Comment Re:water is wet (Score -1) 103
So if bitcoin tumbles, sales go up?
So if bitcoin tumbles, sales go up?
"Insurance companies don't print their own money either. They redistribute the costs of these payouts over their risk pool."
If you ran an insurance company, would you invest premiums to make more from financial returns? Do they turn the popular notion of redistribution of premiums into distribution of financial market profits?
By ignoring the concept of reinsurance, do you contribute to a misinformational myth (whiich benefits insurers because, poor me! I can only pay out what I get in premiums!) that insurance is zero sum when in reality stock market investments make it positive sum?
Can you still smoke Weighur hash openly on the street in downtown Beijing like in 1989, pre-Tiananmen Square incident?
If it was iin China, would they be prisoners?
Electric Universe theory, anyone?
I had my suspicions, but I didn't want to jump to any conclusions. So for any of you out there wondering how this journal worked out, Web 2.0 is garbage.
https://slashdot.org/journal/161630/web-20-business-networking-is-it-useful-at-all
Have you heard the line about markets staying irrational longer than you can stay solvent?
Why didn't you read the actual textbooks before making guesses based on your mood?
Up till now when you built commercial aircraft wings, did you really on fundamental principles that it should be smooth?
"bird feathers are highly effective at promoting and maintaining laminar flow over wings, particularly during gliding, despite their complex, textured, and often "rough" appearance. The microstructure of feathers helps manage the boundary layer, keeping air flowing smoothly to reduce drag."
What did textbooks call it?
""The only way to pay for UBI is to massively tax those enormously rich people who own the UBI machines," said Jesse Rothstein, a professor"
What about a sovereign wealth fund?
As for hyperinflation parties, if you index everything why should you care except out of nostalgia for obsolete times?
"I am surprised that a site suppsedly full of computer scientists is the least bit surprised that AI can be good at mathematical proofs."
"You're fighting a strawman."
Are you saying Gweihir is made of straw?
Can you leave the forests alone now while protecting your precious cribs?
Many people write memos to tell you they have nothing to say.