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YouTube told the Washington Examiner of the video that while it is "open [to] discussions of potential treatments and clinical trials related to COVID-19 on YouTube, based on guidance from the CDC, FDA and other local health authorities, we dont currently allow content that recommends Ivermectin as an effective treatment or prevention method for the virus."

LOL

Apparently you can be the person credited with invented mRNA vaccines and still be a horse-paste-pushing idiot.

I'll spend some time later and look into that study about heart side effects, but after your claims of Tromethamine being complete BS I'm going to be surprised if it holds water. I'll still give it a fair shake just the same.

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What is this medicine?
TROMETHAMINE makes blood and urine more alkaline or less acidic. It is used to treat metabolic acidosis, a condition where the body produces too much acid or when the kidneys are not removing enough acid from the body.
This medicine may be used for other purposes; ask your health care provider or pharmacist if you have questions.
COMMON BRAND NAME(S): Tham

Source:
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/drugs/19820-tromethamine-solution-for-injection

The effects on cardiac resuscitability of iso-osmolal solutions of tris-hydroxymethyl-aminomethane (tromethamine), sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3) and sodium chloride placebo were compared in 30 domestic pigs using a well-established model of electrically induced cardiac arrest and resuscitation. We hypothesized that a carbon dioxide (CO2) consuming buffer like tromethamine would reduce and sodium bicarbonate would increase the respiratory acidosis of mixed venous blood, which had recently been demonstrated in our laboratory, Tromethamine did decrease and sodium bicarbonate did increase both arterial and mixed venous CO2 during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Both concentrations of end-tidal CO2 and coronary venous PCO2 were significantly lower after tromethamine than after bicarbonate. However, tromethamine produced an unexpected vasodilator effect with reduction of mean aortic and coronary perfusion pressures to levels that are known to reduce resuscitability and survival independently of its buffer action. Neither resuscitability nor survival was altered by bicarbonate therapy in comparison with sodium chloride placebo.

Source:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2851015/

So the first article is about the drugs purpose which is to affect acidity in blood/urine. No mention of hearts.

The second is a study done to determine if that effect could prove useful in cases of saving someone in cardiac arrest. It did not.

Neither information is from a "fact checker". These are simply the facts themselves.

It is demonstrably false to call it a heart attack medication.

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It's almost like it has nothing to do with heart problems and is only relevant in the child doses of the vaccine....

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masterplum posted...

Trust me. If BTC was made illegal all crypto would dive with it, at least temporarily.

FUD causes people to do irrational things, I agree.


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Bitcoin =/= all cryptocurrencies so you can't drop the environmentally friendly part. That excuse won't exist forever and frankly is living on borrowed time.

Cryptocurrencies have just as must intrinsic value as "regular" currencies. It's all extrinsic which makes them just as viable when the same amount of confidence gets placed in them.

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I have currently gone full NFT.

I made .309 ETH on 0xVampires Project
I made over 1.0 ETH on Dapper Dinos
I am poised to make more than that on Moon Boyz

And I am keeping 1 Moon Boyz NFT for myself because 1 random NFT holder is going to win a flight to space next year.

At this point I'm only using a portion of my profits to continue to speculate on NFTs so even if the entire market evaporates tomorrow I come out further ahead than I was when i started. So I'm trying to go into this eyes wide open so I don't overextend myself.

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I thought you could as long as it hasn't been posted in within the past hour, so by posting in it to say you were closing it you removed the option.
And by my explaining the rules to you the option is removed again for the next hour.
And if you respond to me to acknowledge what i said...

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Sunroof posted...

Seriously, can someone offer an explanation?

https://youtu.be/NW46tH2xUA0

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~C~ FD
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I'm currently guessing it has to do with the reporting that Cardano Smart Contracts might have an issue with scaling and they had to turn off the testnet?

Cardano is a big marketcap so that by itself might have caused ripples amplified by FUD.

Regardless it worked out great for me :D

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Do you realize who you are talking to?

