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by jaycroft 6y ago
I'm not sure it's entirely unreasonable on Coinbase's part to disallow margin trading if the margined securities are required to be delivered to the customer's wallet, and not just noted in their account. TD Ameritrade
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by jaycroft 6y ago
Regarding the 20TW from the Wikipedia page, that's referring to the EIRP - effective isotropic radiated power. This is the amount of power that you would need to radiate from a theoretical antenna with a perfectly spherically symmetri
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by jaycroft 6y ago
If everyone were to sort themselves into companies that were anti-genocide and pro-genocide, how could we ever have an honest debate on anything?
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by jaycroft 6y ago
Perhaps I'm missing some sarcasm, but the article states that two clocks, one synchronized to the earth's rotation, and the other keeping atomic time, they would drift by a total of 4 hours over 2500 years, not drift by 4 hours pe
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by jaycroft 7y ago
I've removed my original reply as it was posted out of a place of incredulous anger.
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by jaycroft 7y ago
At this moment, on Coinbase, you can instantly sell approximately 1000 BTC for $9.91M - about 4% under the mid market price against what is on the book. Assuming you are a US person (since you want to move the money to a US bank) and have
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by jaycroft 7y ago
The google books link appears to have died: "You have either reached a page that is unavailable for viewing or reached your viewing limit for this book" (I'm fairly certain that I have not viewed anything from this book, nor
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by jaycroft 7y ago
There are certainly some trust issues with Tether, but in this case I don't think that exchanges could easily roll back Omni transactions unless they were to fork the Omni protocol. Omni transactions happen on the Bitcoin blockchain -
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by jaycroft 7y ago
Apple has also prevented them from distributing their game under the English name in the U.S.
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by jaycroft 7y ago
It is the only version, which is localized in both English and Chinese, that was taken down worldwide. You can go see on the app store that the English "Clicker Heroes" is removed from all search results.
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by jaycroft 7y ago
I would imagine that they're working on it. But, as devil's advocate, I might ask instead "why didn't Apple remove the offending app only from the region in which it was deemed to be infringing?"
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by jaycroft 7y ago
Apple took down the Clicker Heroes app in all languages, English (for which the company does hold a trademark) included, worldwide.
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by jaycroft 7y ago
Tether has never been convertible back to dollars through Tether directly unless you are dealing with astronomical sums - they make no claim (and maybe never have?) of convertibility on their web site. If the average person with a few thous
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by jaycroft 8y ago
Some did. Peak births per year happened in 1957, and during the boom, total births were skewed toward the latter end of the 1947 to 1965 period. In 2017 the median retirement age in the USA seems to have been 62, I can only imagine that n
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by jaycroft 8y ago
Parent was probably implying that the Secret Service would sieze the tainted assets and the auction them off to new bidders, thus removing the taint for the new owner. the reason for the auction instead of just funding the treasury is that
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by jaycroft 8y ago
Perhaps if when in the public defender role the lawyer is successful in showing the crime lab to be unreliable, it is a good thing if that crime lab's work holds less weight in subsequent trials? Of course other bad incentives will p
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by jaycroft 8y ago
(1/16400) - (1/46000) ~= 0.00004076, or about 0.004 percentage points. Reasonable on the face - so, are you instead arguing that percentage points are misleading? I would say that they are an appropriate measure when evaluating r
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by jaycroft 8y ago
After further reading, I'm a little less convinced. The $0.25 number comes from the 2nd paragraph of the April 25 2018 Techspot article [1]. According to arsTechnica [2] he would spend $80,000 for the disks. 28,000 disks were seized,
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by jaycroft 8y ago
People spend money on "worthless" things all the time, and as a person who wants to reduce e-waste Eric would have plenty reason to spend something like $80000 to further his goal (whether his belief is justified or not). He made
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by jaycroft 8y ago
Regarding the "profit": Microsoft conveniently leaves out the part where Eric was planning to sell the disks for $0.25 each - just enough to cover the cost of creating them. Severely disingenuous of Microsoft to spin this as &qu
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by jaycroft 8y ago
Those disks were unusable without a license. To get a license you need to pay Microsoft, not Eric. Please take your false equivalence somewhere else.
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by jaycroft 9y ago
The original post states that he bought in early 2017, and sold in late 2017. That makes it clearly all short term capital gains.
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by jaycroft 9y ago
Your point 3 is actually a little worse - the carry forward loss deduction from regular income is capped at $3k per year (but unlimited against both future short term and long term capital gains).
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by jaycroft 9y ago
How do you get a $50k tax bill implies realized gain of 330k? OP states $120k gain on top of 47k salary. To be generous, i'll first assume that he has had his salary withheld at the correct rates. Federally he will owe 32253 in addi
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by jaycroft 9y ago
A couple related observations: 1) With the dramatic rise and then fall of the Nasdaq back in 2001, with similar timing (peak right around New Years Day [0]), and a similar amount of new and uninformed market participants (online day trading
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by jaycroft 9y ago
Until you get to values of x below 1%...
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by jaycroft 9y ago
If you are a US citizen, then yes to both questions. Trading any asset for another (which would include spending EUR for goods) creates a taxable event, on which you must declare your gain on the sold asset based on its fair market value a
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by jaycroft 9y ago
In many places there is no market to speak of that would provide pressure. In the building I live in I have exactly one reasonable way to get on the net, and that is through AT&T. Market solutions do not exist when monopolies are pres
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by jaycroft 9y ago
"Finally, certain types of property are specifically excluded from Section 1031 treatment. Section 1031 does not apply to exchanges of: Inventory or stock in trade Stocks, bonds, or notes Other securities or debt Partnership interests
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by jaycroft 9y ago
It's not only MailChimp that causes the "get your money's worth" type send an email every two weeks even if you don't need to style behavior - it's an impossibility to run a clean list these days and not get fl

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