fr0sty

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541.
by fr0sty 16y ago
> there will be serious inflation in the next 20 years - I have no idea when, but bond yields will drop or become negative at some point. These two statements are contradictory. Bond yields will skyrocket in the face of inflation. If
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by fr0sty 16y ago
only if there is an audio recording being made.
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by fr0sty 16y ago
This analysis ignores the possibility of a cyclic-nature to such claims. I'm sure you could find a citation for a 'kids these days' rant in every decade of the last 200 years but such simple analysis ignores the evidence presented for the
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by fr0sty 16y ago
They do, in theory. The Blow-Out-Preventer, basically an automatic cap, it installed in-line on every well currently being drilled. Yes, it failed but there is no guarantee that "this cap" will succeed in the case of another BOP failure.
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by fr0sty 16y ago
I'm pretty sure that was hyperbolic language on the part of the OP.
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by fr0sty 16y ago
True, the IPO price was $17. you said: "The rule is:if you can buy it, then you don't want to." All I'm pointing out is that you could have bought TSLA at $18 yesterday if you wanted to which appears to violate your 'rule'.
547.
by fr0sty 16y ago
But you could have bought at $18 and made %33 which isn't bad for a day's work.
548.
by fr0sty 16y ago
Not quite: If you have a retail brokerage account you could have put an order in to purchase TSLA anytime this morning when the price was between $18-$20.
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by fr0sty 16y ago
If you are charging more than an apartment is WORTH, then no one will pay. I think you mean it is illegal to sublet for a profit (receiving more from the tenant than you owe to the landlord) which is not the same thing.
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by fr0sty 16y ago
A few things: (and it seems lots of folks here know just enough to be dangerous) 1. Naked Short Selling is illegal. There is an exception for market makers that allows them to trade naked shorts but that is beyond the scope of this discuss
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by fr0sty 16y ago
The investment is only good if the actuarial tables prove to be correct. For a counter example see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment In 1965, aged 90 years and with no heirs, Calment signed a deal to sell her former apartment
552.
by fr0sty 16y ago
I am not familiar enough with the details of the Colt firing pin safety, but I believe 'dropped from a height' is not necessarily equivalent to 'pulled from 3ft into a 1.5T magnet'.
553.
by fr0sty 16y ago
This would have massive impact on 'real' investors. If people could not profitably take on short term positions most of the liquidity in markets would dry up. Market Makers and HFT trading groups comprise the great majority of displayed li
554.
by fr0sty 16y ago
It is still bash because bash is more universal than Python+Ruby+Lua. The only place bash doesn't exist is on Windows and installing Cygwin is the least of your worries in that case.
555.
by fr0sty 16y ago
People use DVCS for its features and capabilities. Because it can do more things not because it is easier to use. In the case of git the 'simple' workflow runs into some troubles because git is designed to accommodate much more complex wo
556.
by fr0sty 16y ago
Here's another crazy idea: don't run 'git checkout ...' on a dirty work tree. Problem solved. Another one: don't reuse filenames as branch-names. To be honest: I have the same problem with careless invocations of 'rm' ruining my day but wh
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by fr0sty 16y ago
If you are having trouble with git losing your changes you shouldf really be committing more often. Once a change is in git it is very hard to lose but until it is in git losing it is very easy.
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by fr0sty 16y ago
What is also missed is that most exchanges discontinued flash orders late in 2009. BATS and NASDAQ both discontinued the practice, Direct Edge still allows them (they are opt-in) and NYSE/ARCA never had them.
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by fr0sty 16y ago
There is no way to send an 'exploratory' order as you describe and is is, as you suspect, impossible to cancel an order that has already been executed. The only way the example in the article would be if there were no other available seller
560.
by fr0sty 16y ago
Crazy, in this sense, perhaps equates more with 'irrational' than 'erratic'. In 08' Everyone basically knew why things were melting down (or had a narrative that fit the data) but people were pretty much dumbfounded at the massive move wit
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by fr0sty 16y ago
Reg NMS does not allow a trade to happen outside the national Best Bid/Offer. If the market is 99.99-100.00 you cannot trade even at 99.98
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by fr0sty 16y ago
easy, and perhaps a bit naive. it is possible you may cause more market turmoil by halting only certain stocks which would push volume into ETFs, futures, options, and other stocks in the same sectors. The markets are very interconnected a
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by fr0sty 17y ago
I think you are missing the thrust of Linus' point. "... it's where everybody _has_ to write" There is nothing wrong with an 'authoritative' repository to which everyone pushes. What is a problem for Linus, and many others, is when the aut
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by fr0sty 17y ago
foo and bar are the Lorem Ipsum of code. They let you look at the flow without getting caught up in certain details. You look at 'for', 'while', 'if', and other operators more closely when the identifiers are place-holders.
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by fr0sty 17y ago
The only thing shown unambiguously was that "that juice did not prevent scurvy". Taking this to reason inductively that "no citrus juice prevents scurvy" is the real problem. They discarded documented evidence and grasped at other straws i
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by fr0sty 17y ago
If their record keeping had actually been so good they would have remembered that citrus (by whatever means, and not to the exclusion of other remedies) cures scurvy and would not have wandered off into the weeds chasing spoiled meat (which
567.
by fr0sty 17y ago
Try doing the same with seven people + luggage in a ford van (1.8l diesel). It is surreal to be driving 140kph and be passed as if you were standing still. BTW, if you want a nerve-wracking experience try driving the same setup in Italy.
568.
by fr0sty 17y ago
freecycle them. There are groups in most population centers. Someone out there begging to find that tivo console cable. Me and my wife have been getting rid of items not valuable enough to sell but too valuable to pitch through that chann
569.
by fr0sty 17y ago
What was the original article? I can't seem to hunt it down.
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by fr0sty 17y ago
You can change your mind and turn a 'bookmark' into a 'branch' and back again. you can also fold your branch into another one and pretend it never happened. Or you can pick your branch up and place it somewhere else in the tree, or...

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