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by TeaBrain 2y ago
I'd also thought your idea sounded like it made sense, sort of like how a trader can attempt dividend stripping, but looks like the user baking cleared that up.
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
Nevermind, it looks like baking cleared up my misconception in another reply.
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
They raise a good point, which I've never considered before. This could be considered a form of dividend arbitrage based on the difference in scheduling between the component dividends vs the fund dividends, based on the knowledge that
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
>US debt as a percentage of GDP (i.e. our ability to pay off our debt) US debt as a percentage of GDP doesn't demonstrate the continued ability to pay off the debt, since the ability to pay off the debt is dependent on that debt&#x2
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
>"Who controls Stripe if the Collison brothers perish in a car crash ? " >Employees. The controlling interest in a company is determined by shares owned. This reads like you're suggesting that the revenue from inheritan
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
I was more thinking in terms of the modern conception of currency debasement resulting from the increase in the monetary supply, though I think I must have just been thinking of the real, not the escudo. Several years ago, I read a couple o
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
>Bitcoin has only failed so far as a replacement for Visa and Mastercard. So no, nobody's using it to buy coffee. It not being "used" in this context is referring to it not being used as legal tender. The law that was walk
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
>Debased currency - a problem every large state eventually faced - is a consequence of deflation Inflation in the monetary supply, not deflation, leads to the debasement of a currency. An example is how the influx of gold from the conqui
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
The temperature itself was probably reason enough. It was the coldest inauguration since 1985 and the inauguration was held inside that year also.
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
Yes, this is an example of different asset classes performing differently over different periods. The S&P 500 performed extremely well in the 1990s, and while the S&P 500 has performed very well since, it has not kept up the same l
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
>Precious metals like gold are also a terrible investment Both gold and silver have appreciated more in value than the S&P 500 since the start of this millennium.
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
What the above user is thinking of is how Snowden's passport validity was reportedly revoked in 2013, right after he had landed in Moscow.
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
>I personally love paying taxes that go to these functions An issue with this is that it isn't just current tax payers and tax revenues that are paying for this federal spending, but a ballooning debt due to a budget deficit. The b
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
The chart is within the below linked article. The below link I've provided is a gift link, so you should be able to access the article through it. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-01-27/de
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
From the reporting, it seems like the large drop has much to do with the idea that DeepSeek has revealed how much can be accomplished without many billions in infrastructure spend, allocated largely to purchasing more NVIDIA chips, due to t
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
On this point, I too have a really difficult time understanding how there is supposedly >$50 billion in treasury bonds backing Tether USDC sitting at Cantor Fitzgerald. It really does seem like the bonds backing tether just came out of t
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
Buybacks are functionally accepted as an alternative to dividends, but are not really equivalents. An important distinction is that buybacks not only benefit the shareholders like dividends do, but also benefit the perception of the company
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
It's probably easier for most people to not think of them as two remaining doors, but two remaining sets. Originally, with one hundred doors, if the goal object is only behind one of them, then there would be a 1/100 probability i
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
A pardon results in the relief from the consequences of a crime. There being a pardon doesn't necessarily mean there was no crime.
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Crypto currency proponents benefit from the existence of dark net marketplaces because they are some of the main places for the non-speculative use of crypto currencies. I think Ross and his pardon represent a sort-of metaphor in crypto-cu
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
I'm saying that it is curious that Oracle would be acting before the FTC began enforcement, if this sourcing is actually accurate.
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Which is curious if the sourcing by The Information is legitimate, considering that the FTC hasn't yet begun enforcement.
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
That is simply a topical remark within the judgement denying the injunction. It isn't relevant to what is enforceable or being enforced. The Act in question doesn't contain wording that implies that TikTok would have been required
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There's no evidence that they were obligated to shut off the app immediately at the time the law was enacted.
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There's currently no evidence pointing towards Oracle shutting down cloud service to them though. TikTok appears to have just preemptively shut down the app before they were obligated to, complete with dramatic messages telling users
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
The law didn't require them to shut the service off for those who already had the app installed. It just prevented new updates or downloads. Shutting off the app immediately was just theater and reinstating the app with no changes to
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
What would be the offended principle that makes going tit-for-tat with China "hypocritical"?
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Snowden's work doesn't say anything on the matter. The information he released concerned government data collection, not data restriction or manipulation.
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>on a site like HN that presents itself as rational and factual the sentiment is the US does not do any surveillance The impression I have of the sentiment on this site is closer to the opposite.
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Or cue sports, like billiards, snooker or pool?

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