would they have a better standard of living if they revolted an executed the current pack of leaders and executives.
They tried that. Twenty million died, which is pretty typical for violent socialist revolution. I don't think risking it happening again is that brilliant an idea.
Name the exploited labour market countries that have risen to first world status, zero.
I know they had manufacturing problems with their TVs at one point a few years ago, no doubt trying valiantly (and hopelessly) to produce them at a profitable cost. And I'm not so daft as to believe that there's any connection between the phones, laptops, fridges, and TV I've owned except the Samsung label on it. A brand is a promise, nothing more, and a company can break it any time they want.
Actually, drivers are strongly heteroskedastic at all ages and across most of the major risk stratifiers. A safe driver is one who keeps his eyes on the road and drives at a reasonable speed. Type of road and distance driven increase exposure, but that's easy to deal with. The problem is that it's impossible to measure these factors directly.
Just like guitar distortion, I suppose? If it's there on purpose, it's intentional, by tautology. Dislike it as much as you and I do, it is as much part of the sound of modern music as gated reverb on the drums was in the 80s. And it'll sound just as bad in thirty years time.
I've mentioned this story on/. before, but it bears repeating. I have a relative who builds insanely high-end vinyl turntables, the kind that get bought by museums and tasteful despots. He built one for my grandfather, and specced out and built the rest of the system as well. The speakers were wired up with heavy duty single core electrical cable.
I suggest you put a note in your diary to come back in a couple of weeks and read this review with fresh eyes. Then you might see why I, for one, found it *really* dissapointing.
Because they have little other choice. If you sell millions in annual premium and have a massive company with thousands of employees and a huge depth of knowledge, it is near impossible to pivot from that and do something else. Owners, though, sell motor insurance divisions all the time, becuase they can.
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Income taxing the super-rich is a pointless waste of time and effort. The US operational budget requires over $2 trillion this year; Berkshire Hathaway has total revenues on the order of $100 billion.
Mining such data can be valuable for all orts of purposes, but anything to do with health services - life/health insurance is the most obvious example.
I don't have US data to hand, but in the UK and Canada, motor insurance is unprofitable (really), because of the cost of (a) small numbers of very large claims, and (b) massively increased litigation over small to mid-sized claims. It doesn't take too many multi-million pound claims before that book you wrote at reasonable rates is underwater.
The big problem motor insurers have always had is properly assigning risk - it's pretty obvious an 18yo male is more dangerous than a middle aged woman, but that's a statistic, not a cause. If you could find out what made the 18yo dangerous, you could charge for that instead and have fairer premiums for the rest of us.
It would be more appropriate to describe the fed's actions as providing capacity, not liquidity. Market liquidity is not really an issue and never has been; HFT simply increases it. Besides, HFT tends to be carried out on more volatile securities, such as stocks and options. HFT on bonds is done, but it's a lot more boring as the underlying bonds don't move much on a daily basis.
Hello. Could you please cite an alternate source for your claim which is not lifted from a religious tract? Also, I may be hazy in my recollection, but I have a distinct memory that the first embyonic stem cell line was produced in America in 1998.
Wait, what? Those are two not even slightly related issues. This is why discussing finance and economics on/. is so frustrating; the sheer depth of ignorance on display mixed with the arrogance of the Java coder with three years experience.
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At this point I think a mass civil anti-stupidity campaign is called for. Someone print up a bunch of T-shirts saying "I 3 paedophiles".
I think you should be Chopin for a new pun.
Maybe it'll make the criminals Bach off.
would they have a better standard of living if they revolted an executed the current pack of leaders and executives.
They tried that. Twenty million died, which is pretty typical for violent socialist revolution. I don't think risking it happening again is that brilliant an idea.
The UK. The US. France. Germany.
Pfft. I was given detention for asserting the second law of thermodynamics.
I know they had manufacturing problems with their TVs at one point a few years ago, no doubt trying valiantly (and hopelessly) to produce them at a profitable cost. And I'm not so daft as to believe that there's any connection between the phones, laptops, fridges, and TV I've owned except the Samsung label on it. A brand is a promise, nothing more, and a company can break it any time they want.
Heh. I invariably moderate, then forget to press the button when I get to the bottom, if I haven't closed the tab in disgust by that point.
I presume he's talking about the trustworthiness of the brand. I've never had a Samsung product that had any physical problem, ever.
Depending on which interface you are using, you may need to scroll to the bottom of the page where you'll see a moderate button.
I suggest you give this a bash if you believe that.
Actually, drivers are strongly heteroskedastic at all ages and across most of the major risk stratifiers. A safe driver is one who keeps his eyes on the road and drives at a reasonable speed. Type of road and distance driven increase exposure, but that's easy to deal with. The problem is that it's impossible to measure these factors directly.
Just like guitar distortion, I suppose? If it's there on purpose, it's intentional, by tautology. Dislike it as much as you and I do, it is as much part of the sound of modern music as gated reverb on the drums was in the 80s. And it'll sound just as bad in thirty years time.
I've mentioned this story on /. before, but it bears repeating. I have a relative who builds insanely high-end vinyl turntables, the kind that get bought by museums and tasteful despots. He built one for my grandfather, and specced out and built the rest of the system as well. The speakers were wired up with heavy duty single core electrical cable.
I suggest you put a note in your diary to come back in a couple of weeks and read this review with fresh eyes. Then you might see why I, for one, found it *really* dissapointing.
Because they have little other choice. If you sell millions in annual premium and have a massive company with thousands of employees and a huge depth of knowledge, it is near impossible to pivot from that and do something else. Owners, though, sell motor insurance divisions all the time, becuase they can.
Wow. You make Congress sound sensible.
Income taxing the super-rich is a pointless waste of time and effort. The US operational budget requires over $2 trillion this year; Berkshire Hathaway has total revenues on the order of $100 billion.
Mining such data can be valuable for all orts of purposes, but anything to do with health services - life/health insurance is the most obvious example.
The big problem motor insurers have always had is properly assigning risk - it's pretty obvious an 18yo male is more dangerous than a middle aged woman, but that's a statistic, not a cause. If you could find out what made the 18yo dangerous, you could charge for that instead and have fairer premiums for the rest of us.
It would be more appropriate to describe the fed's actions as providing capacity, not liquidity. Market liquidity is not really an issue and never has been; HFT simply increases it. Besides, HFT tends to be carried out on more volatile securities, such as stocks and options. HFT on bonds is done, but it's a lot more boring as the underlying bonds don't move much on a daily basis.
Hello. Could you please cite an alternate source for your claim which is not lifted from a religious tract? Also, I may be hazy in my recollection, but I have a distinct memory that the first embyonic stem cell line was produced in America in 1998.
Wait, what? Those are two not even slightly related issues. This is why discussing finance and economics on /. is so frustrating; the sheer depth of ignorance on display mixed with the arrogance of the Java coder with three years experience.
If they did, the HFT crowd wouldn't exist.
The value they provide is that of market liquidity and price arbitrage. In short, they ensure the market is correctly priced.
Yes. But the point is we all agree there is one.