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Probably the only journal among this "top Elsevier journals" list that one might have difficulty finding pre-prints for is NeuroImage; I'll bet the other medical journals will have preprints on medrxiv:

https://blog.typeset.io/top-12-journals-in-elsevier-and-thei...

Fiat can deflate, though rarely. Just look at '08/'09.

The inflation/deflation curve of US fiat has been much more predictable than BTC. You're statement "just another store of value" is almost a tautology, as any tangible or intangible item in the universe can potentially fit that definition. What matters for a useful currency is that it is a stable store of value.

As long as you admit that BTC is a speculative commodity rather than a currency, we're fine. But this isn't how it was marketed to all of us for the past 10 years. "coin" == "item of currency". Now the narrative has changed to "digital gold" because that's what's selling right now.

And you should further admit that for the past 10 years we've been promised a decentralized currency with lower transaction fees than mastercard/visa/escrow/forex-fees and faster transaction times, and none of those things have happened.

I was leaning on your explanation at first, but there is the counter-example in California of the Screen Actors Guild and Writer's Union.

TLDR?

I think it's weird that this article tries really hard to have sympathy for vultures.

"They had to lay off three people."

Versus how many Toys R Us and Radio Shack employees were laid off?

Dershowitz defended Trump because he wanted the US Embassy moved to Jerusalem. He played Trump like a fiddle.

Hey, here in the author's home state lawmakers have just proposed a 0.4% wealth tax, just beneath the author's capital-flight-threat threshold!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2020/08/17/californi...

"Even a .5% wealth tax would start to keep founders away from a state or country that imposed it."

Is the author speaking for himself, or making a generalization about all wealthy people?

Interesting that AT&T and Samsung can collude to pre-install AT&T and Samsung bloat on my Galaxy S7 Edge Android device, but Fortnite couldn't collude with OnePlus to pre-install bloat?

(Yes, I see that the carrier and the #1 Android phone seller are involved in one case and not the other, so the Samsung bloat is the more interesting case. If OnePlus were to write its own bloat-ware or acquire/merge-with Epic, would they be allowed to pre-install?)

If there is an effort to broker civil and constructive debate, isn't division fine?

Where is the photo of the founder wearing a black turtleneck? I won't believe the results until I see that.

Could this be the next MiniTel in the making?

"However, YouTube expects that by removing the option to monetize these sorts of videos themselves, some copyright holders will instead just leave them alone."

Uh, no. Why would copyright holders do that?

Assertion pretty obvious, non? (Of course a knowledge-based economy is going to pollute less than an industrial- and/or resource-driven one.)

Then the first line of the author's thesis (more capitalism needed) doesn't follow from the premise:

As China and Sweden demonstrate, advanced economies need not necessarily be strictly capitalist.

At most grocery stores, the price per ounce is quoted beneath the overall item price. I realize reading glasses are expensive, but can the economists at the Bank of International Settlements and MIT not simply calculate inflation that way?

(Boies-Schiller in the case of Apple)

But the outside trial counsel for both firms in the San Diego trial might be smarting a bit for missing out on fees for what would have been a huge trial.

Because this might have been one of the terms of the deal.

I was worried for this over the past few days (thanks, YC! ;) ), and reading the thread below see others are as well, but the main solid data I could find against the yield curve predictor (which the original article doesn't mention) is that it doesn't hold up in other countries:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/an-inverted-yield-curve-is...

So, if you're a start-up in the U.S. and are worried about the yield curve, just move to Germany, where even though the yield curve is also now inverted there, the historic evidence shows no to weak prediction of a German recession due to an inverted German yield curve!

#possibleSpuriousCorrelationFromDataMining

"If all the economists in the world were placed end to end they would not reach a conclusion" -Isaac Marcoson (attrib. 1933 by O.O. McIntyre)

http://www.systemicrisk.ac.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/...

Sounds like a very interesting article, but could you modify the title to include '[paywall]'? I realize that paid news is the way things are going, but we don't have to give paywalls free clicks, do we?

Terrible article. Canadians live 2 years longer on average than Americans. And you're telling me the US mental health system would have been more pro-active? Come on.

"Hers was Sault Ste. Marie’s sole homicide of 2013."

How many small towns in the US can you say that of?

Trump's invisible hand?

Uhh, bad. It feels bad.

Ever heard of summer student labor? These are lame tears.

Bezos was valedictorian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos

Are there truly that many Lidar-related trade "secrets" that Google knows about that suppliers and competitors at Velodyne, SPIE, ex-military researcers, etc. don't already?

If Levandowski is targeted by federal prosecutors, can he argue inevitable discovery based on existing public domain principles and papers (textbooks, etc.)?

I find it hard to believe that Google is the only innovator in Lidar thus far. It just seems like they are because it's now cool.

Brushed aluminum or some other color scheme would look better. Plastic black matte looks cheap and meh.

Brushed aluminum would look nicer. Plastic black matte is bleh.