I saw a speech from Gaddafi that he was going to gradually reform Libya.. It is an often repeated lie that institutions are going to magically transform themselves to no longer be shaped by being suck ups to dictators as soon as a dictator wills it.
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Really though a lack of spaced repetition on practising conceptual problems is just as noticeable as the lack of spaced repetition on factual learning. Very few fields are so perfectly structured that you get practices on their earliest levels by doing later levels and then working in the field, i.e. plenty of mathematicians admit they no longer do arithmetic well.
The risks with getting caught doing that intentionally are very high, but preventing any employee with access to lookup information, email addresses, etc, from selling it has been a very hard problem that most large names have admitted to failing at a few times.
I mean sure the whole market could realize your purchase was an absurd liability, but they would still be immune as long as they only own their fraction, so unless the whole market prefers your bankruptcy over a free bet..
My interest is less in long covid than in whether the medical community is finally going to get itself together on viral induced damage instead of making up funny names for different combinations of damage.
Call me crazy but I think a company with this much financial holdings would normally have a CFO that buys bonds that vest at the right times, and would have cried a tiny tear at getting less than ideal interest rates on them instead of having a bank collapse with all their finances because it wouldn't be competitive at recruiting more clients with zero financial management going forward.
Perhaps decades of no inflation and low interest expectations have left people confused to the fact that when you have millions you are an investment holding company.
Silicon Valley apparently had better access to a bank that took risks and SVB seems to be the bank of over half of tech and public health startups..
Other jurisdictions should feel a bit cheated if their regulators didn't help their small business get the most out financing and FDIC bailouts.. Internationally, other countries have to question why they aren't giving some kind of handouts to gain more of the startup scene for occasional crises.
Really a fine mess.
It actually seems to say that disvomforts required to earn a lot of money would make you less happy than earning a good amount with less effort and it generally won't make up for more relevant factors in happiness. I.e. an easy tenure would make someone happier than being a law partner earning 4 times more.
I think the most likely nefarious thing is the question of intentionally blocking aliveness checks. If the Satoshi heir waited for his keys from this what element would he spend a few million interfering with to get his inheritance early?
I think society has changed a bit in terms of network effects and how much you had compared to a fixed group was more significant to both you and them when the original study was done.
The problem is that people want to express functions as extensions to declarations in yaml, XML, etc, instead of in a functional language that is heavy on declaration.
If these people are government independent in origin, it still wouldn't surprise me if it later comes out that multiple governments had infiltrators to the group that were the only ones pushing hard enough to make it happen.. I think the FBI realized that some "militant" student groups were almost entirely passive aside from FBI and police sponsored infiltrators.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_radicalism
I generally view most of that explanation of the US as propaganda. The founders of the republic were 2nd generation+ congregationalists who were more going through the motions than puritans like their socially conservative forefathers. Shay's rebellion really highlights more about the nature of the actual inhabitants of the young nation, the way they influenced the republic and the fact that they were entirely foreign to Washington. I also don't think many of them could vote until Jackson.
The masons and quakers are examples of groups with tolerance that make them compatible with other ideas, mixes, radicalism and a republic. Other groups may coexist in a republic because the republic was designed for compatibility but they are really social conservatives and a super majority of them makes them persecutors instead of persecuted. I.e. people who would impose Sharia law as soon as they got 2/3rds are perfectly fine as a minority in a tolerant republic.
The Republican party was religious radicals who either requested or demanded a new way and fought the status quo slavery loving (social conservative) democrats.
People in current seats have nothing to do with the history of the organizations they are in and if transported to the past would often more welcome in opponent organizations. This is also true of the revolutionary founding fathers and their very different views and make up than the puritans.
All indications are that the puritans could neither write not respect a constitution. Rhode Island was made up of people who wanted freedoms not stifled by that bunch.
I think the UK has ceased investing as much in skills because every upskilling in office work or having more workers with the necessary degree is largely net zero competitions between marketing departments that will most likely all be in the UK.
For countries that were not traditionally on top and running the industry consortiums they have a small chance of pulling the income from countries like the UK.. But mostly their workers just end up over skilled for the work available for countries like Spain.
But if you have no connecting flight there's a lot less risk involved in getting off a flight by your own power, particularly when airlines forget wheel chair users.