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by tylerhou 6y ago
Everything below is my opinion, or information to the best of my personal knowledge. I don't speak for Google. That lawsuit alleges that Google was tracking people (with analytics) during incognito mode, which is different from opting
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by tylerhou 6y ago
The solution is as simple as: Go into your privacy settings, and turn off ad personalization. Takes like three clicks. https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated?hl=en I have it off for both my personal and Google corpora
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by tylerhou 6y ago
During a short squeeze, assets are "mispriced," and their prices have high volatility. Having a "correct" and "stable" price for assets is fundamentally important to any market as the market's intended pur
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by tylerhou 6y ago
Short squeezes are not good for the market, period, but they only happen in extraordinary circumstances. And actively encouraging people to cause short squeezes in order to reduce the potential for future short squeezes seems... counterprod
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by tylerhou 6y ago
Why do you think the stock was “over shorted” apart from the fact that short interest is generally not that high? Or — what do you think are the bad consequences of “over shorting?”
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by tylerhou 6y ago
> To take a ludicrous example my utility function for eating a sandwich is has a sharp discontinuity as a function of how much Polonium is in the sandwich. Well, in the real world, every sandwich likely has a little bit of polonium in
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by tylerhou 6y ago
I think the above commenter was trying to say: you can't always own 100% of the outstanding shares with voting rights, because in most cases insiders hold many shares that they will not sell.
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by tylerhou 6y ago
This is true in League, too. Maybe not to the same extent, but in the early game potion usage is very important.
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by tylerhou 6y ago
> The obvious discontinuity is "never have to work". First, wanting to achieve "financial independence" does not imply a discontinuous utility function. Suppose it takes $X to reach financial independence. Let's
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by tylerhou 6y ago
Expected utility is positive implies that people have discontinuous utility functions wrt. money. That is, utility will jump significantly after reaching a certain net worth. Another explanation that is consistent with gambling behavior is
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by tylerhou 6y ago
One big unmodelled parameter is the enemy team composition. For example, against teams with easy-to-land poke, QSS is better than Banshee’s Veil. If you modeled team composition, it may be possible to even model pick-ban phase via min-max s
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by tylerhou 6y ago
In the short term, when someone gains in the stock market, someone else loses. Because of “invisible” transaction fees that go to Wall Street, retail is losing on net. So in the bigger picture, small investors aren’t winning, despite our in
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by tylerhou 6y ago
It's not uncommon for seed funding. YC offers $125k for 7%, which implies a ~$1.8 million post-money valuation.
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by tylerhou 6y ago
Selling is important because it lets people close out their positions as they need to. If Robinhood halted all trading they would have a huge mess à la the complete shutdown back in March. Buying exposes them to additional risk in the form
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by tylerhou 6y ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-16/robinhood...
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by tylerhou 6y ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-16/robinhood...
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by tylerhou 6y ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-16/robinhood...
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by tylerhou 6y ago
The justifiable reason is because if they continue to allow purchases of GME, they might get hit with an even bigger lawsuit from retail. See JumpCrisscross's comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25943058 Rob
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by tylerhou 6y ago
They do share ownership though. But the alleged conspiracy above is unlikely for other reasons.
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by tylerhou 6y ago
I am agreeing with you that there is not much merit to a conspiracy that Citadel asked Robinhood to pull out. In particular, I believe Citadel would gain more from continued trading on Robinhood than they would lose from their hedge fund po
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by tylerhou 6y ago
Yes, Robinhood disclosed that Citadel's MM desk accounted for the largest portion of their payment for order flow income in their rule 606 disclosures. But still a bad take because Citadel stands to make much more money on further trad
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by tylerhou 6y ago
The same shorter is making money hand over fist on market making due to increased volatility, volume, and unsophisticated investors.
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by tylerhou 6y ago
> Is it manipulation if you're so predictable that an action by me causes you to always act a certain way? And I profit when you take that action? It depends, but approximately, yes if there was any intent to exploit that fact . Se
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by tylerhou 6y ago
First, I am not arguing that WSB is engaging in fraud or misrepresentation, as is alleged with Ackman. That is entirely different from the activity I am alleging is being done on WSB (by a subset of posters). > This is essentially Reddit
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by tylerhou 6y ago
Since I am not a lawyer and therefore unfamiliar with the potential liabilities I might incur by not including that disclaimer, I would rather cover my ass. https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/683/usa-is-i-am-n
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by tylerhou 6y ago
> There is literally, and has been for a long time, a website that tells you the short interest in a stock. It's sole purpose is to help people find short squeezes. That's why you have stats like "days to cover." Agai
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by tylerhou 6y ago
> pretending the judge/bureaucrat can peer into somebody's mind But historical cases don't peer into people's minds. They look at evidence, such as texts in chat rooms that show clear intent to manipulate. See the Lib
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by tylerhou 6y ago
> Bill Ackman went on CNBC last year in near tears saying the end was coming, helping stocks continue their nose dive.... How is that allowed? It shouldn't be allowed without proper disclosure on their actual positions. The SEC has
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by tylerhou 6y ago
> Every purchase, is a market manipulation by the definition. Well, I don't think this would hold up in court. Both the SEC and courts have made a distinction in the past between "real demand" (i.e. demand motivated becaus
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by tylerhou 6y ago
> What SEC rule is WSB violating? Market manipulation. Loosely, market manipulation happens when you artificially influence the price of a stock, resulting in a personal gain. Buying stock with the intention of causing a short squeeze ca

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