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We already have such a concept, ever been to a remote research university grad school campus?

Yang is acceleration.

does "decide to not play" ever worked out well? I have never seen it.

Busted armoured windows on stage, live on TV - priceless.

they broke the armour glass on stage, maybe accident? maybe not?

Insurers and hospital would only love to keep inflating bills higher and higher, and high physician comp help to justify that.

you over-estimate the amount of training they receive.

physicians usually hit their stride 5-10 years before they kick the bucket.

> Assuming "the big one" is constantly just around the corner is a really bad investment strategy.

Incidence of "black swans" is much higher than we except. Not only it's a valid strategy, it's how massive fortunes are made, as long as you control losses.

..but the omniscient Fed knows better than the market?

Is that what you are saying?

How are Dell's keyboards?

I'm not optimistic.

Can you let us know the actual medical term and how was this linked to stress?

there is a lot of research these days about autoimmune diseases and how they are triggered by stress, but retina blisters is something I never heard about before.

From what it seems, we don't actually even know if "collapse" as such is a thing, nevermind what causes it.

We are one experiment away from placing serious doubts even on counterfactual definiteness.

> I was thinking, the only real way for us to progress was to get the results out of CERN we were expecting--either smaller particles or some detection method which allows us to peer even deeper into the atom.

This cannot be more wrong.

Science advances with one unexpected experimental hypothesis failure at a time.

Not sure why this is being downvoted?

There is plenty of skepticism, even from during the prohibition era, which seems to be finally on the way out.

Harm reduction activists documented quite a few horror stories, seizures/deaths from LSD + lithium, HPPD, etc.

Psychedelics are promising, sure, but I doubt anyone serious thinks are some kind of panacea.

There is just not enough money in this whole thing yet to sweep skeptics under the rug.

H.Pylori was discovered, and we realized it could be treated with a combo of two-three antibiotics + acid suppressants + ancillary drugs.

Totally psychosomatic.

Safe treatment? Great.

How about obtaining informed consent first?

Very heart felt.

Not to be coarse, but can't vendors be fired? clients be fired?

Anyone can get fired.

currency would be on deposit at some bank, so it would essentially be a claim on that bank's balance sheet.

Bonds are claims on sovereigns with a printing press.

What has a lower chance of default?

You have to pull out cash from the bank for a bank run to occur. Can't you buy gold or some other cash substitute instead?

Could be even more difficult to detect than abnormal spike in cash withdrawals via ATMs.

How so? It's just a way to ban competitive devaluations.

The fed has unlimited control over the rates. They could literally just buy out every bond in existence.

Printing alone is not manipulation.

Now, if the US were to print a quadrillion USD, and then flood the Yuan-USD market with printed USDs...

Boohoo, poor corps. Should we sell ourselves out entirely to China to satisfy the corporate profit motive?

Personally, I rather Qualcomm goes bankrupt entirely than see Chinese global hegemony.

The US would just need to cut off a few banks to trigger a credit crisis in China, they are already bailing out banks.

Who knows how this all will play out, won't be pretty either way.

I bet this is all empty brinkmanship.

It ends with China being cut off from SWIFT and correspondent banking.

That would probably make them re-think their approach to economic warfare.

There is a certain criteria, and neither Swiss, Koreans, or Japanese meet that criteria.

No. It's caused by China's central bank printing currency in response to tariffs, essentially using currency as a weapon.

"The three assessment criteria are: “(1) a significant bilateral trade surplus with the United States is one that is at least $20 billion; (2) a material current account surplus is one that is at least 3 percent of gross domestic product (GDP); and (3) persistent, one-sided intervention occurs when net purchases of foreign currency are conducted repeatedly and total at least 2 percent of an economy’s GDP over a 12-month period.”[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_manipulator

Read something other than marketing materials for PR purposes.

The CEO of Siemens at the time was Klaus Kleinfeld. The bribery scandals were so bad in 2007 that he was forced out, and forced to settle with Siemens, 2 millions euros.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Kleinfeld#Bribery_invest...

Now, ostensibly, these were scandals about Siemens bribing other countries. Do you think people at Siemens, with such high moral integrity, managed to pocket some bribes themselves?

Perhaps in exchange for handing over valuable IP? What's a signature or two between friends.