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>Silver has been shorted and held low

As recently as 2011 spot was as high as $56.28, it's $26.29 right now and was $14.28 last March.

I don't agree with that statement.

>Why are you afraid if Silver goes higher?

Never said I was. /r/silverbugs is for stacking, it's a hobby for the vast majority of us, we hold physical silver. So hundreds of people trying to get rich quick day trading after seeing articles about GameStop flooding the sub to tell us to buy SLV has nothing to do with our community and, in fact, most people in our community swear by "if you don't hold it, you don't own it", so it actually goes against our communities general beliefs.

Reminds me of the schmucks that seemed to pop up in every forum on the internet 15ish years ago saying to buy the Iraqi Dinar. Oh, and you know, the idiots that push penny stocks to make a quick buck off of uneducated people that have fallen for the FOMO crap that is spread by the people trying to make a quick buck.
cool. That's a top notch gnome village you've got in there.
The articles is playing with compare and contrast, making much the point you are: if AOC is the most extreme Democrat, then what does it say that the most extreme Republican believes the stuff Greene does?
I recently needed a plumber because of an emergency clog. I don't use Angie's List but I gave it a shot. Their plumber search runs you through a ridiculous multi-page questionnaire process rather than just showing relevant results. Some genius was paid highly to come up with this crap. It can't be helping their their future prospects as an operating concern.
Yeah, I was saying if I were an employee I’d take the slap on the wrist. Likely life changing money on the table. Maybe look into doing what Mark Cuban did with his costless collar if the shares are locked up at a company controlled broker. Although volatility may make that less of a good deal.

https://www.acceleratedfi.com/real-world-options-example-how...
How are you going to become a bag holder of a stock shorted over 100%? Hedge funds will have to buy you out.
The most recent was the Parler takedown.
Lol, so instead, most of the internet thinks they are colluding with institutional short sellers at hedge funds in order to save them and screw over retail investors. They already had (probably in spam detection right now as they are currently gone) hundreds of thousands of 1 star reviews on the android star and tons of people like me deleting their app.

Oh, and I heard they were supposed to IPO this quarter and I can see this event single handedly completely derailing that with how many users they are going to lose.
> there's been an increase in stability and decrease in risk throughout the centuries.

Wars, disease, and poverty have been on the decline [0], which is great and makes things more stable and predictable, and therefore debt is less risky and less expensive.

It would be great if these trends continue and don’t reverse. However I can’t help but think of the risks climate change will introduce to our world. A world with more extreme weather events is going to chip away at all this stability we have and push us into a less predictable world again [1].

[0]
Is the world getting better or worse? A look at the numbers https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yCm9Ng0bbEQ

[1] How climate change threatens to wreck the economy https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SMBNWmQcRAc
Can you please create a separate section for System programming(C, C++, Operating systems, compilers...).
I would like to submit few blog entries from my collection.
One of the great things about command-line interfaces of old are that you could often enter your keyboard input faster than the system could respond to it, and it was OK because the system buffered them up for you and executed them as it caught up.

So if you know on this screen you need to hit F1, and that on the next screen you will have to hit X, then on the following screen, you need to type in the SKU number, you could simply issue as fast as you wanted: F1-X-4112295[ENTER], and take your mind off it while the system would just go through the whole experience successfully at its own pace.

With "better" GUI/mouse based systems, you have to click here, wait... wait... wait..., now click there, wait... wait... wait..., then click there and type in your SKU. Your attention needs to be on the screen at all times in order to wait for the UI and aim the mouse.

Next time you go to your bank web site to pay a bill, think to yourself: Wouldn't it be nice if, rather than navigating their cumbersome UX, you could just hit a known string of keystrokes that you memorized, hit enter, then walk away to get coffee while all the Javascript and page reloading chugged along and paid your bill?
I don’t buy this. The recognition that when you lend money to someone, they may default, is something that has existed since bartering.

“Risk” has excited forever. Risk is not a new recognition!
For me the issue is more that communities as they grow seem to be bound to become either burning dumpster fires or turn just uninteresting and boring as they converge on the lowest common denominator of interests/opinions.

I have self hosted IRC, forums and git servers in the past, but honestly what the point if free speech is not really an issue where I live and it’s just maintenance cost for me? So far I found mob mentality and self censorship within communities much more worrysome than anything imposed by government and big tech.
great comment and you seem to have the same voice as Adam Curtis
If we are following what OP was inferring, arguably the customer in Patreons sense are the ones forking over money, in which case the UI is pretty damn easy.

