Comment Re:Science is not about trust (Score 1) 460
Yeah, but it would still be cool (and better) if you could reproduce the results in your back yard.
Unless you have a LOT of innate talent,
Problem is that no one can identify innate talent beforehand. The primary manifestation of 'talent' is that someone has become very good.
Your music teacher rejected you because you weren't improving. Instead of identifying your weakness and helping you overcome it, she judged you as incapable, not because you were incapable, but because you weren't improving.
Yes, but those assholes weren't the scientists,
Yes, yes they were.
Maybe scientists would be friendlier......the "climategate" scandal has demonstrated very clearly that if a scientist dares try to engage the public to any meaningful extent, then they'd be inundated with either trolls, or assholes
'Climategate' involved people being happy at the death of scientists they disagreed with. I don't think you understand the meaning of 'friendlier.'
Climategate was basically a bunch of assholes being revealed as assholes.
Please note that if you factor in T+3 days to settle funds between trades he likely traded less than 100 times in a 365 day cycle.
Come on man, at least read the headline of the article, "Made More Than 1 Million Trades". You often don't have to wait for the three day period to trade again if you have a margin account (surely he does), and it typically only takes a day for my trades to settle.
I see no mention of the $10,000 anywhere in this article.
From page 2: "his fortune snowballed, starting with 1 million yen -- about $10,000 -- in 2000."
Actually the article does not state how much money he had to trade with so unless you have a source we have no idea how big the account was.
From the article: "Those brokerage statements, from SBI Holdings Inc., showed liquid assets ranging from 4.4 billion yen to 4.8 billion yen."
The red liquid is water and myoglobin.
Oh no, chemicals
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. -- Bion
