sysgen [none/use name,they/them]

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Cake day: July 25th, 2020

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  • Many/most reputable places that do this kind of trading have fixed whole market exposure, either long only or long/short (and a lot are long/short). The idea being that since it’s mathematically impossible for the average hedge fund to beat the market in the long term by much (tbf, less so since the rise of index funds), they should at least be able to provide returns that aren’t correlated to the stock market, as any idiot can get correlated returns.

    Besides, everyone knows that just because things are getting worse doesn’t mean number won’t go up - you’d typically trade on the belief that number go up in some more sophisticated way, perhaps by predicting what the fed will do to make sure number go up, or how the books will be cooked to make sure number go up.
















  • If your goal is independence, two sources are always better than one.

    Reducing fossil fuel use by increasing costs and funneling profits to America is a neoliberal approach to climate change and doesn’t work. All it’s going to do is make people poorer and move production of petrochemical-derived and energy-intensice products elsewhere. This is because the market is not able to make a sustainable change away from fossil fuels, especially not for a temporary wars, as these investments have to be amortized over decades. If you want to actually reduce fossil fuel use for heating and electrcity, you need governmental investment into nuclear and renewable energy and programs to install heat pumps. Becoming dependent on American gas is not actually going to help, and neither will changes in prices because it’s a non-market solution.

    Unless of course you think America is inherently more ethical than Russia and should be preferred - I’ll let you make that argument.