A company named “snowflake” (this is a real company), that has spent $623m to earn $265m in 2020 (SGA is 3x revenue!) went public for $64 BILLION. And NKLA, a publicly known fraud, still is worth $12.4 BILLION.
And the head of the Federal Reserve said they are going to try to get inflation by pumping cash in the market through 2023.… read more “Stonks”
https://youtu.be/0vE6QkvcV-s
I recently realized I should set up a trust fund for each of my children. There is a strong stigma with a “trust fund baby”, but a trust fund for kids is actually extremely common and does not necessarily mean the family is wealthy or the child is spoiled. The trust fund is set up so that if the parents are not around for the child, the child has assets to survive.… read more “Setting Up A Trust Fund For Your Child”
Interactive Brokers will sometimes return an error if a programmer is not using the correct minimum tick amount for an order. I ran into this and received the error:
“The price does not conform to the minimum price variation for this contract.”
This was strange to me as the function reqContractDetails returned a minTick amount of 0.0001 for the contract DGLY. … read more “TWS API – Solving Incorrect MinTick / Price Increment”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54002880
Putin has many people killed quietly with staged car accidents or heart attacks or even cancer.
Once in a while though, Putin wants to send a clear message to the entire world that he can and will murder those who oppose him. When he needs to do this, he will use rare poisons only accessible to him as the leader of a large nation.… read more “Putin Sends Message”
Please read my last post on eliminating police unions so that police can be held accountable to upholding the highest standards of justice. I am taking for a given that the police force described in this post earnestly strives for justice.
Police forces will always be vastly outnumbered by the general population. Therefore, police cannot engage in “fair fights”.… read more “Policing Cannot Be A Fair Fight”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/us/kenosha-shooting-protests-jacob-blake.html
The story linked to above is roughly how a vigilante attempting to protect property (and then himself) from violent mobs shot several people to death.
Vigilantes are a natural result when there is no police presence. People who feel physically threatened or feel their property is being threatened will respond violently.
The vigilante in this case may not have owned the property, but been trying to protect someone else’s property and may even have been a member of some wack job militia.… read more “Shut Down Police Unions, Don’t Defund Police”