Sentences with phrase «back by the system»

Founded in 2014, the platform has always been backed by a system of Bitcoin smart contracts that peg the value of the bitcoin on a user's phone to another currency; however, last month, Abra announced that these smart contracts are now also sometimes powered by Litecoin.

To create such programs, states and districts must identify the most important elements of student performance (usually academic achievement), measure them (usually with state tests), calculate change in performance on a school - by - school basis, and provide rewards to schools that meet or beat performance improvement targets — all of which must be backed by system supports that enable all schools to boost results.

Wrong choice backed by a system guaranteeing failure in a way that could be construed as evil or immoral.

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Separately, a commander in the regional military alliance backing the government attributed the malfunction to «a joint electronic attack» by Israel and the United States targeting the Syrian radar system.

Ensure that you own referral system is easy to execute by offering a valuable incentive; then sit back and watch your customers help you build your customer base and increase your revenue.

• Banker's Toolbox, an Austin, Texas provider of software for community banks and credit unions backed by Accel - KKR, acquired Integra Systems, a provider of customer due diligence and OFAC scanning services.

Ben Dutton, president and CEO of the Casman Group of companies, said about half of the 200 workers employed by his Fort McMurray - based general construction firm are already back in town and working on restoring heating - ventilation and other systems for commercial and industrial customers.

Backed by MasterCard's MasterPass system, the banks» apps will allow customers to load their debit and credit cards onto their smartphones, then use them to make transactions at merchants who have tap - and - pay terminals.

Derivatives trading is the culmination of a wild year for bitcoin, which captured imaginations and investment around the world, propelled by its stratospheric gains, and its anti-establishment mission as a currency without the backing of a government or a central bank, and a payment system without a reliance on banks.

Every critical system in a business should be backed up by another system.

It's based on predictive logic that isn't done by some manager in the back room, the system itself is learning and getting better based on history.

But, if you really want to see what set HP (HPQ) on its current trajectory, you should go back further to 2008, when HP finalized its $ 13.9 billion buy of Electronic Data Systems, the IT services company founded by H. Ross Perot.

By sending you discs when you want them, and taking them back when you're done, the subscription service is ideal for gamers who want to make the most of their systems.

But Gates and his predecessors at least agreed to play by certain rules: not to take the money back if they changed their minds, not to use it to further increase their wealth, not to use it influence the political system (although that rule has some loopholes), and so on,» Kwak explains.

• Corbett Technology Solutions, which is backed by Tower Arch Capital, acquired Baltimore Sound Engineering Inc, a Baltimore, Md. - based maker of solutions for fully integrated information and communication systems.

There was also the charge that the jubilee further legitimized the debt system by taking money from the 99 % and giving it back to financial sector.

Billionaire Internet investor Yuri Milner announced another $ 100 million initiative on Tuesday to better understand the cosmos, this time by deploying thousands of tiny spacecraft to travel to our nearest neighboring star system and send back pictures.

As required by law, the NSA ended its wide - ranging surveillance program by 11:59 p.m. EST Saturday (4:59 a.m. GMT Sunday) and expects to have the new, scaled - back system in place by then, the White House said.

Complete with a front headlight and rear taillight, the ZBoard 2 goes up hills and has a breaking system that is triggered by leaning back.

Unfortunately, it was before she was able to turn her home monitoring system, equipped with a distress feature and purchased by her family, back on.

It was inspired by the system's method of using back links to find and rank pages.

For all the criticisms of McDonald's and the like, fast food also contributes back into that system by introducing further efficiencies.

To browse, you have to go back and forth through a detailed system of menus, categories, and merchants while constantly being tempted by thousands of competing products at thousands of price points.

The authors argue that what others perceive as a mess might actually be the result of a system where the «more important, urgent work tends to stay close by and near the top of the clutter» and the less important papers «tends to get buried to the bottom or near the back,» CNN reported.

Payment systems such as Apple Pay are on the rise, but as I've mentioned before, they may be held back by people's need to have identification cards with them at all times.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) budget has been cut by 17 percent since 2010, after adjusting for inflation, forcing the IRS to reduce its workforce, severely scale back employee training, and delay much - needed upgrades to information technology systems.

Start - ups are often a risk - reward scenario, and by taking a job at one, employees are aware that there's less of a safety net, support system, and back stop.

Those votes highlighted the fervent free - market ideology that has made Hensarling, now chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, the proud leader of the drive by congressional Republicans to roll back tougher federal oversight of the financial system.

