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by avvt4avaw 3mo ago
This is impossible to read as every other sentence sounds like it was written by an LLM. I had to stop after a few paragraphs.
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by avvt4avaw 1y ago
This is a very weird use of terminology. None of Jane Street, Millennium or Citadel are High Frequency Traders (HFTs). Jane Street is a prop trading firm who engages in market making, but is not primarily known for HFT - they are grey box (
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by avvt4avaw 1y ago
> The continuously updating global population counter is based on current aggregate birth and death rates (approximating values such as those from the U.S. Census Bureau International Database or UN DESA). The "live" births and
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by avvt4avaw 1y ago
Why do the estimated births/deaths per second counters have so much flicker? Surely you don't actually believe that the expected number of births/deaths per second fluctuates at 1dp precision multiple times per second?
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by avvt4avaw 2y ago
Some Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish people may take issue with your definition of "England"
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by avvt4avaw 2y ago
Adam => Ad => Adkin/Atkin => Atkins/Atkinson
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by avvt4avaw 2y ago
They are using "parks" to mean "settles"
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by avvt4avaw 3y ago
- Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat - Ruhlman's 20 by Michael Ruhlman - How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman
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by avvt4avaw 4y ago
The most common sizes for milk to be sold in are 1.136 litres and 2.272 litres (i.e. 2 pints and 4 pints)
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by avvt4avaw 4y ago
The currency was USDC, which is a stablecoin pegged at $1 by Circle (www.circle.com) who are generally held to be reputable, so it very much was real money.
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by avvt4avaw 4y ago
They are all very good choices.
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by avvt4avaw 4y ago
Yes.
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by avvt4avaw 4y ago
About the same, with lower volatility and much lower drawdowns (that's net of fees -- before fees they are much better).
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by avvt4avaw 4y ago
In the UK (where I am) the main ones are SIPPs and investment ISAs. In the US I believe people mainly use Roth IRAs (this is not any special secret advice, it is like the first thing your tax adviser will tell you).
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by avvt4avaw 4y ago
No. Invest everything that you can now (into low cost diversified index funds or ETFs) and then top it up regularly as you get more capital from whatever else it is you do to earn a living (e.g. a percentage of your salary every month, a pe
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by avvt4avaw 4y ago
The glib answer is that my own advice in 2022 wasn't available to me when I started my career in finance in 2010. The less glib answer is that what I said above applies to managing your own money as a part time investor. If you are man
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by avvt4avaw 4y ago
I'm a professional investor (more than a decade of experience at hedge funds, particularly in global macro and quant, managing my own and other people's money). Your central premise is flawed -- in particular > Last 3 years has
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by avvt4avaw 5y ago
I meant to say low.
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by avvt4avaw 5y ago
Typo, I meant to say they are low now.
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by avvt4avaw 5y ago
I’m a hedge fund manager. Not a big fund all things considered, just a few hundred million. But I think about stuff like this for a living. Here’s why you can safely ignore this article. There is always someone predicting an upcoming market
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by avvt4avaw 5y ago
Buddy, your business is selling "privacy cards" and "virtual cards" which hide the identity of the person making the transaction. It's a massive money laundering red flag, it's not at all surprising that Stripe
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by avvt4avaw 5y ago
I thought it was worth clarifying exactly what has happened here, since neither the BBC nor the FT articles make it particularly clear. The entity that the FCA has acted against is Binance Markets Limited (BML) which Binance acquired earlie
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by avvt4avaw 5y ago
I thought it was worth clarifying exactly what has happened here, since neither the BBC nor the FT articles make it particularly clear. The entity that the FCA has acted against is Binance Markets Limited (BML) which the parent Binance Grou
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by avvt4avaw 6y ago
"Many" schools. Why do you need more information than that? It must be a lot of schools, since it says "many".
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by avvt4avaw 6y ago
A water contract is worth about $5,000, a Bitcoin contract is worth about $88,000 and an S&P 500 contract is worth about $183,000.
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by avvt4avaw 6y ago
A water contract is worth about $5,000, a Bitcoin contract is worth about $88,000 and an S&P 500 contract is worth about $183,000.
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by avvt4avaw 6y ago
Very true :)
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by avvt4avaw 6y ago
Yesterday's traded volume in water futures - 16 contracts. In Bitcoin futures - about 7,000 contracts. In S&P 500 futures - about 1.9 million contracts.
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by avvt4avaw 6y ago
There are exams taking place in the Autumn, so this is kind of what is happening.
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by avvt4avaw 6y ago
The stock market is a leading indicator. Economic data (unemployment, manufacturing, GDP etc) are all lagging indicators. The terrible economic data (high unemployment, low growth) already showed up in stock market returns in the first thre

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