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by nickles 8y ago
> That's a security failing - you shouldn't let the website user know that a given account exists. It's not an issue if you let users pick their own username. There's simply no way to get around this (apart from assig
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> There already is an incredibly accurate predictor of recessions: the 10 year vs 2 year yield ratio. This is not quite true. 2s10s curve inversion is commonly discussed, but 3m UST bill vs 10y UST note has far greater predictive power [
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> Wall Street firms get financial feeds from zacks, edgars, morningstar and a whole slew of other financial data providers. Finance sites, like yahoo finance also get their data from these sources. They don't have to scrape anything
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> What is "consumer surplus"? By this do the authors mean the total benefit to FB users? It's a concept from welfare economics (economic benefit at an aggregate level). Consumer surplus is the excess benefit a consumer rec
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> Actually, this is generally an advantage of FB... Their ads are tight on this front. The qualifier ‘generally’ is important here, which I understand to mean “usually, but not always”. Facebook Allowed Political Ads That Were Actually
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> Perhaps, but when it's industry-wide it's often a good leading indicator. As far as I'm aware, employment data is considered a lagging indicator [0], as labor tends to be reasonably sticky. > These are companies whose
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Respectfully, that's not the sort of color I was hoping for. Instead, consider evidence of derisking as exhibited by recent moves in HY OAS [0]. [0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BAMLH0A0HYM2
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> Much of the concern in markets right now seems to stem from the idea that as the Federal Reserve tightens credit This became much less of a concern in late December, when Fed Chair Powell acquiesced to plummeting equities markets and d
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> Risk has already come off Are you able to elaborate on the derisking you've been seeing?
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> The 1987 market crash (October 19, 1987, single-day loss of 23% in the S&P 500 index) was a 25 standard-deviation event. Adding to this, the Swiss Franc revaluation in 2015 was called a 20 standard deviation event [0]. [0] https:&
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> Although the companies with these levered loans are a lot smaller than S&P 500 companies. Netflix isn't an S&P 500 company?
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> When? "3,453 days later, the US bull market becomes the longest on record" [0] > There is a glut of global capital "The ECB halts quantitative easing" [1] "Bank of Japan signals exit from quantitative easing
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> I don't think microplastic particles in the human digestive system are that big of a problem; most of it is fairly inert and will just pass through, the other stuff is in low enough quantities that our stomach should be able to de
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Traditional masculinity: "Conforming to the norms of the “masculinity ideology” can result in suppressing emotions and masking distress in young boys as well more risk-taking and aggressive behavior and a lack of willingness to seek o
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> There is fear of food fraud (fillers and ingredients sold as other things) for example from chinese imports. Apparently this fear exists within China as well, especially for baby formula. This stems from the 2008 milk scandal. That inc
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> As long as we're playing whataboutism... I'd prefer not to. > Without looking up data, I think it's safe to assume Europe's economies contracted substantially during WWII as well... At best, one might argue that
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> I simply brought up China's remarkable economic success, and you responded with a laundry list of "China Bad!" that mostly had nothing to do with economics. You're right that I insufficiently explained what I meant
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> I now use it as a rebuttal to the stock assumption that Western-style democracy, capitalism, and individualism are the only route to prosperity. There are many paths to prosperity. Are you suggesting it's preferable to forsake dem
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"We don’t worry that e-cigarettes increase the number of fatal car accidents, diminish motivation and cognition, or impair academic achievement. The drugs through the gateway that we worry about with e-cigarettes are Marlboros, not opi
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This will likely not be an impediment to treatments based on CRISPR. The study has been available in preprint form for ~6 months on biorxiv [0]. At least some of the companies researching CRISPR were aware of this issue at the time the pape
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> The stock market is fundamentally a gambling exchange too, but it provides valuable information about the economy for free, funded by the gamblers taking part. A stock exchange is no more a gambling den than a flea market is, although
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Supreme Court Deals Blow to Public-Sector Unions(wsj.com)
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SCOTUS rules non-union workers cannot be forced to pay fees(cnbc.com)
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According to the linked article [0] there have been 5 taxi driver suicides over a period of 5 months. Annualized, that is 12 per year, assuming a constant rate. The article states there are 180,000 taxi drivers in NYC. Given these numbers,
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I can't help but think of the telephone sanitizers from planet Golgafrincham in Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy whenever someone makes the claim that a class of jobs is useless. These tales of impending doom allowed the Golgafr
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> All this means is that capacity is so far behind demand that current spending doesn't come close to establishing a reasonable equilibrium. I'd hesitate to specify that certain equilibria are reasonable while others are not. B
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> When it comes to roads, why is increasing capacity to resolve the capacity problem always automatically dismissed? There's a large body of evidence [0][1] indicating that adding road capacity does not alleviate congestion. In the
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EDIT: Given the presence Blloc has established online, it's likely that this is a real project. My apologies to adhambadr and the rest of the team. ------------------- I noticed this as well. The images of the device are entirely incon
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by nickles 9y ago
You're mischaracterizing the source through selective quotation of a summary of a 29 page article on the subject. For some context around your quotation: """Foreigners who sell America goods will either spend the dollars
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> That would remove the US trade deficit as China buying US bonds is an investment. Did you read the source provided? It addresses that very issue. > So, you can use it as a personal definition, but it's not the current definitio

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