The Hyperloop transportation system, the concept that was first popularized back in 2013 by Tesla Motors founder and CEO Elon Musk, is a high - speed way of moving people and cargo through depressurized tubes.

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Founders Fund, a VC firm backed by billionaire Peter Thiel has invested in a Tagomi System, a new startup that helps big investors trade bitcoin.

This mistake represents a) precisely the amnesia about reckless finance that repeatedly shows up years after the last crisis, b) an underestimate by the Senate Democrats signing on to the measure of the risk brought back into the system, and c) an almost completely unnecessary bit of work.

The Standing Committees of the Public Accounts and on Government Operations and Estimates have also recommended that the «Office of the Comptroller General complete its study of accrual - based budgeting and appropriations and report back by March 31, 2013 its recommendations on whether the Government of Canada should pursue accrual - based budgeting in departments and accrual - based appropriations in its financial reporting system».

There is now significant pressure on banks to deleverage their balance sheets, especially when you consider the banking system has had a significant increase in leverage caused by the net reduction in capital bases (losses of $ 380B exceed capital raises of $ 257B), as well as some banks being forced to buy - back assets from securitized vehicles which they sponsored.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- Billionaire Internet investor Yuri Milner announced another $ 100 million initiative on Tuesday to better understand the cosmos, this time by deploying thousands of tiny spacecraft to travel to our nearest neighboring star system and send back pictures.

Although our nightly swing trading newsletter is basically a dynamic service that generates specific stock and ETF trade ideas, the main goal of our trading system is to aggressively trade the best technical trade setups when conditions are ideal, but also be ready and able to quickly and cut back market exposure by reducing position size on new trades (or simply not trading at all) when market conditions deteriorate.

Last week in London, for example, an analyst from a research company with whose views I am usually in strong sympathy and who herself is very bearish on China's growth prospects, airily dismissed Chinese debt concerns by pointing out that Chinese government debt, even after adding back estimates of losses in the banking system, is lower than that of the Japanese government, and because the government's debt burden has not been a problem in Japan it won't be a problem in China.

The Standing Committees of the Public Accounts and on Government Operations and Estimates have also recommended that the «Office of the Comptroller General complete its study of accrual - based budgeting and appropriations and report back by March 31, 2013 its recommendations on whether the Government of Canada should pursue accrual - based budgeting in departments and accrual - based appropriations in in its financial reporting system».

The vagaries of a banking system with many smaller participants relying heavily on a market - based system of funding could be mitigated by an evolution to fewer nationwide banks backed by FDIC charters - and therefore not be as affected by the whims and fluctuations of capital markets.

LiveViewGPS sets itself apart from other GPS tracking companies by offering a selection of uniquely different back - end software systems.

Unfortunately, Mr. Krugman's failure to see today's economic problem as one of debt deflation reflects his failure (suffered by most economists, to be sure) to recognize the need for debt writedowns, for restructuring the banking and financial system, and for shifting taxes off labor back onto property, economic rent and asset - price («capital») gains.

In Bring Back the Bureaucrats, I crudely calculated that we need about one million more full - time federal workers by 2035 in order to serve the public, stop draining its purse, start improving performance, and create an actual system of national public administration.

It involves policies that can be traced at least as far back as the «American System» of the early 19th Century, and it has been implemented in various forms by many different countries around the world during the past 100 or even 200 years.

Their underlying worth is determined by the central banking system and the government, through a series of federal guarantees, the setting of interest rates and so on (money used to be backed by physical gold in Fort Knox, but that hasn't been the case since the 1970s).

This is not a discussion of whether Bitcoin is fraudulent or not, this comes down to a discussion of whether collectively as individuals at this point in history we want to put our faith in a currency backed by a centralized system or decentralized system.

The European Commission's Payment Services Directive II requires banks to open their back - end systems to application programming interfaces, or APIs, developed by third parties such as fintechs.

For example, in a multi-center system such as a coalition chain, upgrading the blockchain bottom by shutting down the system, or emergency intervention, rolling back data, etc., are available means when necessary, and these methods help to control risks and correct mistakes.»

While we agree with Alankar that bringing back bond market term premium would restore balance to the financial system, the ineffectiveness of using rate hikes to push up term premium is evident by the on - going curve flattening

We are currently on - boarding customers for our exchange - accessible through our slick new app - which is backed by world - class customer service, provides access to the UK faster payments system and follows rigorous KYC / AML protocols.

Scalise was trying to win Trump's backing for a compromise to combine a modest bill meant to bolster reporting to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, with a measure requiring all states to recognize concealed - carry permits issued by other states.