And yeah I just had a very hectic 45 minutes, but I got all my new price targets set as I had to average down 5 different cryptos (ADA, VET, VTHO, AGLO, ATOM) and they are all very nearly recovered to my new sell targets. If I had been using 5% of my stack on each token like I was doing a few months ago I would not have been able to afford to chase the prices down and I'd be sad right now, but instead everything is wonderful and I can eat afford to eat another 20-30% dip if I need to.

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Dels posted...

It's about who showed that they are the best player in the game. Not based on outside knowledge.

DoomTheGyarados posted...

It's basically not being strictly results based. What we have preached here for over a decade now

I can agree with both of these. The phrasing from the other guy made it confusing, in particular this bit:

c4e5g3d5 posted...

Voting isn't even to determine who played the best.

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c4e5g3d5 posted...

Voting isn't to determine the MVP, as I'm sure you've been told plenty. Voting isn't even to determine who played the best. Voting is to determine who's the best player.

I feel like this is kind of a cop out, and if it's how things work then it should be re-evaluated.

Otherwise if you had a Michael Jordan-esque mafia player you would by definition have to rate them the highest no matter how they performed. Because it is common knowledge that they are the best player.

Your follow up point about Gorf's "open book" playstyle is a more reasonably approach to have, and you could argue that this constituted "playing the best" within the game.

But the way you phrased it makes it sounds like your knowledge of who the best player is all that matters for the vote regardless of individual performance. idk

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MLB NFT Update:

I just sold 3 out of the 4 NFTs that I purchased this week. I could have held out for larger payouts, but since this is still very much an experiment for me I reduced my prices once I saw some buying activity get started with the collection. My logic is that most people who are buying either found out about the NFTs after they stopped being sold or they are unaware that they were just recently available for 100 USD so I wanted to rush mine to the front of the line while they were still shopping.

For the 4 I paid:
$112.64
$127.16
$126.14
$123.53

for a total investment of $489.47

I sold 3 and received (after AH took their fees):
.0612 ETH
.0612 ETH
.0699 ETH

for a total gain of .1923 ETH

I transferred .190 ETH to my binance account so I could sell it (the transfer fee was .0023 ETH or about $9 at the current price of ETH)

As soon as it arrived I market sold the entire .190 ETH at an ETH price of 3941.19, I received $748.82 and paid about 57 cents in fees on the sale.

I'm sending $500 to my bank account to recoup what I spent for the NFTs.

Which leaves about 250 in profit in my BNB account and still the 4th NFT in my wallet which I'm fairly confident will sell at a higher price than what I let these ones go for.

I'd consider this test a rousing success. There are still more packs of MLB Ballpark NFTs being released over the next 4 weeks. I plan to purchase every park for the 5th and 6th pack at least, and I'll see how things look for the 7th. I doubt I'll participate in the 8th because everyone who is trying to complete a set at that point will have access to the same ability to purchase them for $100 so there won't be any new people who don't have access to the newest set. Now to get the "full completion NFT" you have to have all 30 NFTs in your wallet until the conclusion of the World Series which doesn't start until October 26th, but I just don't see much opportunity for there to be a need for the 7th and 8th sets the same way the rest will.

Granted it's entirely possible these will continue to have a life outside of the demand from people trying to complete sets, but because these are not 1 of 1s I'm not confident enough. I'll take what I can from this experiment and then try to identify other collections that present an opportunity.

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I don't feel like i experienced any other random speed boost effects or glow effects.

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~C~ FD
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You get a speed boost after using your Unite move. Or from the lane when walking towards a point that is still there.

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It should be noted however that NFTs are entirely speculative and I'm aware that the demand for anything and everything in the NFT universe could dry up at a moments notice. I am banking on the fact that (with the exception of the 2nd series) these NFT packs have continued to sell more and more of the steel series NFTs which is probably likely a function of people only finding out about the series for the first time when their own team's NFT becomes available. I believe we'll see spikes in interest on September 6th, 13th, 20th and 27th to correspond with the new packs dropping, which will drive interest in the packs which are no longer available. Spikes in secondary sales do seem to correspond with these release windows. So to me this seems like a gamble worth taking, and that currently, I could be providing bargains to others with secondary sales and still turn a profit pretty quickly.

