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There is a reason why there has never existed a society in which the majority of transactions were done by people exchanging gold or silver coins kept in little leather pouches. It's just too impractical. - problems with availability -
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What helped me was using pycharm's debugger to examine the datatypes - it shows you whether something is a bytestream or a unicode string. Stepping through some functions really clarified the matter and squashed a lot of bugs.
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A lot of this has to do with social trust and politicization. For a number of reasons, going back to the early days of Tuskeegee syphilis studies, public health in the U.S. is viewed by large portions of the public as imperious, corrupt, un
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Per capita median income is what you get when you include retirees, teenagers, those who do not work at all (they will still have some income from welfare/disability/gifts), and other part time workers. It's not a good measur
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The problem is that they were dealing with it successfully before, by either treating the umlaut as a "u" or a "ue". It's not like umlauts are this new technology that English speakers have never been faced with i
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> Of course it does, it doesn't need to be studied; No, public health mandates are not something you derive from first principles, but from actual observational data about the effectiveness of interventions. It's like the diffe
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Prevailing wages in poorer areas are going to be lower. Therefore national statistics will show that the same occupation in the poor area earns less than in the rich area. This is all that's going on here. It's pretty irresponsibl
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I've thought about that, and the best thing I can think of is to do a background check and give them citizenship (for exceptional applicants). It's a tough problem, given how slowly this moves along.
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All the companies I worked with, the interview process is a bit like this: * there is a pool of interviewers for each set of subjects * hiring manager picks the subjects, and thus people are signed up for that pool get an interview slot. *
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The President is not a dictator of the executive branch, he is there to execute the law, not set policy that contradicts congressional authorizations, so there are limits on what an EO can do. * First, many agencies are (by law) independent
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Curious, did you live through that era in Spain? Do you have some stories to share?
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> "Narrow" would have been something like "this bill authorizes spending $X on Y", leaving the executive branch to decide which of those specific authorizations to take advantage of in that specific Act. What you desc
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The line item veto was ruled unconstitutional -- congress passed a law to allow the president to veto portions of spending bills but not the entire bill. This was ostensibly done to reduce "pork" spending stuffed into bills. So th
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Sorry, I misunderstood -- thanks!
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There are many books written about this. For example, for education, it boils down to US resistance to tracking and insisting that everyone should go to college and study whatever they want. If they can't afford it and don't have
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Do you have an example of a depositor losing money they stored in excess of this? Even a single example would do.
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This is a good question! There are two sources of demand for a currency: consumption demand - you want to buy American-made goods -- and investment demand - you want to buy American capital. In terms of consumption demand, as long as the US
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> Many people have lost life savings when banks collapse. Do you have some data for this statement? (in the US, post FDIC deposit era) Because even when a bank fails, there is usually more than enough to cover depositors, and what the FD
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Higher management doesn't know who is productive and who isn't. The good lower-level managers have that visibility, and let's say the poor (or mediocre) managers don't. But whoever has that visibility, they would have a
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I mean, there is correlation -- whatever we do spend on is extremely expensive, so we get less, whereas other nations that spend more efficiently get more, and therefore there is a correlation between efficiency of spending and quantity obt
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> well, one very important piece of the puzzle is that the US is very rich, but very unevenly (income and wealth inequality), and the US spending on services compared to disposable income is not that high. Comments like these usually don
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Also no blowback when the US blew up refineries and oil pipelines in Nicaragua in Puerto Sandino, in 1983[1] - as well as mined the ports of Nicaragua[2]. There is in general a 30 year statuary timeline for declassifying these types of ops,
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Finding more ways to spend even more doesn't solve the problem of why it costs so much.
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Some banks care about collecting deposits because the interest they earn on short term paper is more than the interest they pay on deposits. Some banks don't accept deposits at all -- these are called investment banks. Also, banks don&
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> Money must be backed by something. One of my favorite bond films is Goldfinger (1965), starring Sean Connery as James Bond and Gert Frobe as Auric Goldfinger. In the movie, Goldfinger hatches a plan (they always hatch a plan) to dest
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Yes, a lot of people remember the asset stripping wave in the 1980s, but not the merger wave of the 1960s. At that time, it was fashionable to assume that the core expertise of "management" could be transferred to pretty much any
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Because spending money needs to be authorized by Congress through law. A president can't just issue an executive order and say "You don't need to pay this government guaranteed debt -- the taxpayers will pick up the tab. Beca
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In what I guess is confusing to many, when a company buys another company, or even purchases capital equipment of some kind, it can finance that by a loan, and the result is that the asset side of the ledger doesn't take a hit. But whe
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Have read both in college and enjoyed them thoroughly. I remember talking to my undergrad advisor, raving about Cat's Cradle, and asking him if he'd read it or wants to read it, and he looked at me and said something to the effect

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