The creators are an important part of the platform, but arguably will put up with more because they are getting paid.
Exactly this. I can't run protocols. And I can't afford to open anything I run to the general internet, because I'm not a sysadmin, I don't know how to be a good sysadmin, and I don't want to be a sysadmin. It's a respectable job I just don't want to do, and attempting it as a dabbler will mean I get pwn3d basically immediately.
They use this at The Boring Company
But does that explain why they didn’t just prevent trading on these names unless your cash balance is settled and nothing on margin? They already have a mechanism for that.
Just a reminder to de-Google your life too. There are some decent alternatives out there, for example Nextcloud for storage and open-source Linux phones like the PinePhone and Librem 5. As for video platforms, Library is looking promising, as well as other peer networks like PeerTube and BitChute. Alternatives are out there!

Bare in mind, Google have pulled these kinds of stunts before. Just recently they removed a bunch of negative comments and dislikes from Biden's presidential speech - whatever your political position, I think nobody should be above criticism.

Vote with your feet!
Awful as Google is, I'd still trust it more than anything with Mercer's fingerprints on it. (Which is barely at all. But still.)

As for 2024 - it is obvious now that the only way the GOP can win another election is by dismantling democracy.

There is no chance whatsoever that the GOP can win again without wilfully disenfranchising tens of millions of voters. In spite of the bot mob on Twitter trying to create the impression there's some kind of enraged far right majority agitating for representation, the reality is the numbers just aren't there for a clean win.

So that is what is happening now. 2020 is the last chance for the far right, and they know that - which is why they intend to take the shot well before 2024.
I believe it’s a corporate violation. Since different companies have different blackout policies.
They can't hybridize.

Animals and plants have multiple chromosomes, and they have two of each one, so you can make an hybrid that mix some chromosomes of one variant with the chromosome of other. [Actually, plants are even more weird.] [And there is crossover, that mix the chromosome of the parents.]

The covirus have only one strand of RNA, so you can't mix it with another strand of another variant From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus#Genome

> Coronaviruses contain a positive-sense, single-stranded RNA genome. The genome size for coronaviruses ranges from 26.4 to 31.7 kilobases. The genome size is one of the largest among RNA viruses. The genome has a 5′ methylated cap and a 3′ polyadenylated tail.

This is different than the flu virus, that have multiple pieces of RNA (each one is different), so you can mix variants. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza#Structure,_propertie...

> The central core contains the viral RNA genome and other viral proteins that package and protect this RNA. RNA tends to be single stranded but in special cases it is double. Unusually for a virus, its genome is not a single piece of nucleic acid; instead, it contains seven or eight pieces of segmented negative-sense RNA, each piece of RNA containing either one or two genes, which code for a gene product (protein).
Eh, if I dump shit all over your yard, then stop doing it, does me stopping invalidate the earlier event?
Here [1], see also [2]

> Market makers have no interest in owning the stock. They have no interest in being long or short. They're like a furniture or electronics store. They match buyers and sellers, and for this, they make a slim profit margin. This profit margin is known as the spread. The reason they make a profit is because risk is involved. If they sell stock to you, but the price is so volatile that it moves up and up before they can find a buyer and equal out their book, they can lose a lot of money, and they can lose it fast.

> This is why discount brokers (Robinhood, Cashapp, Webull, etc...) have stopped allowing people to buy GME, and AMC, among others. They can't find a market maker to take your order. It sucks because retail made a lot of dumb moves, and bought a lot of shares they shouldn't have bought, and they're going to lose a ton of money, but it's not a conspiracy. [1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/l6qhhg/discussi...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/l7bo3r/the_game...
I believe Occupancy Networks is using octrees for surface extraction (i.e. construct a voxel grid given your SDF). See figure 2 in the Occupancy Networks Paper.

On the other-hand, octrees are used in this paper to store variable resolution feature volumes (i.e. to improve the representation of the SDF). See figure 3 in Neural Geometric Detail Paper.
Yeah, I do think we're just using different sign conventions here, because of inflation and opportunity cost a dollar today should be worth more than a dollar tomorrow.
I'm sure you can think of other dimensions in which things are worse than they used to be. (Not being snarky, I just think things are usually more complicated.)
I'd be down for asking someone from WallStreeBets to be my runningmate. Why DeepFuckingValue?
I assume they allow writing of calls and puts in order to do common option strategies. I wonder if they’ll let you buy the stocks to cover your calls.
We've been using joker.com for years.
I get that, but the financial links between the players here doesn't look good, even if it's all legal.

Citadel bailed out Melvin.
Citadel is RH's biggest customer.
RH chops off the retail traders, but only in the direction that favors Citadel (and Melvin).

Was RH just ensuring they comply with regulations? Probably.
Does it look like RH is doing Citadel a solid at the expense of their users? Absolutely.
He was reading that off his screen. When the interviewer pressed him on why they did it he said “We did it to protect ourselves... and also of course our customers” in his best Disney villain voice.
Well, in a world where users had to have fully funded their accounts before making any orders, the clearinghouse would have nothing to worry about. So it's not exactly independent from whether end users are using margin.