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Menji posted...

Where did you go to research NFT trading?

Google? Lots of googling to get the basics, and then looking over available series with blue checkmarks to find something (A) I could afford and (B) had some demand for resale.

Currently I've narrowed my focus on an NFT series that is being issued by Candy Digital in conjunction with Major League Baseball. They are doing an NFT series for each ballpark where there is a 1 of 1 (Gold Series) of that park available via auction (and those are selling for quite a lot) and an "unlimited" run of the "Steel Series" that is available for purchase for just a few days for $100, which results in a different number being available for each park depending on how many get purchased during the range of days.

For example from August 09-12 you could buy the NFT for Fenway Park or Citi-Field. Fenway sold 338 and Citi Field sold 235. The Gold Edition for Fenway sold for $12,000 and the gold edition for Citi Field sold for $30,000

Then from August 16-19 you could buy the NFT for Nationals Park, Tropicana Field, Yankee Stadium and Wrigley Field. Looking over those I saw:
Nationals Park: 171 Steel Series Sold - $9,000 for Gold.
Tropicana Field: 151 Steel Series Sold - $17,760 for Gold
Yankee Stadium: 414 Steel Series Sold - $33,000 for Gold
Wrigley Field: 346 Steel Series Sold - $17,777 for Gold

and so forth. You can see more about the available of those NFTs on:
www.candy.com
and
https://www.bitski.com/candy/

Currently there is 28 hours left for the fourth pack of parks (Kauffman Stadium, Angels Stadium, Oracle Park and Chase Field).

Now what caught my eye is that after fees/taxes you can pick up one of the steel series for around $115 (will vary depending on gas fees), but that many of the steel series are reselling for around .1 ETH ($350~) and some are selling for even more. Last night a Fenway Park sold for .35 ETH ($1225~) so there is definitely some variance based upon how popular the teams are, and I believe there will begin to be more priority going to the parks that sold the fewest during their limited runs. (Such as Tropicana with 151 and Nationals with 171)

Because there is a special NFT that will be available if you have a wallet that contains all 30 NFTs after the world series. Now if you knew about the series from the beginning this would run you $3000 + taxes/fees because you could just buy each NFT as it's released, but now that we're on the 4th pack there is going to be a hard limit on how many of those special NFTs will be claimable based upon the number of Steel Series which sold the fewest which is probably why the cheapest Nationals Park listed for sale is at 0.5 ETH and the only Tropicana for sale is listed at 1.5 ETH.

So currently my plan is to offload these Steel Series at "discounted" rates on the secondary sale market once their open availability ends and keep my eyes open for any from previously closed series that become available to see if they are a good deal based upon the total number minted.

And we'll see how this goes. I'll cash out enough ETH to realize a small gain and keep the rest available to set my sights on more profitable NFT collections if I see more opportunities.

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I've been babysitting my crypto investments more closely and have begun to roll some of those profits into NFT trading which is fairly time consuming. The initialization fees for NFT marketplaces (currently just on OpenSea) were kind of annoying, but after a couple of researched purchases I expect to have an overall profit within a few days and then a lot of upside beyond that.

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I haven't played in nearly 2 weeks. I think I'm done -_-

Progress is just so slow that I can't really justify the effort. Hitting Masters was fun, but I have better uses of my time I guess.

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Honestly I love that it's a moba.

It's the cap on earning in game rewards that hurts the game for me. By all means tweak the dopamine drip to encourage people to drop money to speed progress up, but cutting off the drip altogether is lunacy.

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I'm glad you two made up

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That's really dumb. Just because you didn't play the bucket game?

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And all they had to do was RB you to stop it

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How far were you letting it drop before adding more and how much were you adding relative to your original investment? If the original investment is down 80 and your overall is down 71 then you didn't average your price down very much?

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I'm down

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Waluigi1 posted...

They turn invulnerable for a second but beyond that I don't think so?

