Ntrails

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by Ntrails 7y ago
> Ultimately, it comes down to individual behavior. The problem with all this is that it just depends . If I check a message after stopping at a red light? No real risk. If i hit "call" whilst on an empty straight motor way
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by Ntrails 7y ago
> But to take an example, when I hit a share button on a page.. You have already lost me, I do not believe I have ever done this, or wanted to do it
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by Ntrails 7y ago
> Am I missing something about the consoles They are just PCs with shitty OS and lockins now
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by Ntrails 7y ago
EPS does go up by magic, since it is earnings (not value) divided by shares (which have halved in number). The options bit is a slight fiddle, although empirical evidence supports it.
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by Ntrails 7y ago
> If companies can’t issue buybacks or dividends with outstanding debt or unfounded pension liabilities society is simply better off. This is just the sort of fun financial engineering challenge that will not end the way the rulemaker in
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by Ntrails 7y ago
There are 100 shares in the market I have $100 in cash, and $100 of Assets. My Company is worth $200 If I pay a $1 ps dividend, then the share price should halve, and the share owners get $1 each. If I buy back 50 shares, at $2 each, there
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by Ntrails 7y ago
And greenland as I recall? But yeah - thikn the trick was low mortality so they took too long to respond
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by Ntrails 7y ago
Every single stranger I developed an online based friendship with was a small community. I don't understand how you can do anything meaningful in a conversation with 2000 people - but 20 people in a chatroom/forum/etc muck
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by Ntrails 7y ago
My landlord put in double glazing before I moved in, it is assuredly better than the previous situation - but there is still on hell of a draft coming from somewhere...
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by Ntrails 7y ago
>If everyone cuts their emissions by 80%, we don't need to stop having children and be the last ones to enjoy the world. Cool. So I'm not having children and eating all the meat and fish I like. I reckon ethically I'm
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by Ntrails 7y ago
You are missing the key trick - hedging! The person who sold the put to you can short some shares and lend out some money to create a "replicating portfolio" that inversely mirrors the payoff of the put option they sold you. They
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by Ntrails 7y ago
A Put option is the right, but not the obligation, to sell an item K at price X to a counterparty. If you've agreed to sell a thing for $5 that is worth $4, you're a dollar in the green. As market prices drop your profit increase
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by Ntrails 7y ago
University of Leics had them ~2010. (I had a friend who lived in one)
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by Ntrails 7y ago
I certainly doubt you to be lying, but you are wrong afaik. There are certainly shared rooms in a university in the UK (at least were ~10 years ago and doubt has changed). However it was a handful of students in shared halls rooms (in bi
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by Ntrails 7y ago
In the context of the sentence it's clear that the post refers to "Typically Persecuted People", and I would argue that applies to all three.
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by Ntrails 7y ago
> Or the trading platform thats running sub millisecond trades and downtime means 300,000 USD per minute. I mean, I'll bite. Assuming you only traded 6 hours a day (ie US) that'd be a 27bn dollar a year strategy, and the only
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by Ntrails 7y ago
> I don't think my life has improved in the least since my bus pass stopped being a piece of paper I replaced every month. Did you use the bus a lot when they only took cash? Hope you carry small change because the driver won'
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by Ntrails 7y ago
> binging 6 hrs on movies/shows every days is sure not as valuable as reading 6 hrs every day. Citation needed All reading is not inherently valuable, in the same way all television is not. I don't get any more socialisatio
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by Ntrails 7y ago
I have never understood why people claim reading is a more worthy use of time than watching tv. Love island probably teaches people more about the human condition than fifty shades does, so pick your poison
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by Ntrails 7y ago
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/order-a-transcrip... I think that is the appropriate link. In general you can pay to get a copy of any transcribed court proceeding assuming the court approves. Some s
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by Ntrails 7y ago
How would you know the translation was accurate if it was done?
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by Ntrails 7y ago
I mean, you can blame the Brits for shit like filibusters all you like. This, however, is Americas very own special sauce
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by Ntrails 7y ago
> or let the car take over at low speeds Except arguably that's when the car is least effective! That is when pedestrians walk out or vans reverse with the wrong kind of shiny paintwork. Reaction time is less important at low sp
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by Ntrails 7y ago
Sure, and as soon as I can sit facing the other way and not be responsible for the cars fuck ups that's fine. Until then semi autonomy can fuck right off. I'd rather trust myself 100% of the time than a machine 99% of the time.
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by Ntrails 7y ago
What if the issue with facebook wasn't HTML5 but rather feature bloat and a focus on Ad placement?
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by Ntrails 7y ago
> One of the world's largest oil producers is moving away from fossil fuels I mean, afaik, they're not moving away from generating oil and selling it. Arguably given the SWF is based on oil production/extraction revenues
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by Ntrails 7y ago
Can be. In general it can be lots of things because shitloads of hormones do weird things
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by Ntrails 7y ago
That appears to be untrue, given I read the post today by clicking on the link and never got so much as asked to sign it
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by Ntrails 7y ago
You should accept that you are responsible for all the code you run in production, whoever happened to write it. Whether you feel you are more likely to write bug free code than anyone else is your call.
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by Ntrails 7y ago
Today I learned - thank you!

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