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...hauvinism is the opposite of that. A perspective chauvinist says,“you know what? It ''is'' you.” ...simply a reflection that, however far we have come, we are not there yet. We are but hobbits, on the way to Mt. Doom.

{{caps|'''[[Legal ops]]'''}}: We must innovate! We have earmarked technology budget to innovate! <br> {{caps|'''[[JC]]'''}}: Great! How about some decent document comparison software?<br>

...ignored in construing this Agreement”}}What is it that the [[legal eagle]] so distrusts about headings? ...lified clerks, or something — I am totally making this up — but that isn’t how things work now.</ref> At best, this provides cover to the miscreant who la

...ons|brilliant theory]] and succinctly describes what pragmatic people find so excruciating about academic [[philosophy]]. ...n’t so much silly as ''rueful'', is: “why did I just do that do myself and how will I get those hours of my life back?” It brims full of silly answers,

...e JC often does, at the wondrous Fender Stratocaster got us thinking about how the design imperatives in a process may differ at different points in that ...olo is to set up or the pickguard harness is to wire: she cares about only how easy it is to make, as Frank Zappa put it, “the disgusting stink of a too

...assion]]ate is to ''recognise'' suffering, but step back from it and ask “how can I help?” We are not sure that “compassion” is quite as good an organising principle

...representations. But, ''[[anus matronae parvae malas leges faciunt]]'', as we {{tag|Latin}} freaks say: good luck in enforcing that if your counterparty ...ent party can maybe still rely on it in entering the agreement, even if it isn’t written down, though good luck parsing the universe of possible scenarios t

...l evidence at all.<ref>See also James Suzman’s {{br|Work: A History of How we Spend Our Time}}</ref> money is more likely to have always represented inde ...cally very risky. All of the colossal complication that we know, love, and we rent-seeking agents secrete ourselves into the loving satin folds of, arise

...legislation]] requires, on pain of — well it isn’t really clear on pain of what, exactly — legal departments to go around inserting approved contractual ...ive of the terms of a contract. BRRD is clear: bail-in applies whether you know about it or not, and whether the language is present or not.

...''Socialist Worker'' — ''selling'' a socialist screed is a delicious irony isn’t it —then your product is a long way down the Maslow hierarchy of needs, a ...umer choices then no matter how distasteful you might find the business of what you do, pitching it as way of virtue signalling is dumb. Because ''Republic

...an theatres]] — but we do know this is categorically not what machines do. We should not let habits of language conflate the two. Down that road lies a f ...rtant: we should not describe what humans do in terms meant for machines — we shouldn’t ''robomorphise'', or evaluate human performance in terms suited

...f cholera]] we’ve heard much about what is, or isn’t, the “new normal” and how institutional employers might be “pivoting” from the unexpected marvel ...titutional disposition has thus settled: ''calm the hell down, everyone''. We’ve ''got'' this. There’s nothing to see: this is ''not'' a new normal.

===[[Bitcoin]] isn’t a [[currency]]=== [[Cash]], as you’ll know if you’ve had the pleasure of the [[JC]]’s [[Cash|frequent tedious pero

...didn’t notice? Whose trick? ''What'' trick? Introduce her beauty before we know who she is. ...hands. That’s how things were now. The sidewalk wasn’t quite wide enough, so Quentin trailed after them, like a sulky child. He would rather have been a

...tion]]” is not an ''actual'' ISDA {{isdaprov|Event of Default}}, but it is what ''happens'' to an actual ISDA {{isdaprov|Event of Default}} — namely, the ====Cross acceleration: what ''is'' it?====

{{caps|''Blackadder''}}: I wouldn’t be too hopeful — that’s what all the other ones will be used for. ...You will, accordingly, misprice that asset, and you may be disappointed in how much people will be prepared to pay for it.

...thing]] about “Shakespeare” — the body of work, not the dude — is it that isn’t just “executable code”, deposited in a kind of Elizabethan GitHub and That may be how it started, but “Shakespeare” as we know it includes the body of work that has grown around it: the performances, th

What a beast. If you track it through in {{nutshell}} terms, it isn’t as bad as it looks, but you have the [[ISDA ninja]]’s gift for over-compl To make it easier, we’ve invented some concepts and taken a few liberties:

{{quote|“Who says port isn’t sexy?”<ref>http://www.ponsonbynews.co.nz/article-detail/show/2103/</ref>} Now the JC doesn’t know — ''waaaay'' to sexy for that — but he supposes that, when it comes to

...|Tedium|/ˈtiːdɪəm/|n|}}<br>1. The state of being [[tedious]]; a [[noun]] ''so'' dull that dictionaries regularly define it by reference to its [[adjectiv ...included in hundreds of dictionaries, although perhaps none have rendered so poetic and succinct a definition as Nathaniel Bailey’s entry in his 1756