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Your exactly right... savings and debt are always exactly balances with the small exception of the gold that is still sitting on the Federal Reserves balanace sheet. Currently the savings and debt dynamics are skewed with a large amount of
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How do these customers plan on doing historical analysis of raw data without Hadoop?
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Back in the day I sold shareware which used successive keyed hashes to generate the registration key. While they key generator used all the keys the software only validated against the first n keys. When the software was inevitably cracked
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>economics states they are only as effective as their payout. It's a bit more complicated than that as the value of the bug bounty only has to be greater than the lowest economic value to all of those that are aware of the bug to be
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In the US the Supreme Court ruled in 1978 that unless an individual was a threat to themselves or others they couldn't be institutionalized. This was one step of a much bigger reform of care for those that are disabled or mentally ill
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>For one, all currency is based on faith You forget all the pointy sticks that the government has! For example the government can compel you to pay taxes in the currency of their choice. If failure to pay results in imprisonment or death
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Small bounties may not be extremely effective at getting expensive people to work for peanuts but they are very effective at destroying the underground economy where these bugs used to be shared, traded or sold. Since there is no honor amon
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Search for the term Dutch disease and you'll turn up a lot of papers on the topic.
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As a side note... While the housing stock is on average larger is is also significantly older than it was 30 years ago.
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Fermented foods are often high in histamine which can cause problems for people who lack the enzymes to break it down. The histamine regulates acid production and other processes in the digestive system and having it in food can send them i
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I want to believe a level 4 vehicle is possible but it feels too much to me like the flying cars if the 1950's. Even if the technology gets 99.9% of the way there who is going to assume liability for the car packed full of kids being s
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If there is one thing the religious right recognizes is religious fervor. To them Bill Nye and others are just another version of televangelist preaching guilt and a certain way to live to forestall apocalyptic doom. As a whole the religiou
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The majority of anesthesia is routine sedation of healthy people for routine things like colon screenings. Those types of procedures are ripe for automation with systems like J&J's Sedasys cutting costs from $2000 to $200 a procedu
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The money she collected from the lottery ultimately represent a call option on someone's future labor. After the lottery that call option has been handed to a single individual who may never make that call in her lifetime. The effect i
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Depends on how it was earned and invested. For example assume that a new billionaire is minted by a lottery with 100 million people buying a $10 dollar ticket. Long term it's neutral but in the short term it effectively removes $1B in
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More specifically bright lights and sharp gradients on the retina stimulate the release of dopamine in the retina which blocks the elongation of the eye. http://www.nature.com/news/the-myopia-boom-1.17120
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>That capital gets destroyed, because the bad ideas can't pay it back But isn't that the crux of the problem. At some point those with capital accrue enough power that they don't allow capital to be destroyed? Instead of t
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Please don't do this... The fraud chargeback code is supposed to be reserved for transactions where the card holder did not participate and are used for training a variety of systems. Everything from product like FICO Falcon that is us
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Interesting, same mechanism https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/19168293/ >Topical iodine induces hair growth in and around scars. Hair is regeneration's workhorse, moving purposefully in all direct
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"It is not an entitlement, it's your money." I think you'd be on higher moral ground if Social Security was on sound footing from an actuarial basis, the US had balanced budgets for the last 30+ years and had invested he
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Families are typically out of their depth in these situations and completely dependent on medical staff to guide them in decisions regarding their loved one. Medical staff may confront the family with the question of organ donation before
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Every RMB in someone's savings is offset by another RMB of someone else's debt. The savings rate isn't really as relevant as how productively that savings is utilized by the debtor on the other side of that balance sheet. For
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Personally I would find the 15 year old from Nebraska impressive. Especially if they were using it to monitor something like the extent of buffer zones between farmland and streams and rivers to prevent fertilizer runofff. The application
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Compared to what? Elon Musk and his belief that "we're all living in a simulations" versus the religionist's belief that God created the world as a test or classroom? Stephen Hawking and his belief that there may be supe
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Spent a couple of hours of interesting reading. It sounds like faces cluster in high dimensional space. From the perspective of a curious spectator I would love to see a blog post or article that answered: What would pairs of maximally di
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Any idea how these applications are built and trained? My assumptions are that the process is scraping social networks for tagged pictures; identifying and standardizing faces and then training a CNN network to identify individuals. The tro
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Or the largest refugee crisis since the sea people.
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The ability to defer income through capital gains is an extremely limited vehicle to defer income when compared to being able to accumulate profits in a corporation tax free. Assume that you have a business that generates $500,000 dollars i
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Not all corporations are domestically owned and the owners that you propose to tax may reside outside US tax jurisdiction. Lowering corporate tax rates and raising domestic taxes would effectively mean that foreign owners of US corporation
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Intel has been under intense pricing pressure as the server market has consolidated into a few large cloud providers. Some of the largest providers have used their weight to really turn the screws on Intel. Providing exclusive access to top

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