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Because what matters is _Capital_ requirements, which differ by the _risk_ of the loan. A bank's Capital is what limits their ability to lend. Reserve requirements are irrelevant i…

You can give any amount to your kids tax free ... if this is within 7 years of your death then Inheritance tax applies to amounts given over 3k per year (on a sliding scale). So wo…

> what concretely happened: a poaching of a key employee Not quite the reason for the fine according to TFA: > Instead, it ruled that Luckey, who was working as a contractor for Ze…

> fulltime labor for everyone is simply not going to happen. We just don't need it. and from the article > there’s not enough work to go around I disagree. There's not enough paid …

The $1.8 billion in consumer relief is not actually a penalty, since most of it is money that has already been lost, and is only being recognised now under the pretence of it being…

Don't forget that the money that the "big equity market players" invest is mostly held on behalf of members of the public, in their pension and investment funds, so the public is d…

Sounds like the EU versions of US cars are currently re-engineered to meet EU standards, and that costs manufacturers money. They're trying to save that cost by saying all rules ar…

This concern about economic growth in 1000+ years is entirely academic. The more relevant question is whether exponential growth (at whatever rate) is feasible for the next few dec…

> Also, why is the cost of employees with overhead lower? I think that's the cost of the employees for the 9 months (not 12) it takes them to do the required work.

> normal to the rip tide as an engineer, I assumed this ('normal') meant across/perpendicular/90 degrees to the rip tide, not against it ... I believe 90 degrees to a rip tide is t…

These buy-to-leave flats are generally newly built (and were bought off plan), in high rise buildings with concierge / security, so there are no worries about heating, burglary or …

> Not sure you should be selling your house, then deciding to look. It's buying a house before you've sold yours that's a problem, not this way around (think cashflow), especially …

Apparently there was top level code (that couldn't be changed as it was needed several other places) that DID free the pointer though... hopefully the controller id was just the lo…

Well, in our hyper simplified economy, the macbook airs are produced domestically - it's the only thing produced in fact (apart from ditches I guess)!

In Economy C, the workers who've been paid by the govt can then purchase 5000 Retina Macbook Airs at $1k each, the govt receives sales tax, apple employees get paid and pay income …

>Sure, maybe a Chinese middle-class person can buy more Beijing Frappucinos than a middle-class person in Minneapolis, No, this isn't what's being said as the number we're talking …

Looks like the author explicitly considered that: > To try to understand whether people really were this bad at the task or whether perhaps the task itself was flawed, I ran some m…

I believe that, as a written rule, it took 90 days minimum to become a regulated bank, in addition to complying with all the other paperwork one would expect. GS and MS were able t…

Please find me a single CDS contract that allows that definition of "default"? Or a law or a solvency judge who would agree? If your contract stated that you are to pay back 100 US…

>It's "literally impossible" only in a very literal sense of the word. The literal sense of the word "literally"? Yes, I think that's exactly what was meant! Has the word "literal"…

It's certainly a large scale problem, but a smaller problem than learning all the points of interest in the first place ... no one is saying it's easy ...

Kenya has pretty good rates for prepaid data, approx 1 US cent per MB if you buy a 500Mb bundle: http://www.safaricom.co.ke/personal/internet/data-plans/prep... 500KSH for the 500M…

> There was hope that the Japanese would figure out something. 25 years later, they haven't. They've built up their safety net and put money into infrastructure projects, so that f…

Looks like it's an Apple / iPhone 'feature' [0] so not directly EE's fault or intention. EE's initial response was quite unhelpful though, probably through misunderstanding. After …

Is routine use of pesticides on 'organic' farms an american thing? I'm not familiar with the US organic standards / regulations. In the UK, the Soil Association (organic standards …