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by robjan 6y ago
In the UK many of the equivalent to community colleges and technical schools (polytechnics) have been reclassified as universities to attract more funding and prestige
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by robjan 6y ago
They specify "options in GameStop or AMC" but if you have margin on any instruments or options which are at risk of being assigned you will also get margin called.
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by robjan 6y ago
What's going on with dogecoin is just a pump and dump.
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How the GameStop game will stop(webb-site.com)
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by robjan 6y ago
If the stocks did badly they would be at a massive discount on their future earnings and would therefore be a strong buy. Unless the pandemic would permanently damage the company or economy there is no reason for the prices to substantially
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by robjan 6y ago
It's not comparable because you can't rent an apartment from someone then sell the ownership of the apartment to someone else because you don't own it. There's no way of making it comparable without making some kind of d
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by robjan 6y ago
Translation: we're gonna IPO soon and we want the hedge funds to treat us well.
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by robjan 6y ago
GameStop can issue shares at the higher price and use the cash to revitalise their business. Note I'm not familiar with the company so I can't assess whether the company is salvageable.
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by robjan 6y ago
That implies that they are the bad guys and not the people who were irresponsibly shorting the stock to such a great extent.
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by robjan 6y ago
The outages are caused by the execution brokers not being able to execute orders fast enough resulting in the order queue getting longer and longer. Also other capacity issues caused by everyone logging in simultaneously.
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by robjan 6y ago
HFT firms are making a killing on the volatility and order flow
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by robjan 6y ago
You still possess a right to a portion of the company which has an underlying value. The company is then essentially a store of value, just like my gold ETF. I have no right to access the gold directly but it has value because of the underl
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by robjan 6y ago
I was once forced to do that by a client and the result was having to bill additional time for logging and investigating what everyone on the team was doing. It probably added an additional 10% to the billed hours for engagement management.
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by robjan 6y ago
There's little they can do since the idea of "group" is stored on the users device. Groups don't exist on Signal servers and they can't see when a message is sent to a group.
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by robjan 6y ago
LinkedIn is slowly being destroyed by "personal branding consultants" who train people to be "person branding consultants". Once you get a couple of those in your connections the platform becomes unusable.
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by robjan 6y ago
Is the quality of life in SF much better or do you just get a bigger number in your bank account?
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by robjan 6y ago
It's a French company so the person who wrote this probably uses English as their second language
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by robjan 6y ago
If you have more hashing power you have more chance of earning a block reward to it's effectively a competition for each entity to get as much hashing power as quickly as possible. You can either make the hardware more efficient (and t
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by robjan 6y ago
The miners are ultimately the ones who decide whether to fork or not.
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by robjan 6y ago
There are various groups, pages and posts related to Mastodon, Diaspora and the Fediverse. I don't think there is an algorithm proactively banning people for promoting it.
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by robjan 6y ago
The data centre is located in New York but the staff are in Aus. I guess it's hard to move all of the staff to another country, many of whom are probably quite attached to Aus.
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by robjan 6y ago
One of the "dangers" presented in the article is the greater density of masts but that means rather than having high energy masts blasting radio waves broadly over the population, we can have lots of low power ones. That seems lik
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by robjan 6y ago
When you buy bitcoin from an exchange the transaction is taking place off chain. If you want the bitcoin transferred to a wallet that you own you will have to pay the high transaction fee.
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by robjan 6y ago
Same. I speak English and some Canto but little Mandarin. I get mainly adverts for mainland livestreaming services which are borderline pornographic.
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by robjan 6y ago
Try talking with friends / groups on a few different servers (it's decentralised, remember) and you will soon see what scalability issues are. As you add n servers to grow Signal you need n^x for Matrix.
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by robjan 6y ago
That pretty much exists though. That's why Raspberry PI was invented and at the cost of $25 + a keyboard and mouse for the base model. If you want to pick up programming as a hobby, a hobby computer exists. If you want to get more seri
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by robjan 6y ago
This is just a reworded version of this article: https://abc7chicago.com/localish/thanks-to-this-8-year-old-h...
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by robjan 6y ago
Rather than take it offline, another possibility is to size the hashing power and use it to undermine the currency.
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by robjan 6y ago
A cold wallet is not secure against a battering ram to your front door and a team of paramilitary police.
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by robjan 6y ago
That's great but nation states and large institutions have access to far more energy than the common man. It's hardly democratising money.

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