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No. I think men who are unconcerned with it have either not had it challenged or haven't realised when it was challenged.
February 06, 2021 at 19:02
In addition to correlation does not imply causation. And assuming you're reading that correlation causally by specifying a causal model: a correlates ...
February 06, 2021 at 18:54
Probably nature. Don't know what you mean by absolute or relative. Assuming relative means context dependent and absolute means context independent, I...
February 06, 2021 at 14:50
Explaining personal stance on this: You say a thing which is contentious, provocative and implausible in an OP and don't evince it. You make a bad OP....
February 03, 2021 at 19:54
Coming up with what you think about it takes longer. Try writing down what you think the quote means, keep doing it until you think you've covered eve...
February 03, 2021 at 19:30
@"BlipBlop" forgot to tag you, click on link in prev. post.
February 03, 2021 at 19:04
Read this.
February 03, 2021 at 19:04
:up: To be fair, the passive aggressive reason I chose to relay these points now was that I was lenient with you over another mod issue, and I felt yo...
February 03, 2021 at 00:50
"Headlessness", but some people find commonality in it. I'm headless too!
February 02, 2021 at 17:42
Yeah! I don't know, or really care, what the fair price is. I'd've been fine losing it all if GME crashed to 0 at that point. Not going to pretend I'm...
February 02, 2021 at 16:59
Indeed. This is why I bought a few shares of GME when it was going down rapidly today. I wanted to get a fair price for it.
February 02, 2021 at 16:29
A few of the reasons: (1) The argumentative style was overblown, lots of grandstanding. (2) you talked around points without making them clearly. Say ...
February 02, 2021 at 08:12
Ah right. Cheers!
February 02, 2021 at 07:36
Why isn't a change in investment strategy (the "flight to safety") that aims to buy things that aren't effected by these ruinous market shenanigans a ...
February 01, 2021 at 15:37
I'd heard that. I don't think it suffices. I'm sure they would attempt to raise the price if they could; where's the evidence that they have. I'm susp...
February 01, 2021 at 15:15
Yes. I doubt that it's a conspiracy? The only way it makes sense as a conspiracy would be if: Media attention on silver was intended to divert people ...
February 01, 2021 at 14:58
@"Michael" GME's still at 121% short volume. Over 20 billion dollars lost for shorters so far.
January 30, 2021 at 16:18
And you've been trolling us with his remarks ever since.:roll: Pretending not to understand is exceedingly frustrating; the onus is on you to give an ...
January 30, 2021 at 07:00
That's very much a statement that fdrake flipped the bird being true, not fdrake's act of flipping the bird being true.
January 30, 2021 at 06:37
Just conjecture, I am a noob. Can you imagine what the operational leverage of your average investment firm is after the covid bailouts went to the fi...
January 29, 2021 at 14:39
LGND looks like it's getting squeezed too.
January 29, 2021 at 13:49
I think the short volume/interest of a stock is different from whether a portfolio is net short? As I understand it short interest in a stock says how...
January 29, 2021 at 13:39
I'd guess yahoo finance has a database somewhere? I had a look for a bit there but couldn't find a list.
January 29, 2021 at 13:22
That seems right to me too. I thought it suggested that the user required the ability to buy on the margin in order to buy the stock, perhaps I've mis...
January 29, 2021 at 12:36
Robinhood stopped buy orders of GME. Full stop. As did Etoro. t212 stopped new clients from joining. Heard reports about other agencies that buy order...
January 29, 2021 at 11:08
Cheers. T212's stopped "onboarding clients"!
January 28, 2021 at 18:08
Etoro's stopped buy orders. They've all done it. Holy shit.
January 28, 2021 at 17:59
You need fucking margin to buy it now. Everyone who has margin is short on GME already, that's how they got into this fucking mess. Etoro's still got ...
January 28, 2021 at 17:10
2 h ago public brokerages (eg robinhood) stopped buy options on GME. Shorting ladder attack resumed. Disgusting collusion.
January 28, 2021 at 17:01
I deleted it because it was clearly homophobic. Because the OP of that thread seemed well intentioned I just warned them rather than banning them.
January 27, 2021 at 21:52
Yanis Varifoukas described the phenomenon very well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwfM3IKaZgw&ab_channel=NewEconomicThinking
January 27, 2021 at 17:10
I think the rejection is of the glasses. Part of that rejection is the "subject-predicate form", but I believe that's not all which is rejected. The m...
January 26, 2021 at 20:15
I think the situation is both much worse and much better than that fundamental loneliness would suggest. Much worse: we don't even have that purported...
January 26, 2021 at 19:35
:up: Perhaps controversial, but the confinement of mass politics to discourse; politics as mass shitposting; isn't isolated to the US, UK, or even the...
January 22, 2021 at 13:55
:up: I think the contention isn't that "everything is capable of being set out in a statement", it's where that capability comes from and how it works...
January 21, 2021 at 09:30
Wrote on this here and here. I think the reasons he's popular and attractive to the right+centrists are detached from whatever his scholarly merits ar...
January 21, 2021 at 07:01
I shall try to contrast what I've been thinking to what you've been thinking, but I'd like you to answer a couple of questions first. I need you to sp...
January 20, 2021 at 11:51
I was summarising what I understood as Banno's account.
January 19, 2021 at 17:20
If you like. I think they're being emphasised in an oscillatory manner. To my tastes @"Banno" is trying to have his cake and eat it too - language is ...
January 19, 2021 at 13:39
What's the extension of an apology?
January 19, 2021 at 09:40
It was read. We decided no. Sorry for the delay.
January 19, 2021 at 00:57
Forgot to say, if you're trying to find your way around philosophy, check out the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Stanford Encyclopedia of...
January 18, 2021 at 19:33
>Includes Heidegger (Nazi) and Schopenhauer (Pessimist conservative). :roll:
January 18, 2021 at 19:31
If you're reading it in terms of who reacts to who: Schopenhauer reacts to Kant. Heidegger reacts to Kierkegaard and Kant and Schopenhauer (though I c...
January 18, 2021 at 19:29
If you'll permit me to be a bit socratic, when you say that they "provide the context for our talk", and that this context "grounds" the use of langua...
January 18, 2021 at 11:39
Seems amenable! Though @"Banno" here uses it (at least, last time we talked about it) in a deflationary manner. IE the sense of a declarative sentence...
January 18, 2021 at 09:22
You know as well as I do that it's unfashionable to make names work like predicates that pick out a unique object. When someone says "This rose is red...
January 17, 2021 at 21:11
Yes, what do you mean by "ground", how does it work?
January 17, 2021 at 12:44
Wasn't talking about names as definite descriptions. "Standing in" is a reference to the quote: "Words don't stand for things, they stand in for them"...
January 17, 2021 at 10:20
Do you have any examples of people or businesses which exemplify this leadership role "big capital" plays? Who is big capital? Is there also another f...
January 16, 2021 at 16:11