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• 09:48, 21 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Cash as an anti-asset (Created page with "{{Drop|C|ash, on this}} view, is a tokenised, abstract, accountable unit of ''trust''. It is a measure of indebtedness. Not ''specific'' indebtedness, to an identified person, as arises under a loan, but disembodied, ''abstract'' indebtedness ''in and of itself''. This is quite an odd concept. Loans are ''expressed'' in monetary units, but are not monetary units themselves: they are contracts to pay and later return monetary units. The monetary unit itself — cash...")
• 08:24, 21 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Why is bank capital expensive? (Created page with "{{essay|banking|Why is bank capital expensive?}}")
• 08:17, 21 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:See (Created page with "{{whitetextbox|marginbottom:5px;|}} {{divhelvetica|⇒[[{{{1}}}]]}}</div> {{tb}}")
• 15:49, 18 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Audio crypto Bitcoin is Venice (Created page with "{{audio||}} — {{pl|https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-jolly-contrarian-life/id1774749412|on Apple}}")
• 14:41, 18 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Im (Created page with "{{subst:image}}")
• 14:40, 17 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Scientific realism (Created page with "{{a|philosophy|}}{{qd|Scientific realism|/ˌsaɪənˈtɪfɪk ˈriːəlɪzəm/|n|The position that scientific theories provide true or approximately true descriptions of both observable and unobservable aspects of the world, that unobservable entities postulated by these theories (e.g., atoms, electrons, genes) exist independently of the scientific research programme, and that these programmes — not usually described in such scurrilously relativist terms) typically...") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
• 06:56, 17 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Category:Essays - Philosophy (Created page with "{{C|essay}}") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
• 06:53, 17 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Feedback loop (Created page with "{{a|systems|}}{{qd|Feedback loop|ˈfiːdbæk luːp|n|A mechanism where the output or result of a process within a system is used as input to influence the behavior and future state of the system creating a circular causality that tends to amplify or stabilise the system’s behaviour.}} Feedback loops can be positive (reinforcing) where they amplify change, potentially leading to exponential growth or decline or negative (stabilising) where they counteract change, r...") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
• 06:43, 17 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page File:Then a miracle occurs.png
• 06:43, 17 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs uploaded File:Then a miracle occurs.png Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
• 04:59, 17 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template talk:M intro technology robomorphism (Created page with "Working the idea that evolution by natural selection as an algorithmic process is fundamentally over simplistic. In fact it is the non-algorithmic aspects of evolution that are key to positive development; the algorithmic steps are not instructions so much as observed outcomes of the clever bits. So for example a organism that is clever enough to adapt or avoid a change in the environment that kills other organisms has done something clever and unexpected and decidedly n...") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
• 17:23, 15 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Argument from design capsule (Created page with "The intricacy and sophistication of the engineering we observe at a cosmic, astrophysical, geological, biological, molecular and quantum level, whose specific configuration appears utterly essential for any part of the universe as we know it to exist, is so staggeringly great, and its provenance by chance so brain-bogglingly improbable, that it ''cannot'' have come about except through the intervention of an intelligent designer.")
• 14:29, 15 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Isda 3(g) premium (Created page with "{{pjchotlink|Asset managers and unallocated trades}}<li>{{pjchotlink|Representations by agent on principal’s behalf}}<li>{{pjchotlink|Representations by agents on agent’s own behalf}}<li>{{pjchotlink|Due appointment, authority, etc.}}<li>{{pjchotlink|Loss of manager’s regulatory status, no manager, no good standing, etc.}}")
• 14:27, 15 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Isda 3(g) sa (Created page with "{{gb|Agent<li>Riskless principal<li>Investment management}}")
• 14:26, 15 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page 3(g) - 1987 ISDA Provision (Redirected page to No Agency - ISDA Provision) Tag: New redirect
• 13:47, 15 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M sa rep representation (Created page with "{{gb| <li>warranty <li>negligent misstatement <li>Representations and warranties <li>Covenant <li>Undertaking <li>or you could cut to the chase and go straight to Promise}}")
• 13:46, 15 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M intro rep representation (Created page with "{{representationdescription}} ===Compare=== {{Undertakingscovenantsrepresentationswarranties}} ===What representations are not=== {{gb|'''Law''': Representations are generally not made about the law or legal status — those things are called “legal opinions” and you’ll require august counsel to give you one of those<ref>First spending thirty of its onionskin pages, and several thousand of your pounds sterling, clearing its throat about...")
