Pat Myron 🔸

Software Engineer / Quant
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As one of the largest single donations ever, Michael and Susan Dell pledged $6.25B to provide 25M American children new investment accounts:
https://apnews.com/article/michael-dell-susan-trump-accounts-stock-market-poverty-inequality-7e2615d50a3fc0563109ed0eeb4c41e1

easier to start and resolve markets, leading to many more markets

leads to lower signal-to-noise ratio

and heeding time-value still leads to more (play) capital / pricing power

long term market issues [...] conditional markets

Conditional markets compound long term issues (assuming they're collateralized): instead of locking capital into a market, that's locking capital into hoping there's a market

Prediction markets can increase capital efficiency by:
* pegging interest rates (like adjustable-rate mortgages)
* recognizing hedged positions[1][2]
* lowering fees

More reasons for cautious interpretations:

Manifold:
* 'mana is purely a play-money and not exchangeable for sweepcash, money, or any other goods and items'
Polymarket:
* orderbook's actually 2.5% which the interface rounds up to 3%
* Polymarket offers 4% variable interest on that (Kalshi went from 4.05% to 3.50% this year)
Metaculus:
* 500 deaths is closer to previous US standoffs than the US Civil War
* Only question of those >3% as of writing only has 33 forecasters
* All the histograms have odd tails (somewhat dampened by Metaculus reporting medians):

I do not discuss B12
I also plan to continue my D3 supplementation
Do you think there is evidence that not taking a multivitamin-multimineral

That multivitamin-multimineral contains B12 and D3 btw

Still seems reductively worded? Serious deficiencies like B12 impair sustaining any income. I wouldn't risk cognitive health over ~$10/month

Myopic calculating based on lifespan.. vitamins like B12, creatine, and omega-3 improve mental/cognitive health, especially for vegans and vegetarians

Google Shopping, Amazon, and AliExpress do not seem to support even the most basic constraints

I agree with your frustrations around those sites, but more structured ecommerce sites seemingly exist: https://mcmaster.com. Perhaps more common/valued in B2B than B2C?

considered joining the team at Metaculus or Manifold Markets

@DPiepgrass furthering this recommendation with Kalshi/Polymarket/ForecastEx/PredictIt/etc. Real money prediction markets address your growth theory concerns

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