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by fr0sty 9y ago
Someone bought 2500 put options. Each option gives the owner the ability to sell 100 shares at the strike price of the option. If whoever owns those options exercises them today (And covers their short position at a price of $125) they will
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by fr0sty 9y ago
> The founding fathers enabled the tax. They repealed the tax 5 years later. Also, it was $1 per $500 (0.2%). > It was re-instated as part of the Tax act of 1862 to help fund the Civil War and repealed after the war was paid for. That
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by fr0sty 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estate_tax_in_the_United_State... According to the IRS, a temporary stamp tax in 1797 applied a tax of varying size depending on the size of the bequest, ranging from 25 cents for a beques
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by fr0sty 10y ago
I wonder whether the inventor would have better luck shipping his cranes to another state where the regulatory barriers would not be so steep. Lots of mid/high-rise buildings going up in places that are not NYC...
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by fr0sty 10y ago
> do you really want to see what happens when you wrap it around your waist? The last player on each end can safely wrap the rope around themselves if they like. The rope behind them is slack, so the only tension on the rope is the tensi
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by fr0sty 10y ago
Using the pressure cooker for eggs, aside from making the shells easier to peel, skips the "wait for water to boil" step and gives you several minutes of flexibility at the end of cooking since the heat shuts off when the timer ru
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by fr0sty 10y ago
Does not do sous vide, but it certainly can replace your rice cooker and slow cooker. Only trouble is having only one appliance prevents you from cooking parallel (making curry _and_ the rice to serve it over, for instance, would be a probl
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by fr0sty 10y ago
Biggest difference between the two is the cooking vessel (Teflon-coated vs. Stainless). Also, the fact that the Power Pressure Cooker XL is "As Seen on TV!" turns me off personally, but I that may not be a universal reaction.
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by fr0sty 10y ago
> The instantpot is a bit slower Are you pressure cooking your rice or using the "rice" setting? I've found rice to cook faster in this vs. my old Aroma rice cooker...
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by fr0sty 10y ago
> Steam escapes noisily through the lid locking mechanism for about a minute first FWIW, I've found that if you push down on the lid firmly once it starts venting steam in any quantity it will lock instantly.
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by fr0sty 10y ago
I had an '82 Chevy pickup with that shifter arrangement and it actually wasn't that bad even though the bushings had long fallen out all the joints so there was a good inch of slop in the travel of each of the arms. Still shifted
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by fr0sty 10y ago
"Buzzer" = Electromechanical Vibrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrator_(electronic)
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by fr0sty 10y ago
> as recently as 2014 it added $25 billion Yes, but that is $25B out of total receipts of $884B[0]. For every $1.00 paid in over $.97 was paid back out to beneficiaries. In 2015 it was $.975 and 2016 will probably be higher still. Accord
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by fr0sty 10y ago
It could be worse. Could be: "Ain't got no..."
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by fr0sty 10y ago
His H2O2 link is to this: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2014/10/10/thi... which talks about some more exciting peroxides.
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by fr0sty 10y ago
0. Remove/disconnect the power LED. 1. Consider powering the sensor via a GPIO pin that you set high when you want to take a reading rather than connecting it to the positive rail. 2. Research whether your chip can be easily put into d
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by fr0sty 10y ago
Interesting hack, but not exactly secure. Now your doorbell can be rung across town by anyone with a directional antenna and your "secret" SSID.
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by fr0sty 10y ago
Forgive the random comment here, but I just ran into an ancient comment of yours[0] mentioning you searching for a Leader LBO-514a Oscilloscope. Was your search ever successful? I just got my hands on the same model and have been searching
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by fr0sty 10y ago
Commercial chicken hatching operations separate chickens by sex and destroy the males, yes. Backyard operations rarely hatch their own chicks but rather buy them from suppliers (who deliver via USPS, surprisingly enough).
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by fr0sty 10y ago
This is at least in part an editorial choice. Woman throwing grain to flock of chickens running around her feet is a much more interesting visual that chickens walking around foraging...
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by fr0sty 10y ago
In 1880 Francic Galton did a survey[0] to determine the extent to which different people were capable of mental imagery and he identified much the same phenomenon. Some responses to his questionnaire: _"These questions presuppose assen
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Alien Intelligences and Discriminatory Algorithms(chrisstucchio.com)
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by fr0sty 11y ago
> Just to be fair I think any discrete time auction would reduce HFT. But is the reduction of HFT qua HFT really the goal? Making a market low-frequency will by definition reduce/eliminate HFT as a strategy but you will still have a
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by fr0sty 11y ago
> At least that's what the models show. What models? Increasing the amount of risk a market maker must bear will widen the quoted spreads not narrow them since that increased risk needs to be priced in.
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by fr0sty 11y ago
You only get information directly from the market-center once a minute, but the rest of the world (and other markets which trade continuously, or at a different frequency) are generating new information constantly. Clever and/or well-c
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by fr0sty 11y ago
>They also are all equipped with a white noise machine that's connected to the ceiling light switch. That is most likely a ventilation fan. The white noise is a side-effect.
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by fr0sty 11y ago
I really wish someone would make a version of this form letter for HFT: https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt
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by fr0sty 11y ago
I guess my point is that unless you change the monetary beneficiary of the traffic fines you retain perverse incentives even if you try to make the costs more equitable.
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by fr0sty 11y ago
>seems like it would lessen the incentive to ticket to generate lots of revenue. That still doesn't align the incentives. It just shifts the focus from quantity of stops to quality of stops (the correlation between vehicle cost and
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by fr0sty 11y ago
This story reads a bit like a rehash of the Hardy "Jefferson Bottles" Rodenstock story, right down to being tripped up by Bill Koch: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/09/03/the-jefferson-b.

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