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The video is brief and well-produced. One must be intrinsically motivated to be ethical and honest. Integrity cannot be imposed by peer review. This is not another SFYL sorry for your loss tale of cryptocurrency scamming. That is merely a grace note. Academic plagiarism can happen, regardless of whether bitcoin, blockchains, or cryptocurrency are involved. I make that observation based on t his passage via Andrew Gelman emphasis mine : more….

The results were the subject of a post at Feminist Philosophers blog, where I occasionally visit and even understand a bit, without being a philosopher nor much of a feminist. I reacted with incredulity to the results. Yes, this fact check—based on investigative journalism that was funded, produced, and published by the Thomson Reuters Foundation—reports that women in the US are more at risk of sexual violence than in Syria!

The US is considered more dangerous for women than nations where female genital mutilation is common, and untreated obstetric fistulas ruin lives. Network diagrams are a popular way of visualizing social and corporate relationships.

Network theory has been used to model telecommunications performance and especially, the Internet. Communications networks increase in value as the number of connections increases. This is incorrect. Some internet connections are hardly used and contribute limited value. Of course, there are reasons to connect everyone that are not based on monetary value!

Rural electrification is an example. When did the value of a larger Internet network start diminishing? At some point, ISPs Internet Service Providers stopped charging users for access, as the business of delivering content became more valuable than providing greater network connectivity. AOL charged for service until or so. I thought it would be helpful to begin with a timeline of Internet growth, by number of sites connected and corresponding events, as a starting point for determining incremental value.

I decided to construct a timeline of dates and nodes, from which connectivity can be determined. I am writing this partly for myself, for reference purposes. Of course not! It is quite unusual that think tanks would take such an active political role. Also, think tanks tend to be hot houses of similar ideologies, so merging will no doubt be uncomfortable for all involved. Heritage is likely none too happy with that portmanteau of a name, Brookitage. He oversaw the Fed's response to the financial crisis, taxpayer bailout of incompetent Wall Street speculators, AIG, their friends and crony colleagues.

After eight years as Fed chair, Bernanke's first stop after he left central banking was Resident Fellow at Brookings in He wrote an economics blog that everyone got excited about. Bernanke never responded to reader comments, mine included. Eventually, everyone on Twitter lost interest, especially since we didn't want to hear more about his embarrassingly-titled autobiography,.

Bernanke stopped spending much time with Brookings after that, and moved on to highly-paid speaking engagements and private equity advising. Apparently, not all think tanks are non-partisan. Heritage Foundation seems to be one of Think Tank Watch's favorite targets, in this case, for stodginess.

Heritage Foundation mocked for defending British monarchy. Wait a sec The post originally appeared in somewhat higher visibility Law Fare a massive agglomeration of "blawgs", i. That was during the Obama Administration! Does that name sound familiar? It should, as Wittes created a huge rukus a few years back. He went to The New York Times and dsiclosed a confidential conversation he had had with Mueller or James Comey or Preet Braha or some other lawyer, because he thought that the material was so terrible that it would end Donald Trump's presidency once and for all.

He is still a lawyer, still writing for Lawfare. Nothing bad happened to Donald Trump either, as there wasn't anything sufficiently salacious or criminal about his conduct.

Somehow, Wittes lost perspective, which is rather strange as he knows what is illegal, and ethical. It seems likely that Wittes wrote, or had editorial input into that think tank humor piece. If so, it would also explain Wittes likely fervent wish for Obama to lead the two ideologically antipodal American think tanks following his departure from office, as the "president of Brookitage" in January Obama the great uniter of men. Certain people will never change their minds about this sort of adulation for him.

Ellie Asks Why Annex. BIS is the central banker of central banks. Both are meta although only one has global gravitas. Things need to change. Missionary Work Among Savages aka 2slugbait wrote about whether President Reagan's tax cuts performed as advertised. I think his motivation was to determine if a similar supply side approach could have been a better alternative than the actual mild fiscal stimulus measures implemented by Bernanke and Obama, immediately following the financial collapse.

In other words, would a Reagan-type tax cut in have driven a stronger recovery. Supply side economics maybe not so great 2slugbaits demonstrates empirically why supply side economics was only mildly effective.

Specifically, none of the following worked quite as well as Arthur Laffer's forecast: cutting the top marginal tax rate would encourage greater labor effort supply side structured tax cuts would encourage greater personal saving the tax cuts would pay for themselves Skepticism about David Stockman and Laffer's economic policy recommendations during the Reagan Administration is only mildly interesting to me.

That was apparent from to March Real Potential Gross Domestic Product 2slugbaits elaborates on item 3 above, noting that: "If the Reagan tax cuts actually affected the supply side of the macro economy Yes, real potential GDP did grow at a pretty good clip immediately after the Reagan recession, but it quickly faded Side Quest 2 Answers How do I find the red x that is mentioned in one of the notes?

Side Quest 2 Answers If I redo a chapter, does the game remember my save data from the first time I did it? General 2 Answers How to use food items? Side Quest 1 Answer. Ask A Question. Browse More Questions. Keep me logged in on this device. Forgot your username or password? User Info: z1hayze z1hayze 8 years ago 21 Gencoil posted User Info: skermac skermac 8 years ago 23 Klowd19 posted User Info: atopthemountain atopthemountain 8 years ago 24 Gencoil posted User Info: skermac skermac 8 years ago 25 atopthemountain posted User Info: skermac skermac 8 years ago 27 z1hayze posted User Info: peephole peephole 8 years ago 28 skermac posted User Info: skermac skermac 8 years ago 29 peephole posted User Info: z1hayze z1hayze 8 years ago 30 peephole posted When he finishes, Ellie sheds a tear, and their tension evaporates but the looming sense of foreshadowing lingers to this day.

Joel hands Ellie the guitar, calling back to his promise during the game to teach her how to play seen above. After the two say goodnight and Joel leaves the room, Ellie plucks a single note on her new guitar. It seems possible that this scene appears outright in the game. During the State of Play event on May 27 , we saw a shot from the game set up identically to the secret epilogue:. The actual ending of the first game leaves things uncertain: Does Ellie know that Joel is lying?

This epilogue implies that she does, and that ongoing feeling of mistrust and uncertainty will define her character in the sequel.