• 18:24, 14 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Deconstructionism (Created page with " <img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Grabstein_von_Niederdollendorf%2C_R%C3%BCckseite._Cropped.jpg" alt="bla" /> A peculiarly ''French'' strand of post-modernism — leading lights numbering among them Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, Bruno Latour, Jean-François Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze and Julia Kristeva — all pictured with amusing roll neck sweaters, Galois cigarettes and wavby hairdos — “deconstructionists” whose main industry was a...")
• 13:38, 14 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Past and future (Created page with "{{a|design|}}A great divide, and one that, However obvious it is, we pay less Attention to then we should. To be trite: what exists in the past is fixed, immutable, unchangeable, and conceptually known. It is bounded, choate, and predictable in the sense that it has happened. By contrast, the future has none of these qualities we are in a complex system it is unbounded the game is infinite, and none of the facts with which we educate ourselves exist in it. All are from...")
• 15:57, 13 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Imre Lakatos (Redirected page to Research programme) Tag: New redirect
• 15:54, 13 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Research programme (Created page with "{{a|philosophy|}}Imre Lakatos’ concept of the research programme is a development from Thomas Kuhn’s concept of the paradigm —. A research programme consists of a “hard core” of fundamental assumptions a set of basic, foundational assumptions that are considered irrefutable within the programme — and a “protective belt” of auxiliary hypotheses that can be modified, adjusted, or replaced to defend the hard core against anomalies or contradicto...")
• 14:32, 13 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M sa philosophy transgressing hermeneutical boundaries (Created page with "{{gb|{{br|Fashionable Nonsense}} — Alan Sokal’s book<li>Truth<li>Entropy}}") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
• 10:42, 13 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Dawkins relativist 30000 feet (Created page with "Show me a cultural relativist at thirty thousand feet and I’ll show you a hypocrite”.")
• 10:14, 13 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Fashionable Nonsense (Redirected page to Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science) Tag: New redirect
• 10:14, 13 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science (Created page with "{{a|br|}}''The original version of this review was first published in 2006'' {{drop|I|n which Alan}}} Sokal takes on some big arguments, swats some flies but loses hands down. He persuades us that there were fakers and charlatans in Social Sciences departments in the ’90s. Anyone who’s been to university and didn’t know that deserves a clip around the ear and to be sent to the back of the class. Now either Sokal didn’t know that (~clip~), or he spends half his b...")
• 09:52, 13 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M intro philosophy transgressing hermeneutical boundaries (Created page with "====L’affair Sokal==== {{drop|I|n nineteen ninety-six}} physicist Alan Sokal submitted the paper ''Transgressing The Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity'' to ''Social Text'', a respected academic journal in the field of cultural studies. It argued: {{quote| But deep conceptual shifts within twentieth-century science have undermined this Cartesian-Newtonian metaphysics; revisionist studies in the history and philosophy of science hav...")
• 09:28, 13 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Transgressing hermeneutical boundaries (Created page with "{{afreeessay|philosophy|transgressing hermeneutical boundaries}}")
• 09:27, 13 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs deleted page Transgress hermeneutical boundaries (content was: "#redirectSchwarzschild radii", and the only contributor was "Amwelladmin" (talk))
• 17:09, 12 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Audio isda Automatic Early Termination (Created page with "{{audio|2m3cHQ7uSupkJxSW55aevD|automatic-early-termination}}") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
• 10:28, 12 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Financialisation of the markets (Created page with "Bear in mind the broad sweep of three historical trends that converged in the 1980s. =====Financialisation===== First, the rapid onset of ''financialisation'' of, well, ''everything'', due to parallel developments in information technology. Through the Seventies and Eighties, Western markets acquired the mental habits and technical systems needed to look at financial risk in a much more detailed, segmentable, way, as substrate-neutral ''derivatives'' of real...")
• 09:59, 12 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs moved page Insolvency set-off to Bankruptcy set-off
• 09:44, 12 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Bankruptcy and insolvency (Redirected page to Insolvency and bankruptcy) Tag: New redirect
• 21:29, 11 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page 5(a)(vii)(4) - ISDA Provision (Redirected page to Bankruptcy petition - ISDA Provision) Tags: New redirect Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
• 10:33, 11 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs deleted page File:Wafer.png (content was: "A waiver yesterday", and the only contributor was "Amwelladmin" (talk))
• 09:22, 11 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Implied warranties (Created page with "{{a|boilerplate|}}If you fear the overwhelming reach of consumer protection legislation colouring your commercial arrangements with grownup counterparties who should know better, you may find yourself suggesting: {{quote|To the fullest extent permissible by law we hereby expresslyexclude all terms, conditions, warranties or representations which otherwise would be implied by law including those relating to quality, fitness for any particular purpose, or suitability...")
