Billions is a small number in the US Treasury market. They do not move the market with that kind of size.
True. The US Treasury market is backed by war. That's solid business that you can rely on :-)
Readit NewsGreaterFool commented on Moderna’s HIV Vaccine Prepped for Trials in Africa pharmaphorum.com/news/mod... · Posted by u/Trouble_007
I remember an interesting HIV campaign that went something like
UVL=0VL
It made me think.
(undetectable viral load = zero viral load)
Perhaps this vaccine will not cure HIV once and for all just yet, but maybe it can work as an alternative to PrEP by keeping the viral load down?
GreaterFool commented on ‘It's a Bloodbath’: The Crypto Crash Is Real vice.com/en/article/88gyy... · Posted by u/OberstKrueger
There is no "crypto crash."
There is "everything crash."
Crypto, stocks, baby formula, war.
The world has turned into an insane clown world.
There are evil people out there, and they fuel the flames.
Instead of building, they steal, instead of creating, they destroy.
They are driven by a belief in scarcity--that for them to have, others must not.
The people who cheer at this mayhem are fools who think they missed out. They can't stand other people making money. Because they can't stand artists making money. Because they can't stand women making money. Because they can't stand people from "foreign countries" making money.
They'd rather see the world burn or go back to the dark times.
This is foolish and small-minded.
In crypto, there is a floor. It is ZERO. It is "no crypto."
What crypto doesn't have is the ceiling.
There is no ceiling.
It is not a zero-sum game.
WHEN YOU BUILD, MERIT ACCUMULATES. THERE IS NO LIMIT TO THE AMOUNT OF MERIT ONE CAN ACQUIRE.
The benefits should flow to everyone and not some at the cost of the others.
Remote is good because I can do laundry and vacuum my flat while thinking about a work problem.
Most employers though consider that stealing.
Offices aren’t unnecessary but practically all offices I’ve ever worked from are torture chambers.
Thanks but no thanks.
GreaterFool commented on El Salvador's Bitcoin use grows but headaches persist reuters.com/technology/on... · Posted by u/rsj_hn
I can't wait for El Salvador to offer a cheap, safe, and secure crypto vault.
Once they expand to yield generating crypto, they can charge a small fee while holding BILLIONS in crypto assets.
GreaterFool commented on Cities try to phase out gas stoves but cooks are pushing back wsj.com/articles/cities-t... · Posted by u/voisin
I rented an Airbnb recently and they had a basic induction stove on top of non-functional gas stove.
The induction stove, with special pots, was like tech from the future. I was only doing basic cooking but it was blazing fast and precise.
I never gave this any thought. I don’t cook much.
But something about this inductive stove impressed me.
GreaterFool commented on 81% of Robinhood revenue comes from payment for order flow wsj.com/articles/robinhoo... · Posted by u/donsupreme
Matt Levine on Robinhood and payment for order flow, in February 2021: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-05/robinh... (https://archive.is/jlhzz)
Matt Levine is my favorite source of insight into the nitty-gritty of financial markets. He has an uncanny ability to take what would be the most boring minutiae and turn it into a fascinating and well told story.
I don’t see a problem with what Robinhood is doing. I don’t trade stocks all day. I’m not worried about 10 cents price improvement. By the time I enter my limit price and click buy or sell the price has already ticked up or down.
I buy the stocks that I think will go up over time.
There’s a psychological impact of commissions. When you click the button you have immediately lost money. Now you have to make it up!
I don’t want to be reminding myself “ah, but I paid the $2.34 commission and got my 10 cents price improvement so I came ahead by $1 on a $1000 trade”. Or whatever the actual numbers add up to be.
If the price was $58.10 and I put $58.50 limit (so it doesn’t tick away from me before I click) and the order gets executed at my limit or less and I pay no commission, it seems like I would’ve gotten what I wanted.
GreaterFool commented on Places Are Increasingly Getting So Hot That People Just Die futurism.com/neoscope/pla... · Posted by u/exdsq
How much of that is climate change and how much local development policy?
There is an ever continuing push for creating extremely high density urban areas with hardly any greenery. Those are becoming barely habitable.
Cramped offices, people packed like sardines.
Does it have to be this way to sustain economic activity that leads to prosperity? Can’t we somehow spread it out a little more and give everyone some room to breathe?
Robinhood closed my brokerage account after I did transferred out assets (via ACATS transfer, to get a signup bonus with another brokerage without realizing capital gains).
A few months later I asked how to reopen the account, using the "reopen account" form in their app to generate a support ticket. Three weeks later they sent an email saying that my account was permanently closed and I should apply for a new account. Replies to this email yielded a response saying that their email server was failing to accepting messages.
So as requested I applied for a new account; the application stayed pending for three weeks, then I got an email autoreply telling me that my application is denied because I have a preexisting account (i.e. the old closed one). Replies to this email also yielded a response saying that their email server was failing to accepting messages.
I filed a new support case explaining what had happened, what they told me to do, and asking what I should do next. No reply whatsoever.
This shows that Robinhood is a true "tech company"!
I’m simply adjusting my body to weed frequency. I need a higher concentration THC over time because my body raises in frequency.
But I live a clean life. Many mix weed and cigarettes.
To me, cigarette smokers are dead. I don’t care what they think, I don’t associate with them, I don’t go where they go.
Clean and healthy weed smokers know this.
UK is in dark ages in terms of weed culture. None of them knows what they’re talking about.
They don’t smoke weed. They look and numbers, think things, and write nonsensical documents.
That’s not research.
I smoke weed and study neuroscience every single day.