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valuearb
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valuearb
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a conspiracy theory going around is that Bill was pumping up stocks that he and Cathie (ARKK) were buying through the use of “gamma squeeze”, ie buying far out of the money call options. An example of how this works is let’s say Tesla is tr
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valuearb
5y ago
By your definition a retail investor is no different than a hedge fund.
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Didn’t happen in that article. Fed providing liquidity wasn’t specific to hedge funds at all. “ It remains unclear how big of a role hedge funds played in March’s meltdown — even how many and which funds were involved remains hazy. ”
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valuearb
5y ago
So you can’t?
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valuearb
5y ago
How?
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valuearb
5y ago
If it was that easy Exynos wouldn’t already lag the A14 so badly. It should gain maybe 15% in a smaller process, but has a lot farther to go.
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valuearb
5y ago
And auto makers are estimating they won’t be able to ship 1M cars this quarter because of chip shortages, but that’s less than 4% of demand. That’s no crisis. Let’s face it, automakers not only made their own bed here, but as soon as they c
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5y ago
I found a couple by going through the OTC daily lists and looking at dividend payers. I’d double take seeing somecompany paying a $500 or $1,000 dividend, look it up and they would have some crazy stock price. But note: they’d also only tr
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5y ago
Buffett’s highest returns by far were before he did any “off market placements”.
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5y ago
There are numerous OTC stocks trading for over $5,000, I know of at least two over $20,000.
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You expect BTC to reach $20 trillion market cap, nearly the size of the US GDP?
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5y ago
The FBI approached him and offered to help him carry out the plot so they could arrest him. Would he have actually blown up anything if they hadn’t entrapped him? Who knows. What I do know is it’s not worth surrendering my liberties for.
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valuearb
5y ago
With the M2 MacBook Pros due in a couple months, it’s more likely Apple experiences an inflow of developers.
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valuearb
5y ago
What do you mean the M1 doesn't have good IO? A 1 Tb Mini with all the SSD write lines benchmarked at Write: 2,983 MB/Sec Read: 2,710 MB/Sec That's as fast or faster than Intel Macs, and way higher than most PC SSDs.
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5y ago
If you believe everyone’s memories you believe a lot of false things. Human memory is notoriously unreliable, and old memories are often patched together out of stories, dreams and entirely different events.
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valuearb
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No one is dying from repairing a milk shake machine. McDonalds is concerned about poorly mixed shakes hurting their brand, which they regard as nearly as bad.
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It wasn’t a “deal” with the US military, NASA crammed it down their throat. The redesign only became necessary when NASA got congress to cancel the Air Force launch program to force their payloads on the Shuttle.
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valuearb
5y ago
Getting to the lunar poles from Earth through Gateway is a diversion that takes more energy than going direct.
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It’s an environmental anti-pattern.
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It wasn’t status or prestige. It was developing battery conditioning software and integrating it in the OS so the batteries could last years before replacement. And when Apple did this, they were able to pack more wattage on their MacBooks,
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Arguments that revolve on Flash being a benefit instead of the mobile power wasting security nightmare it actually was, always fail right there.
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That's not what a rollup is. A rollup is where you merge businesses doing functionally similar things, gaining economies of scale on costs. Its most often used for geographically distributed family businesses, such as Dentists. Dentist
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5y ago
Its the link for the old model.
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Record low interest rates have a lot to do with it. If they rise significantly that 38 PE will get slashed a great deal.
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+23% peak to peak actually. Ok you want a longer period? it’s up nearly 70% from start of 2019, and it’s PE ratio is among the highest in its history.
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The average S&P 500 stock is up nearly 70% in the last 12 months. A return to March 2020 would be a loss of close to 50%.
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Fine! I'll take you off my list of successful people today! - Seth Davis, Boiler Room
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Be careful about buying it. I haven't had time to read the PACER filings, but the Bloomberg/WSJ articles indicate the shareholders will have to ante up some money to keep their shares. And only if the latest offer wins the auction
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Mike Daisey, the guy who got caught lying about conditions at Apple factories, so not sure how much I believe the story about finding a vestment sheet.
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5y ago
Keisers don't have screens do they?
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