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by jbooth 9y ago
If the stocks (or wacky option/derivative trade) still have value, then yeah, there's no problem. The problem is when people make a bet that doesn't work out. There are a lot of exotic trades that can clean you out completel
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by jbooth 9y ago
They're offering 2x margin, if I read the article correctly. So it's at best 1/3 secured, and probably a lot less than that if you need to make a margin call and try to collect. The gigantic risk to Robin Hood isn't tha
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by jbooth 9y ago
If you gave me a choice between running $1k through a blackjack table, or backing $1k of an unsecured loan for margin trading by a random Robinhood user, I might go for the blackjack.
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by jbooth 10y ago
Well, whether they wanted it to be or not, old celtic and saxon languages were swept aside by history. Old chinese characters weren't, for whatever reason. I wasn't trying to be too prescriptive or racist, like "the nature o
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by jbooth 10y ago
As far as "change" and "cohesive society", it's possible that the only reason that the Chinese have a 2500-year-old cohesive society is because of initial resistance to change. How else can you have one "socie
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by jbooth 10y ago
Have you ever heard of Project for a New American Century?
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by jbooth 10y ago
Look at the numbers: Something like 50% of Fox News viewers believe ridiculous falsehoods, like Obama wasn't born in the country or Saddam really had WMD. There are studies showing that Fox News viewers are less informed than no-news
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by jbooth 10y ago
Without artificial fertilizer but I recall reading that they massively improved yields from 1000-1500, let alone a span of 4000 years. Why make "artificial fertilizer" a goalpost? Yield is what matters, there's apparently a
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by jbooth 10y ago
Counterpoint: A friend of mine had an okcupid profile where he dedicated 500 words to denying that he ever had sex with a bowl of macaroni and cheese. It was hilarious, and he's the one person I've met in my entire life who reve
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by jbooth 10y ago
The market can stay irrational longer than.. 10 mins.
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by jbooth 10y ago
If you give them free H, they'll be a lot less desperate and a lot less violent, presumably. And.. why not? I've got multiple friends in my age group prematurely dead from overdose. It's not like prohibition is accomplishi
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by jbooth 10y ago
We've gone from 85% of the global population in extreme poverty to 25%. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/declining-global-poverty-...
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by jbooth 10y ago
We've brought 3 billion people out of poverty in the last 30 years and haven't had a major-power war since WWII when we set up all these globalist institutitions. I'd say the record holds up pretty well.
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by jbooth 10y ago
I didn't double major in math or stats. I squeaked through linear algebra without understanding the material, and then re-studied it independently a few years ago and actually understood a little more. Yet, I can still apply machine l
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by jbooth 10y ago
I'd settle for not actively weeding out experts as we do in the current voir dire process.
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by jbooth 10y ago
It's funny, because if you express opposition to racism and someone accuses you of virtue signalling, they're basically saying "nobody believes that anti-racist stuff, you're just saying it to look good". Very illum
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by jbooth 10y ago
You mean while the bombing was reduced to almost nothing from 2 hot wars?
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by jbooth 10y ago
No, it isn't normal or some continuation of normal to ban people WITH GREEN CARDS from getting on planes to the US based on their being muslim. Jesus Christ.
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by jbooth 10y ago
I think one could say that this isn't just another typical 8 year cycle. As far as "primary perpetrators a week ago", I mean I'd have preferred that Obama do more to protect civil liberties but he is the guy who pardoned
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by jbooth 10y ago
Doesn't the overhead of moving things back and forth between GPU memory and main memory wipe out most potential gains, though? If you're running analytical workloads on big data sets, you're typically I/O bound to start
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by jbooth 10y ago
Unless union labor was a majority/plurality of the project's cost, then they're not the biggest problem with this project. Seems like you're just using them as a bugaboo to pin all the world's problems on.
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by jbooth 10y ago
I seriously doubt that a large Japanese multinational made a $50B decision in the last 4 weeks. Masayoshi smartly saw that with some spin, he can hold a press conference with Trump and get some goodies for something they were going to do an
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by jbooth 10y ago
Except the products are 100% overpriced knockoff junk. They're only there, as GP said, to make it just barely not a pyramid scheme in the eyes of the law. Nobody joins Amway because they believe in the products, they join because they
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by jbooth 10y ago
Trump got the same votes as Romney. He shares approximately zero ideas with Romney. Evangelicals voted for Trump, who has kids with 3 different women and cheated on all 3, because Republican. Free-trade libertarians voted Trump, the least
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by jbooth 10y ago
Yeah, but Go bundles dependency-fetching into the language, via import "github.com/somedude/somerepo". Doing so without supporting versioning makes versioning harder to accomplish via external tools than Java's &qu
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by jbooth 10y ago
Very much worth noting too that the bailouts ensure banks (mostly German banks) get paid back. Bankruptcy or debt forgiveness means the banks don't get paid back. And now when EU taxpayers get pissed about paying for the bailout, the
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by jbooth 10y ago
Someone needs to make a trustworthy escrow site for betting on situations like this. I could take a blanket bet against "any conspiratorial theory about Hillary Clinton" and clear 80% of them. Her stint as SoS featured a 20-someth
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by jbooth 10y ago
First off, it's ALWAYS "an election" when an election is on. The immediate goal of winning the election is probably 99% of her reasoning for hammering Russia about the hacking attempts. It's the best political answer t
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by jbooth 10y ago
There's a circumstantial case, and more importantly, Hillary very likely believes it. Even if she doesn't? The domestic political angle is a much better reason to bring it up in the debates than some 9-dimensional plan to invade
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by jbooth 10y ago
I'd say Russia being widely suspected of hacking her and all of her friends to help her opponent is a sufficient explanation for her to talk about.. them doing that..

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