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by sakopov 6y ago
Can someone explain how more than 100% of the float can be shorted? How is this even legal?
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by sakopov 6y ago
Not all of short selling is bad. Sometimes it's an act of activism. Bill Ackman has been shorting Herbalife for years while trying to expose the pyramid scheme that it is. He was quite successful for a number of years. Similarly, Hinde
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by sakopov 6y ago
It's anecdotal but ETrade, TD, Ally Financial all started blocking buy orders at seemingly the same time - yesterday morning shortly after market open. The reason I know this is because I was on the phone with a friend at 9am Central a
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by sakopov 6y ago
This. It's been an incredibly eye opening week. From news trumpeting that Melvin Capital closed their short position [1] -- which is questionable at best -- to all major US brokerages preventing retail traders from participating in sec
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by sakopov 6y ago
I saw posts yesterday asking if it's still worth buying GME at market open. I was sure these people are crazy and about to lose their asses. I just checked price action a few minutes ago and it went from $60 to $144 before selling off
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Virgin Orbit Just Launched a Rocket from a 747(wired.com)
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by sakopov 6y ago
It's incredibly scary to see how many people on HN are content with giant corps becoming even bigger. I would much rather see Fitbit naturally fail and go bankrupt than become part of Google. We need regulations and we need them yester
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by sakopov 6y ago
I'm trying to connect your comment to parent comment and I'm struggling to find correlations. Are you implying that there are powers at play responsible for sensationalizing weather headlines to make forecasting seem untrustworthy
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by sakopov 6y ago
I find it difficult to understand how anyone is going to take action when the media trumpets that COVID isn't an issue much of January and February of this year. [1][2][3] [1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health&#x2F
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by sakopov 6y ago
I have done full El Camino de Santiago twice. If you want to do a thru hike but don't know which one - do this one. It's fairly easy with lots of stops along the way. It's easy to navigate. There are many many people on the t
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Timelapse of future technology: 2022 – 4000 (video)(youtube.com)
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by sakopov 6y ago
You're hitting the nail on the head. Forestry is probably one of the most underserved markets. The opportunities here are abound even in the most fundamental areas like forest management.
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by sakopov 6y ago
Looks like it's still missing portfolio functionality, which, as I read somewhere not long ago, will be part of Google Finance soon.
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by sakopov 6y ago
I don't really understand who this post is targeting. It looks like it's landscape photographers but I as one I feel a little bit confused. Let me explain. I'm a hobbyist landscape photographer and I've invested almost a
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by sakopov 6y ago
There is also a site with similar functionality. [1] [1] arktrack.com
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by sakopov 6y ago
ARK publishes their "balance sheets" daily. I noticed that they update them usually around 6:30PM central. So you're basically just comparing with previous day's data to find deltas.
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by sakopov 6y ago
So, maybe I'm not understanding something, but there are numerous reports from what appear to be reputable sources -- a few listed below -- claiming that there were uncovered missing votes during recounts in Georgia. However, there isn
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by sakopov 6y ago
Recording of “sonic attacks” on U.S. diplomats in Cuba spectrally matches the echoing call of a Caribbean cricket [1] [1] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/510834v1
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by sakopov 6y ago
I think internet in general has become cancerous when social media sites started influencing every aspect of online culture. I remember being on old forums like Digitally Imported and it really felt like a warm and welcoming community where
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by sakopov 6y ago
Well, that's a staggering amount of misleading, unproven or incorrect claims for a site that claims to be a fact checker. > Africa Check is a non-profit fact checking organisation set up in 2012 to promote accuracy in public debate
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by sakopov 6y ago
> Normally if you have stuff going on you won't waste your time being angry about a piece of media. I'd wager that boredom and, more importantly, lack of purpose fuels most of the hate and insanity we see today on the internet.
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Ancient footprints of woman carrying toddler while stalked by sabre-toothed cats(telegraph.co.uk)
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by sakopov 6y ago
Fox News isn't in the business of censoring free speech. But nice try.
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Here you go. [1] [1] https://theintercept.com/2019/01/20/beyond-buzzfeed-the-10-w...
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MicroStrategy CEO allocates company's $425M cash into Bitcoin(twitter.com)
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by sakopov 6y ago
I don't know about Virgin Orbit, but isn't Virgin Galactic actively testing their aircraft for space flights? [1] I think it's a bit of a stretch to either call them a scam or argue that they didn't achieve much. This ar
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by sakopov 6y ago
You're absolutely right. I always thought of Subaru as a niche car maker appealing mostly to outdoorsy types who don't mind getting their hands dirty to do some maintenance on their car. I don't think they really put much eff
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Phineas Gage: Neuroscience’s Most Famous Patient(smithsonianmag.com)
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by sakopov 6y ago
Nationalism is a characteristic of both Liberal and Conservative candidates in Russia. This is something that most Americans don't understand. If you're looking for Liberal candidates in Russia following the same definition of wha
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by sakopov 6y ago
Nero looked like Ramzan Kadyrov (the present Chechen leader). Both are also quite deranged. This is a pretty spectacular project!

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