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Most polymers show a phase behavior that is different from water.  Cheese is a mixture of biopolymers.  A typical polymer, say polystyrene, will exhibit three phases, glassy, viscous or rubbery, and melted.  For some, the melt temperature is higher than the decomposition temperature.  You can get cheese into its rubbery viscous state, usually, but it's not a true melted state unless you add a lot of stuff.

Of course, in cooking, we don't distinguish between viscous rubbery and melted.  The stuff appeared to liquify so we're happy.


The oddity of the glass transition is that it is time dependent.  But that's a longer story.

Well this is wild


https://twitter.com/themaxburns/status/1354872948226732046?s=19

Sounds like a good reason for me to stay with Schwab, and their zero commission rates on most trades.

The first stock I ever bought had a $70 commission.

Robinhood might not even exist in a couple months anyway lol.

I've been denouncing Robinhood for a long time, though entirely for other reasons.  This sideshow and it really is a market sideshow is a comic tragedy.    

hollleeeee shittttt.....


https://twitter.com/biancoresearch/status/1354893124410216449?s=20

One of the comedies of capitalism is that society dislikes volatility enough to not let people lose as the system dictates they should. (I imagine in the end everyone kinda loses, but that's neither here nor there)

Schwab was supposed to buy TD Ameritrade last August but I have not noticed if they did

In the meantime I still have the same Ameritrade web site and log in

Heh.  This is funny for my own professional reasons.  I'm very deep in the biz, and yes Schwab did acquire TDA. (no I don't work for either, and I am employed by a BD, and I myself have accounts at these types of firms).   They are in the very early stages of integration.    I can say, based on communication from Schwab in the fall,  those of us on the product side can chill out, the platforms aren't yet impacted.  TDA customers will still have the same experience (for now) and vice versa.  Having worked through these with many of the large warehouses merging over the years (AG>Wachovia>Wells) (SalmonSmithBarney>Citigroup>Morgan Stanley>MSSB now folding in E-trade))(etc etc.) these take a lot of time (12mos+).   Most of the grief is operational, back office, technology, and impacting RIAs, Correspondent BDs, and what are called third-party administrators that use the platforms.

 From a retail investor standpoint, I highly doubt you're going to have a negative experience.  I will be most interested in how they treat the TDA brand, and how that impacts the larger, in terms of size, contingent of TDA users (RIAs, etc.).    There's a lot of consternation in the advice market about the future of RIA support/tiers/service levels for those independent RIAs who custody assets at Schwab and or TDA.  Retail/self-directed folks should not experience, what I would consider, disruption.  Massive amounts of product choice, fairly impressive tech offerings and support.  Same, no commission trades (with rare exceptions which exist today on certain products).   

One of the comedies of capitalism is that society dislikes volatility enough to not let people lose as the system dictates they should. (I imagine in the end everyone kinda loses, but that's neither here nor there)

It's not a comedy, it's a tragedy- and it's not "society" that dislikes volatility- it's the elite on Wall Street who do risky, highly volatile shit in order to make a quick, easy dollar for basically doing literally nothing at all of value- all they do is play games with money- they produce no actual product or anything of value- and every single time it blows up in their face they want hand outs or bailouts. They are the single most worthless part of the economy who do nothing but leech and should die.