It looks like RH let hordes of new users onto the platform and allowed them to put in GME orders before having those users' cash in the bank. Now the clearinghouse sees the volatility, throws up its hands and goes "listen RH, no more of these crazy GME orders from you until you have the cash to pay for them". Understandable – but that should be RH's problem, not that of its users.

What's not OK is RH's sledgehammer solution of disabling buying for all users, even those whose accounts are fully funded, not to mention force-selling people's shares against their will. IMHO they deserve all of the anger and lawsuits currently directed at them. (Edit: unless, of course, they are only force-selling stocks that were bought on margin in the first place, and if their T&C let them do that, in which case ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
It only uses WebSocket when broadcasting. Otherwise, it is standard http.
Ceteris paribus, creating more money reduces its value. If, over some time period, you double the money supply, yet the monetary price of a basket of consumer goods stays the same, then that means the monetary price would have been cut in half if you hadn't printed anything. So, just because other effects are strong enough to counteract your debasing doesn't mean you're not debasing the currency.
>it means that it's an emergent phenomenon of markets without anyone actually using it as an intentional strategy.

This is what pretty much every economist has said about market behavior. Participants don't need to understand theory for the markets to work. In fact, things get weird when participants DO understand it. Humans set prices long before written language was developed to describe supply and demand.
>People may have taken him more seriously if he didn't eat the crud off the bottom of his own bare foot and sexually harass female colleagues. Dude undermined his own message by being a complete creep.

The fact that he remained in his position for so long and the degree to which people melted down and swore bloody vengeance against the "cancel culture mob" when he finally faced any consequences at all demonstrates how little his behavior actually mattered within the free software community.

If anything has undermined Stallman's message, it's been the failure of free software to adequately compete in terms of quality and UX to proprietary offerings in the marketplace. Their answer to Photoshop is Gimp, FFS.
just like Trump's presidency right?
I thought the same thing. I need to go deeper and understand how this contrasts with Piketty. Anyone have a TL;DR for this thread?
Their ploy is entirely aimed at google.

They fucked up cookie management and pulled the trigger on it early this year, in the middle of a pandemic. specifically around iframes. I got stuck with the ass end of that at my company. We worked in education. There were many healthcare software people that were also pissed about that.

Sure fucked up cookie tracking for adds tho!
So, why can't a single investor with a network of bots create enough artificial volatility to kill whatever brokerage they like (presumably through proxy buyers), while shorting the brokerage itself?
The "zoo" as you call it, is known as the Biodome. My kids love it.
And then a wearable device can correlate your changes in blood pressure with what you're watching on your smartphone, and they can sell that data to advertisers.
I would wager that the people who signed up for Robinhood this week were thinking "oh, sweet, they figured out how to let me fund an account fast, aren't apps great"
Apple has total control over the largest computing platform in the United States.

Timmy could fix this in many ways if he really cared.
This is fascinating. Is Melvin Capital the "B" in this situation, and that's how they "closed their short positions" earlier today? It just shuffled hands between the other funds?
Robinhood can kick people off, block trading certain stocks to help big players, etc. All ordinary people can do is leave a bad review and you want to take even that away. Why?
> I do believe that frequent trading is a good thing, as is retail participation in markets.

On the frequent trading, let's agree to disagree.

On retail participation, agreed. But I don't think that the Tobin Tax would inhibit it, but rather HFT and maybe day trading.

Fully agree that this new thing of companies staying private longer and longer is a bad development, with the best deals available only to the few connected and wealthy.
I can't. They all saw this coming from at least two days before, and they managed to fix this problem with a trading session. Rather than freeze the entire market on GME so no one could buy or sell, institutional traders were free to buy out of their positions while retail accounts were being liquidated in a coordinated fashion across all brokerages.

It's very clear to me that insiders saw the how much hurt this short squeeze would bring the financial markets, and they all coordinated to relieve it. It's no coincidence so many hedge funds started degrossing, futures were down, and the VIX spiked to the moon exactly as $GME's price started accelerating...

...once brokerages bricked buying the VIX collapsed and markets rose.

Infinity squeeze averted and all's well in Wall Street. No big institution is likely at risk anymore and retail traders along with smaller funds will be the bagholders.
> How were these not overall real reviews? If they can't prove otherwise, this just entrenches the idea that big money is vastly more powerful than small voices.

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."
> Isn't that the problem?

Shorts have finite payoff for infinite risk. If you buy into shorts when the interest is above 100%, you _immediately_ open the door for this type of counter position to become rational.

