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...employing a “tit-for-tat” system of barter, in which downloaders are required to share pieces of a file with each other. But the system has its limitations, according to Seuken. Seuken said he believes this bartering aspect of BitTorrent promotes fairness in the short-term, but when the minute users are done with their immediate download, they stop contributing to the network. Among Tribler’s distinctive features is a decentralized accounting system that tracks a user’s uploads and downloads to the network, creating a strong incentive to upload...
...money" into the country from abroad, says Jing Ulrich, chairman of China equities at JP Morgan. And excess liquidity (read: too much money chasing too few goods) is at least partly to blame for China's rising-prices problem. Although some say the July spike was due to short-term food shortages, the increases "are a lot less temporary than some people think," argues Michael Pettis, a professor of finance at Peking University. "China is now exhibiting nearly all the expected consequences of excess money - explosive lending growth, asset bubbles, overinvestment and inflation...
...sparked by the global credit crisis has triggered the most serious market turbulence since the aftermath of the dotcom mania in 2001 and 2002. The Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and other central banks were forced to pump over $150 billion into the world's banking systems to stabilize short-term lending markets and reassure worried investors...
...MATTER HOW OR WHEN THE DISORDER hits, the first step in striking back is usually comparatively short-term behavioral therapy, using a technique known as exposure and response prevention (ERP), in which OCD sufferers don't try to avoid their particular source of anxiety but actually seek it out. Eventually, emotional nerve endings grow desensitized to the stimulus. The point is to tough it out until that happens...
...face fears and change actions. In this way the rebellious author of more than 70 books, including the best-selling Sex Without Guilt, planned to "cure every screwball in New York, one at a time." Starting in the 1960s, when Freudian therapy was the rage, critics attacked Ellis' rational, short-term approach as superficial. Still, the treatment has been shown to be effective for many in tackling depression, anxiety and other ailments. Ellis...