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...ttle shoebox under its bed — were not in a shoe-box after all. They turned out to be rather harder to get back than they expected. ...ecord-keeping was a bit slipshod. This fact alone has launched the careers of a thousand [[CF10a|CASS]] compliance officers.

...telligence'': (''To terminate with'' ~) To tactically assassinate. Put out of his, and our, misery. ...d [[reduction in force]] induce an odd [[system effect]] whereby the parts of your workforce you are most anxious to retain progressively deteriorate in

...ations. They didn’t like sharing fees, so bankers laboured long days under the scorching sun building impregnable barriers to entry called “panels” wi ...es from defenceless end-users: they were not used to tamely agreeing terms of engagement and carrying water for squirrelly professionals. Banker spines a

...k rules]]” and “[[thin rules]]” as means of understanding the regularities of daily life. ...hey govern (both drivers and pedestrians): users must have their own model of when, and what counts as “safe”.

But the outlook is fine, since<br> And I’m highly dismissive of yours.

...their ancient genealogy, he put together this field guide, which might be of use to innocents. In structured finance, there are no innocents. ...://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/6290987.pdf EM Remolona, ''The Recent Growth of the Financial Derivatives Market'' (FRBNY Quarterly Review, 1993]; [https://www

“If there is a rifle hanging on the wall in the first act, it must go off in the third.”}} ...ackground]]” or something like that and is meant to prime you for the meat of [[contract]].

...take it offline|took things offline]]” and started a whole new article on the topic. Here it is. To recap the background to that post:

...with “[[key performance indicator]]” as that neatly captures the absurdity of this asset class, but felt oddly compelled to carry on.</ref>}} ...way, plants could not grow and eventually the whole ecosystem was wrecked. The island became uninhabitable, It has not recovered in 400 years.

...they did before, during and after the dotcom boom, the [[global financial crisis]], [[Brexit]] and [[COVID]]. ...e power to publish whatever pops into her head, to the whole world. See? ''The [[JC]] is doing it now''. There is no bullshit filter anymore. Assume every

...n counting what we’ve lost along the way), it follows that the total value of our [[data]] — in which Professor Fisher would have us trust — is, like ...hite'' data, even on its own terms.<ref>[[Get off Twitter]], okay? For all of our sakes.</ref>

...er|tweets]] and blogs. She took to {{Plainlink|https://kyla.substack.com/p/the-tiktok-girl-is-right-modernity|her blog}}. ...rkers by paying them properly and giving them time off. So, a century ago, the nine-to-five was born.

...ied doom and been proven wrong. Every time, they have made some version of the argument: this time it is different, and been proven wrong.'' ...ritics of all eras that this time is different, yet so many still buy into the pyramid scheme that we are special. It is both self-aggrandising and self-e

...naccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost Its Mind}} — {{author|Dan Davies}}, 2024.</div>}}}}{{quote| Whose ledger swells, or plucks, the seedy fruits of progress —<br>

BLACKADDER: Look, there’s no need to panic. Someone in the crew will know how to steer this thing. <br> CAPTAIN RUM: The crew, milord? ''What'' crew?<br>

...spirit of Aleister Crowley was the dominant fingerpost showing the way to the future: {{Quote|“''Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law''”.}}

# Opco Boone was born in switzerland, the son of confidentiality lawyers. # Opco was fixated by the paradoxical nature of his parent's death

...go out of your way to '''avoid''' Simon Sinek’s wretched adaptation, {{br|The Infinite Game}}.'' ...art Brand]]’s speak reverently of it, there might be life for it yet above the daisies.

*[[The domestication of law]] ...ey buy the paper for the parts they like, and they like the parts they buy the paper for.