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by zaroth 6y ago
I think--like most outsiders trying to have a technical discussion--you can peel back the onion only so many layers. A true insider would alternatively laugh or cringe at our crude analogies and simplifications of what's really happe
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by zaroth 6y ago
Robinhood is on the hook to do their part in settling the trade and delivering the shares to their client and cash to the seller. Obviously once funds are used to execute a trade, they are no longer client funds. It seems obvious that the c
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by zaroth 6y ago
> Is it really so hard to believe that they hadn’t pre-planned the ability to limit margin purchases on a single stock? Yes, this is impossible to believe. Different stocks already have different margin requirements. Turning off margin
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by zaroth 6y ago
But it’s not client money the second the trade executes?
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by zaroth 6y ago
You think that one errant command line entry should subject an individual to personal liability that could run into the billions of dollars? First, control inputs that can cause catastrophic damage require purpose built system-wide multi-la
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by zaroth 6y ago
> Deloitte is the only contractor that can meet the project requirements, because configuration of the VAMS application is occurring using Deloitte’s propriety GovConnect platform. Therefore, no other contractor has rights or access to
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by zaroth 6y ago
I take it as figurative language meaning roughly, when will politicians at last be held responsible? I don’t see that as a particularly appalling sentiment.
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by zaroth 6y ago
I guess it comes down to latency requirements? I would expect where latency isn’t a huge concern, the best user experience would be to start the new receiver back at the last keyframe and fill the buffer up to “present” so they can start wa
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by zaroth 6y ago
That’s a 150hp diesel engine. US consumers generally don’t buy those, particularly these days. VW doesn’t even sell diesels in the US anymore. The gas engine 2020 Passat gets 24/36 mpg city/highway.
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by zaroth 6y ago
Yes it does. Payback takes a few years depending on the CO2 intensity of the electrical supply, but you do get there even with some coal in the mix. Here is a quite comprehensive analysis: https://www.nature.com/articles&#x2
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by zaroth 6y ago
It’s hardly the buyers’ fault that sellers shorted over 100% of the float. If it’s anyone’s fault, it’s the hedge funds who tried to hammer GME into dust.
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by zaroth 6y ago
I would have thought passenger cars would have to be even higher than 55mpg to get a “fleet average” of 55. What are the vehicles getting more than 55 such that passenger vehicles can get less?
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by zaroth 6y ago
55mpg steady state for a gas engine must require some pretty ridiculous engineering. I can see 55mpg in a plug-in hybrid as long as the battery has charge to assist. But by the time you’re getting 55mpg out of a gas engine without any batte
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by zaroth 6y ago
Anyone else get a flash of content and then a totally blank page on iOS? Reader view shows only the page title and nothing else. I installed Hush last week, but even disabling content blockers doesn’t fix it.
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by zaroth 6y ago
Google counts up every minute users spend using their electronic devices. In their world view, every single minute per day spent looking at screens that don’t have Google ad targeting is a minute that a competitor is stealing value from Goo
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by zaroth 6y ago
> But why? Matrix is tiny and no threat to Google services. There is an absolutely unprecedented shift going on as we speak, one of those groundswell events that have the potential to shift usage habits of hundreds of millions of peopl
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by zaroth 6y ago
If you buy and sell shares within the same day three times in 5 business days, you will be flagged as a “Pattern Day Trader” and you’ll need to post at least $25,000 of collateral. I don’t think the problem here was with too many trades. Ve
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by zaroth 6y ago
Banks are legally permitted to lend (create) money with less than 100% reserves. That’s the whole intent . Whereas in public markets, a random hedge fund should not be able to essentially issue new shares / increase the float. My poin
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by zaroth 6y ago
What does DTCC collateral requirements have to do with retail investors trying to buy shares in a cash account? Stopping margin trading, absolutely. Stopping short selling, of course. But we’re not talking about either of those things. We’r
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by zaroth 6y ago
What are you basing these statements on? Are you a legal expert in FINRA? Legally this is nothing at all like not serving a specific brand of alcohol at the local bar. IANAL, and I’ve only dipped my toe into studying FINRA while doing resea
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by zaroth 6y ago
Obviously it should be illegal to lend the same shares out multiple rounds. If it's not, that's an absurd hole in the regulation. A owns 90 shares, B owns 10. A lends 90 shares to C who sells them to D. D lends 90 shares to C who
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by zaroth 6y ago
They do that already. The "public" markets are the stocks that non-accredited investors are allowed to trade.
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by zaroth 6y ago
Because a product is at its peak ultimate performance on release day, and nothing can ever be done to improve it from that point forward? This is what people who don’t get OTAs don’t understand about OTAs. The car gets better every month. L
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by zaroth 6y ago
Truly is it uncompressed PCM WAV audio? In that case 44kHz 16-bit 1-channel is 705 kbps. Are there not any good nonproprietary lossless low latency audio codecs? A brief look at Wikipedia shows a couple that are 5ms or lower, but either the
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by zaroth 6y ago
The problem with GME starts with the funds that managed to accumulate a 140% short interest in the stock. Send those people to jail for illegally issuing unregistered shares of a security, or counterfeiting shares of a security, because eve
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by zaroth 6y ago
That's not at all what I'm suggesting. Here's a thought experiment. In a few hours of coding, Google, Discord, Twitter, Facebook, etc. could all spin up map/reduce searches across all their channels, groups, links, resul
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by zaroth 6y ago
> He knows it's the last thing he should be indulging in, but unfortunately in his mind he can't find any other way to fall asleep. I used to use indica to sleep, due to absurd levels of restless leg that only kick in as soon
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by zaroth 6y ago
Porn, racism, and homophobia. A true axis of evil. It would be nice if we could come up with some new boogeypeople once in a while.
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by zaroth 6y ago
The downvotes are because “If they grow revenue by 1000% and don’t improve efficiency then...”. That is a fundamentally unsound premise. They expect to grow at 50% CAGR which means 1000% in about 6 years. Which in and of itself would be an
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by zaroth 6y ago
Note: They didn’t just refresh the interior.

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