can read the manual about options. I suppose the typical user prefers to poke around. Of course for the power users changing a text file is the way t
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by fspeech 10y ago
Prof. Kowalski has a draft version of his book available on his website, which should provide background information on LPS: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~rak/papers/newbook.pdf Computational Logic and Human Thinking:
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For a country with such low GDP the debt to GDP ratio is not a good indicator of its future. If the country's economy performs at all its GDP could go up multiple times. The situation is different for a middle income country such as Ar
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GDP per capita Ethiopia: $505 (2013) GDP per capita Argentina: $14715 (2013) The impact of a railroad (and therefore ROI whether measured financially or just socially) is bound to be higher for Ethiopia, esp since it is the first and only t
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Does it feel like Jack Ma went to Australia to deliver a threat to the US? He went there to unveil headquarters for Alibaba and to make a donation to an Australian university. He talked about how grateful he was to Australia (as a Western c
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What about the senior adviser to POTUS?: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/02/steve-bannon...
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I changed the title because I found the connection over 30 years ago more extraordinary than the donation itself. I chose this particular link to submit mostly because of the nice old photos. Here are some more links on the story: http:&#x

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