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by skzv 5y ago
I don't think you can place market orders after hours. It could have been a deliberate limit order to avoid a margin call by raising the mark-to-market value of an account.
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by skzv 5y ago
> Are we not exporting at the same rate? Yes. To quote JP Morgan's recent article "Dude, where's my stuff?"[0]: > The surge in US import demand has led to a sharp rise in eastbound freight rates (see charts for Sha
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by skzv 5y ago
Not too surprising to me, honestly. Wealthy Russians and Chinese are hiding their money in the West (UK, US, Canada) precisely for that reason. London (AKA Moscow-on-the-Thames) is famous for happily taking in and protecting that dirty mone
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by skzv 5y ago
Thank you for the clarification!
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by skzv 5y ago
The United States considers any transaction in USD within their jurisdiction. Huawei and Iran should have been doing business in a different currency, and frankly I don't understand why they weren't.
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by skzv 5y ago
I'd be really happy to see we are accommodating people with disabilities. A reminder to me that if I lost my eyesight, hearing, or mobility, I won't be left behind.
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by skzv 5y ago
How is Woz involved? These days, it seems Woz is paid to endorse, or otherwise put on the board to bring attention to a lot of projects, without much involvement: https://medium.com/@pabischoff/steve-wozniak-walking-bil
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by skzv 5y ago
What I took this to mean is that this company will not be tied to any nation's military complex or government funding. I'm eager to learn what Woz means by this. All I could find so far was this: > a 3D printing site reported W
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by skzv 5y ago
When I started high school in Canada, my math grades were pretty bad. Probably in the 60%s (a C letter grade). I remember staring at a quadratic equation, struggling to understand why those 3 terms drew a curve. I had no intuition for it. T
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by skzv 5y ago
Actually, Greenpeace is notoriously anti-nuclear: https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/ending-the-climate-crisis/iss... This has produced conspiracies that Greenpeace has been funded by the fossil fuel industry for that
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by skzv 5y ago
I think it incentivizes banks to buy the securities from the Fed (to hold overnight). Otherwise why bother?
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by skzv 5y ago
It's also annualized, so it's $500m over the entire year. And it's interest earned by the banks, not the Fed.
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by skzv 5y ago
Thanks for your insight! > Single family house you'd want to live in, clearly "no". It's almost always a bad investment decision. Is this still true, though? Asset management companies - most famously Blackrock - are
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by skzv 5y ago
What are your primary investments? Do you own any real estate?
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by skzv 5y ago
Derek Muller is a bit of a celebrity at my faculty. He is a fellow Queens University "Engineering Physics" alumni, a degree most people have never heard of. Thanks for putting us on the map, Derek!
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The Lucid Motors configurator is a video game streaming to the browser(blog.skz.dev)
4 points by skzv 5y ago|2 comments
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by skzv 5y ago
Thanks for the link. Why do you hate it?
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by skzv 5y ago
Poignant reminder that SMS is unencrypted and not only readable but writable in between!
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Ask HN: What do you think of the “Big Tech Art Style”?
3 points by skzv 5y ago|2 comments
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by skzv 5y ago
Reminds me of problem in the early days of Google: > On Sanjay’s monitor, a thick column of 1s and 0s appeared, each row representing an indexed word. Sanjay pointed: a digit that should have been a 0 was a 1. When Jeff and Sanjay put al
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by skzv 5y ago
Even every photo you take with a smartphone these days is altered by a machine learned model, put through some filter, and tuned in some way, even if it's subtle.
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by skzv 5y ago
I can understand the concern. It can mislead people about what the past really looked like. An example: this same model colorized the Golden Gate white: https://camo.githubusercontent.com/3487a03626fd86d4f8c814636... In my
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by skzv 5y ago
I wrote a quick script the other day to colorize directories of family photos. I realized it would be cool to colorize these photos, too. Here's the album: https://imgur.com/a/aJbpMjf The script uses the Image Col
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by skzv 5y ago
> In 1994 hyperinflation was finally tamed when the current currency, Real, was introduced. It was the culmination of an ingenious plan that actually worked. What was the plan?
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by skzv 5y ago
That was a beautiful story. Thanks for sharing it.
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by skzv 5y ago
> like this is some law of physics. And I don't think it can be. Economics is ultimately the study of people's behaviour, and that is subject to irrationality, emotions, culture, and times.
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Arbitrage as a Shortest Path Problem(blog.skz.dev)
2 points by skzv 5y ago|0 comments
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by skzv 5y ago
It appears less full blocks are more dissonant. I wonder if that's intentional.
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by skzv 6y ago
Depends, does Ferrari have a 14 day return policy?
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by skzv 6y ago
A video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL3ZmiJXFwQ

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