praeter

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by praeter 6y ago
"Pulling margin from long customers — The clearinghouses and broker dealers who finance margin accounts will suddenly pull all long margin availability, citing very transparent reasons for the abrupt change in lending policy. This caus
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by praeter 6y ago
Sure, it's a great explanation, but it's also straight from the shorting playbook: http://counterfeitingstock.com/CS2.0/CounterfeitingStock.htm... "Pulling margin from long customers — The clearinghouses
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by praeter 6y ago
If you don't get tested - the odds are you won't - the relief of recovery is quickly replaced with doubt, "was it really Covid-19?" And you must fearfully go on acting like it wasn't.
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by praeter 7y ago
I can't blame them, just like I can't blame a company for becoming a monopoly. We need to regulate them like we do with antitrust, worker's rights, and other things. The free market unabated is terrible for humanity.
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by praeter 7y ago
> The only real advantage I can see is concentration of skill - e.g. people say that you basically have to develop electronics in Shenzhen, there's simply not enough talent in the US and EU - but I wonder if the efficiency gains are
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by praeter 7y ago
>> cheaper workers work for less, but that's not exactly efficiency > It is efficiency, really, because it's making better use of an underutilized resource. Over time, of course, the price of labor evens out because the r
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by praeter 7y ago
COVID-19 is not a normal respiratory infection. It seems to prevent your RBCs from holding onto O2 and CO2 mimicking high altitude sickness. The disease acts like HAPE (high altitude pulmonary edema). The damage and inflammation is coming f