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  • People want to buy and sell portions of companies. Stock markets let them do that. Things like fractional shares and ETFs allow individual investors to invest more easily which is great, but it would be naive to think the big firms don’t have more of an advantage. People yap about the efficient market hypothesis a lot while forgetting that it’s a hypothesis. If someone can get an advantage they’ll do it. It’s still wide advice for newbies who think they r cracked the code lol but for reals big players can and do find opportunities to make money that other people don’t know about.












  • I just see thread titles, I don’t really check the community. It meets OP’s criteria. Also, not everyone is interested in the same level of privacy. I’m never going to go through the Herculean task of degoogling myself, too much stuff uses my Gmail. It’s just not worth it. I only have so much time in the day to enjoy myself. Aggressively turning things off like personalized ads, sharing data, etc. is acceptable to me.






  • It’s much more involved than that. For example, static type systems involve checking that the functions you call accept the types of parameters you’re supplying then. It’s a necessary part of static typing but alone is not sufficient.

    If this code were a valid program in some hypothetical language but only failed at runtime then that would be an example of dynamic typing because the types cannot be verified statically (e.g., at compile time).

    var a = 1
    a = "a"
    

    But you’re right, I don’t really know of any languages like that. I could’ve sworn I heard this called strong typing but I can’t easily find a source. And strong/weak typing are a mess of definitions nobody agrees on.