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Comment Re: Predictable (Score 1) 231

1. So first you admit that a premium on top of the "last traded price" is required for a buyout.

2. Even then, it is a buyout from a particular single entity or a consortium of entities that requires a "premium". When buying from the general public, an enormous premium will be required on top of the "last traded price". Including such a premium, the final price won't resemble the "last traded price" is what I have been saying. Some shareholders just aren't in the mood to sell. Some have forgotten that they have this share. If the share is part of an index, first it will have to be kicked out of the index otherwise a huge majority of "shareholders" won't know that they are shareholders.

Comment Re: Predictable (Score 1) 231

No, the point is that the price is heavily influenced by day traders - since last traded price is almost the definition of stock price. So even if day traders can't vote, the people who do vote need to please them day traders if these voters want their own long term shares to be priced high enough.

Now the position that multiplying last traded price by the number of shares gives anything resembling the actual value of a company makes no sense. But that is another topic.

Comment Re: What? Musk doing something positive? (Score 1) 179

One more reason given for that perceived higher reliability of hybrids in spite of the higher complexity is that companies selling most hybrids are those having higher standards of reliability then average anyway. E.g. Toyota.

Whereas companies selling most EVs were startups during the period of study (Tesla, Rivian), and startups in general make less reliable cars.

Comment Re:Scare quotes (Score 1) 309

If a person goes to a surgeon and asks for healthy tissue to be removed that is usually cause for having that person evaluated for mental illness.

"Healthy" is these days in the medical field defined as whatever is not causing the quality of life to deteriorate. In many consultations, patient's will / choice is taken into consideration.

1. Aesthetic surgeries are what most readily spring to mind on this topic. There are "healthy" tissue, but removed or modified to give the look a person wants.

2. There are growths in the body typically around joints, that are otherwise "healthy", but stop the normal limb movements or cause the limb movements to be painful. Those are also removed, of course, by taking patient's choice in mind by educating them about the risk. The patient can always be advised to just refrain from some limb movements, considering it is a sin to "kill" the healthy growth tissue around their joints that are very much "alive".

3. My sister's nose has a bone blocking 85% of one of the nostrils. That piece of bone is "healthy", except over decades of life this has caused nose allergies and an increase in likelihood of ear infections. If she had any sleep apnea like our father does, the nostril issue would have worsened it a lot. The doctors have completely left it to her whether or not to remove that "healthy" bone tissue. There are some risks and a lot of inconvenience to get the surgery done, and on the other hand there are these allergies.

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