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by neffy 6y ago
You know that widely acknowledged problem that a large part of current economic theory is completely divorced from the systems it is studying? This would be one of those parts. The real world is not a special case.
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by neffy 6y ago
Can only agree. There is a really simple reason for not allowing naked short selling and that is the potential for effectively creating a divide by 0 error, when the short sellers have to cover their short, and there aren't enough shar
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by neffy 6y ago
You're right - the article goes wrong almost immediately when it claims that banks lend out their savers deposits. Banks are statistical multiplexers, and effectively function as hubs in a network of loans and monetary transfer. So the
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by neffy 6y ago
I suspect the key word there is "she".
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by neffy 6y ago
Reykjavik University (Iceland) | Onsite, Iceland |Full-time (4 years) The Reykjavik University Sleep Institute is looking for a DevOps Engineer specialised in Machine Learning for the Horizon 2020 project Sleep Revolution, sponsored by the
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by neffy 6y ago
Exactly. Every time there is any kind of mania there is always a slew of articles on how much people are making on it, there is a remarkable dearth of articles on how much is lost when the mania ends. (Credit to Reddit's Wall Street be
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by neffy 6y ago
Coke is a fairly strong acid, and somewhat notorious for its cleaning properties viz: https://www.airtasker.com/blog/15-ways-clean-coca-cola/
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by neffy 6y ago
It seems like the obvious solution to this would be for Google to provide a sensible way to accept corrections to their maps. We had to get a change made to Google maps to prevent people getting killed here, and it took national news, and p
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by neffy 6y ago
Well, the only time you can really prove cheating, is when people get the same wrong answers....
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by neffy 6y ago
Hard to say - but personally I think it's a positive that they went with an MIT^3. The Media Lab has many issues, but one of them is that it deliberately set itself aside from the main campus, and that attitude was part of what got th
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by neffy 6y ago
That last is actually rather hard to determine. Detected attacks tend to divide into two groups - the scripted continuous probing that's just background noise these days (but if you have access to the logs on any internet connecting de
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by neffy 6y ago
Not quite. The US alone graduates 2 million Computer Science students of various stripes every year. It's been graduating (smaller numbers) of them for over 40-50 years now. There are now second and third generation comp sci. workers a
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by neffy 6y ago
Erm... when the trains are late in the US it can be by hours (NY -- Boston), or even a day or so (on the transcontinental route). Amtrak gets severely outcompeted on most routes by a somewhat informal "chinatown" bus network.
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by neffy 6y ago
I must admit I found the complaints about the license on my own project, which boiled down to you didn't make it freely available so we could steal it and use it for our own much better funded project without any cost, darkly amusing.
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by neffy 6y ago
V cancels in the MV=PT equation - so no.
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by neffy 6y ago
Somebody who just finished working for Goldman Sachs...
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by neffy 6y ago
The fact that they can't afford you is quite often a market signal about their business/product/idea in and of itself.
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by neffy 6y ago
And I fear yours is static, exploitation logic. Certainly there are a lot of failed entrepreneurs out there, but there are millions more people who never even got the chance to fail, because they were screwed over by the former. With the gr
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by neffy 6y ago
Consider this is also a huge, multi-generational propagation of information problem in very long latency (slow) network structures. A few members of one generation learns to read and write, they provide the teachers for the next generation,
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by neffy 6y ago
They can't - this is a QAnon troll sealioning. Check their other comments.
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by neffy 6y ago
I think the elephant in the room is what is really behind QAnon - I must admit I do admire the coordination behind the arguments, seen this one a few times the last couple of days.
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by neffy 6y ago
I'm arguing supply and demand. If the Fed comes along and buys loans from the Banking system it increases the supply of loans... (banks are restricted by Basel Capital regulation in the supply of loans they can provide, otherwise too m
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by neffy 6y ago
that would presumably increase interest rates...
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by neffy 6y ago
Form your own opinion here: https://twitter.com/senti_narwhal?lang=en I think it's worth observing that mob rule is never good, and racism is actually pretty universal, as are bullies, it's just the target group
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by neffy 6y ago
I think the issue is a little more interesting than the popular diatribe. Agreed interest rates are at an all time low. At the same time, the supply of loans is at an all time high, thanks to new (old) mechanisms like loan securitization be
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by neffy 6y ago
There are features in the frequency ranges of bird calls that suggest this. Alarm calls are usually on frequencies that have better propagation (this also depends on the habitat that birds occupy - ground living birds have much lower freque
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by neffy 6y ago
And as it happens everything is regulated by bank capital and the Basel framework these days, rather than the old gold standard of asset reserves. OP gave the correct textbook description - but that description has been superceded by change
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I'm sure their canteen buys lettuce, and as it happens they've been getting quite adventurous with what else they're prepared to buy recently.
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by neffy 6y ago
Bank reserves are strictly M0. As for inflation -- it's a really slow system that we're looking at here, the inflation depends on where the money ends up, hence the stock market behaviour, but over time it will cause inflation els
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by neffy 6y ago
I'm sorry, that is flat out incorrect. They are printing asset and liability money this time around. Observe: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2 The is (give or take money market funds) the total sum of money i

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