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avvt4avaw

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    Comment #48743814

    This is impossible to read as every other sentence sounds like it was written by an LLM. I had to stop after a few paragraphs.

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    Comment #44483772

    This is a very weird use of terminology. None of Jane Street, Millennium or Citadel are High Frequency Traders (HFTs). Jane Street is a prop trading firm who engages in market maki…

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    Comment #44039044

    > The continuously updating global population counter is based on current aggregate birth and death rates (approximating values such as those from the U.S. Census Bureau Internatio…

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    Comment #44039027

    Why do the estimated births/deaths per second counters have so much flicker? Surely you don't actually believe that the expected number of births/deaths per second fluctuates at 1d…

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    Comment #43415440

    Some Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish people may take issue with your definition of "England"

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    Comment #43001841

    Adam => Ad => Adkin/Atkin => Atkins/Atkinson

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    Comment #42737822

    They are using "parks" to mean "settles"

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    Comment #36041267

    - Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat - Ruhlman's 20 by Michael Ruhlman - How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman

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    Comment #32723063

    The most common sizes for milk to be sold in are 1.136 litres and 2.272 litres (i.e. 2 pints and 4 pints)

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    Comment #32675016

    The currency was USDC, which is a stablecoin pegged at $1 by Circle (www.circle.com) who are generally held to be reputable, so it very much was real money.

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    Comment #31253542

    They are all very good choices.

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    Comment #31251094

    About the same, with lower volatility and much lower drawdowns (that's net of fees -- before fees they are much better).

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    Comment #31251081

    In the UK (where I am) the main ones are SIPPs and investment ISAs. In the US I believe people mainly use Roth IRAs (this is not any special secret advice, it is like the first thi…

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    Comment #31251045

    No. Invest everything that you can now (into low cost diversified index funds or ETFs) and then top it up regularly as you get more capital from whatever else it is you do to earn …

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    Comment #31251016

    The glib answer is that my own advice in 2022 wasn't available to me when I started my career in finance in 2010. The less glib answer is that what I said above applies to managing…

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    Comment #31249712

    I'm a professional investor (more than a decade of experience at hedge funds, particularly in global macro and quant, managing my own and other people's money). Your central premis…

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    Comment #29613543

    I meant to say low.

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    Comment #29613538

    Typo, I meant to say they are low now.

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    Comment #29612698

    I’m a hedge fund manager. Not a big fund all things considered, just a few hundred million. But I think about stuff like this for a living. Here’s why you can safely ignore this ar…

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    Comment #28523479

    Buddy, your business is selling "privacy cards" and "virtual cards" which hide the identity of the person making the transaction. It's a massive money laundering red flag, it's not…

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    Comment #27660061

    I thought it was worth clarifying exactly what has happened here, since neither the BBC nor the FT articles make it particularly clear. The entity that the FCA has acted against is…