...notice of termination? Well, a little [[hedge fund]] can dream, can’t it? So why deprive it, and yourself, of that option?
...now — ''or'' women, but that spoils the ''Game of Thrones'' reference, you know?</ref> — yea, even the {{cotw}}. As such — since they didn’t have a written
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...more out of his workers by paying them properly and giving them time off. So, a century ago, the nine-to-five was born.
...how we now ''are'' — networked, digital and [[onworld|online]] — and what we now ''do'' — delivering services like “B2B [[Software-as-a-service|SaaS]],”
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...ion drills were sold last year: no one wants a [[drills and holes|drill]]. What they want is the hole.
...hich these outcomes are delivered ''works'' is of little interest to them; what matters is that the outcome ''works'', it is ''cheap'' and it is ''quick''
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In God we trust, all others must bring data.
...finite<ref>[[There is no data from the future]].</ref> (even counting what we’ve lost along the way), it follows that the total value of our [[data]] — i
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...of the universe: things that are not explainable by theory, but are just “so”.
...l, with repeated operation, give rise to the kind of regular behavior that we represent in our scientific laws” <ref>{{author|Nancy Cartwright}}. {{br|Th
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...ith mouse and chorded keyset - Computer History Museum.jpg|What you see is what you get, yesterday}}{{wmc|Desktop icons for Xerox Star 8010.jpg|The Xerox P
...miliar; all just so: perhaps the transition to the atomic age would not be so bad after all.
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...b}} is, in equal parts, enthralling and infuriating. He has written a book so sure of its own certitude, that has one effective lesson: there can be no c
...leb might not like Platonicity, but it is the human (Humean?) dilemma that we’re stuck with it.
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{{quote|What you see is all there is.
...ill life. A glib schematic that tells you everything you ''don’t'' need to know about an organisation, but which it treats as its most utmost secret.
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...reternaturally nimble, responsive to society’s demands: best incentivised, so the theory had it, to allocate capital where the community most needed it.
...he disasters of central planning, five-year plans, great leaps forward and so on.” These are ''theoretical'' philosophies: robust in concept but flimsy u
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...ious, but often are. [[Bernie Madoff|Bernard Madoff]] was a bad apple, but so was the [[GameStop]] share rally, and Citigroup’s archaic [[Citigroup v Bri
...what we’ll all then ''do'', but this is surely just a quibble: the problem we would love to have.
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{{script|Ser Jaramey}}: What kind of onion’d witchery is this? <br>
What is the big deal about this, then? Well, it turns your ISDA into a “flawed a
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...e suffused the nation and Gordon Brown banished boom and bust [''subs: can we check this?''] rates stayed abnormally low, around six per cent.
...es that led to the interest rate derivatives market]] What didn’t change — what hasn’t changed since the invention of credit, and which will not change unt
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...long as it gets its [[commission]], it doesn’t really care a hill of beans what its [[principal]] gets, however much it might protest to the contrary. }}
...le round]] game. There, the rusk payoff is markedly different.<ref>This is what {{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}} calls the “Rubin Trade”.</ref>
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We have canvassed the odd phenomenon of [[mediocrity drift]] whereby the feedb
...mal in job lots]], and letting the jumped-up and flighty go one at a time, we are nicely containing our costs within a range.”
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===What an indemnity is===
...promise to pay a defined sum should pre-agreed circumstances arise?” Quite so, if used as the Lords<ref>House of Lords, that is.</ref> intended. For an i
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...n risk''. It’s a free country. (Now, we say, “its own dime”: note, though, how common it is for an agent to ask its customer to foot the bill: it gets pai
...for the agent to sue its lawyers''. That’s what it paid the blighters for: so they, and that juicy [[professional indemnity insurance]] policy they never
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*[[This time is different|This time ''isn’t'' different]]. The laws of physics, finance and economics still apply. Even
...harlatans use heuristics ''instead'' of it. See: {{br|Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed}}
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...a war going on. The battlefield’s in the mind, and the prize is the soul. So be careful.”
{{drop|W|e take it}} as not needing detailed argument that we are amidst — a long way through — a generational stampede towards ''the fin
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...vestors''. At this point, the [[espievie]] has nothing left to pay anyone, so launching a [[Bankruptcy|bankruptcy petition]] is kinda — ''academic'', but
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...ng complete agreement among their operatives about the issues (a function, we suppose, of the mechanical obedience that LPO businesses drum into their pa
You read that right: experienced lawyers were ''least'' likely to agree on what was important in a basic contract.
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