nihilum

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by nihilum 6y ago
It also has anti-inflammatory properties, particularly against IL-6 expression. IL-6 is notoriously elevated during the second week or so of COVID-19 symptoms. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22766077
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by nihilum 6y ago
yet another very obvious incentive to promote it, ideologically-- a factionalized workforce is easier to divide and rule over.
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by nihilum 9y ago
Copying in a post from Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/comments/7n2qjz/adderall... He cited the infamous squirrel monkey study without noting that (a) there were no signs of neural death or n
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by nihilum 9y ago
Anonymity also permitted the American Revolution, among other things. Meanwhile the most prominent example that comes to mind for attempts to end even the pretense of anonymity online is authoritarian China. And fwiw, most of the other boar
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by nihilum 9y ago
WTF with the casual racism, too, and the fact that no one in this thread mentioned that part?
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by nihilum 14y ago
> "I assume that most ATS's are located within a short distance of each other." ... if only. Reg NMS is a massive headache. This sort of price convergence would be better left to the arbitrageurs. Let the market deal with the light s
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by nihilum 14y ago
The entire point is that there are intermediate holding periods. Think about intraday speculators and statistical arbitrage funds who trade on scales of minutes to hours. They bridge the gap. Further out you have fundamental hedge funds,
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by nihilum 14y ago
>"A bid I can never hit because it will be gone any time I'd actually want to hit it..." Why should they let you hit them when they expect to lose? The HFT firms have some pretty decent traders. They're not going to sit there idle and
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by nihilum 14y ago
Mostly agree, except: > Actively traded funds are evil. Actively traded funds are not "evil." Actively traded funds are the only reason you can buy an index fund and actually expect a decent return. Without active traders, the market
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by nihilum 14y ago
> Apart from mini-crashes. The Flash Crash was caused by the NYSE's faulty time-stamping system. It essentially broadcast false information that caused traders to think there was an arbitrage opportunity. This was entirely the NYSE's
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by nihilum 14y ago
The cash comes from traders/investors who are impatient. If you want to trade immediately instead of waiting and hoping for someone else to hit your order, you have to pay the spread. Market-makers make money by allowing impatient traders
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by nihilum 14y ago
The SEC paper doesn't even use the word "liquidity" properly, and the authors appear to be biased. http://www.nanex.net/aqck/2977.html
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by nihilum 14y ago
HFT didn't cause the flash crash, but neither did that mutual fund manager. The primary cause was a delay in when incoming orders were time-stamped by the NYSE. Instead of stamping the orders when they arrived at the queue just before ente