This has gotten me killed more than once because I evolved and was unable to use an ability for several important seconds.

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ChainLTTP posted...

Yeah this is bonkers. Starting to consider what FD said and unloading some at $3...

Also as I mentioned the target date for the smart contracts is September 12th. There is no telling how high it will run between now and then so I'm not saying necessarily to buy or sell, just be on your toes because this is going to be a volatile time. I'm not even going to try to predict it, Im just going to hedge my bets both ways and hope for the best.

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Sunroof posted...

I could then use that $375k and sell RIOT puts/calls every week for ~2.5% premium

I'll believe it when i see it.

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I've seen 3 several times I'm cases where one team is prepared at 700 and the other team doesn't show up to fight. It respawns after being dead for 2 minutes so you just have to spend 20 seconds or less on the first 2 and you'll have 20+ seconds for the third.

But unless your opponents got the first 2 it sounds like that debuff means you likely would not want the 3rd drednaw as the debuff will eat into half of zapdos' life if not more.

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Brb changing my name to DrednawAt700

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I'm still taking care of my dailies, but soloQ in ranked goes predictably awful now that i'm in Master. Most games you are either on a team of 5 or you are getting crushed by a team of 5 and I do not have a team of 5.

I had a game where my team didn't show up for any objectives and as venusaur I sniped the second Dreadnaw *and* I sniped zapdos 2 minutes later. Still lost. Some games you just can't, and in master league that becomes most games unless you are lucky enough to (A) not face a 5 queue and (B) not have the worst player on your team.

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ChainLTTP posted...

This... I am not going to allow myself to be in a scenario where I sold at $3 and it's now a $20 token

With as much as it's fluctuating you could be in a position where you sell (some) at $3 several times and rebuy a larger stake at $2.50 for the same price. Even if you mis-time the peak and get off the rocket early with a portion of your stake I personally feel like the upside has been worth it.

Edit: Also i don't think $20 is in the cards any time soon unless the supply of ADA fundamentally changes or until ADA gets adopted by many other things.

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ADA from 2.10 to 2.32 in the past few hours. Going to be approaching ATH territory again. I'm going to continue to enter and exit positions for fractional gains. It's hard to predict how much of the gains this past week are permanent and how much are built on the hype of the smart contracts coming September 12th. I wouldn't be surprised if ADA continues to run until September 9th-11th only to have a correction on the day of or shortly after the smart contracts go live. But depending on how much of a run we experience it's very possible it will retain much of the gains.

...It's also possible they experience technical issues and have to call for a last minute delay which would tank the price as well. Crypto friends with ADA I'd advise you stay alert these next few weeks and do what you think is best.

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Sunroof posted...

Im happy to be in crypto but man Bitcoin seemed to be the least best since getting in a few months ago.

I'm pretty sure we've recommended other tokens. Even if you want to stay in one of the higher market cap options it's probably not too late to switch to Ethereum before the proof of stake switch gets flipped.

Bitcoin still has some innate advantages as the largest name in the game, but it's only natural that it's very public environmental concerns will continue to hold it back.

Now my approach to crypto has been different to most others here. I'm very active buying and selling in small amounts (around 2% of my liquid total if I can help it) and I keep a portion of my profits as USD gains and the other portion of profit I keep in crypto. It's a very small amount each time, but it adds up. I earned a fair bit of VTHO for example by making a lot of trades when it was around .0060 - .0070, and now that it's back to .0150~ those gains that I left in crypto have more than doubled in value. I've been refining my approach since I started in late march and I just recently hit the point where i've doubled my initial investment. Naturally there are other, riskier ways to more than double an investment in that time, but because each individual transaction represents such a small portion of the total I feel like my risk at any given point is very low. Obviously I don't expect to continue to double every 4 1/2 months, but most of my balance at any given point is in USD so I'm never empty handed when an opportunity to buy a dip comes along. It has been a learning process though. Initially I was using 5% of my total as my buy-in, and I found myself running into a wall where I would miss opportunities because I was still waiting for a fluctuation to get out of some positions that I'd been waiting on, but since scaling down to 2% things have been much more smooth. I'm also not sure I'm going to stay at 100% gains because my running total has had an ebb and a flow to it, but when the tide rises I realize some gains, and when the tide is going out I expand my total number of tokens for "free" by selling a portion and rebuying more total tokens for less total cost. Obviously if I were psychic or crazy I could just put 100% of my investment into a token I liked and cash out when it doubles and accomplish 4.5 months of work in a single day, but I'm much more comfortable nickel and diming at risk levels I can tolerate.

