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by swampthing 5y ago
Pretty sure I have TOS too — it's how I came to discover Kinesis keyboards. It's manageable for me now, but I would be curious to find out if there was nerve damage so that I know how further I can improve and what's futile.
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by swampthing 5y ago
Wow, I don't feel quite so alone anymore. I went through something similar, although I didn't have it as bad as you. I couldn't shake hands, lift a grocery bag, or drive for quite some time. The doctors I saw were stumped,
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by swampthing 5y ago
The solution to overreaction should probably be to adjust the reaction to information, not to ignore information altogether.
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by swampthing 5y ago
Ha, good point!
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by swampthing 5y ago
It would be interesting to develop a metric of how long it takes for a new fact to propagate through a population, and then see what other attributes that correlates with. You'd need to adjust it for falsehoods propagating, of course,
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Clerky (YC S11) is hiring software engineers to help modernize legal paperwork(jobs.lever.co)
1 points by swampthing 5y ago
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Clerky (YC S11) is hiring software engineers to modernize legal paperwork(jobs.lever.co)
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Clerky (YC S11) Is Hiring Senior Software Engineers(jobs.lever.co)
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Clerky (YC S11) Is Hiring Senior Software Engineers (Remote)(jobs.lever.co)
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The Dogs That Grew Wool and the People Who Love Them(hakaimagazine.com)
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by swampthing 6y ago
I’ve heard it’s a Snapchat filter (apparently there’s a way to use those with Zoom).
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by swampthing 6y ago
Cool, just pointing out where that logic leads.
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by swampthing 6y ago
Yea, I was referring to the MD degree (guessing the degree you’re referring to is not called that).
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by swampthing 6y ago
By this definition, an MD is also a bachelor’s degree.
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by swampthing 6y ago
Hi Sam — sorry to hear that our pricing was confusing! I'm not sure if this will help, but the Company Lifetime Package covers all the same products as the Pay-Per-Use Plan (other than some third-party fees). The Company Lifetime Pack
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by swampthing 6y ago
> Again, the clearinghouse did exactly what they were supposed to do; step in and prevent RH from ending up in a position where it could default on its obligations. That's not the clearinghouse doing something "out of the blue
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by swampthing 6y ago
> These two clauses contradict each other. If it's in the rules, it can't be "out of the blue". I would strongly disagree with that statement. Just because something is specifically identified as possible doesn'
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by swampthing 6y ago
I don't know that it would be accurate to assume that Robinhood was not prepared for the possibility of their deposit requirements changing. I think it's more likely that they were unprepared for the magnitude of changes in a lot
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by swampthing 6y ago
Because that is basically what happened. There is a reason why WSB and GME have been in the news. It's because what happened is surprising. Sure, in hindsight, you can identify causes for the phenomenon. But if you rewind back to J
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by swampthing 6y ago
You could call it that, but these are obligations that appear to have been unilaterally decided by the DTC without prior notice. As far as I can tell, any brokerage using the DTC could potentially suffer the same fate if the stars aligned.
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by swampthing 6y ago
It sounds like you think that what happened is related to margin accounts. I don't think that is accurate (see the blog post this thread is on). Robinhood does keep the equivalent of auto insurance, by the way of the deposits they mak
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by swampthing 6y ago
I don't think this is the same as what you're referring to. Under the DTC rules, this would likely have been an "Additional Participants Fund Deposit". The rules seem intentionally vague about what happens if you don&#
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by swampthing 6y ago
If you own a car, you should know that you could be in a catastrophic accident at any time based on the behavior of others. If you are driving lawfully and someone t-bones you out of nowhere and you die, did you make a mistake in your driv
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by swampthing 6y ago
Not a primary source, but: https://stu2b50.dev/posts/why-robinhood-d3580b > Brokers cannot use client money to satisfy their clearing fund obligation. So whether or not the accounts had a settled balance didn't
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by swampthing 6y ago
Do you consider them having their collateral requirements changed on them at 3am to be them messing up? If your bank tells you your mortgage payment is going to be 10x this month, and you have to scramble to cover that, did you mess up you
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by swampthing 6y ago
That sounds plausible, but even then, if Robinhood couldn't meet the new deposit requirements, I think the existing trades just wouldn't settle (and obviously they wouldn't be accepting new ones)? I'm not seeing how Rob
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by swampthing 6y ago
Where are you reading that they messed up their collateral calculations?
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by swampthing 6y ago
Where are you reading that they would have gone bankrupt even with the trading restrictions they put in place?
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by swampthing 6y ago
I don't think that's true. They raised the additional capital so that their customers could continue buying shares of those 8-50 companies. Had they not raised that capital, they would have just had to keep blocking those buys,
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by swampthing 6y ago
"nearly goes under because it over extended itself" is not really accurate. They took the steps necessary to prevent that from happening, by blocking the behavior that would have led to that. Unfortunately, those steps, in combi

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