It cannot. T-bonds are commodities traded on multiple open markets, so China could easily buy them there. Closing all the loopholes would be theoretically possible, but it would also mean the end of the dollar as a freely convertible currency.
This is deal is actually really great for China. Think about it - the only thing that Russia can sell to China is oil (and gas) and Russia will get paid for it in Renminbi. And the only place it can spend those Renminbi is... China! In this way there'll be no additional pressure on Yuan.
That's not to say the dollar can't be destroyed if the Fed tries hard enough. But over the past downturn they were actually quite clever: while they were printing ~$2 T in no money via QE, they were removing ~$2T in money supply via bank reserves (while we continue with a 0 reserve banking system, the Fed paid attractive-enough interest that banks voluntarily increased their reserves to unprecedented levels).
That's not true. While Fed pays some interest on the reserves it also asks to pay interest on the loans. They are pretty much the same.
So no, the other shoe won't drop. The accumulation of reserves is caused by a liquidity trap and in this case monetary base can be expanded pretty much indefinitely. If you want proof then look at Japan - its central bank does not pay interest on the reserves and yet almost 5x increase in the monetary base failed to increase inflation even to 2%.
There are other examples - Switzerland increased its monetary supply by three times also doesn't pay interest on the reserves. And now it actually wants to institute a _negative_ interest rate (i.e. force banks to pay the central bank for holding the reserves). Yet Swiss Frank is still rock-solid.
Uhm, we know pretty well that most of the junk is just junk. The recent _high_ estimates of human genome that has some function is about 10% (or about 15% with structural elements). That's a _high_ estimate based on analysis of evolution of genomic sequences.
And it's nothing unusual in the animal world. The difference is even more glaring in plants - a good old Arabidopsis is just 135Mbp and Paris Japonica is 150GBp. That's a difference of three orders of magnitude between plants that have no really special external characteristics! And even Arabidopsis has plenty of junk in its genome.
It doesn't work for photons as well. You can time a screen to block photon's path after it flies through two slits of an interferometer. You need not only instantaneous communication, but actually faster-than-instantaneous communication.
Non-locality means transmission of information with faster-than-light speeds (essentially, from future to past). To preserve causality you have to impose limitations on this transfer and these limitations are even more magical (see: "superdeterminism"). See my explanation at http://slashdot.org/comments.p... for an example.
It doesn't matter. A pilot wave is a type of a hidden state, in such theories particle take a unique way determined by a pilot wave.
Think about it - how can a pilot wave communicate which way a particle must take without going backwards in time (i.e. violating the Lorentz invariance)? Imagine that you have a classic two-slit single electron interference experiment. Suppose that the pilot wave theory is true - in this case a pilot wave interferes with itself and electron chooses one path and ultimately hits a scintillating screen where it's detected as a particle. For an external observer it would look as if a particle interfered with itself. So far so good.
However, let's add another twist - suppose that there's a device (a simple metallic screen) that blocks one of the paths that the electron can take _after_ flying through the slit - this device will cause the interference pattern to disappear (and this was checked by experiments!). However, how would an electron "know" about it when it flies through two slits? Moreover, we can complicate the device by making the screen move and block one path only after electron flies through the slits (it's complicated to do with electrons but it's essentially what happens in the delayed choice quantum eraser experiment). Somehow the pilot wave must provide information to the electron from its future!
No, it doesn't eliminate the dualism. Pilot wave theories are a subtype of hidden variable theories and thus were proven wrong by Bell inequalities. The fact that some fluid dynamics systems behave kinda like quantum systems (and only qualitatively so!) means nothing.
Do you know that the number of cab drivers in Paris hasn't changed since WWII? It's always been around 57000. So it's very hard to get a taxi in certain regions and at certain times. So the fucking cubbies should shut up.
Actually, no. Nazi party was _named_ "National Socialist", while its policies were pretty consistent with far-right wing. Basically, its name was only used for PR to drum up support.
