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14y ago
Unless it's a large check, in which case it's normal practice for a bank to put a hold on all but a small portion of the funds for several days. The exception is for deposits which occur regularly from the same source, like payroll.
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“The major modeling insight we had a few years ago was to break up the functionality of the cell into subgroups which we could model individually, each with its own mathematics, and then to integrate these sub-models together into a whole,”
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Part of the rationale for the patent system is that it is supposed to encourage people to disclose trade secrets that they would not otherwise disclose. However, if you can tell how a thing works just by looking at it, then according to th
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Or even start including deliberately misleading information in your communications.
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A business is like a machine whose function is to produce profit. Anything else that it may happen to produce (products, services, jobs, taxes, environmental damage, whatever) is really only a side effect. So no, a country (or government)