Roundtable Discussion; The Future of Mineral Sands. Watch the video here.
Thanks for the long explanation. I must confess to knowing very little of the history and therefore appreciate your time in giving your thoughts. My situation is that I bought recently on news, without doing much reading around the company. I'm down about £500 but cant find much substance to warrant staying (I actually just can't be bothered phoning HL). So for now sitting waiting to see what happens. I am no expert, but the feeling I get is to go anywhere more cash will be required.
Kalg - This isn't a BB about Bitcoin, its about ARB. I will discuss the company and it's operations with you. I am not discussing bitcoin's value - that is a bit like walking into a pub on quiz night and cranking up the karaoke - nobody here wants karaoke.
I hate reading into things.... but:
BC writing this: "first distributor of the Genedrive® 96 SARS-CoV-2 Kit in the US and to also serve the EU. Available now"
Does it imply there's already a "first" distributor in Europe?
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Do you know how long you can run a Rabbit for at the same cost as miming a coin.... I'll work that out later I think :) the mining vs moaning mass-debate ;)
The thing with bitcoin is the energy need isn't real - it's just a made up need to give value to things. It's like saying I want my satellite to get more attention and be thought of as valuable so I'm going to strap a few kilos of iron to it just to make it more expensive. It is nuts. The one thing it does do is link monetary value to energy, as if the energy is the base currency and that is true, at least in biology.
As far as I see it, there's absolutely no justification for the energy use associated with miming and I think it's a real stain on the industry. We can't be making things artificially energy intensive while asking most of the world and most industries to invest in efficiency. Even 'wasting' renewable energy makes me feel sick. I have an archaic view of things perhaps, but for all the excitement and interest of bit coin I struggle to see what common good comes from all that energy use. A bit like Formula 1 racing, where I feel people just cheer the planetary destruction. Compared to e.g. CERN where big energy gives us big science. I don't feel I've made this argument very well here... it does irritate me.
Longshot - all valid points, but there's a world full of experts out there, and they are struggling to explain some of these things. Did you see that in the England PHE haven't detected a single case of flu yet this year (in 685,000 swabs) - who saw that coming (I know we can all explain it after the fact)? And similarly, why are the covid case rates so much lower than predicted in India at the moment - it is a genuine 'mystery', with people far better able to work it out than us struggling to do so. So we do need to be careful about our certainty - and accept it's OK to ask, consider, think etc. There's clearly two ends of the argument if you like. Yes the Americans are doing X million tests per day - and we might expect that to continue (why wouldn't we). And then India has 4 times more people, less vaccine and fewer cases (I think) so there's the thing we don't understanding biting us back... the valid other end of the argument. There's always something you don't know (e.g. Variants). The bottom line for GDR is that there are so many markets and so much margin (it seems), that I can't see any result other than huge revenues really. ("I can't see" doesn't mean others can't DYOR of course).
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/24/asia/india-covid-decline-explainer-intl-hnk-scli/index.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/flu-cases-covid-england-phe-latest-b1805124.html
btw - a correction. in my previous post I said Heathrow sees 20M passengers per year - That was true in 2020. In 2019 it was 80M.
Punter, I have shared that concern before - there is a bit of a squeeze on the PCR type testing from the case numbers falling, the vaccines and the alternative testing regimes. I don't know that much about it, however there would appear to me to be some places where you want people tested with the best test you have, e.g. before they go into surgery. Just NHS based General Surgery does 1.3M procedures, Trauma and Orthopedics does 1.2M, Urology does 0.7M.... You can guess what share of the market the test might get, but that's just surgery for 70M population. USA is 300M rest of EU is about 250M, india is 1.3B..... so, even covering the longer term niches well leaves huge revenues. And as optimistic as I want to be on Covid, the fact of the matter is US wont vaccinate until the autumn, India and Africa a long time after that..... it's no where near finished in reality. (The UK has done remarkably well with vaccines, and that's skewing our view I think). Heathrow takes 20M passengers a year.... I think the market will persist.
https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/news-and-events/media-centre/media-background-briefings-and-statistics/surgery-and-the-nhs-in-numbers/
What are the realistic prospects for this lot. I wonder if what remains of any investment is better off in something more upwardly mobile.
There's three of these posts in Plymouth too, same contact as Cambridge (Nathan)- shift work including nights, PCR specific.....
https://jobs.newscientist.com/en-gb/job/1401725456/shift-supervisor-pcr-accessioning-extraction-and-sign-out-/?LinkSource=SimilarJobPlatform
Morning, I thought I'd have some more this morning, but I have been playing with HL. when buy price is at 112, HL will quote instantly. @112p When buy price is at 110, then it doesn't work.
So, I put a buy limit on at 110 - and it completed before the kettle boiled. Average down a bit further :)
obviously 2p doesn't matter - but the game needs playing right