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…
> 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…
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…
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…
> 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…
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…
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.
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…
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.
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…
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…
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?
Someone knows their Big-Five! :D
> "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.…
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…
ironic
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…
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…
"China is considering losing all control over domestic cryptocurrency activity"
tenure
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.
James Altucher studied computer science, not liberal arts.
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…
http://www.dcxxww.gov.cn/cfohtml/kuaibao/2201.html
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.
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…
> 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…
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…
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…
> 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…
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…
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.
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…
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.
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…
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…
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?
Someone knows their Big-Five! :D
> "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.…
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…
ironic
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…
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…
"China is considering losing all control over domestic cryptocurrency activity"
tenure
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.
James Altucher studied computer science, not liberal arts.
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…
http://www.dcxxww.gov.cn/cfohtml/kuaibao/2201.html
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.