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I like the idea of digital chaff: publishing huge amounts of completely erroneous information about yourself and everyone else means that no one knows what to believe anymore.
Shouldn't a service like this exist?
What happened to "Don't be Evil"?
The article seems to suggest that low interest rates are the cause of high house prices: it argues that house price inflation is out-of-control, but could be brought under control with higher rates.
This would certainly deter buy-to-let landlords. But, given that the world generally is doing quantitative-easing and 0% rates or lower, this would be a very contrary position for the UK to adopt.
What would be the implications of that policy? I can't believe it hasn't already be considered. So why has it been dismissed?
Is there literally no other way that the FBI could get the data off the phone?
I'm sure they could download the memory, stick it all in some kind of iOS VM and try every 4-digit PIN in no time, all without worrying that the phone would self-destruct.
Couldn't they?
This reminds me a lot of Lotus Notes. Which I guess is no bad thing: it was an amazing environment to work in.
Would it be fair to characterize this as a re-invention of that, or are there significant differences I'm overlooking?
Notes wasn't without it's problems though: version control and data typing being two important ones.
Yes the value of notional sizes of derivative trades have little to do with either their actual values (which net to zero for all the parties involved), their risk or the amount of capital actually involved.