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by blusterXY 9y ago
They would do the opposite of quantitative easing: jack up the Federal Funds rate and reverse open market operations to pull liquidity away from banks. Higher interest rates would encourage people not to dump USD, while also counterbalancin
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by blusterXY 9y ago
> Banks create money out of thin air. The ability of banks to leverage deposits into fractional debt is restricted by the size of their deposit base and the need for fiat assets to earn competitive rates of return. This is not a "on
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by blusterXY 9y ago
Look past the ICOs and drug sales -- you only notice these because they are salacious and thus reported on. What you aren't noticing are the people who are eliminating financial intermediaries in pretty much every industry that matters
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by blusterXY 9y ago
Scroll up, Stephen. These quotes are in the thread at the heart of this discussion, and they are pulled directly from the article. I mean... I appreciate getting downvoted for reading the article and addressing it directly, but if there are
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by blusterXY 9y ago
> In recent years, the number of medical residents has become so restricted that even the American Medical Association is pushing to have the number of slots increased. This does not sound like a system where students can fulfill their r
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by blusterXY 9y ago
Now that we are discussing facts... please tell us how many doctors you have personally visited that have been required to perform neurosurgery on you? I can't think of a single incident where that has been necessary in my own experien
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by blusterXY 9y ago
Or allow people to do internships with normal, non-ER doctors. Or provide alternate ways for people to demonstrate equivalent competence. Or eliminate the residency requirement completely.
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by blusterXY 9y ago
The original headline is written by someone with an axe to grind, because this change does not hurt Indian IT professionals at all. Restrictions on importing low-cost labor will raise wages for workers in India. The restrictions will also r
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by blusterXY 9y ago
The problem is that companies can spend their money on free speech without undergoing double-taxation. If the same money was allocated to an individual first it would be taxed.
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by blusterXY 9y ago
It has had forks which have produced blocks which: (1) would not have been produced by any previous nodes in the network, and (2) forced the updated software to ignore the original majority chain. If you check the software, you'll see
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by blusterXY 9y ago
A tourist visa does not permit someone to work legally in China. And Chinese companies do not hire foreigners so the point is moot: there are more non-native Chinese people working in Silicon Valley than foreigners working in all of the Chi
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by blusterXY 9y ago
How many Western tech companies do you know that are doing well in China? How many Americans do you know that are allowed to work legally in China? What about the other way?
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by blusterXY 9y ago
Someone knows their Big-Five! :D
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by blusterXY 9y ago
> "Later, it turned out that fake Facebook accounts linked to the Russian government helped to spread stories about Twin Falls and even organized one of the rallies there." You should take this with a truckload of salt. There i
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by blusterXY 9y ago
Yes, we will see what the situation is in terms of exchange liquidity. With that said, the reports were of exchanges investing customer-deposited RMB funds, not selling customer-deposited crypto for fiat and then investing that fiat for pro
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by blusterXY 9y ago
ironic
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by blusterXY 9y ago
Three examples among many: 1. exchanges provide visibility into who is buying and selling crypto along with the ability to integrate crypto activities within real-name systems (i.e. whitelist wallets, etc.). This is the most efficient appro
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by blusterXY 9y ago
Dressing up a bad argument in the rhetoric of a derelict academic philosophy does not make it interesting or correct. Especially when all you are doing is describing a concept rather than telling us why it applies in this case. Besides, if
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by blusterXY 9y ago
"China is considering losing all control over domestic cryptocurrency activity"
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by blusterXY 9y ago
tenure
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by blusterXY 9y ago
You were supposed to stay in Europe so your taxes could cover the cost of your education, not move to a locale where your take-home pay is higher because you get out of doing that.
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by blusterXY 9y ago
James Altucher studied computer science, not liberal arts.
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by blusterXY 9y ago
You could expect Congress to authorize the military action or declare war though. Without Congressional approval that was just an extrajudicial killing. Would have been better if the US took the Taliban up on their offer to turn over Bin La
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by blusterXY 9y ago
http://www.dcxxww.gov.cn/cfohtml/kuaibao/2201.html
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by blusterXY 9y ago
I'm dealing with this same issue now actually. The browser can also just wipe the data anytime if it feels it is running out of space.
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by blusterXY 9y ago
If you're really curious what Inception is doing, you may enjoy this essay: http://filmreadings.com/2015/12/31/a-skeleton-key-to-incepti... Shortest explanation? The film combines Christian symbolism (Ma
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by blusterXY 9y ago
The Big-5 aka OCEAN model (openness / conscientiousness / extroversion / agreeability / neuroticism) constitutes the most scientifically accepted framework for measuring personality. It is confirmed by decades of work an
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by blusterXY 9y ago
Why are you attacking James for "regressive thinking" if you respect women and their choices? No-one is denying women autonomy and choice. Quite the contrary: James seems to be the only voice at Google defending their freedom to h
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by blusterXY 9y ago
> "you people" Do you mean black people or women? Or is this an attack on educated people regardless of their gender or racial orientation or identification? The Mismeasure of Man is a 1981 book by Harvard paleontologist Stephe
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by blusterXY 9y ago
> just how does that itself prescribe that we should stop pushing for an expansion there? You are the only one being "prescriptive". If a class of people doesn't prefer (in aggregate) to do the kinds of work you want them

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