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  1. Re:Tulip farmers say Tulip market will bounce back on Bitcoin Recovers Some Losses After Its Worst Week Since 2013 (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I wish I could mod you. I've thought about that too. If you count minimum balances and fees then you are talking negative interest rate.

  2. Re:Tulip farmers say Tulip market will bounce back on Bitcoin Recovers Some Losses After Its Worst Week Since 2013 (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Most people didn't. That's the point. Most people got wiped out. That's the point.

  3. Re:Tulip farmers say Tulip market will bounce back on Bitcoin Recovers Some Losses After Its Worst Week Since 2013 (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Anyone with more than 250K in deposits. Was it Bearn Stearns where the partners only got a few thousand dollars of there hundreds of thousands or millions that had in the bank?

  4. Re:Tulip farmers say Tulip market will bounce back on Bitcoin Recovers Some Losses After Its Worst Week Since 2013 (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The point is there is no FDIC for bitcoin. It is an unregulated market like in the 1800's banks.

  5. Re:Tulip farmers say Tulip market will bounce back on Bitcoin Recovers Some Losses After Its Worst Week Since 2013 (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know about the pillow thing. Banks keep getting shakier and the financial systems more volatile as they are deregulated. Always keep some cash in a safety deposit box or a firebox is what I say.

  6. Re:Tulip farmers say Tulip market will bounce back on Bitcoin Recovers Some Losses After Its Worst Week Since 2013 (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes I do. It is more like the snake oil some bogus doctor comes to town to sell. Shills are planted in the crowd to show enthusiasm and pump things up by "buying" the snake oil. And then there are the fake testimonials (which is not a shill).

  7. Re:Tulip farmers say Tulip market will bounce back on Bitcoin Recovers Some Losses After Its Worst Week Since 2013 (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    They can't go negative. DJIA is not a good measure. Fortune 500 and Russel 5000 are a much broader snapshot. And do you own on the ground research. What companies parking lots are full? Which ones do people talk about on the bus in in the cafeteria?
    How many bums jump off the trains in the rail yards? Bums are usually the last to get hired and the first to get laid off. Are there BMWs and Jaguars at thrift stores? Are the number of help wanted ads shrinking or growing? Did your diligent and hard working brother-in-law and 500 others just get laid off?

    There's no substitute for "boots on the ground".

  8. Re:Tulip farmers say Tulip market will bounce back on Bitcoin Recovers Some Losses After Its Worst Week Since 2013 (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    By all means sink you home equity into the market

  9. Re:Tulip farmers say Tulip market will bounce back on Bitcoin Recovers Some Losses After Its Worst Week Since 2013 (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    OK, actually my first response was too quick. See also:

    2008 Bear Stearns. Remember them? That's when Bernanke discovered libertarianism doesn't work.

    2008 Washington Mutual

    2008 Wachovia

    1930s - all of them. Banks were put on holiday for a time until the Federal gov't could stabilize them. Hooray for gov't intervention in the market place! It saved the world.

    Panic of 1819

    Panic 0f 1837

    Panic of 1857

    Panic of 1873

    Panic of 1893

    About every 20 years each generation failed to learn.

  10. Re:Tulip farmers say Tulip market will bounce back on Bitcoin Recovers Some Losses After Its Worst Week Since 2013 (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    1929

  11. Re:The problem is scheduled Doctor visits. on Cities With Uber Have Lower Rates Of Ambulance Usage (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Too risky. See the great influenza epidemic as an example. Can you say "disease vector"?

  12. Re:The problem is scheduled Doctor visits. on Cities With Uber Have Lower Rates Of Ambulance Usage (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Emergencies don't always happen in a vehicle. Though driving is still a risky enterprise.

  13. Re:Not "Uber" on Cities With Uber Have Lower Rates Of Ambulance Usage (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    If you can wait for 45 min. you can go to urgent care instead of an ER. Urgent care can then triage you.

  14. Re:Interesting. on Cities With Uber Have Lower Rates Of Ambulance Usage (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    It depends. Providing med. care w/o compensation is usually covered. With or with out training. These are know as "Good Samaritan Laws". Even if a trained doctor provides assistance the Doc. is usually covered if the Doc. does *not* bill for the service.

  15. Re:Interesting. on Cities With Uber Have Lower Rates Of Ambulance Usage (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the impact of decentralization

  16. Re:Interesting. on Cities With Uber Have Lower Rates Of Ambulance Usage (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    That's where Urgent care is supposed to come in. Something really an emergency but unable to wait for a dr. appt.

  17. But they got the part about using Euler's method to solve it wrong. Euler's method could only approximate it.

    It sort of ruined the movie for me.

  18. Nobody want some beanie babies? on People Still Aren't Buying Smartwatches -- and It's Only Going To Get Worse (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Cabbage patch kids? Hulu hoops? Lava lamps? Tamagotchis? Smart watches? Anyone?

    In other words, fads come and go.

  19. Re:And then they met the real world... on How Harvard Teaches CS Students How To Code (kqed.org) · · Score: 1

    No one cares about grades. In most cases they want drones who do what they are told. The exception is academia, and that mostly used for you first grad school application. After that it is research based. And there is a bit of conforming to the mold in academia as well, though it is not as bad as the private sector.

  20. Re:Western civilization is truly collapsing. on How Harvard Teaches CS Students How To Code (kqed.org) · · Score: 1

    sounds like off shoring

  21. Places free of the pollution of the internet are getting rarer by the day. Digital quiet is a disappearing resource. What about VLA and people who prefer to live and vacation in places without connections?

  22. Re: Coinbase and Bcash on Bitcoin's Value Plummeted Overnight and No One Knows Why (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    except it seems to take days to do a transaction. BitCoin et. al. is not a liquid market.

  23. Re:Noise on Bitcoin's Value Plummeted Overnight and No One Knows Why (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Troll? Why? Time and time again this has been proven true.

  24. Re:It's called faith. on Bitcoin's Value Plummeted Overnight and No One Knows Why (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Not liquid enough.

  25. Re:Coinbase and Bcash on Bitcoin's Value Plummeted Overnight and No One Knows Why (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    I can trade on line with a market order and fill it within a few minutes after the bell. Price locked in, just a little bookkeeping to do.