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=== How the stock market works === | |||
User tekk: | |||
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The short version: | |||
The stock market is nothing but a measure how how much richer the 0.1% think that they’ll be in the future. Because rich people can’t conceive of a world in which they can rightly lose their money, the stock market will tend to go up until even the most thick-skulled trust fund baby realizes that things are about to go bad. | |||
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This is of course the market as a whole. There are plenty of reasons to make a single stock go down: it makes a hostile takeover easier for example. | |||
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* [https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/u-s-economy-shrank-at-record-breaking-33-last-quarter-as-1-4m-sought-unemployment-aid-last-week/177069/23 Comment] @ Boing Boing | |||
=== Smells like sand castles === | |||
"It smells like sand castles." | |||
—Me, wading into Lake Shagawa this afternoon. | |||
=== Oort Cloud Follies === | |||
[[File:Oort Cloud Follies.jpg|thumb|Poster for the [[Oort Cloud Follies]].]] | |||
The [[Oort Cloud Follies]] are less than a day away. Two questions: | |||
* How are you getting there, and what are your reasons for going? | |||
Most contestants are generating transdimensional corporations for the event. I plan to fold timespace using a customized PKD algorithm. | |||
* Are you an astrophysical engineer? | |||
We have several last-minute entries with various Euclidean-based conventional spacecraft from the late 20th and early twentieth century. How far back in time does these craft need to begin in order to reach the Oort cloud by tomorrow? These craft can skip past the Rally Zone and go straight to the Cloud. | |||
=== Ely Raspberries 4 === | === Ely Raspberries 4 === | ||
[[File:Ely_Raspberries_4.jpg|thumb|''[[ | [[File:Ely_Raspberries_4.jpg|thumb|''[[Ely Raspberries 4]]''.]] | ||
''[[ | ''[[Ely Raspberries 4]]''. | ||
=== Anagrams === | === Anagrams === | ||
Latest revision as of 09:47, 2 August 2020
Online diary of Karl Jones for Friday July 31, 2020.
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Diary
How the stock market works
User tekk:
The short version: The stock market is nothing but a measure how how much richer the 0.1% think that they’ll be in the future. Because rich people can’t conceive of a world in which they can rightly lose their money, the stock market will tend to go up until even the most thick-skulled trust fund baby realizes that things are about to go bad.
ETA: This is of course the market as a whole. There are plenty of reasons to make a single stock go down: it makes a hostile takeover easier for example.
- Comment @ Boing Boing
Smells like sand castles
"It smells like sand castles."
—Me, wading into Lake Shagawa this afternoon.
Oort Cloud Follies
The Oort Cloud Follies are less than a day away. Two questions:
- How are you getting there, and what are your reasons for going?
Most contestants are generating transdimensional corporations for the event. I plan to fold timespace using a customized PKD algorithm.
- Are you an astrophysical engineer?
We have several last-minute entries with various Euclidean-based conventional spacecraft from the late 20th and early twentieth century. How far back in time does these craft need to begin in order to reach the Oort cloud by tomorrow? These craft can skip past the Rally Zone and go straight to the Cloud.
Ely Raspberries 4
Anagrams
Do you like anagrams?
Yes? No?
Either way, something is wrong with you.
There are no right answers in a world ruled by anagrams.
Follow my [ Anagrams page] if it's good for you too.
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