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by rrggrr 8y ago
>1: How much conflict has been spawned due to the UN Partition plan which created Israel? I haven't dug deep into the factors that led to this decision (I'm sure the aftermath of the Holocaust was understandably huge) but the i
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by rrggrr 8y ago
Media criticism of Twitter is suspect. If the Weinstein case in the US has demonstrated anything, it is that news is itself a currency that can be traded, hoarded and deployed to accumulate and wield power. Twitter is one of several welcome
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by rrggrr 8y ago
You simply cannot be leader of the free world if you are attempting to do such as a country in decline or ruin. The first order of business is to restore American economic strength. The world must wait.
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by rrggrr 8y ago
No. The US legal system, a free press, a long-standing calvinist work ethic, its asset base and continued financial infrastructure investment are much more than luck. These things have proven impossible to reproduce - in aggregate - anywher
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by rrggrr 8y ago
> So to me, retracting from the global economy, bashing allies, and complimenting authoritarian monsters would seem to indicate he's cool with "retreating" from that role. Soft power is great when it works. Soft power leav
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by rrggrr 8y ago
Global governance is not automatically positive, or equitable. The majority of Brits came to this conclusion in the Brexit vote. China arrived at this conclusion when the ICJ invalidated its Spratly Islands claim. Likely majorities in Greec
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by rrggrr 8y ago
Complain about US exceptionalism as you wish... but about 84% of the over 5 trillion daily FX market volume is USD trades. Why? Because literally no other market (country) has the liquidity, transparency, stability, and asset base carry thi
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by rrggrr 8y ago
Please... the metals markets, where holdings can be reconstituted, aggregated, faked and leveraged is the undisputed champion for big time laundering. Two favorite examples: https://qz.com/216059/chinas-investigation-in
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by rrggrr 8y ago
I learned this from one of the best recruiters in finance. I can't take credit for it.
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by rrggrr 8y ago
Ouch. So, I'm not in the software business, but either way the point of my Q&A is measure the distance between what an employee wants to during the day versus what probably needs to be done to accomplish the desired result. When th
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by rrggrr 8y ago
The single most effective interview question I ask: "What do you want to do?". I drill down on that to a granulator level as I try to make sure the tasks, duties and overall position matches what the candidate really wants for the
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by rrggrr 8y ago
Not praising or protesting anything. Just an observation. QE or DOD-pork have utility provided there is a check against moral hazard. As nobody of consequence went to jail for creating the CDO crisis, and as nobody will do so for the F35 bo
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by rrggrr 8y ago
Didn't the F35 have the same issue, or was that the F22. I seem to recall pilots passing out for some reason a year or two ago.
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by rrggrr 8y ago
The only difference between the F-35 program and the Fed's quantitative easing programs is that the F-35 program provided significant benefit to main street businesses and households. In all other respects both policies were designed t
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by rrggrr 8y ago
@SolarNet ... correct.
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by rrggrr 8y ago
An argument can be made that China is violating the International Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. By withholding the samples they are at least constructively stockpiling a lethal pathogen; with full knowledge this action can (and l
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China Withholds Latest Flu Virus Samples from US Labs(msn.com)
1 points by rrggrr 8y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Strictly business question – how a Trump impeachment impacts business?
2 points by rrggrr 8y ago|1 comments
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by rrggrr 8y ago
You didn't deserve that response. Good job on the paper and keep up the good work. Your findings are supported by other research as you already know.
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by rrggrr 8y ago
Here's some advice I've given to people over the years and hopefully it will work for you. A day before or the day of the flight purchase a lottery ticket. You'll bring this ticket with you on your flight. Before you board ha
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by rrggrr 8y ago
This is the correct answer. Bank deposits at the USFED skyrocketed. It was FED money, lent to banks to be redeposited with the FED, on which deposits the banks earned interest I might add. It was a both a liquidity injection and a handout.
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by rrggrr 8y ago
Ubuntu Budgie has been a rock for me. Utterly stable. Very useable.
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by rrggrr 8y ago
I'm having a hard time understanding what is cowardly about complying with Chinese law when selling products inside China. There are many laws in the US I don't agree with, but I'm obligated to comply with them for as long as
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by rrggrr 8y ago
On a risk adjusted basis, no. You're buying the raw material assuming aluminum heat sinks will be .67/lb, only to discover that by the time you've liberated the Al from the stream the price has dropped to .40/lb. That ju
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by rrggrr 8y ago
This ship sailed. Its generally accepted that e-scrap processor's margins are 15% or less. Its not just the cost to access/buy the materials that keeps margins low. The CAPEX costs are enormous, there are large operating costs, an
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by rrggrr 8y ago
If they were internal they would be impossible to scratch. I can't see how this a mystery.
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US-China Trade Dispute Escalates(bloomberg.com)
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by rrggrr 8y ago
I was a young employee during a recession, and finding work was difficult. When I landed my first job I was I was grateful and focused on ways I might make my work contribute to the company's bottom line, by pushing the limits of my jo
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by rrggrr 8y ago
PureOS was not a great experience for me and I'm using Ubuntu (budgie) now.
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by rrggrr 8y ago
KDEConnect runs nicely on my Ubuntu Budgie install as well

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