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by bhk 6y ago
We agree that RH could have been clearer on the "gotchas" of trading on margin and/or that margin was even involved. > Robinhood was not even close to the only broker who was impacted by this, so can we stop pretending tha
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by bhk 6y ago
Either (a) this is not true, or (b) this is an opportunity for reform. From the customer's perspective, the cash is provided up front and is tied up after the trade is made. The type of collateral requirement you are describing -- abo
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by bhk 6y ago
> It was not because we wanted to stop people from buying these stocks. We did this because the required amount we had to deposit with the clearinghouse was so large—with individual volatile securities accounting for hundreds of millions
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by bhk 6y ago
If they had to take this action to save themselves, they have already betrayed the trust of their customers. > Robinhood's entire product is built on a manipulative and predatory premise that making people feel comfortable "tra
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by bhk 6y ago
A year old, but on point... https://www.russellclarkim.com/marketviews/russell-clark/201... > There is no doubt that a default by a clearinghouse member is more likely when initial margins are low and may be ca
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by bhk 6y ago
IB's CEO was interviewed on CNBC, and he actually said that his motivation was to "protect the market" ... specifically large players important to the market, whose solvency was threatened by the short squeeze. "... we a
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by bhk 6y ago
First order: people want to be seen as having the correct opinions, so when the definition of correct changes, they change what they espouse. Free speech used to be popular.
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by bhk 6y ago
Are you sure about that? If you click through to the EU site https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_20_... and read "Google's Commitment" on ads: > Google will not use
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by bhk 6y ago
There's no law against a member of Congress introducing or voting for legislation that benefits friends or donors. If there were, they'd all be in jail.
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by bhk 6y ago
This article presents as a language flaw what is really an operating system flaw. Exposing system functionality through dynamically-linked C libraries, and using C features that do not guarantee ABI compatibility, results in an OS interfac
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by bhk 6y ago
Leap seconds have nothing to do with precision time. It's a non-periodic alteration to the definition of UTC. Those niche applications that require second-accurate knowledge of Earth's rotational accuracy don't need to rely
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by bhk 6y ago
TCP does have retransmission, but it was designed for networks with very low packet loss and where most packet loss is due to congestion, so it does not react quickly to packet loss and when multiple packets are lost it slows down dramatica
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by bhk 6y ago
Does anyone here work in an environment where every mistake warrants public shaming? Sounds like a hostile environment to me. What am I missing?
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by bhk 6y ago
It has been many years since I read my paperback copy of this. Some memorable quotes: > Don't read, study. > Inspiration, the high-strung condition in which emotion, eloquence, music, or merely strong coffee can place us... reve
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by bhk 6y ago
Probably referring to this: https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-archive-united-nat...
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by bhk 6y ago
If CDC's mis-estimate from May can be forgiven by virtue of there not being enough good studies at the time, then why is Bhattacharya's even earlier (and more accurate) estimate being characterized as unconscionable? > The WHO
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by bhk 6y ago
> ... a contrarian number on the death rate that has proven to be very very very wrong. What was that "very very wrong" number? I found [1] from April in which Bhattacharya estimates that the IFR is probably one tenth of the C
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by bhk 6y ago
I've found that people tend to attribute human emotions and self-awareness to their pets, far beyond what science (or skilled pet trainers) would hold. And then there are other people that attribute these qualities and even the presen
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by bhk 6y ago
So NASA said "plus or minus 130,000 years" when they were actually off by about 70 million years?
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by bhk 6y ago
After reading the other responses to your earlier comment, I'm curious... In that "research domain" do they also attribute milk consumption in Eastern Europe in the last century and in India 5000 years ago to Big Dairy?
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by bhk 6y ago
The top rate in California is 13.3%
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by bhk 6y ago
Do you have any evidence of this? I could not find any mention of secrets being shared with companies in the (very long) article you linked.
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by bhk 6y ago
The price of helium should be the incentive.
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by bhk 6y ago
I would have thought that their backhaul ground station links would be many times faster than their user station bandwidth, since they can use large directional antennas.
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by bhk 6y ago
> I really hate supporting that. It appears the only victim of your spite is yourself. (Hmmm... there's an old saying along these lines.)
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by bhk 6y ago
Congress could cut out the middleman.
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by bhk 6y ago
When two particles get closer, their mutual gravitational attraction increases. As the distance approaches zero, the force approaches infinity. In the limit of d -> 0, the energy released -> infinity. Obviously at some scale the
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by bhk 7y ago
How is "game and workaround the system" different from "comply with policies"? Is compliance not the objective?
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by bhk 7y ago
I'll never forget the Spatula City ad.
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by bhk 7y ago
It would help if you could point users to a Prolog implementation that is compatible with your examples. I couldn't find any in the book, but going up to your home page I found a couple of references to SWI-Prolog, and installed that,

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