…n. But the Bank won’t see all of it for 30 years. McDuck’s mortgage certificates are called mortgage-backed securities. PART 5: RISK. The Bank just gave 3 million in cash to McDuck, and received 4 million in mortgage certificates in return. This seems like a pretty good deal: with a little patience, the Bank makes a million bucks. However, there is also a risk involved in the deal. Remember, if BurgerBee pays its mortgage back early — or if it sto…
Read more…ble scruples. Scan Books. With a little practice and a decent scanner, you can scan a 500-page textbook into PDF form in about 45 minutes. It’s a good idea to work out a system in which you scan/flip/scan/flip… as quickly as possible. How do you get the book in the first place? Use any of the free methods mentioned above — the library, for example. Don’t have access to a scanner? Many university libraries and offices have public scanners. You can…
Read more…textbook for philosophers of physics, in that Malament emphasizes mathematical and philosophical perspectives. It has no been published as a book. Lecture notes on general relativity, by Sean M. Carroll. These are the course lectures for an MIT graduate course in general relativity, and have also been turned into a book. Also try the 24-page “no-nonsense” version of these notes (PDF). Introduction to Differential Geometry and General Relativity, b…
Read more…to dislocate us from this agreement. However, the core of this experience can be located as a feature of our physical theories. These theories do not replace our notion of passage. Rather, physics provides a reliable account of the regularities underlying our common experience of time passing. It does this by providing us with a concrete relationship between any given now, together with its future and past. 1. We Experience Time Passing We can ap…
Read more…and journals, you turned around and sold that content at commercially high prices. You actively prevented the dissemination of scholarly knowledge. On the other hand, by making half a million scholarly books publicly available, Library.nu actively enabled it. The end of this service amounted to a huge loss for the scholarly community. Academics and publishers alike are beginning to recognize that we have a problem. Fortunately, there are many othe…
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