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by findjashua 6y ago
biggest reason I switched to Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
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by findjashua 7y ago
marketing
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by findjashua 7y ago
vix is approaching GFC levels - good time to sell some delta neutral condors
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by findjashua 7y ago
not exactly - circuit breaker was put in place after the 1987 crash, but the 3-tier system (7-13-20) went into effect only in 2013: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Trading_curb
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by findjashua 7y ago
the only way atm would be to sign up for email notifications for any transactions, and parse the emails to get relevant data there are a few issues though: 1. some banks only send notifications for transactions that are over a certain amoun
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by findjashua 7y ago
but what percentage of the workforce is actually working in jobs related to solving these problems? i'd argue that the "anti-work" sentiment here is more to do with lack of fulfillment due to an epidemic of bullshit jobs, rat
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by findjashua 7y ago
the biggest wins w Kotlin, imo, are the sensible defaults - variables are non-nullable & collections are immutable by default. These eliminate entire classes of runtime exceptions and bugs (respectively).
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by findjashua 7y ago
seems like it only performs the search on the last word instead of the entire query. is that the expected behavior? screenshot: https://paste.pics/7FLK0
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by findjashua 7y ago
if someone's looking for an rss reader recommendation - i tried feedly, but inoreader is my favorite by far (not affiliated, just a v happy user)
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by findjashua 7y ago
BEAM (Erlang VM) provides pre-emptive scheduling
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by findjashua 7y ago
now if they can just add a compiler flag for "immutable by default": https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/32758
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by findjashua 7y ago
Kafka streams can solve this use case fairly well - though setting up & managing infra may be a bit more than what you'd want to deal with for a hobby project
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by findjashua 7y ago
my guess is that they're buying put options on the shiller home-price index, at a strike price 20% below the spot price. though, those indices are only granular at the city level, whereas during a recession all neighborhoods in a city
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by findjashua 7y ago
i did this for personal use a while back, but the biggest issue i faced was that the merchant name in the email alert was truncated, so it wasn't the same level of info quality that mint/plaid can provide (since they have the comp
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by findjashua 7y ago
One could keep rolling the puts forward, though it would be a drag on returns if the market stays above the strike and the options stay out of the money.
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by findjashua 7y ago
the EB5 investment isn't backed by the government though, so a lot riskier than the loan for Quebec investor visa. Additionally, as the parent comment mentioned, one could finance the investment and therefore really only pay ~175k out
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by findjashua 8y ago
I see what you did there
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by findjashua 8y ago
I’d be interested in this! jashua DOT sf AT gmail
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by findjashua 8y ago
Southwest provides this through their “low fare calendar” feature.
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by findjashua 8y ago
If this was done to juice metrics shown to investors, doesn’t this constitute fraud?
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by findjashua 8y ago
Fork (git-fork.com) is pretty neat as well
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by findjashua 8y ago
Trains and buses don't solve the last mile problem
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by findjashua 8y ago
or twitter (and likely other social media platforms as well)
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by findjashua 8y ago
you provide your bank credentials to the 3rd party app, which forwards them to Plaid
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by findjashua 8y ago
Last I checked, neither Plaid nor the banks provide an OAuth login option. You're still giving away your bank credentials to the 3rd party app.
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by findjashua 8y ago
I have been a happy user of Inoreader (no affiliation, just a happy user)
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by findjashua 9y ago
If a PR stunt helps a good cause, I'd say it's a win-win.
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by findjashua 9y ago
not sure about Android, but on iOS you can customize which apps have access to location data all the time (eg google maps) and which ones have it only while using (eg moviepass). So if you open the app only to check-in in the theater, they
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by findjashua 9y ago
seems like you can get an electron app if you're on mac or linux: https://documentation.pagedraw.io/electron/
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by findjashua 9y ago
I believe the reasoning behind it is to incentivize long-term investing. Though, it should really be a tiered system in that case - different tax rates for holding periods of <1 yr, 1-2 yr, 2-3 and so on, instead of just <1 yr & &

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