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by defen 6y ago
The people who I saw sharing it were definitely serious about it and not ridiculing it. > Why does this document even matter? There is a massive discussion thread here, with multiple people saying "No one believes <unreasonable t
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by defen 6y ago
>> 5. Show interest in multiculturalism. But do not culturally appropriate. > Oh come on. All people ask is things like: don't do blackface, it's dumb. Like dressing up as an SS. Fully legal, as it should be, but really d
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by defen 6y ago
"Some of the initial work on this page was done by Penny Padgett." That sounds like a Pynchon character...is she a real person or did Pynchon help you make this site?
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by defen 6y ago
If Yellen had been appointed a judge instead of Secretary of the Treasury, and a court case involving Citadel came before her, would you expect her to recuse?
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by defen 6y ago
> It was somebody else who figured the short squeeze was possible during mid September. That was this post: https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/ip6jnv/the_... He even predicted the $400 p
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by defen 6y ago
Ameritrade wouldn't let me write covered calls (for calls expiring today) unless I called up their trading desk. Which had a 700 person line in front of me. > Seems to be 35%/year right now for GME shorts. If a GME short borrow
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by defen 6y ago
Shorting a stock, then going on CNBC and explaining why you shorted it, possibly catalyzing a profitable selloff: totally legit. Buying $300 worth of stock and then posting a rocket emoji on a message board: an assault on the basic foundati
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by defen 6y ago
Brokerages do not have a fiduciary duty to prevent customers from losing their money in bad trades. It's one thing to shut down margin trading or even possibly options purchases, but to not allow people to buy a stock with their own mo
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by defen 6y ago
> For example, picture a retail investor with a Robinhood account had sold call options in the amount of $100,000 and their account was worth $200,000. If the price gapped from 300 to 5000 and those options were exercised, that trader c
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by defen 6y ago
My point is that if AAPL had shot up to $15/share when Jobs came back, and people bought in then at $15 and held, they'd currently have a YoY gain of 10%
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by defen 6y ago
The whole value prop of Robinhood (from an institutional POV like Citadel) is that providing liquidity to retail traders is valuable because it's lower risk - my guess is that the GME imbroglio blew that assumption out of the water and
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by defen 6y ago
> But no way anyone sincerely believes GameStop is worth $400/share. In February 1997 AAPL was worth 15 cents per share. You could have overpaid by 100x at the time and you'd still be up 9.4x after 24 years (not counting divide
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by defen 6y ago
You should be able to initiate the transfer from the target brokerage. For example in TD Ameritrade, Account -> Contribution -> Account transfer from another brokerage
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> The stock rocketed up today and the puts rose about 20% as well This is called IV expansion.
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> You only pay taxes on your yearly capital gains I am not a tax professional but I would recommend at least talking to a tax professional about that. Taxes are generally due upon realization of income/capital gains; the quarterly t
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by defen 6y ago
Are you familiar with quarterly estimated taxes and the AMT rule?
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Don't forget about taxes if it wasn't in a retirement account.
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Market makers delta hedging OTM calls and then unwinding them as the stock comes back down.
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OP said the store contacted him, not LE.
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by defen 6y ago
Even if literally nothing had happened, the government still would have had this technical capability. I think that's what people are worried about, not the specific fact that they're using it to track down the Capitol rioters. If
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by defen 6y ago
It's not explicitly taught, it's Girardian mimetic desire to destroy anyone with -ist or -phobic thought, as those sorts of people are who are preventing us from creating a utopia.
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by defen 6y ago
The New York Times (and other outlets, I'm sure) is notorious for writing trend pieces based on the fact that two or three people the reporter knows are doing some thing. Which then often turns it into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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by defen 6y ago
Driving an MX-5 in San Francisco...I have to ask - manual transmission? Because if not, you're not really getting the full experience; but if so, those hills must be fun. I'm thinking of some of the streets in the Marina going up
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by defen 6y ago
> - Compatibilty with C: That doesn't tell me much, because C++, D and Rust all have excellent C compatibility. Zig's @cImport/translate-c is significantly easier to use than Rust's bindgen (though it's been a fe
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by defen 6y ago
> In fact I'd expect any community to drift as the norms of society change. But then, you've already conceded that progressivism is right (but perhaps moving too fast for your comfort) - so what is the point? If you know tha
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by defen 6y ago
No, because "moderate conservative" is not a stable political position, at least as far as social issues go. It really consists of people who are comfortable with things how they are and who oppose liberal attempts to remove unpri
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> We were close to a congressional decapitation on live TV. In 2017 a lone left-wing activist caused more Congressional casualties than thousands of militia boys invading the Capitol.
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Let's say you think Bitcoin is going to crash (or you're a trader and just think it's going to go down). Obviously you want to sell your bitcoin, but also postulate that you don't have a connection to a real bank (KYC an
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by defen 6y ago
> I once saw a citizen with a 6-shooter strapped to his hip at a Colorado county clerk's office peacefully fill out some paperwork for 5 minutes. What does this story tell us about what rioters did or didn't do while tearing up
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by defen 6y ago
> The govt still funds crackpots to argue against Chinese people originating in africa, to call greco-roman and egyptian history faked, and don't even get me started on their insistence on 5k years Wait what? The Chinese government

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