Of over 1000 climate studies submitted to established respected climate journals, all of them concluded that global warming was real. Of those that touched on it, they all concluded it was caused by man. Survey studies have been done. And most telling, a recent study by a skeptical climate scientist - Richard Muller - using different methodology, and funded by skeptics also concluded it was real. Any controversy has been manufactured from whole cloth. Keeping yourself ignorant doesn't help anyone.
By your definition, idiots can successfully use bitcoin as a currency, but only because they don't realize how "silly" it is. When you think about it, that's a *really* odd thing to state. If you mean that bitcoins have no intrinsic value, then you'd be right. But that's true of currencies in general these days. No one uses gold coins as currency any more. If you actually have a specific criticism if bitcoin other than "silly", I'd be interested to hear it.
You don't need to limit your reading to a single sentence, and in context it's completely unambiguous: they are willing to suppress science to promote climate change scepticism. The only question is one of authenticity.
Historically govts didn't have the toolbox they have today. 98 (number extracted from ass) percent control over media. Carefully constructed psychological propaganda. Complete control over vote counts. Support from other countries. School instilled indoctrination. Astonishingly brainwashed military. (I think in WWII the percent of soldiers that would shoot to kill was 10%. With modern techniques current statistics are in the nineties.)
People won't even realize what's going on. Maybe if their food and gas supply is interrupted, and they see it as the fault of the govt...
It's not as simple as that. A large part of it is religious. The Islamic sects can't even stand each other, let alone Christians and Jews. They all hate atheists. When they use violence they use their religion to justify it. Another large part is the underhanded dealings of the US govt over many years. Propping up invented states, supplying weapons and funds. Often to govts that go on to use anti-US propaganda with their own people. And then there's the oil. The US can't allow an interruption in the oil supply. If Iran successfully blocks the strait of Hormuz there will be war. There are many reasons the US is hated.
But that's just an assertion. It may not exist. It's currently our best way of explaining certain phenomena, but there may be a better explanation coming. It's far from "detection"
Absolutely incorrect. The exchange does what you describe. The HFT market maker will have orders (buys AND sells) on the exchanges book waiting to trade. When you send a market order to your broker, that order will probably execute on an exchange against an HFT market maker's passive order. The market maker is taking a high risk having the order resting on the book, because the value can change and those orders get swept - resulting in an instant loss for the market maker. It's only viable if they make enough money from the bid-ask spread to cover such losses.
HFT doesn't cause volatility. Indeed HFT algorithms will pull their orders out of the market place when volatility goes too high. The reduction in liquidity actually causes problems. Yes - HFT companies stopping trading causes lower liquidity, higher volatility, higher cost of trading and higher risk to remaining participants.
Not true. Just because you don't understand the timescale doesn't mean it has no value. The bid ask spreads and the speed of price discovery are better than ever before (almost entirely due to HFT). When you buy or sell stocks you do so at much closer to the actual value of the stock than ever in the past. That may not mean much to you, who would be trading maybe $1000s and paying a broker several percent, but to an institution that's moving $100,000,000s around it's an enormous value. When that institution is your mutual fund it means real dollars to you...
Not true. The issue with CDSs and mortgage bonds were that they were incorrectly valued and a balloon resulted. The crash that resulted had nothing to do with HFT, and was inevitable. People had been selling stuff at way over value. Those came down to life and blood people using flawed models of risk.
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Of over 1000 climate studies submitted to established respected climate journals, all of them concluded that global warming was real. Of those that touched on it, they all concluded it was caused by man.
Survey studies have been done.
And most telling, a recent study by a skeptical climate scientist - Richard Muller - using different methodology, and funded by skeptics also concluded it was real.
Any controversy has been manufactured from whole cloth. Keeping yourself ignorant doesn't help anyone.
By your definition, idiots can successfully use bitcoin as a currency, but only because they don't realize how "silly" it is.
When you think about it, that's a *really* odd thing to state.
If you mean that bitcoins have no intrinsic value, then you'd be right. But that's true of currencies in general these days. No one uses gold coins as currency any more.
If you actually have a specific criticism if bitcoin other than "silly", I'd be interested to hear it.
You don't need to limit your reading to a single sentence, and in context it's completely unambiguous: they are willing to suppress science to promote climate change scepticism.
The only question is one of authenticity.
You can do reciprocals to any desired accuracy with a Taylor expansion.
They can only approximate some rationals too. So a fraction class can be useful for exact calculation.
Take me to your lizard.
Historically govts didn't have the toolbox they have today.
98 (number extracted from ass) percent control over media.
Carefully constructed psychological propaganda.
Complete control over vote counts.
Support from other countries.
School instilled indoctrination.
Astonishingly brainwashed military. (I think in WWII the percent of soldiers that would shoot to kill was 10%. With modern techniques current statistics are in the nineties.)
People won't even realize what's going on.
Maybe if their food and gas supply is interrupted, and they see it as the fault of the govt...
So THAT'S how they keep the jobless numbers down?!
That was modded funny??
I don't find it funny at all.
It's not as simple as that. A large part of it is religious. The Islamic sects can't even stand each other, let alone Christians and Jews. They all hate atheists. When they use violence they use their religion to justify it.
Another large part is the underhanded dealings of the US govt over many years. Propping up invented states, supplying weapons and funds. Often to govts that go on to use anti-US propaganda with their own people.
And then there's the oil. The US can't allow an interruption in the oil supply. If Iran successfully blocks the strait of Hormuz there will be war.
There are many reasons the US is hated.
And none of those things represent "stealing" music.
Can you steal a license?
The wrong lizard might get in.
Many hard problems have short concise solutions.
I think you misread gp.
Good point! How would you feel about Gitmo, Kevin?
They never did (and never will) understand taking such risks for no remuneration.
They call it "multi-paradigm".
Whoosh!
That's funny. Stupid mods.
But that's just an assertion. It may not exist. It's currently our best way of explaining certain phenomena, but there may be a better explanation coming. It's far from "detection"
Yes it is.
Absolutely incorrect. The exchange does what you describe. The HFT market maker will have orders (buys AND sells) on the exchanges book waiting to trade. When you send a market order to your broker, that order will probably execute on an exchange against an HFT market maker's passive order. The market maker is taking a high risk having the order resting on the book, because the value can change and those orders get swept - resulting in an instant loss for the market maker. It's only viable if they make enough money from the bid-ask spread to cover such losses.
HFT doesn't cause volatility. Indeed HFT algorithms will pull their orders out of the market place when volatility goes too high. The reduction in liquidity actually causes problems.
Yes - HFT companies stopping trading causes lower liquidity, higher volatility, higher cost of trading and higher risk to remaining participants.
Not true. Just because you don't understand the timescale doesn't mean it has no value.
The bid ask spreads and the speed of price discovery are better than ever before (almost entirely due to HFT). When you buy or sell stocks you do so at much closer to the actual value of the stock than ever in the past. That may not mean much to you, who would be trading maybe $1000s and paying a broker several percent, but to an institution that's moving $100,000,000s around it's an enormous value. When that institution is your mutual fund it means real dollars to you...
Not true. The issue with CDSs and mortgage bonds were that they were incorrectly valued and a balloon resulted. The crash that resulted had nothing to do with HFT, and was inevitable. People had been selling stuff at way over value. Those came down to life and blood people using flawed models of risk.