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ControlsFreak


				
				
				

				
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The grants are politically or ideologically written, peer review is largely logrolling, papers are nonsense (Replication Crisis).

How many engineering/math grant proposals or papers have you read? Peer review is broken, though.

Yeah, I know a guy who makes and sells mini (micro?) jet engines in his garage. TBF, he has nice fabrication machines in his garage, but still. I'd have to confirm how much thrust they actually produce, but production at that level of sophistication is probably sufficient for something that needs to take one attack drone on one trip, without significant efficiency concerns, and a reasonable failure rate is acceptable.

Reading this finally jolted loose a thing in the back of my brain. Almost a year ago now, I stashed this link with a note that I should look into the scheme at some point. Scroll down to the section titled "Box spreads".

...now having spent a few minutes looking at it again, a couple comments. a) If you don't do it right, you can really screw yourself over. There's a legend of wallstreetbets who did this, of course. b) There's now a FinTech company that specializes in doing this for you. An LLM tells me that they get paid by adding an extra ~0.5% to your rate, which is probably worth it if you don't feel like you really know what you're doing. c) I have no idea how long it would take to execute. From what I can guess from what I've read so far, they use a browser extension (a little sketch) to actually put the trade together in your existing brokerage account, so presumably, the actual execution of it all is extremely quick. But it looks like you probably need to do some setup in advance.