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Weekly moves. GME, VW, and the one I'm talking about are all comparable in that sense.
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My first contact with the stock market was learning about some stock that had ballooned 1200% and crashed the next day. This was in 1999 or 2000.
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This argument is equivalent to supporting the IRS going after small-time tax cheats because the big boys - with billions in public revenue lost by their fraud every year - are "too difficult" to prosecute. Regulators exist to prev
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Let's take a look at the formula.
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A market so susceptible to mania is maybe in the need of brakes that are used judiciously and without bias. We clearly do not have that, and in fact have been stripping them away since the 80s. You can't blame this on "unsophistic
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The issue is that the volatility had been unprecedentedly high for a week, but they jumped up the collateral requirements overnight. It would be one thing if they'd stepped it up in time with volatility, but by the timing, it looks les
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Uncertainty based on incomplete data. With an investment, you have most of the data about a given venture as it stands at the moment in front of you; only the future is uncertain. With a gamble, you have profoundly incomplete information ab
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This is interesting. I was never diagnosed with anything (too poor to go to the doctor at the time, even with insurance), but I came to the conclusion that I had a similar issue: bad (or overgrown) bacteria housed snugly in biofilm. As ment
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IIUC Tesla's value comes in part from failed bets against it. Investors looking to make a buck off its imminent failure were instead forced to pay out, in greater proportion, hedges made on those short bets, when it survived. The same
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Not necessarily. Attempting to force a sea change in the proportion of capital ownership is undoubtedly class warfare, and further, perusal of WSB will find most GME posters expressing some variation of an intent to hold their shares unti
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"This worked for me, but might not work for you, because of our specific circumstances," followed by a detailed description, would suffice, and in turn be much less useless and condescending. Please, discuss specifics (as I have).
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Adding to the anecdotes: Around summer 2014, I began to focus very heavily on "bulking" for strength training. This was about a year after I'd developed very obvious symptoms of lactose intolerance and had had to cut uncultur
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Interest-free loans, given as a public good and to hedge against a wealth tax. Get your name on some newfangled venture and keep Uncle Sam's hands out of your pocket, but you don't get to rent your money.
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Choosing two schools and then saying the process is random seems disingenuous.
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What I don't understand is why they lock you out of your data when they ban you. For IRL evictions, they'll give you notice to start moving your belongings or, worst-case, dump them on the curb. Sucks, but you still ostensibly h
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True to layman form, I can't help but relate this subject to previously consumed media that cover the same subject, so I'll mention them here: For those who aren't familiar with the Library of Babel, Jacob Geller's video
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I think you'll find that most people who focus on identity politics would rather have that gap closed for everyone, than to see specifically people who look like them in places of power why they themselves continue to languish. The iss
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But does that scale? Planes kill fewer people than cars do per mile traveled. What happens when everyone has a flying car?
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Would the abuse of system privileges and capabilities count as "exploiting vulnerabilities in a computer system?" In fact, one might expand this in order to include software that that exploits vulnerabilities in psychology. In thi
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They were doing it significsntly more than their competitors.
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They were also caught discriminating against... well, you can probably finish this sentence. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-santanderbank-mortgages-i...
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What happened at Columbine was the logical conclusion to the upholding of an American ethos that affirms a privilege to arms and violence as a valid response to grievance, which is itself rooted in our history of (race-based) slavery. More
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A take like this represents a woeful ignorance of American history.
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Somehow I don't think such consideration would have been extended to the Boston bombers, even with LE overreach on display for the whole country to see re: the search and entry tactics in Watertown et al.
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The third option is coexistence, though this too is something writers seem to be bearish on (Egan's Diaspora gives it a bit of consideration before simply killing off most organic life with a gamma ray burst, which I found somewhat cyn
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IIRC that took a Matrix-style war that humanity just barely won, so I don't think there's much hope among writers that we get to a post-tech universe without breaching the brane of cataclysm, seeing machine-borne oblivion on the o
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Most annoying about these kinds of situations is that the company likely hasn't even lost the data, but has simply removed your ability to access it. It's probably still being used to profile and profit off you, but good luck bein
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My understanding, from a long-ago report which I cannot find, was that the children of lesbian couples do better than average: higher college admission rates, lower prison rates. It was thought that the relative difficulty of having childre
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I think the important thing to take out of this situation isn't so much, "Every family needs to have a father," as it is, "Every community needs to be able to respond to the realities of its constituent family situations
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The opposite. They're closely related compared to the rest of the world , but still come from different families, while living in substantially similar environments, which in many way have "maxed out" advantageous factors (h

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