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by sgpl 6y ago
I'm actually not super bullish on clubhouse. I'm sure they'll find some success but to call it something that will become one of the most important platforms, I don't see it. And perhaps I'll be proven wrong in the
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by sgpl 6y ago
A clip from one of those interviews: https://twitter.com/ChrisCuomo/status/1354994000294522881 In the entire interview there's no real answer to any question.
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by sgpl 6y ago
Another thing to note is that one of Robinhood's main investors from their last round, 'D1 Capital', is also down 20% this year [1] with a fund size of 20 billion, so that's a 4 billion dollar hole for them to recover fr
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by sgpl 6y ago
I asked on twitter but didn't really get a response to this but I'm curious if someone involved in the industry can answer this for me: If Robinhood is only allowing users to sell, can they choose to sell* (route the customer&#x2
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by sgpl 6y ago
In the grand scheme of things, this (GME, AMC, etc.) is a really small pool of money at play. For reference, the Norway Oil Fund [1] holds almost 1% of the world's stock which amounts to somewhere in the neighbourhood of 1 trillion dol
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by sgpl 6y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong but if I'm buying a call, my downside is limited to the price that I pay for the option no? Obviously if people are selling options / etc. downside can be uncapped.
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by sgpl 6y ago
It's not just robinhood, platforms that charge commission such as IBRK [1] have halted the trade of options (which is different from not allowing buying) but it definitely suggests some behind the scenes coordination for all these onli
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by sgpl 6y ago
Obviously I'm speculating but one of the largest investors in Robinhood's last round was a hedge fund. As others have pointed out, Citadel's market making arm is their largest source of revenue + Citadel's hedge fund rec
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by sgpl 6y ago
I agree with the comment that @mysore has written in a response to this but I wanted to add my two cents as well. I mean if you have a disagreement with his ideas, it makes sense to debate them/attack them but on a post about his comme
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by sgpl 6y ago
Yeah tbh I didn't know what to expect when clicking the link and it's bringing up feelings where I feel like a bit of an imposter? (imposter syndrome) because I don't track and organize all my learnings. Not sure if imposter
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by sgpl 6y ago
I'm pretty bearish on SPACs tbh. Not in the immediate future but 2-3 years out (most of 2021 will be spent on vaccines so I'm sure there will be more stimulus added to the economy). It's just bonkers that there's so many
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by sgpl 6y ago
I think the original post is referring to the fact that they worked at zynga and as per their experience 'whales' met with or wanted to meet with zynga staff to discuss aspects of the game with zynga staff.
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by sgpl 7y ago
I came in to my undergrad institution (Georgia Tech) as a CS major but switched out after the first year for reasons similar to what you've described. A lot of my classmates had been programming for a while before coming to Tech for th
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by sgpl 7y ago
IMO the indigenous/native populations of North America being almost wiped off the continent is one example. "Brute force / no rules" worked in that regard for the colonialists / settlers.
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by sgpl 7y ago
Yeah. What really stood out for me was the dissonance between what the mother was doing vs what she was prescribing/writing about: > One of her areas of expertise is how to pay for college. In her writing, media interviews, and You
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by sgpl 7y ago
Anyone that wants to go to college can (presumably) get into one. It's not that he wanted a college guarantee - he wanted guarantees at a select few colleges. He, in my opinion, wanted to guarantee for his kids - the networks / ac
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by sgpl 7y ago
I think this comment fails to see that this isn't about philanthropy but about buying into networks/access/prestige that these schools (Yale, Horace Mann) provide. Leland Stanford's reason for starting Stanford in his so
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by sgpl 7y ago
This counterargument conveniently ignores the history of 'European colonization of America from the early 16th century until the incorporation of the colonies into the United States of America [0]'. I'm not the most well-vers
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I'm a pathetic loser who can't stop procrastinating(thecut.com)
4 points by sgpl 8y ago|1 comments
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by sgpl 8y ago
On his website, he's listed as the author of two books [0], and his about me page mentions that he was in the army for ~3 years. I was looking for info on how he financed these adventures as well, and these were the only things that I
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by sgpl 8y ago
Reading this article made me really frustrated. As an individual I can't do much about government sanctioned surveillance but at least I'd have hoped that people such as Stroud that worked for US intelligence would have a stronger
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by sgpl 8y ago
YearCompass [1] is a also a great resource for doing this. It's well structured and I found it pretty valuable. Used it last year and plan on filling it out over the next few days again. I initially discovered it via reddit.com. [1] h
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Incarcerated Pennsylvanians now have to pay $150 to read(washingtonpost.com)
33 points by sgpl 8y ago|6 comments
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LCBO announces deal with Shopify to run online cannabis sales platform(thestar.com)
1 points by sgpl 9y ago|0 comments
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by sgpl 9y ago
Do you have an email I could reach you at? I'd love to ask you a few questions privately!
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Steve Cohen set to make a comeback with a massive new hedge fund(businessinsider.com)
3 points by sgpl 9y ago|0 comments
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by sgpl 9y ago
" . . . and then Lance Armstrong reached me. He grabbed my by the shoulder, because he knew that everyone would be watching, and he knew that at that moment, he could show everyone that he was the boss. He stopped me, and he said what
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How Rich Chinese Use Visa Fixers to Move to the U.S(bloomberg.com)
4 points by sgpl 9y ago|1 comments
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by sgpl 9y ago
This is awesome! Is there something in the works that would make it possible for 'donors' to cover the annual enrollment costs for others? Or would that defeat the purpose? And this is off-topic but that's brilliant photograp
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by sgpl 9y ago
Has anyone gone through this book? If so, what were your thoughts?

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