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by fspeech 4y ago
Other than the focus on governmental regulation we should also look at the glaring principal-agent risk. Large shareholders (such as the Swedish pension fund) should have asked questions about the concentration risks and AOCI losses. Manage
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You could go stronger with your assertion, that the MBS are actually fairly liquid (defintion: a quick sale will not cause a large drop in their value) but have large losses in market value compared to when they were bought. SVB should not
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by fspeech 4y ago
Interest rate rise will cause the same loss for bonds of the same duration. However MBS don’t have fixed durations. As interest rates go up, borrowers are expected to hold onto their mortgage longer. So the expected duration goes up for an
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South Korea has done well, with no access to cheap energy and high defense spending needs. But I couldn't tell whether they have a good life relative to their number of hours worked.
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"he’s actually warning that authoritarian government solutions for AI safety are going to end up nuking China’s server farms." He's saying that is what it takes for the policy to succeed. It's obviously absurd (to initia
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People usually use the word "democracy" as a synonym for "liberal democracies".
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Now you are actually sounding like a racist. Just dressing it up in some "principle" isn't going to change that fact. Where did I defend protectionist policies? Instead you, from the very beginning, tried to reverse engineer
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by fspeech 4y ago
It's entirely relevant. It's about how you organize your own society, which has little to do with China. China allows little immigration so by your logic US should ban immigration from China too.
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"First of all, you are talking about something from 1882." That makes it a lot worse no? It wasn't fully abolished until 1965 when racial barrier was finally taken down. So that was 83 years. Think clearly about what you&#x27
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So the Chinese Exclusion Act was fair because it was reciprocal?
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They have true cost advantage in data labelling. So if it comes down to large scale labelling for commercialization they may lead again. As for AlphaZero type of algorithmic breakthroughs, unless Chinese government and corporations are will
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by fspeech 4y ago
Isn't this what you asked rhetorically a little while ago: "In the last 100 years, Which US invasions were unilateral?"
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China didn't get into WTO until 2001 while USSR ended a decade before that.
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100 years ago the Philippines was an American colony.
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Of course there's benefit. They don't want to infect their elderly relatives when they go visit.
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Do China's Covid vaccines do the job?(npr.org)
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https://www.npr.org/2023/01/02/1146588153/encore-do-chinas-c... Do China's COVID vaccines do the job?
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Beijing workers begin return to offices despite Covid surge(youtube.com)
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This doesn't give context at all. Dembele was just completely beaten. He then made contact with Di Maria from behind when there was no chance he was playing for ball. Sure the referee didn't have to call penalty but it was fair he
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by fspeech 4y ago
Maybe the Chinese have a longer view of what domination means at your work. Also having experience of dense living might enhance your understanding of the importance of getting along at least pro forma.
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In il nome della rosa William of Baskerville tells us that concepts are signs and words are "signs of signs". In math logic we can define systems of symbols and logical connectives and deductive rules. We can argue for the correct
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As climate warms, a China planner advocates “sponge cities”(apnews.com)
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Actually the "toy model" is exactly how it works. When you take a loan from the bank and deposit their check your bank must pay whoever the amount on their check. There is not some mysterious ledger they just mark. The fact that a
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by fspeech 4y ago
What do you mean "toy model"? It is how it works operationally. Banks have to settle up by end of each business day or they are out of the business. The fact money is created with loans in a fractional reserve system does not nega
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It's not exactly out of "thin air", since we are trying to be nuanced here. If you take out a mortgage to buy a house the bank does loan you the money out of their own funds. It's just that the seller who receives your f
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by fspeech 4y ago
Here is a video of Hu entering the stage with an escort at the opening ceremony a few days ago: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GbvZbjtDm88
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ASML has explicitly said that the new rules don't affect them much because they don't have many US parts in non-EUV machines: https://www.reuters.com/technology/asml-reports-better-than-...
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Even if you can predict halting (which for the large class of decidable problems you can) you still have to run the computation to see the results. To me it's more about the expressiveness of languages.
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Well put on what language is. Language encodes the delta of worlds. There are way more unsaid than what is said explicitly.
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Real yields on treasuries have surpassed the average GDP growth rate of the 21st century. That’s restrictive by any measure.

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