FRB_DailyYieldCurve_Spreads.PNG Is the understanding accurate that the relatively high transaction cost to use BTC for purchases renders it more economically viable as a store of value (eg. inflation hedge) than as a regular currency for buying/selling ? (ignoring purchases where economic efficienc...

@mtsm : Thanks for the tip.  Will peruse their repo.

Anyone have opinions or awareness about opensource time-series DB's which have managed to achieve any sort of ongoing community & user base?

(did try to search for prior threads, but search is finicky for me today.)

oh well, scratch that notion.  still getting the error even after re-logging-in

FYI: Upon experiencing this intermittently for some compound search terms: [phpBB Debug] PHP Notice : in file [ROOT]/includes/functions_content.php on line 1542 : Undefined variable: profile_url It looks like my login session may have somehow become forgotten since I was prompted to login in order t...

I am not yet a COBOL person, but I would not rule it out. Away from more metropolitan areas I occasionally but repeatedly bump into job reqs seeking COBOL in the mix with more modern languages & API's.  This seems like a long tail residual effect of the pervasiveness of the IBM mid-range systems (Sy...

It depends on each encryption algorithm whether or not you get the exact same ciphertext each time you encrypt the plaintext.  This is a deliberate choice on the part of each cipher designer. The point of a git repo server is that all clones should have the exact same content, such that anytime you ...

Please forgive if this is a silly question on my part, but am I missing something regarding the comments about encrypting uploads to github? git (regardless of whether hosted on github or elsewhere) depends upon SHA signatures to determine if a particular object or element within a repository has ch...

@Polter, thank you for those links.@outrun, thank you for that code sample with "references." gonna have to remember to re-use that coding method when apropos EDIT: have saved this thread to revisit & reread from time to time. It's kind of high yield.

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: CuchulainnQuoteOriginally posted by: kc11415Does anyone else have any interest in "Concepts" which got left out of C++11Does anyone see any inherent problems with this?Do you mean, the fact that C++ 11 does not support Concepts? If yes, I would say it's a handicap becau...

<r>Does anyone else have any interest in "Concepts" which got left out of C++11 <URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concepts_%28C">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concepts_(C</URL>++) <URL url="http://www.stroustrup.com/sle2011-concepts.pdfAttended">http://www.stroustrup.com/sle2011-concepts.pdfAtte...

if you think "tranche" is a buzzword, then what are you doing on a website for quantitative finance?I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

<t>farmer:How about Rush Limbaugh? I cite Thomas Sowell who might actually lend credence to your argument, and you cite a junkie who lives adjacent to the oxycontin express???Are you saying that tongue-in-cheek?OK, how many hours of sleep have you gotten in the past 48 hours???(I think you and I bot...

<r>QuoteOriginally posted by: farmerQuoteOriginally posted by: kc11415Just one loan pool for starters, farmer.....You are right, the fact that I don't have a Bloomberg terminal proves that nobody missed a loan payment.Bloomberg terminals are available for free unpaid access to the general public, su...

<t>kc11415:OK, so let the record show that farmer is too much of a coward to actually cite any particular loan pool.farmer:Every loan done on stated income. Every loan including government transfer payments to arrive at income. Every loan in a CRA zone. Every loan done to bring approval rates among ...