Sentences with phrase «useful warnings about»

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This is useful to think about as bitcoin climbs ever higher, despite warnings from people like Nobel Prize - winning economists Robert Shiller and Joseph Stiglitz, who says it has many characteristics of a dangerous bubble.

In a letter to the Social Security trustees in December 2003, the American Academy of Actuaries, the leading professional organization of actuaries, warned that infinite - horizon projections «provide little if any useful information about the program's long - term finances and indeed are likely to mislead anyone lacking technical expertise in the demographic, economic, and actuarial aspects of the program's finances into believing that the program is in far worse financial shape than is actually indicated».

Rustad also hopes the research will be useful for devising new ways of warning the public about extreme events.

Neither fully democratic nor fully authoritarian, we can only hope that the competitive authoritarian regime will prove useful as a warning to all states in transition about the pitfalls found on the road to democracy, yet given the alarming number of flawed elections we have seen in 2013, this may only be wishful thinking.

While the same warning about Amazon's textbook rental program applies here — that your particular study materials might not be available — it's certainly worth the $ 0.00 price to check it out, and the other features may end up being useful on their own.»

As for the «crisis counseling» signs — I read recently that there is a surprising number of people who jump off the bridge each year but I imagine the signs are about as useful as the warning on cigarette packages...

The follow up comments were useful - especially the warnings about not posting prices on Flickr - wouldn't want to get shut down or mishandle it.

For example, warning a person in a canoe about an approaching waterfall can be useful before the waterfall, but is not really useful after the canoe went over the waterfall.