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by rualca 6y ago
> I think the political side of it "screwing hedge funds" is a bunch of BS. You're free to ignore or downplay whatever facts you'd like, but it takes a lot of will power to turn a blind eye to the political and protes
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by rualca 6y ago
> The thing is, I don't think the winners are mostly getting rich off the backs of short sellers. I don't think your definition of winners applies here, because for some this isn't really about making a quick buck. There&#
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by rualca 6y ago
It seems clear that you don't have much in the sense of a context regarding what the WSB crowd does or thinks or days. You're talking about "fantasy" about wins regarding a community renowned for posting screenshots of s
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by rualca 6y ago
> Sure, if everybody holds, there's nobody to buy shares from. Not really. For your belief to have any basis, you'd need to believe that the whole world was comprised of either WSB-blend of redditors or hedge fund shorters, whi
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by rualca 6y ago
> Short interest is larger now than it was during round 1 Do you have a source for that?
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by rualca 6y ago
> Now, if[2], say 150% of the shares are held by buy-and-forget investors, who won't sell, regardless of where the price goes, a short squeeze is possible That's precisely the whole premise of gamestop's rally. It's w
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by rualca 6y ago
> I guess if its your first bubble, this is exciting stuff, but these things come crashing down eventually. Portraying gamespot's case as a bubble is either ignorant or disingenuous. It's a game of chickens between hedge funds
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by rualca 6y ago
> The comment I was addressing was "Do you stop driving non-Tesla cars? I'm not. That's your personal decision, and one you feel you meet to be vocal about on public forums. Others feel the exact opposite, and flying Boein
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by rualca 6y ago
Please keep in mind that resume padding is often not done by the candidate but by headhunters who want to depict their square peg candidate as the most perfect round peg ever imagined.
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by rualca 6y ago
From here https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54632353 > A man named only as Brahim C, a parent of one of Mr Paty's pupils, is also under investigation. The 48-year-old is accused of orchestrating a hate camp
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by rualca 6y ago
> The right figure to look at is the number of fatalities per million miles traveled. The right figure to look at is how many plane crashes there are with other commercial flight planes of the same class due to design defects covered up
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by rualca 6y ago
> Seems irrational given the probabilities. Two Boeing 737max out of a total close to 400 crashed in the span of around a year before being grounded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX_groundings The FAA p
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by rualca 6y ago
> Uh, what. How does something like this even happen? By "this" do you mean "egregious lies focused on making a case for plausible deniability"?
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by rualca 6y ago
The video feels like a weird "monty python explains Kalman Filters" sketch.
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by rualca 6y ago
> How is the existence of a book (...) The book exists. The publisher's just decided they won't sell it anymore. Stop misrepresenting facts.
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by rualca 6y ago
> The Dr. Seuss books are an example of intentional book banning on political grounds. No, it really isn't. When a book edition goes out of print that does not mean it's banned. If the editor decides not to invest in a re-edit
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by rualca 6y ago
>>That's an artificial construct designed to promote science and the useful arts, but in this situation it's being used to suppress art. Do you honestly believe you're "suppressing art" if you fail to force th
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by rualca 6y ago
> The entire purpose of copyright is to encourage people to publish their works. ...and the people with the copyright to the book thought about it and decided they do not want to distribute their book. Are they not entitled to decide for
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by rualca 6y ago
> They blockee when it was at the top tho.. That's a weird re-phrasing of "they caused the stock to drop by manipulating the market through blocking buys". And then there's the backpedalling by RobinHood when they rei
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by rualca 6y ago
> They let their customers sell which was probably a fiduciary responsibility. Given the context of gamestop's stock, only allowing to sell stocks is the exact opposite of protecting the customer's best interests. I mean, the h
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by rualca 6y ago
> Rh will argue best financiary duty was to protect his customers from the volatility Wouldn't that line of argument determine that traders would have the fiduciary duty to only allow their clients to sell on price hikes and buy on
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by rualca 6y ago
I see, I apologize for the unintended misrepresentation. However one of the things I jumped into the assumption that the blog post was stealth advertising for Nomad was a few exaggerated claims that feel quite a stretch to be able to come u
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by rualca 6y ago
> I don't get why people are so afraid of kubernetes, the thing is pretty much hands off. To be fair, this time around the ones afraid of Kubernetes are the companies trying to sell a Kubernetes competitor.
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by rualca 6y ago
> The main advantage of Nomad is Nomad. Is it, really? It feels like it is it's main disadvantage, in the sense that Kubernetes is a first-class citizen offered by practically all major cloud providers, while Nomad... Is anyone actu
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by rualca 6y ago
I wouldn't go as far as calling it a reinvention of the modern financial system, but I would call it a reinvention of the Dutch tulip mania[1], with the notable exception that tulips do have some tangible value. https://en.w
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by rualca 6y ago
IIRC Amazon has a few of them. https://icannwiki.org/Amazon
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by rualca 6y ago
> 1. Static type checkers increase compile times. It should be noted that this potential impact on compile times amount to a few seconds. > 2. If you're building a system which has to interact with other systems a lot, static typ
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by rualca 6y ago
> IMO, a python script should not reach 1500 lines, unit tests would be much better. My take was that Python's lack of static type checking led to the script being an unmaintainable mess because it was risky to refactor and graduall
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by rualca 6y ago
> Gradual/Optional typing is a great way to solve the split needs, but I was making the argument for why people might not want to use static typing in python even though it's available. Forgive me for asking, but did you made a
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by rualca 6y ago
> a) You're going to write unit tests anyway. I fail to see the point of this remark. At best, you're arguing in favour of reinventing the wheel. With. Every. Single. Call. At worse, you're somehow arguing in favour of bei

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