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by vpribish 4y ago
the world of arbitrage calls this arbitrage. there are other, more pure, arbitrages - but this is very mainstream one. you are buying the stock at the market price, while you think it will be worth the offer price - there's a risk t
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by vpribish 4y ago
I'm baffled that MIT's PR is so cringeworthy. They had a priceless, universally recognized and irreplaceable brand and they are just trashing it with a sustained campaign of cheap clickbait seemingly aimed at a technologically ig
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by vpribish 4y ago
I wish I could tell if it was trolls, idiots, or villains - it's hard to respond appropriately if unsure. regardless, this is very sad to see on HN.
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by vpribish 4y ago
if you tell them then it stops being a useful indicator
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by vpribish 5y ago
in urban environments an RPG could definitely be coming down from above.
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by vpribish 5y ago
Soft Ware Engineer. it's a crappy TLA.
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by vpribish 5y ago
working for me
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by vpribish 5y ago
that's not it at all because A) we produce it and export it and B) we will never, ever, EVER, run out of oil - we will however stop using it - so C) the incentive it to pump as fast as possible while it still has value.
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by vpribish 5y ago
Forbes is garbage. It should be banned from HN
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by vpribish 5y ago
that was a roller coaster since first I thought it was Top Gear, then it added Mythbusters, and then X-Files - then I got it.
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by vpribish 5y ago
got a link?
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by vpribish 5y ago
isn't that the Chemtrails guy? yep https://www.worldaffairsbrief.com/keytopics/Chemtrails.html
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by vpribish 5y ago
it's like an idiom, man.
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by vpribish 5y ago
in the current context of this experiment rent dropped by 30% in SF while this was going on. Sure some of that was people fleeing dense urban areas to escape lockdowns, but also some was people decamping because the economic pressure to wo
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by vpribish 5y ago
dated info here, but they've always said the fund is capacity-limited so has to throw off billions in profits per year, it does not get to stay and compound.
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Embarrassingly automatable as the first step of legacy modernization(adhoc.team)
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by vpribish 6y ago
the stern is stuck already in the other bank
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by vpribish 6y ago
he had me going until "...that made us a species with amnesia and wiped out almost all traces of a former high civilisation of prehistoric antiquity" This summarizes the evidence nicely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by vpribish 6y ago
hear, hear. I've been flagging and downvoting till I'm just disgusted. the HN community overall appears to be as credulous and naive as any other. If we don't take out the trash this place is going to stink.
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by vpribish 6y ago
shorting gives incentive to uncover companies which are overpriced - this is good for uncovering frauds, debunking pumpers, and for simply getting the fundamentals in the open so the market can price it more accurately.
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by vpribish 6y ago
yeah - this is just a squeeze. they happen. any sophisticated player in the market will recognize this as a normal (though not common) thing. the weird and new part is that the people cornering the market are a horde of retail traders wh
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by vpribish 6y ago
yes for hedge funds. some market-making entities are legitimately allowed to be short without borrowing, but is it absolutely not just any random hedge fund!
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by vpribish 6y ago
Alice lends a share to Bob. Carol buys the share from Bob. Carol lends the share to Doug. Ellen buys the share from Doug. The share has been lent twice. There is one share, and Ellen owns it for real. Everyone else has these agreements i
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by vpribish 6y ago
at a point in time and within a country/region, mostly yes. It works fine for humans, but is really messy when you try to make it rigorous enough for software.
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by vpribish 6y ago
flame on, brother. They could have done some work that advances the world a little but did not. Instead they just threw keyword-bait into sciencey echo chamber.
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by vpribish 6y ago
here's a more detailed write-up including pictures of the device: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... It's a crude, bulky, ugly, and fragile thing and the $1 price is not real
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by vpribish 6y ago
cute title; but not searchable, machine translatable, or screen-reader friendly.
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by vpribish 6y ago
wholeheartedly agree. A female friend wanted me to recommend some classic sci-fi since it had influenced me so much. I knew they were going to have aged badly on social issues but, my god, they are unreadably awful. Even Bradbury whom I
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by vpribish 6y ago
already submitted here, from the real source not the lousy forbes article : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23498185
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by vpribish 6y ago
shouldn't this have happened about 20 years ago?

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