The 6 tokens that I've been buying/selling the most have been: ADA, VET, VTHO, ALGO, ATOM and DOGE.

ADA because I believe that it's really going places and it has enough support to dominate the market cap some day (possibly even soon).

VET and VTHO because VET seems to have enough practical application that I believe it is going to stay relevant and VTHO is used as a fee in the VET ecosystem so it will continue to have regular use. Also for staking VET I end up with some free VTHO each month so that's a nice bonus.

ALGO and ATOM I don't know as much about, but they both have staking rewards on binance as well so even when they aren't performing as well or even when i get stuck with a larger position while I wait to turn a profit I end up collecting bonus tokens that will pay dividends long term.

And DOGE because I realized a lot of profits in DOGE back when it was trading at 7-8 cents and it has still continued to fluctuate enough that I can regularly turn a small profit on it at least once a week. It's long term viability is questionable so this is one I may simply cash out all together if it makes a big run, but for now I have continued to keep half of my profits as DOGE when I trade with it.

So on such occasions where I've bought into all 6 I only have 12% of my liquid total invested, which gives me the freedom to invest an additional 2.2% per stock to buy a large enough dip and average my costs down which puts my total to 25.2%. Effectively I can afford to buy 4 separate dips in all 6 tokens before running out of money and by that point the price would be such a small fraction of where it began so my confidence to recover to my new average price would be high. And when the prices recover I will naturally end up profiting less than someone who was psychic and waited for the bottom price before investing anything at all, but since I'm not psychic I have to content myself to do it this way.

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ChainLTTP posted...

Cardano is back over $2! Thanks Extha!

There was a positive announcement about smart contracts today for cardano which are scheduled to go live in a month (Sep 12) so cardano is going to be riding high for a bit.

I'm not sure if there will be a pullback after the smart contract bump or if we're just going to go full steam ahead into a new magnitude of valuation, but there is definitely still room to run.

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I'm gonna hop on Unite for a bit, i'll be on the B8 discord if anyone wants to join me.

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MarkS222222222222222 posted...

Hopefully there's still time to re-cast

... In the next 2 months?

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Lopen posted...

I mean maybe that has always happened in which case I'd probably consider that you being lucky rather than the strategy being particularly good, because this hole is literally always baked in there and they know the options you hold.

Is it possible to deliberately go through different market makers for each side of the 2 week/3 month equation? Or does that not matter because it will all still be visible to all of them?

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masterplum posted...

They usually don't get excercised. There are reasons to buy in the money calls where you want to hold them. For example I bought some deep in the money cracker barrel calls as a form of leverage. Instead of buying 15 shares for $2000, I bought a $2000 deep ITM call which means I'm getting 6X leverage back for my money

But then you still have to have enough cash on hand to pay for 100 shares when it's time to exercise, right? And you have just as much risk associated with the price falling, right? Even if it doesn't fall out of strike range because of how far in the money it was, you are poised to gain much less.

All in all this has been fairly enlightening, but when I do have the funds to consider stock options I think I'm going to start simple and simply sell puts on stocks that I (A) can afford and (B) would not mine owning at a discounted price should the strike occur.

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But by selling 2 week calls in the money doesn't it stand to reason that those calls are always going to get exercised because they are already in the money?

So how do you make many if you receive X for a 2 week call but you will invariably lose a chunk when the already-in-the-money option gets exercised?

I guess I just assumed if you were buying or selling a call it would be for a price target that hasn't already been reached.

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Lopen posted...

