This is prisoner's dilemma 101.

Or, less cynically, cities compete in a free market where they try to compete for a limited amount of capital investment; there's nothing wrong with a city offering more attractive terms to be more business friendly, if they so wish.

You'd think they'd take a step back and ask "why is this even a token then?".

I was just making a joke about the outrage OP is showing, I wasn't making a judgment on whether they get taxed too much or too little.

Pelosi was even more obvious as we know all of her trades, their timing and her outrageous outperformance during that period.

The people have lost faith in both parties, we now expect our leaders to be cronies.

> Fatal crashes, overstressed controllers, and endless security lines reveal a system teetering on the brink of failure.

I have not read the entire article (paywalled), but the introduction sure seems to strongly imply that we're already seeing an unusually high rate of crashes.

2. See above.

Uh? Maybe you could explain what you mean by this a bit more.

Also, the 50GS/s is actually more like 25GS/s as it has a Nyquist frequency of 12.5 GHz. This is because they take 2 samples at the same time, instead of 180 degrees out of phase. I wish they had made that clearer to customers, it felt misleading to some.

There's a reason the Black-Scholes model assumes market prices are continuous. The discontinuity of the market makes hedging options a lot more complex and expensive.

24/7 trading doesn't completely fix that, but it does help.

What in heavens gave you that idea? A well developed public stock market is such a new (and American thing) and it still makes up a small amount of the capital raised by businesses.

Even within large public companies, there's significant use of bank/private debt.

That's a feature, not a bug ;).[0]

0: Any episode of "Yes, Minister!"