Why are lithium prices collapsing? • Hacker News Board

Re: Why are lithium prices collapsing?

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Post by uoaei » Wed, May 03, 2023, 3:18 AM UTC

refurb wrote: post #510

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I recommend you study up on the notion of "proceduralism". Codified systems are mutually exclusive with any amount of "agency". Agency is required for beliefs to exist. Ipso facto blah blah blah you're just gonna keep believing some self-serving bullshit so whatever.

you're just gonna keep believing some self-serving bullshit so whatever Sounds like you can't defend the point.

I just did, by explaining in which cases belief can be said to exist, and you have no reply. You don't seem to be following very closely nor employing any modicum of what could be considered "reading comprehension skills".

TBH you write like a bot trained on debatebro teenagers.

Re: Why are lithium prices collapsing?

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Post by defrost » Wed, May 03, 2023, 3:29 AM UTC

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Largest companies digging in the dirt creating the vast bulk of the world's lithium concentrates (prior to refining in Chima | Malaysia) are in Chile and Australia and all are listed on the Canadian Toronto TSX exchange. Minerals and Resources rules for exchange listing are pretty tight with respect filing third party independant reports that assess mineral volumes and estimates, economic feasibility, environmental i…

> all are listed on the Canadian Toronto TSX exchange Given the history of Canadian mining companies, I wouldn't trust any Canadian mining company listed on the TSX to give to shits about human rights.

Not unless significant blocks of their shareholders do . . .

Giving a shit about the environment, child exploitation, etc. by larger investment funds has increased in recent decades , there's been a rise in "ethical investment".

Ergo TSX companies care more when third party reports about bad practices are filed at the exchange.

Re: Why are lithium prices collapsing?

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Post by dd36 » Thu, May 04, 2023, 12:57 PM UTC

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When speculators were allowed into the oil markets rather than actual buyers, the price jumped to like $120 barrel in like 2007. They had to stop it because hedge funds could just drive the price up indefinitely. See Bitcoin.

Speculation didn't suddenly exist in 2007. I do recall several regulations being changed at that time which _relaxed rules_ around the market. Is it possible that these regulations had more to do with the outcome than mere "speculation" in and of itself?

https://thinkprogress.org/leaked-documents-reveal-major-spec...

Re: Why are lithium prices collapsing?

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Post by pfdietz » Fri, May 05, 2023, 12:52 AM UTC

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I live in an area that's banned plastic bags. Given enough experience, grabbing a reusable bag out of the car before going into the store became an unconscious programmed action.

Unless you empty your groceries in your car to leave the bags there, at some point bags need to make it from your house to your car, so that you have some to take into the store. That's the part I struggle with. Also, if you order groceries for delivery, they bring your order in reusable bags. Which you then keep. My point is these re-usable bags have a tendency to accumulate over time. Maybe not at the same rate as…

You build up enough bags and you can keep a supply in the car. They're also useful for other tasks.

My biggest problem is feeling awkward when I take a bag from store X into store Y.