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Comcast and Verizion discovered they could use their monopoly position to sell both ends of the pipe. Comcast I know went through and systematically shut down private interchanges with major content providers and also refused to upgrade pub
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Dumb-dumb bullets – As a decision-making aid, PowerPoint is a poor tool (2009)(armedforcesjournal.com)
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US rules of engagement were partially to prevent Chinese intervention in the Vietnam War. The Chinese already had 100,000 advisors in the country in an anti-aircraft role and a full scale invasion of Hanoi by US Marines would have almost c
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Of course is should be an option but from a risk management perspective it makes sense to reduce the attack surface that a fraudster has to work with. In the US at least a typical customer will never initiate an international wire transfer.
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Yes US banks are that bad and they lag their European counterparts. Fidelity is a large US brokerage with $2T under management. Only last year did they start to offer two factor authentication as an option (had to ask). I have accounts with
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Today gmail offers more account security than a typical bank. Why can I get two factor authentication, device recognition and alerts on a free email account but not on a bank account? From a risk management perspective it's never a goo
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Takes a thief to catch a thief I guess? ;-) I wish you luck and if you succeed I'm sure that there will be some three letter agencies knocking on your door. I've had some luck using off-the-shelf clustering algorithms but they are
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I build/train models for high transaction volume. The real struggle for gaming fraud specifically is that the data is typically non-stationary. I came into my job without formal training in machine learning so I may have the terminolog
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Throwing out a couple of stupid questions since we're talking about rules-of-thumb.. 1) How much does feeding irrelevant features have on a model? For example if you added several columns of normally distributed random numbers? 2) How
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Just throwing in some thoughts... Mormon eschatology is pretty thin but the core beliefs are that the people are of "one heart and one mind" and that "there are no poor among them". Specifically this mean that Zion can o
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In the US anti-TNF biologics treatments can cost several thousand dollars per month. Even with patents expiring this year the industry isn't expecting dramatic price drops due to the different regulatory process for bio-similars versu
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Citgo was stripped of value last year by issuing bonds to pay a large dividend back to Venezuela. It is now so encumbered with debt that any remaining equity value is nominal. Part of the reason was due to various lawsuits related to assets
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Nit-pick... The Baby Boomer's didn't invent the transitor, first computer, first personal computer (Altair), the cell phone or the basic internet protocols. That claim rightly belongs to the previous generation.
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Cash is a liability to the central bank which is offset by a corresponding amount of US Government debt. That is a what "full faith and credit" means. Solvency of the Federal Reserve is required to control the money supply and man
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The Federal Reserve is exempted from capital ratios but has to stay nominally balance sheet solvent. The Federal Reserve is owned by its member banks who provide its working capital (half being paid in and half being pledged). The Federal
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Typically the firm creates a subsidiary that holds its intellectual property like patents, software and trademarks in a tax haven like Bermuda. Since there is no operations or R&D in those locations they may have little or no employees.
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In a deflationary environment countries that run trade deficits make the rules. Germany is currently exporting its deflation (and its effects) to the UK via its trade surplus which the Bank of England then has to mitigate. At this point sev
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The paper based the freakenomics study was based on only looked at US data but crime was dropping in the 90's globally. A global drop in crime would be hard to explain based on US policy changes with regards to abortion while lead was
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Housing prices used to be factored into the CPI but were removed in 1983. The CPI is supposed to measure only consumption but housing is both consumption and an investment. It was replaced with owner equivalent rent which is represents just
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Other studies later refuted it and attributed the drop in violent crime to phasing out of leaded gasoline.
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Salted bombs have always been the weapon of choice for evil bastards who wanted extinction level events. Salted bombs are designed to maximize radioactive fallout and render an area uninhabitable for 20+ years by "salting the earth&quo
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Shorting a stock would remove cash from the system which is essentially the opposite of QE. To short a stock the short seller first "borrows" the stock from another stock holder and then sells that stock on the open market. In m
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"Ferfal" lived in Argentina during its economic collapse at the turn of the century and has a similar unique perspective. He's now has a blog but some of his early posts are here: http://www.rapidtrends.com/su
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Splitting this into two replies... In the popular press dopamine was known as the pleasure or reward neurotransmitter because of its associating with drug addition but with new research that view is slowly changing. While drugs like cocain
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Once a neurotransmitter is released it will continue to activate receptors until it is scavenged either through active re-uptake or enzymatic degradation. While the brain is a pretty efficient scavenger of neurotransmitters it isn't p
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Laws vary based on where you incorporate but for the corporation to stay in good standing requires regular shareholder meetings. There are other corporate structures that don't require shareholders for things like trusts, non-profits,
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TMG had a similar effect on me after taking it for three months. The effect was repeatable for others in my extended family. The effect initially was a very intense feeling of being connected with everyone. The intensity faded over time but
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The last outstanding share of a company is worth the value of the entire company. Selling the last share is typically a liquidation event where all assets are sold to a third party and the cash is distributed to the remaining shareholder. A
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I'd argue that inequality is part of the problem itself. Assume that I am a cobbler and enter into a network where capital is distributed widely. I borrow $200 dollars from 1000 people (mediated by a bank) and buy a home. The second ne
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Torches and pitchforks?

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