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Vlad Tenev (Robinhood CEO) explains last week's events to Elon Musk [video](youtube.com)
3 points by kenneth 6y ago|1 comments
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by kenneth 6y ago
Institutional traders (hedge fund, i-banks, prop traders, hft) have the advantage of deep pockets and the financial literacy to be able to execute strategies which create easy returns. Many of these strategies are easily scalable to turn a
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by kenneth 6y ago
Element is not Matrix.org. You can view child porn on Chrome, or receive it by email, or download it by Torrent. Yet I don't see anyone banning web browsers, email clients, and Bittorrent client.
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by kenneth 6y ago
Let's say the average bet is 1-5k into this the average Robinhood user invests around 5k), it only takes 200k-1M buying in to move $1B into the stock. When you start with a $200M market cap on a heavily shorted stock, you easily end up
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by kenneth 6y ago
Say you refuse to hire or fire people from a predominantly black neighborhood — not because they're black, but based on the neighborhood — it's pretty accepted these days that that's discriminatory and not allowed. But now li
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by kenneth 6y ago
I believe, in many parliamentary systems the parliament is dissolved first after which government becomes a caretaker government and cannot enact major new policy changes. After an election is held, new members of parliament are elected and
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by kenneth 6y ago
Seems the comments here are mostly negative — saying his pardon is an example of corruption and that he should be in jail. Personally, I think that the ability for gigantic corporations' ability to not only sue their former employees o
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by kenneth 6y ago
The "ok" hand sign isn't a white power sign just because some people have decided it to be. It's meant ok since as long as anyone can remember. I'm not willing to accept I can't say okay now because some libera
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by kenneth 6y ago
Are we talking about BAT? Thought that was an opt in feature.
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Pretty sure free speech is gone from "liberal democracies" now that the left has decided that Twitter and Facebook should be arbiters of what speech is allowed.
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by kenneth 6y ago
Frustratingly my Carrier in HK doesn't support 5G even though it runs on a network which has supposedly deployed 5G already. To be honest, it doesn't make any difference to me, except in crowded buildings where there is no recepti
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by kenneth 6y ago
Japanese people are also smaller than Americans! Joking aside, the lifestyle is also different. Tokyo and HK where I live are known for tiny apartments, but they're also cities where residents spend far less time at home, offering chea
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by kenneth 6y ago
Missed economics class? It's basic supply and demand. Rent control doesn't do anything to make housing affordable for people trying to get an apartment in the city, all it does is make it near impossible to find an affordable unit
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by kenneth 6y ago
Yes and no. A pop means that shares sold were at a discount to their true value. At the same time, it's usually benefital to a company to have a high stock price for various reasons, and that benefit likely outweighs the downside of ha
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by kenneth 6y ago
Fly business or first, problem solved
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I wouldn't call Singapore a democracy. It's an authoritarian one-party state that happens to hold elections. These elections are always won by the same party. The democracy index rates Singapore at 6.02/10. About 0.03 away fr
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by kenneth 6y ago
It's widely believed that the use of the bombs in WWII as a practical demonstration of the technology is what lead to there not being a WWIII and generally a period of (granted, uneasy) world stability throughout the cold war. Thanks t
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by kenneth 6y ago
Which is precisely what's wrong with neo-liberalism these days. A massive lack of rationality. Cancelling college debt is about as screwed up an idea as one can come up with. It rewards exactly the wrong behavior, and is subsidized by
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by kenneth 6y ago
I do take slight issue with the section about RAM performance. The idea in the article is that M1 Mac runs software that uses reference-counting instead of garbage collection as its memory model (i.e. Objective-C and Swift software). Two is
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Why Bother Having Babies?(unherd.com)
2 points by kenneth 6y ago|1 comments
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Never had this issue, but then again granted I stay with the nicer hotels typically part of a western chain.
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This is why I always stay in a hotel and not with friends or Airbnbs whenever I visit China. I'm not bothered to deal with registration and the hotel takes care of it.
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After moving to the USA from Europe I was quite shocked at the free-for-all on American freeways. The European model is followed very well in Switzerland, and it's extremely pleasant and practical to have the ability to cleanly overtak
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I imagine if you're posting on HN, you're not at imminent risk of starvation. (No value judgement on your position though, I generally think that this treaty is a bad thing due to its role in expanding China's power and influ
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Clubs are probably one of the worst place to meet people. No way to really converse and the best you can hope for is to meet someone drunk who wants to fuck. Not ideal for actually meeting people. Most people are actually quite friendly and
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I don't really have a goal. Relationships with interesting people of whatever form are worth having regardless of the outcome. I've been in serious committed relationships, and single and having flings or just physical fun. Being
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In a non-creepy way. Probably not on the street, but sure anywhere out where people might be social and open to striking up a conversation (bar, restaurant, park, class, whatever). Don't make it an "approach," just strike up
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Meeting people in the real world like we have done for millennia is highly underrated. I don't understand the obsession with dating apps. It's a horrible way to meet people. Young people's inability to approach potential part
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Did you miss the absolutely brutal lockdown they imposed on everyone? I am staying far away from all countries that treated their citizen like prisoners until the pandemic is over — and I have forever lost respect for quite a few countries
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There definitely are outdoor restaurants and bars even in winter. Most add insulation / heating. In NYC for example, several outdoor rooftop bars add tents and heaters. The biergarten at the Standard hotel is covered and operates year

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