• 09:05, 11 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs deleted page File:World hands.jpg (content was: "He's got the whole world in his hands", and the only contributor was "Amwelladmin" (talk))
• 13:38, 9 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page RTO (Redirected page to Receipt and transmission of orders) Tag: New redirect
• 13:24, 9 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Receipt and transmission of orders (Created page with "{{a|euregulation|}}A person or firm only carrying out the regulated activity of '''receipt and transmission of orders''' under MiFID II would not have the same best execution obligations as those executing orders. They have related but distinct obligations focused on acting in clients’ best interests and selecting appropriate entities for order transmission.")
• 09:31, 9 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Substrate-neutral (Redirected page to Substrate) Tag: New redirect
• 09:50, 8 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M premium summary negotiation process agent (Created page with "{{pjchotlink|Permanent place of business, not place of incorporation}}<li>{{pjchotlink|Jurisdiction, not governing law}}<li>{{pjchotlink|The agent doesn’t have to agree, or do, anything}}<li>{{pjchotlink|A process agent in New York?}}")
• 08:46, 8 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M sa negotiation process agent (Created page with "{{gb|{{isdaprov|Process Agent}} - ISDA provision <li>{{pl|https://www.justice.gov.uk/courts/procedure-rules/civil/rules/part06|Part 6 of the Civil Procedure Rules, governing the service of process}}}}")
• 08:43, 8 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M intro negotiation process agent (Created page with "====What is one?==== {{process agent capsule}} ====Who needs one? ==== Any counterparty who does not have a permanent place of business in England or Wales. Or their adjacent territorial waters. Process agents are standard in English law contracts with overseas counterparties. If your process agent ''is'' moored on a barge — say, off the coast of Berwick-upon-Tweed — then depending on the prevailing current, you may or may not be able to service process...")
• 11:26, 3 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Isda bankruptcy petition premium (Created page with "Automatic Early Termination")
• 11:03, 3 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Bankruptcy shenanigans (Created page with "{{a|banking|}}“Bankruptcy shenanigans” is a handy label JC has contrived to describe all the phantoms, phantasms and night sweat horrors that plague the deep oubliettes in the minds of Basel Committee members when contemplating what might happen in a foreign jurisdiction when a failing company goes through the phase transition from solvency into bankruptcy. Zero-hour rules, disappearing safe harbors, ERISA netting, mendacious Cherry-pick...")
• 10:19, 3 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs moved page Insolvency to Insolvency and bankruptcy
• 09:29, 3 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Isda bankruptcy petition comp (Created page with "{{isdacomparisons|91377|91378|91379}}")
• 09:26, 3 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Talk:Bankruptcy petition - 1987 ISDA Provision (Created page with "1987 (4) institutes or has instituted against it a proceeding seeking a judgment of insolvency or bankruptcy or any other relief under any bankruptcy or insolvency law or other similar law affecting creditors’ rights, or a petition is presented for the winding-up or liquidation of the party or any such Specified Entity, and, in the case of any such proceeding or petition instituted or presented against it, such proceeding or petition (A) results in a judgment of insol...")
• 09:25, 3 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:ISDA Master Agreement 1987 bankruptcy petition (Created page with "{{ISDA Master Agreement 1987 5(a)(vii)(4)}}")
• 09:25, 3 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:ISDA Master Agreement 1987 5(a)(vii)(4) (Created page with "::(4) institutes or has instituted against it a proceeding seeking a judgment of insolvency or bankruptcy or any other relief under any bankruptcy or insolvency law or other similar law affecting creditors’ rights, or a petition is presented for the winding-up or liquidation of the party or any such {{isda87prov|Specified Entity}}, and, in the case of any such proceeding or petition instituted or presented against it, such proceeding or petition :::(A) results in a jud...")
• 09:24, 3 October 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:ISDA Master Agreement 1992 bankruptcy petition (Created page with "{{ISDA Master Agreement 1992 5(a)(vii)(4)}}")