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by mikestew 3mo ago
You’re right, but the keyword in my post was “should”. If you have to look up “short selling” in the dictionary (as in OP’s case), naked options aren’t on the menu.
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by mikestew 3mo ago
But to sell the calls, you should own the stock first. Puts can be bought w/o owning the stock. Granted, the put buyer pays the premium, so you don’t get guaranteed money in your pocket like you would selling calls.
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by mikestew 3mo ago
That kind of international cooperation between the US and other countries is something we just don’t see anymore.
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by mikestew 3mo ago
Man, that's nicer than houses in Redmond for the same money (though the SF one is a touch smaller), and you won't get that view. Bay Area house prices are insane, ya say?
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by mikestew 3mo ago
I'm the last of the Boomers, and my parents are in their 80s and I was a prom baby (meaning "young parents"). There's no way 17% of Boomers are sponging off Mom and Dad, because the overwhelming odds are: Mom and Dad a
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by mikestew 3mo ago
Eastern Canada, perhaps? Because B.C. wildfires have made Washington maps go to "very unhealthy" (AQI 201-300), so I'm sure B.C. was above that. (I'm not sure what "yellow" means where you're at. It&#x27
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by mikestew 3mo ago
I created an Apple shortcut based on what I found here: https://www.lifdb.com/posts/2024/12/17/how-to-create-an-inte... It does “x minutes with y seconds recovery”, and for your use case you can set y=0.
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by mikestew 3mo ago
Have you considered people can enjoy different things than you? Things like peace and quiet? Assholes with loud exhausts have made it abundantly clear that our tastes differ, yes.
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by mikestew 3mo ago
It’s been true for over twenty years that the majority of IPOs drop below their IPO price and stay there. Maybe your brokerage has some shares before IPO day that they’ll let you buy, but you’re still taking a big risk. Buy shares on the
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by mikestew 3mo ago
I’m a cold-dead-hands 13 Mini owner, but even I’ll admit to the temptation of replacing the last device I have that doesn’t use USB-C with something that does.
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by mikestew 3mo ago
I vouched for this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48891223 …as it looks pretty innocuous to me. And more importantly, your other comments aren’t obnoxious. :-) I’d love to know the heuristic that flipped that
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by mikestew 3mo ago
First time reading The Register , is it? Because I would expect no less from such a pillar of journalism as them.
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by mikestew 3mo ago
I don’t need to say it. If spamming didn’t work, people wouldn’t do it.
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by mikestew 3mo ago
FWIW, every comment OP has posted has been spamming HN with this for almost a month.
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by mikestew 3mo ago
Before. Source: born and raised Midwesterner.
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by mikestew 3mo ago
The same “kids across the street” I reference in another comment needed translation from “quarter to eleven” when they’d ask the time. Makes sense given they couldn’t read an analog face at the time.
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by mikestew 3mo ago
Ten years ago the kids across the street from us (who were 9-10 at the time) would ask the time, and I’d show them my watch. They’d still ask what time it was because they couldn’t read the analog face on my watch. The oldest is in college
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by mikestew 3mo ago
No one used 8-track for the quality. It was portable, and it would play continuously (it looped), great for sitting with your honey in a secluded area. And the physical quality of 8-tracks weren’t great. Based on the number of 8-track cartr
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by mikestew 3mo ago
At the time it was pretty obvious, having just come off Meatloaf’s Bat Out of Hell being played on the radio ten times a day.
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by mikestew 3mo ago
If you have Apple Care, I assume Apple will. They’ve done it before, but not on something this old. If not, there’s always DIY or 3rd-party.
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by mikestew 3mo ago
There’s at least 3 of us still on iPhone 13 Minis… You, me, and my wife. I’m just waiting for my phone to hit 79% battery health so I can take them both in for battery replacement. It’s gotten to the point that I frequently get asked, “wh
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by mikestew 3mo ago
Check out Nostradamus over here. ;-) You have guessed correctly, as I add to the cries of “this used to work, Apple!”
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by mikestew 3mo ago
Colloquially it might be correct, but not technically correct. The “floppy” part never referred to the casing, but the media inside.
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by mikestew 3mo ago
I blame autocorrect, though it could have just been my fat fingers. Sibling has it right: “Ansel Adams”. (“Ansely Adam’s”, WTF, autocorrect?)
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by mikestew 3mo ago
I think the idea is that the display kinda represents the shot, but not well, but if you cared you wouldn’t be shooting with a $29 camera. I mean, it takes 1920x1080 pics, don’t get too picky there, Ansley Adams. :-) But I agree with you, I
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by mikestew 3mo ago
Going on ten years ago I saw an early transparent OLED screen (TV-sized). It didn’t need a strong light source behind it. Could be those got cheap enough in a small size to put in a $29 camera.
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by mikestew 4mo ago
That whole app looks vibe-coded. Look at the settings page in the App Store screenshot.
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by mikestew 4mo ago
First one’s free: https://reminder.w3cub.com/guide/pets.html And a few screenshots on the Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6776577400
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by mikestew 4mo ago
No, that would be doing curls with a printed copy of the book. Alternatively, I'm sure recreating the drum solo from the Zeppelin song of the same name would get you sweaty. For advanced athletes, do the live version.
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by mikestew 4mo ago
It's a great memo, and well worth the read. Sure, some of it seems obvious in hindsight, but it was written before a lot (most?) of HN participants were born. I do have one disagreement: Both of these are counter-productive strategies

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