Actually, most of energy to crack natural gas comes from (wait for it!)... natural gas! Enthalpy change in the 2*CH4 ---> C2H4 + 2*H2 is so small that it doesn't really matter, you lose more energy for pumping and heating the reactor.
Unlikely. L1 transfers can work just as well for companies in Europe or Asia. A couple of my friends immigrated in the US by creating a company in the US and a local subsidiary in Ukraine, then they simply transferred to the US after 1 year (and it's totally legal). So why Microsoft would need to move workers to Canada first if any other country is sufficient?
More likely Microsoft said something like: "Either we cut 1000 positions in Canada or you allow us to bring temps. Your choice."
The whole society. In the case of a bad vaccine reaction you'd get a hefty compensation (up to $10 million) and assistance for life ( http://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecom... ). Compensations are so huge because genuine bad reactions are _extremely_ rare.
Antivirus? Are you fucking serious? Just turn it off and see what happens!
I've never seen IDEA work slower than Eclipse, and I've been using both since 2003.
Typing is faster except if you're writing a mathematical text or anything that is NOT simple plain text. Even simple diagrams are complicated to do on a computer. And from a personal experience - if you write something down you remember it better than if you type it.
In the xUSSR countries not being able to write cursive is considered a sign of illiteracy. Is English cursive really so horrible? I never learned it formally and I use a bastardized version of cursive and block letters when I need to jot something down quickly. As a result, I can write significantly faster than most native English speakers when they use block letters.
Perhaps the cursive script itself should be revised? Also, cursive writing really helps to develop fine motor skills which are linked with higher cognitive functions. I don't know if there's a causal relationship between two of them, but I won't be surprised.
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Russia has enough locally produced food to not actually _starve_. There would be problems with fruit and meat, but you can live without them.
It cannot. T-bonds are commodities traded on multiple open markets, so China could easily buy them there. Closing all the loopholes would be theoretically possible, but it would also mean the end of the dollar as a freely convertible currency.
This is deal is actually really great for China. Think about it - the only thing that Russia can sell to China is oil (and gas) and Russia will get paid for it in Renminbi. And the only place it can spend those Renminbi is... China! In this way there'll be no additional pressure on Yuan.
That's not to say the dollar can't be destroyed if the Fed tries hard enough. But over the past downturn they were actually quite clever: while they were printing ~$2 T in no money via QE, they were removing ~$2T in money supply via bank reserves (while we continue with a 0 reserve banking system, the Fed paid attractive-enough interest that banks voluntarily increased their reserves to unprecedented levels).
That's not true. While Fed pays some interest on the reserves it also asks to pay interest on the loans. They are pretty much the same.
So no, the other shoe won't drop. The accumulation of reserves is caused by a liquidity trap and in this case monetary base can be expanded pretty much indefinitely. If you want proof then look at Japan - its central bank does not pay interest on the reserves and yet almost 5x increase in the monetary base failed to increase inflation even to 2%.
There are other examples - Switzerland increased its monetary supply by three times also doesn't pay interest on the reserves. And now it actually wants to institute a _negative_ interest rate (i.e. force banks to pay the central bank for holding the reserves). Yet Swiss Frank is still rock-solid.
Uhm, we know pretty well that most of the junk is just junk. The recent _high_ estimates of human genome that has some function is about 10% (or about 15% with structural elements). That's a _high_ estimate based on analysis of evolution of genomic sequences.
And it's nothing unusual in the animal world. The difference is even more glaring in plants - a good old Arabidopsis is just 135Mbp and Paris Japonica is 150GBp. That's a difference of three orders of magnitude between plants that have no really special external characteristics! And even Arabidopsis has plenty of junk in its genome.
Nope. That's the point of Bell's inequalities.
It doesn't work for photons as well. You can time a screen to block photon's path after it flies through two slits of an interferometer. You need not only instantaneous communication, but actually faster-than-instantaneous communication.
