On 06/22/2015 14:45, John Levine wrote: >> In particular, I see no reason to highlight the US Debt vs. that of >> other countries or regions other than as a political statement. > > The US debt has many digits, and is published regularly by an agency > with a tradition of not fudging the data. It's a perfectly reasonable > source of randomness. It's a large number because the US is a large > rich country. Look, I think this issue is silly. I'm just going to leave this link here for peoples' enjoyment, though. http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/07/30/156371620/rigging-libor-banking-scandal-hits-home-literally I don't have any problem (practical, philosophical, or otherwise) with the references to or use of the US national debt. -- Ted Faber, Computer Scientist, USC/ISI http://www.isi.edu/~faber http://www.isi.edu/~faber/contact.html
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