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by hntrader 6y ago
Agreed on the shadiness. I think the GME pump wasn't a direct attempt by him to make money (since he donated proceeds), it was mostly a strategy to get publicity and align him with the retail investor crowd on social media so that his
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by hntrader 6y ago
I think the jerk might get more satisfaction being able to spam the victim's phone and torture them from beyond the grave, compared to being ghosted completely (which is a tactic that should be reserved for only the truly heinous).
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by hntrader 6y ago
Being biased towards quitting your job is a great heuristic. Even if the boss is o.k., if you have any non-trivial reservations at all it's generally best to quit as quickly as possible. Probably the same for breakups. Very few people
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by hntrader 6y ago
This would make for a very interesting academic study, to figure out whether variation in tip size is driven more by personality dimensions (agreeability, generosity, etc) or by socioeconomic status. Presumably it's a combination of bo
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by hntrader 6y ago
It is. Prices for basic services are lower in tipping cultures, ceteris paribus, since staff wages are a component of price, and staff wages are lower in a tipping culture since they make part of their income from tipping. Hence, the cheap
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by hntrader 6y ago
What I dislike about a culture of tipping is that in effect it's a transfer of wealth from the generous+agreeable customer to the greedy+disagreeable+shameless customer. I still advocate tipping since it's a nice thing to do and p
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by hntrader 6y ago
But policy evaluation isn't the goal. Hinkel has dishonestly shifted the goalposts.
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by hntrader 6y ago
That's true for every commercial transaction including every labor market transaction, and it's the reason why voluntary transactions are positive sum to both parties (ignoring the negative externalities to uninvolved third partie
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by hntrader 6y ago
Yes, it was a big factor. The WHO was discouraging mask use for months after the pandemic started, even though we knew that the original SARS was airborne and we knew that masks were effective against other coronaviruses. They were pushing
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by hntrader 6y ago
Second the comment on Ritalin among non-ADHD. Couldn't tell the difference between that and illicit speed on the street. Dry mouth, manic, euphoric.
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by hntrader 6y ago
How up-to-date is that short interest data?
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by hntrader 6y ago
I got paywalled, what's the TLDR on it?
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by hntrader 6y ago
Does this also apply to 2nd generation immigrants?
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by hntrader 6y ago
What problem does moving from T+2 to T+0 solve exactly? Aren't the capital requirements the same, and hence the outcome would've been the same? I'm no expert on this topic so I could be wrong.
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by hntrader 6y ago
> 2. all management are German Questions from someone that knows very little about Germany: How much of this is the German culture to be educated to a master/PhD level in order to get into management roles? Perhaps that increases th
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by hntrader 6y ago
And their support of the NFL which leaves their students with CTE. We could say it's their voluntary choice to participate but when they're being offered such a juicy carrot to trade off against their health, some people are going
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by hntrader 6y ago
To be fair, that's not pertaining to Citadel (which RH sells flow to) but to Point72, a different backer of Melvin Capital
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by hntrader 6y ago
I tuned down the rhetoric a bit as that's not how I wished it to come off. I think the article is very good actually, I just wanted to introduce some scepticism regarding the PR explanation we're getting at the moment (and there m
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by hntrader 6y ago
The conspiracy theory is that they restricted trading in order to crash the GME price, thereby benefiting Citadel. There seems to be a "legal" way they could've done this, which is failing to be sufficiently capitalized for w
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by hntrader 6y ago
RH say they scrambled to organise necessary credit lines in response to new DTCC requirements. Well why weren't they in place by Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday in the expectation that DTCC would increase these requirements? Volumes were
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by hntrader 6y ago
That's what the article says: Luck = Doing * Telling
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by hntrader 6y ago
The Obamacare website cost $2 billion according to a Bloomberg piece in 2014. Don't ask me how that's even possible.
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by hntrader 6y ago
In a literal sense, personal experiences (when accurately described) are a proper subset of facts.
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by hntrader 6y ago
You can do it in a single pass fairly easily. Loop over the rows of data. Store the current high to low, as well as the largest high to low since inception. If the current exceeds the largest since inception, simply replace it. Should be ab
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by hntrader 6y ago
He's on about 500k/year. It's not enough. That's a not uncommon total package for a reasonably experienced SV engineer, it's not fitting for one of the foremost pure mathematicians of our generation. It's becau
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by hntrader 6y ago
I mostly agree, but the only evidence we have is Robinhood's word which industry people seem to have taken as gospel. It's not implausible that they're lying, given that Citadel is their biggest customer, and they could'
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by hntrader 6y ago
Yeah, it still takes me 60 minutes to sleep, because my mind is busy. I need meditation, medication, or something.
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by hntrader 6y ago
You're blessed to be able to get to sleep so rapidly. For me, the stress of that type of job + coffee would kill that ability. Even without these two antagonists I would have no hope of being able to do that.
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by hntrader 6y ago
What bridges divides the best is unfortunately a common enemy that has agency, which unites previously warring factions against a common outgroup. This is the unfortunate reality of our tribal brains. Just look at how this whole GME episode
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by hntrader 6y ago
I wonder if we can invest in a fund manager who does this strategy. And if it's so good then why do pension funds and endowments not allocate to it typically.

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