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by zhte415 4y ago
I remember coming down an escalator around 23 years ago in an Amazon or Amazon-like bookstore seeing someone pick up a Redhat box in its distinctive colouring from behind the cashier desk and thinking "They're onto something.&quot
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The context of the comment, and not needless as editorialised by The Spectator, is the recent pandemic. > Governments stepped in and put in a lot of money for furlough schemes or raising unemployment benefits. That was very sensible,’
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Then you lose the opportunity cost. No difference.
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The interest rate is the discount facter. Low asset prices may not be equivalently low.
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Accenture has more employees than four US states and 30+ countries. As such an anthropologically notable entity, I'm surprised at the lack external of research on the organisation.
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https://www.marketwatch.com/story/no-silicon-valley-bank-did...
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Precautionary demand for money isn't inflationary - it has a low velocity i.e. just sits, in it's precautionary state. [1 for an example during Covid lockdowns in AU]. The identity is MV=PY where M is money, V is velocity, P is th
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by zhte415 4y ago
> the substantial effect of subverting or impairing a consumer's choice to opt-out > In October 2021, the Federal Trade Commission issued an enforcement policy statement, announcing a crackdown on businesses using dark patterns t
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by zhte415 4y ago
Lawsuit from > Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, John Wiley & Sons Inc., and Penguin Random House I will scrub these publishers from future purchases and references; a lost sale, a lost increment in a citation count.
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When did Burger King start selling domain names, and does NameSilo handle trademarks?
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The positive side of what the author talks about is the reduced need today of needing deal with people like the author in making music and sharing it with others.
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SVB depositors, in large part the tech sector, have been bailed out. VCs have received a large public subsidy. VCs did not coordinate to capitalise the bank. Some VCs that lobbied for laxer prudential requirements are among those bailed
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Likely so. Demand for money increases in liquidity crunches.
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The quantity of money without the velocity of money is only half an indicator.
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It might be worth adding that regulatory capital requirements are not zero: https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/large-bank-capit...
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Indeed.
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> There is allot of financial illiteracy regarding the banking system. And nor does the balance sheet become inexplicably unbalanced. It issues bills, a liability, which will cancel out as an asset unless it sells them, or takes a value
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by zhte415 4y ago
The article does something it shouldn't do: Conflate short term interest rates with holding 10 year treasuries. At least compare like for like. The yield curve has moved up, but not by the 4% in the article, and 'up' compa
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by zhte415 4y ago
Didn't Binance have their UK operations curtailed some time ago? https://www.fca.org.uk/news/news-stories/consumer-warning-bi... > Binance Markets Limited is not permitted to undertake any regulated activ
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A high profile bank in some tech circles, a bank with an abnormal balance sheet that actively resisted scrutiny and that did not have high systemic exposure, went bust. Clearly, a banking crisis. Alternatively, the market did what it should
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The interest rate is the opportunity cost of investing elsewhere. Why would someone buy a bond at a 1% discount when they can buy the exact same bond at a 2℅ discount? Aside from not making large unmatched unhedged yield curve bets, not mar
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Another way of dealing with a run would have been to simply replace the funding through interbank lending: Take a deposit from another bank to offset the deposits being withdrawn. Through funds or repo. If it was a short term funding issue,
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Is it cheaper to let 9 more fail or give the green light to moral hazard for hundreds or thousands more?
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> In the UK, you are only covered up to £80k though... Per bank.
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Perhaps, perhaps not. A stress test tests more than general recession but sector or segment concentrated losses. One that included maturity exposure may have failed, depends on the test.
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This seems short sighted. For just one mailbox per domain, 2.99 per month is 35.88 per year. This will wipe goodwill from an existing loyal customer base very quickly#. I have 4 domains, each with 2 email addresses. I do not want a 287.04 p
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Experts Explain What Happens to Your Brain When You Doomscrol(bustle.com)
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Inventorying San Francisco Bay Area Parking Spaces [pdf](transweb.sjsu.edu)
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Cool, if you have a road. Not everyone has that luxury. I used to live on an island where it was 12km to work and no bridge, just a ferry which wouldn't run during typhoons. Cars or bridges were taken as a huge unnecessary expense and
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What did you use instead? The article mentions a mouse, but was that clicking an on screen keyboard, or was it another instead, a more radical change? Your article spurred me to think of voice command for desktop, but unlike mobile I don&#x

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