3pt14159

92 ms·

931.
by 3pt14159 6y ago
Because options are at a premium right now, for the reasons stated above, running the above strategy on Apple looks like this: Buy at $400 (price at time of writing) sell an option at $460 for January which comes with a $42 premium[0] at ti
932.
by 3pt14159 6y ago
I mean, my family's investment company is far, far from being an institutional investor, but the math is pretty solid. If our plan is to buy Apple and sell it in the next six months if it rises by 15% then it is pretty easy to justify
933.
by 3pt14159 6y ago
Yeah, it was getting a bit pricy to buy lots of 100 apple shares at a time and sell covered calls. This is much better. Honestly I think selling covered call on Apple is one of the few good plays left out there. Long term the company's
934.
by 3pt14159 6y ago
I'm the highly downvoted parent that said this is possible. It's only 45 years of video per day. That is very, very possible to save. That's roughly 600 terabytes of storage space a day. Which means that per month you're
935.
by 3pt14159 6y ago
It's not impossible. It's merely a matter of resources and will. Google not only has to store all that video they also need to transmit it over and over again. An archivist would only have to write to store the video. If humanity
936.
by 3pt14159 6y ago
This is why I do not like mypy or types in Python other than dataclasses. If I'm going to type the damn thing I better be getting performance ala cython. Why on earth use a dynamic language like Ruby or Python and then try to bolt type
937.
by 3pt14159 6y ago
What I've learned over the years is that the lines always get tapped. The just do. Whether it's the telegraph, the telephone, or fiberoptic cables under the sea. The lines get tapped if at all possible. I don't believe for
938.
by 3pt14159 6y ago
This thing is still around? Awesome! Back in the day I made an autohotkey script to make my name and threw it on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUr_rZMY61A
939.
by 3pt14159 6y ago
Yeah but they don't pretend that it is foolproof. It's the typical government "we have to do something" answer to a fundamental problem. Software defined networks are not secure from state level interference and everybod
940.
by 3pt14159 6y ago
Honestly, I'm a Canadian. We're much like Americans when it comes to software. A little bit less of a offensive security community but for almost everything else it's pretty even.
941.
by 3pt14159 6y ago
100% agree with everything you said. I knew about non-broad basked ETFs but I think you knew that I knew anyway. Crowdfunding looks nice, but I just want protection for the public at the same time as I want high-skilled technologists to be
942.
by 3pt14159 6y ago
Since this is HN I'd like to share something one of my friends just put together. He's used an ML module and research on the ethnic backgrounds and physical attributes of various Roman emperors as well as multiple photos of variou
943.
by 3pt14159 6y ago
Honestly if I saw someone repeatedly put that type of logic in a PR even after I talked to them about it I'd either lobby to have them fired or I'd quit. I've been on exactly one project like that (a Go backend for a gaming c
944.
by 3pt14159 6y ago
I know ETFs are more popular with most people, but I'm a reasonably good investor. Average about 18% a year on a 50-50 mix of stocks and bonds, and that's before counting cryptocurrencies. I absolutely knew that DigitalOcean was g
945.
by 3pt14159 6y ago
Yeah I'm the OP. It's funny, I bought the jackhammer for a single job after doing the math that it would cost me just as much as renting a more expensive one. That was over a decade ago. Since then it's been used countless ti
946.
by 3pt14159 6y ago
This is complicated. Housing doubles as a bet on the local property values as well as a good that needs to be repaired and maintained. It's also subject to property tax, so the more you have the more tax you pay. At least here in Toron
947.
by 3pt14159 6y ago
I'm OP. Merely paying more for sunglasses doesn't make them good. It takes a long time to find ones that are muted enough to be cool, and yet with enough flourish in the details to be distinctive. There is also the quality of the
948.
by 3pt14159 6y ago
The issue isn't so much one of knowing how to invest, it's more the friction involved in investing in small companies. Random terms on sheets, weird cross-country concerns (like Canadian startups that want to maintain CCPC status)
949.
by 3pt14159 6y ago
It's just a shame that programmers like myself can't invest randomly in the tools we love. GitHub, StackOverflow, and DigitalOcean all would have had at least $10k from me years ago. I get the reasons why, it's just frustrati
950.
by 3pt14159 6y ago
I do this a different way. I think about how much I'm going to use something and try my best to over-invest in what is typically cheap and could last years and under-invest (or avoid all together) in what is expensive or could last les
951.
by 3pt14159 6y ago
Yeah I've worked on so many systems that dealt with money. Telephone invoicing, business accounting, ticket sales, etc. One of the businesses I worked for did online invoicing and they initially started off without double ledger accoun
952.
by 3pt14159 6y ago
It's also something we did in Canada as well. There were good reasons to make sure that the postal office had their pensions well funded. They're most likely to be disrupted by technology. We expected email to eviscerate tradition
953.
by 3pt14159 6y ago
From the linked article: > in addition to their normal log traces Does this mean that normal logging happens outside the final log line? If so, then that sounds great. Otherwise I'd worry about losing state due to a bug.
954.
by 3pt14159 6y ago
Hollywood is terrified of Netflix. It's much more exciting than Microsoft.
955.
by 3pt14159 6y ago
Haha, I was with you until the computer comparison. A 2020 car can go an order of magnitude faster than a 1820 train. A 2020 computer can go so much faster I can't even estimate how many orders of magnitude with certainty.
956.
by 3pt14159 6y ago
In the long run the cost of energy approaches 0 and ultimately heat dissipation and space (and hence, speed) will be more relevant. But short-termism and individual greed have reigned supreme in most energy rich companies. At least Canada h
957.
by 3pt14159 6y ago
This is really surprising to me as a Canadian. I was told that doctors in the States earn way more than doctors here.
958.
by 3pt14159 6y ago
I don't know if they're at more or less risk and I don't know the stats on how many of them have chosen not to work, but if I had to guess I'd say that nurses feel a sense of duty as part of their chosen line of work and
959.
by 3pt14159 6y ago
This is exactly why all the people that said "choosing to protect life is also choosing to protect the economy" were right. It sucks, but people with savings can choose to quit over having to risk their lives. So if there is an ap
960.
by 3pt14159 6y ago
For things like this there isn't a "the U.S." there's groups of people, interest groups, political economy, political will, etc. If China were rapidly liberalizing and didn't have stains on their reputation like the

More ›