For in the money options, while it could cost them a small amount of profit to do so

Is this because there is some kind of premium with closing a position early? Or is there no premium and they could potentially lose versus waiting and exercising the call when the price is higher?

But I guess what i don't understand is that if the price goes to $40 and if the 2 week calls get exercised, couldn't plum just exercise the 2 month call and turn the whole thing into a wash?

Lopen posted...

The gist is if they can force you out of your bought 2 month position for less cost than you spent on the contract

So it's not individual A or individual B that he has an agreement with for the 2 week and 3 month calls, but rather "market maker entity C". And it's this entity that is aware of both of your positions and sees the opportunity to force your hand? Does that means for many options trades you couldn't simply trace your transaction to another individual on the other side?

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I feel like i need more information about what exactly is happening.

"I had sold $30 calls that expired in 2 weeks and bought $30 calls that expired in 3 months"

So just to clarify this means that

1) Someone paid you X for a $30 call that expires in 2 weeks.
and
2) You paid someone else Y for a $30 call that expires in 3 months.

And then what? 2 weeks elapses and the calls are getting exercised? Or the positions are being closed before the 2 weeks even happens?

And did you already own the underlying stock going in or are you having to purchase them at cost to sell to someone else for $30? Is that where the money is being lost?

I'm just trying to find where your benefit in the scenario is supposed to materialize. Is it from selling off your 3 month option to someone else?

I'm still in the 'accumulate wealth' phase of investing before I have enough money to play with stock options so I have only a basic understanding of them.

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Yeah but it's a pain in the ass that makes it completely pointless if you can't set it up before the game starts.

And even when you have all the voice settings disabled you can still get reported for inappropriate voice chat -_-

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For example this chart:

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2021/06/28/multimedia/28-MORNING-subVACCVOTE/28-MORNING-subVACCVOTE-mobileMasterAt3x.png

gives a more clear picture of higher % biden votes resulting in higher % vaccination rate.

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KamikazePotato posted...

https://www.kff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/9753-Figure-1.png

Honestly, it's closer than I would have expected

That isn't very representative.

Counties that heavily favored democrats have a higher vaccination rates than counties that only slightly favored democrats.

The republicans in democrat countries and democrats in republican counties homogenize the results if you don't sort the counties by how strong their lean is.

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The ratio of unvaccinated deaths to vaccinated deaths seems like it has an impact.

But like, even if you believe "the vaccine causes the delta variant", which is crazy...the Delta Variant is killing unvaccinated people. So like, get the damn vaccine to save yourself anyways?

Either it's a real vaccine with real positive effects, in which case you should get it.
Or it's a false vaccine that is causing an illness that kills people who don't get it... in which case you should get it.

For the record that theory is completely insane and I do not support it in the slightest. But even allowing myself to suspend the enormous amount of disbelief, I can't find the logic behind their anti vaccine stance.

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Cramorant ult can completely zone enemy teams. You should be able to reliably win your team the second Dreadnaw fight and the first fight around Zapdos as long as you don't waste your ult at suboptimal times.

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I'm gonna be on playing ranked in a bit (maybe 15 minutes?) if anyone wants to join me.

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Cigarettes don't kill people, Lung Cancer kills people

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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Youll still need machines doing calculations to maintain the blockchain and ledger, right?

But Proof of Work involves algorithmically (and unnecessarily) increasing the calculations to limit the number of blocks that get generated via mining. This causes energy usage to scale with the number of active miners without a corresponding uptick in new token generation.

By contrast Proof of Stake is estimated to use 99.95% less energy because each person participating in the staking is not running their own rig to perform calculation, they are just contributing the tokens they own into the staking pool and new blocks are rewarded proportional to the amount staked.

So yeah, there is a big difference between the two.

Edit: Imagine 100 people with 100 computers running 24 hours a day and each of them has a 1% chance to win the new block reward. Now imagine 100 people with their computers turned off and each of them has a 1% chance to win the new block reward and there is 1 computer somewhere else that determined the winner. It's not quite as simple as that, but it's along those lines and scaled up to significantly more than a 1 / 100 difference.

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