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Yep, another win
(LiveJournal is talking to me again! Not all past posts have been copied. If you’re using LJ to read this, note that both of the links in this post point to my blog-copy as hosted on DreamWidth.)
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More hobby news
Isn’t it great that I haven’t said anything about the stock market in 16 weeks? Well, dear reader, you sort of knew that wouldn’t last, right?
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I enjoyed my hobby last year
As you’ve probably forgotten by now, I like to play the stock market. Last year, since there was no money available, I just did paper trading. It went reasonably well and was somewhat enjoyable, although it takes only five minutes on 250 days of the year.
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Degeneracy at LiveJournal
Of course, LiveJournal is nowadays Russian-owned, there's a war in Ukraine, Western access to Russian Internet may be cut off at any time, etc. Seemingly unrelated, LiveJournal is once again not on speaking terms with DreamWidth - and it looks to be permanent this time. Cross-posting has not worked for all of 2022. I just did the three cross- ( Read more... ) -
The degeneracy of police-broadcast alerts
I got an Amber alert for some teens in Alliston. I do not recall the place-name "Alliston", so obviously there was no point in drafting me for this posse. I hate that the Ontario Provincial Police are allowed to send out mis-classified alerts that are marked as unstoppable-alert-missiles-incoming-now but should actually be Amber-alert-use-the- ( Read more... ) -
Interactive Brokers is bad at paper-trading
Interactive Brokers is very inexpensive ($1 trades). I rejected them years ago because they didn’t offer retirement accounts and so I suspected them of hyper-rehypothecation(moving the money to the UK while pretending it’s still in Canada). But ( Read more... )