Is it really a problem that a bunch of people on a message board collectively decided to act on a rational position?
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But for the part where the current valuation was widely viewed as much too high. It does smell bad. I agree with how you framed it. I’m really grateful you wrote it that way as it makes it very clear how this feels deeply corrupt. I suspect this is a corner case which could bankrupt a broker though.
Ah yes, Apple, which famously open sources its software ...

Only Red Hat on this list comes even close to open sourcing a significant percentage of its stuff.
That's one way to get more high-tech business into city.

Bitcoin or something else, the property and income taxes are still paid in US $.
I don't really see any political reason for this type of discrimination. It's just racism that nobody talks about because it's Asians who are seemingly well off economically when in reality the wealth disparity in this demographic is one of the widest.

People see fu er dai students driving Lamborghini and think thats how all Asians live when in fact Asia is not even a country.

For instance, its socially acceptable to make fun of Asian accents or other racially insensitive remarks but other minority groups are a no go.

I recall when Justin Kan moved into his new home he was welcomed with a vandalized garage door with racial slurs. This supposedly the "most socio progressive and liberal state".

It's the latter self titled label is an excuse to be even more blatantly racist while patting themselves on the back for having X number of friends from X ethnic group therefore I can't be a racist, not even realizing Asia isn't even a group of its own, its literally describing half of the lands on earth.
We printed more money last year than we printed from 1776-2000. The dollar has already lost 99% of its purchasing power from its inception (that isn't agitprop, its a verifiable fact when measured against fixed commodities over time).

How much house can a dollar buy versus twenty years ago? If the dollar was indeed rising in value over time, a dollar would buy more house today than in 2000. Before we left the gold standard, a dollar indeed held its purchasing power over decades. The price of gold is effectively an inverse measure of the value of a dollar given that the amount of gold is basically fixed.
I think calling CAD the Canadian “”dollar”” is an attempt to confuse people! /s
All this is very unlikely for a ThinkPad which can be bought with a 5 year warranty and is military-grade tested. Before buying one I have spoken with a licensed service partner in Frankfurt, Germany and he told me, they rarely get any ThinkPads to repair but they constantly get other Lenovo brands to repair. And this is Frankfurt, where you will see only ThinkPads as business laptops in banks...
I don't think the point is compression, SDFs even when represented with a neural net have a much larger memory footprint and are significantly more expensive to render.

The main benefit of a SDF are that you don't have topological issues to worry about, which makes them great for reconstruction problems where a surface is evolving over time.
> racial diversity as an anti-union measure

Could you elaborate?
In the same tweet she says she’ll work with (almost) any republican on this issue. Just not Ted Cruz (and presumably Hawley and the others pushing election disinformation).

I think your fist point is making this into something more than it really is.
I would think a dollar today is necessarily at least as valuable than a dollar tomorrow, since a dollar today can either be a dollar tomorrow or a dollar today - i.e. it has optionality built in.
That would imply they hold less than 3.5 million shares
In my situation, I have to do home dialysis and need to measure my BP before and after treatment every day. I feel this device would be quicker to use and won't trigger the anxiety that some people feel with a normal BP machine squeezing on their arm. That anxiety can skew your BP numbers considerably.
Transfer Stocks Out of Your Robinhood Account
Re: 100%, yes for companies with a reasonable minimum market cap.

The one thing not really being explained enough is that short interest as reported through the exchanges is reported bi-monthly. You can imagine that with current events that is an eternity to wait for the next update.
So much this! I've noticed how common it is that interfaces can't keep up with me when, by all rights, they should be able to! I'm a limited, slow human, while their instructions execute billions of times per second. And yet I'm constantly running into scenarios were the next screen comes up and I try to give it an input, but it's not ready. Or when I hit the next-preset button for my car radio, and yet it has to pause to load that station before I can use the button again.
I have an ETrade account and was able to enter orders (well away from the market) to buy GME at several points this afternoon when twitter was blowing up with the RH restriction news. I haven't seen any evidence that ETrade was blocking new purchases and have first-hand evidence they were accepting my buy orders.

(I hold no shares of GME stock and never have. All these orders went in exactly as normal and I was able to cancel them several minutes later.)
Trade halts are generally by exchanges and not individual brokers, no?
These credit agreements are the finance world's version of what we geeks call "bufferbloat".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bufferbloat
That's exactly how it has failed. One purpose was to illustrate that you could build affordable and liveable urban apartment buildings in high number and high quality.

You reporting 50 years later that you wish you could live there (I would also love to), illustrates that this didn't happen.
I don't think the concept of risk broadly speaking could possible be new.

The danger that things might not work out had to be thought out since you had societies of moderate levels of complexity.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_insurance#Ancient_e...