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If central banks weren't setting the price of credit by fiat, what would a "market" risk free rate be? Have any economists tried to answer this question?

Edit: not sure why I'm being downvoted for this...?

Related https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2012/08/if-int...

The information that formed the basis of the report was public.

My understanding is that most people with ASD are in fact not "natural" introverts, perversely enough. That is to say, were it not for their poor social skills, they would be extroverts.

Yes. Try using Google Maps in Firefox.

Related question, can you share which organization it was that performed the pre-boarding investigation? You were flying to Israel, but the strip search, extensive questioning, and electronics seizure happened before boarding. What entity performed the search?

I guess it depends how paranoid you and your girlfriend are. See https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ypwkwk/the-nsas-undetecta...

Short of physically replacing the drive, I don't think there would be much you could do, in that particular circumstance.

Why couldn't you just deposit it with the state's central bank, which is what commercial banks do? Their cash balances are just numbers in an electronic ledger. There isn't some vault with physical cash inside and armed guards on the outside.

This seems like a good place to ask the question: how is it that we're seeing $15T of bonds worldwide trading with negative yields? [1]

TFA suggests this is due to structural factors--institutions that are required by law to own AA/AAA bonds. Is this some deficiency in the law or corporate governance, that cash in this circumstance isn't considered a substitute for a negative-yield bond? Its net present value would be greater. I can't imagine a scenario in which you would come out financially ahead from owning a negative yielding bond instead of cash.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/07/bizarro-bonds-negative-yield...

What about when you normalize for the current low interest rate environment?

You mention Django. What amount of experience with Java did you have going into this? IMO Java development has a steeper learning curve than Python development.

I've heard rumors of something similar about US anti aircraft systems, and this being a motivating factor in Turkey buying S-400s.

What are some common Plan Bs?

> Hello lores.eu :-)

hacked?

Is the Epstein affair in general considered off topic?

What percentage of those with chronic suicidal ideation attempt suicide?

Raise. Wages.

Too bad there is no mobile app. That + cloud sync is Anki's killer feature IMO.

Suppression of dissent. What else?

Why is that a more likely theory than them being government sponsored?

More https://twitter.com/alanwongw/status/1152962222357807104

Also absent, Ehud Barak.

How do services like Sia handle illegal content?

Withholding funding?

If the agent didn't retrieve the screenshots himself when he easily could have wouldn't that be easily dismissable evidence since the screen grabs could have been falsified in some way?

Plus, what if multiple state actors penetrate a system and each lay their own "implants"? Mutually assuredly destruction only works if you can attribute an attack. Unless you're planning on destroying non-guilty actors too. What if NK, China, and Russia all hack the same system and then eventually the system fails catastrophically as a result of malware and no one takes credit. How could the US respond? What if the perpetrator were an adversary that wasn't even known to have penetrated the system?

Thanks for clarifying.

Despite having received 18 votes in 5 hours and while never having advanced beyond page 3 on the list of trending links (position #67 currently), this piece trails behind another Times piece, "Why don't more American men take paternity leave?", which is on page 2 (position #45 currently), and which has received only 6 votes in the span of 8 hours.

WTF

If the OP's article links to the Quillette piece, I don't see it. Only a link to a Twitter thread. Here's the piece itself https://quillette.com/2019/05/29/its-not-your-imagination-th...