Non-locality means transmission of information with faster-than-light speeds (essentially, from future to past). To preserve causality you have to impose limitations on this transfer and these limitations are even more magical (see: "superdeterminism"). See my explanation at http://slashdot.org/comments.p... for an example.
It doesn't matter. A pilot wave is a type of a hidden state, in such theories particle take a unique way determined by a pilot wave.
Think about it - how can a pilot wave communicate which way a particle must take without going backwards in time (i.e. violating the Lorentz invariance)? Imagine that you have a classic two-slit single electron interference experiment. Suppose that the pilot wave theory is true - in this case a pilot wave interferes with itself and electron chooses one path and ultimately hits a scintillating screen where it's detected as a particle. For an external observer it would look as if a particle interfered with itself. So far so good.
However, let's add another twist - suppose that there's a device (a simple metallic screen) that blocks one of the paths that the electron can take _after_ flying through the slit - this device will cause the interference pattern to disappear (and this was checked by experiments!). However, how would an electron "know" about it when it flies through two slits? Moreover, we can complicate the device by making the screen move and block one path only after electron flies through the slits (it's complicated to do with electrons but it's essentially what happens in the delayed choice quantum eraser experiment). Somehow the pilot wave must provide information to the electron from its future!
No, it doesn't eliminate the dualism. Pilot wave theories are a subtype of hidden variable theories and thus were proven wrong by Bell inequalities. The fact that some fluid dynamics systems behave kinda like quantum systems (and only qualitatively so!) means nothing.
The moment a large segment of population started cheering up torturers as Protectors of the Homeland.
Do you know that the number of cab drivers in Paris hasn't changed since WWII? It's always been around 57000. So it's very hard to get a taxi in certain regions and at certain times. So the fucking cubbies should shut up.
Actually, no. Nazi party was _named_ "National Socialist", while its policies were pretty consistent with far-right wing. Basically, its name was only used for PR to drum up support.
Actually, most of energy to crack natural gas comes from (wait for it!)... natural gas! Enthalpy change in the 2*CH4 ---> C2H4 + 2*H2 is so small that it doesn't really matter, you lose more energy for pumping and heating the reactor.
Unlikely. L1 transfers can work just as well for companies in Europe or Asia. A couple of my friends immigrated in the US by creating a company in the US and a local subsidiary in Ukraine, then they simply transferred to the US after 1 year (and it's totally legal). So why Microsoft would need to move workers to Canada first if any other country is sufficient?
More likely Microsoft said something like: "Either we cut 1000 positions in Canada or you allow us to bring temps. Your choice."
Actually 'Peanut laws' mandate labeling on anything that might have been in contact with peanuts. So that's covered.
The whole society. In the case of a bad vaccine reaction you'd get a hefty compensation (up to $10 million) and assistance for life ( http://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecom... ). Compensations are so huge because genuine bad reactions are _extremely_ rare.
No, because the potential risk for outweighs the potential reward.
Then your machine is broken beyond fixing. Which is kinda obvious since you're running an antivirus.
Antivirus? Are you fucking serious? Just turn it off and see what happens! I've never seen IDEA work slower than Eclipse, and I've been using both since 2003.
But you're probably be writing notes for the equations in cursive.
Typing is faster except if you're writing a mathematical text or anything that is NOT simple plain text. Even simple diagrams are complicated to do on a computer. And from a personal experience - if you write something down you remember it better than if you type it.
That's OK. Now the deaths are replaced with lots of more people getting debilitating brain damage which becomes apparent only after 15-20 years.
In the xUSSR countries not being able to write cursive is considered a sign of illiteracy. Is English cursive really so horrible? I never learned it formally and I use a bastardized version of cursive and block letters when I need to jot something down quickly. As a result, I can write significantly faster than most native English speakers when they use block letters.
Perhaps the cursive script itself should be revised? Also, cursive writing really helps to develop fine motor skills which are linked with higher cognitive functions. I don't know if there's a causal relationship between two of them, but I won't be surprised.
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