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...ed by the happy thoughts that so many other odious people are going to get what's coming to them. Note how, even ion Thomas More’s original vision, plainly utopia can resemble dyst

...line “[[Signal-to-noise ratio|signal]]”. We don’t necessarily understand ''how'' the machines will do this; just that they will, and far from [[algorithm| ...to certified latter-day [[effective altruism|effective altruists]], that ''we can solve our problems with data''.

Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Turned on the West — Catherine Belton<b Suspicious Minds: Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories — Rob Brotherton<br>

...interface|user-interface]] easy enough for the [[meatware]] to deal with ''so you didn’t need a service contract''. Right? Of course, “software as a service” isn’t charging a running cost for static software. It is charging a running cost

...[legal eagle|over-enthusiastic members of the bar]] waxing lengthily about how they ''do'' differ? it will not.<ref>Pedants will note the different roles ...ng fruitlessly about who should be the {{isdaprov|Calculation Agent}}, and what rights the other poor sap should have to challenge its determinations, in p

{{a|book review|{{image|what we owe the future|jpg|}}}}{{quote| ...erhaps ''too'' widely-read — and he applies his polymathic range to ''What We Owe The Future'' with some panache.

...esides, even if the disclosure is only “requested” it is the sort of thing we should expect parties in a commercial relationship to be adult about: where ...ry disclosure (see below for obligatory essay) but there is a balance, and we think OneNDA strikes this balance fairly well. Also, if you ''notify'' the

...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 w

...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

In God we trust, all others must bring data.

...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|

{{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.

...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

...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 B ...what we’ll all then ''do'', but this is surely just a quibble: the problem we would love to have.

...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 u

{{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

...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. ...e round]] game, for which the option payoff is markedly different. This is what {{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}} calls the “Rubin Trade”.

*[[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}}

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.”

...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