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Re:Breaking Superconductor News by throwaw1yyy on Thursday July 27, 2023 @02:11AM (#36889580)
Reddit is a terrible site, no one with strong alpha browses or contributes to the platform.
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Re:Breaking Superconductor News by hatchling on Thursday July 27, 2023 @03:57AM (#36890364)
Agreed on reddit being terrible. What is "strong alpha" though?
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Re:Breaking Superconductor News by bhouston on Thursday July 27, 2023 @04:44AM (#36890689)
It is from finance: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/alpha.asp
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Re:Breaking Superconductor News by pnut on Thursday July 27, 2023 @04:55AM (#36890777)
Possibly they mean people with reliably high signal to noise ratio, analogous to the investment term https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/alpha.asp ?
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