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Non-insider trading is liquidity. That’s why people pay for retail trading volume (payment for order flow). Not because of nefarious reasons. Just because it represents liquidity. With no liquidity it’s impossible to enter or exit trades efficiently.
The observation has been called Conquest’s Second Law. It is that common.
They’ve already retired for the most part. Stallman for example is 72.
I never understood how peer reviewers are supposed to "validate" a paper and how they’re tacitly thought to be doing so by the general public. Authors make claims based on data reviewers don’t have direct access to, from experiments they obviously can’t supervise the execution. They’re forced to accept the claims at face value. In my experience (and I’ve been on both sides), it’s more about overall quality and impact. Journals don’t want badly written papers on unremarkable topics. It’s closer to being a harsh anonymous editor than a real safeguard of “science™.”
The word definitely is completely idiomatic with regard to humans in French. Look up any dictionary definition. And there’s no law making it illegal in France. Besides, even if it had such a law, the French state doesn’t have a monopoly on the French language. It’s an official language in 29 countries.
Monks of various religious dispositions, or even just secular meditation adepts, seem to disprove this easily.
I used to not have a tv by choice and go on walks all the time as I had nothing to do. I stopped doing it as it became weird and lonely past a certain point and age. There’s nothing quite like seeing people out in the world with purpose while shambling without even a real destination. Turns out humans are pretty good at avoiding unpleasant experiences and watch tv for a reason.
Cited patents are added by the examiner. Source: I have several patents.
Southern Canada is at the same latitude as Spain. Sunlight isn’t that bad even in December.
Yea I just buzz since covid. Prices exploded.
The rationale is that there can only be so many employees and if natural attrition is low then they’d prefer to re-roll on mediocre performers in an attempt to capture the top ones.
Have you considered that his power of persuasion is very dependent upon what he himself practices? Leading by example.
Doesn’t take much volume to affect the spot price and in turn affect the value of everyone’s portfolio.
Vanadium redox flow batteries have a decent energy storage density and can scale very well but ultimately it does add to the cost of the energy being produced as opposed to some tech that doesn’t need it.
The average age of an American soldier in WW2 was 26.
There is a counterparty to every financial transaction. Presumably, both sides are happy if they agree to trade with each other. All of what you call "unproductive financial schemes" are mostly about exchanging risks, just like insurance.
Of course you can find PhDs that don’t master fundamentals properly, but that remains rare. PhD quals are supposed to root that out. It’s also true that in day to day electronic engineering, any sufficiently complicated circuit would be solved with SPICE or an equivalent. For a PhD student in electronic engineering to not know that SPICE essentially solves ODEs still seems very surprising.
Pretty much. There's a recent video going around of a Russian helicopter in Ukraine firing off all its flares in panic after its sister helicopter is taken out by MANPADS. Predictably, the Ukrainians wait until he runs out, and then he gets taken out anyway. Not that hard to search for it.
My understanding is that the poorest people are covered by medicare or get their fees waved (hospitals won't refuse to treat someone needing critical care). That is not "zero social net". Nobody is in fact jealous of the American healthcare system though. Meanwhile, in most countries in Europe, people live in fear of having to be put on wait lists that extend from months to years, or just plain being unable to access any care at all due to said systems being overloaded at times due to having much less overall slack (for example during covid).
To think that the US has no social safety is also a common trope. Food stamps, medicaid, public & section 8 housing, SSDI, EI, etc. in combination with the unique opportunities allowed by American society to get back on your feet (low unemployment and barrier to entry). Americans in general have no idea how "humble" life can be for the European lower classes. Fun fact: Canada and the US have about the same homelessness rates on a per capita basis.
Seeing that the latest edition of The Art of Analog Layout came out of 2005, is there any other book you'd recommend on analog layouts specifically?
Bloch's theorem I'd assume.
There are other startups in the space that do it in semiconductors. Look up Lightelligence and Lightmatter for instance.
France is 5 months mandatory. UK is 3 months availability.
This is neither low cost nor commercially relevant. It’s an exotic, low-temperature (so incompatible with subsequent steps of most wafer processes) deposition of rare earth material. The lasing wavelength is all wrong (1.9 um). It requires a pump laser in the 1.6 um range which is the usual range of interest. The efficiency is not very good. Couldn’t find the linewidth while scanning rapidly. It’s a run of the mill academic paper.
There exist commercial electrically pumped lasers on silicon that are being continuously improved through different approaches. Intel is one of the leaders on that.
The 2x1 covers a1 and b1, not a1 and a2.
Then doctors filter what patients they take to guarantee these good outcomes. This is already done by some surgeons. Surgery is already a subset of medicine heavily judged on outcomes.
Because the supply of medical doctors in most countries including Canada is heavily constrained. People are wary of opening the flood gates because it is expected that the quality of care would drop (not necessarily a good argument). Meanwhile, there is a huge access issue with long wait times at the ER or for seeing specialists. A large proportion of the population has no family doctor.
Many countries with universal healthcare still pay by the act. In Canada, doctors are mostly independent service providers that bill the government directly. This can lead to two problems: a) they don’t do a whole lot of medical acts because it already pays so well that they can afford to slack off (e.g., work 3-4 days a week, see very little patients), or b) do a lot of unnecessary acts because it goes directly into their pockets.
Noticeably absent from this analysis is the humongous shadow banking sector.