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> Have the poor benefited in any way from any of this?

Yeah, I lived in a sweet condo in downtown Seattle for a few hundreds bucks a month in rent during the early 00’s crash. Being a poor college student at the time, and I’d say the price collapse was awesome, esp compared to dorms or other dilapidated UW housing.
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Look, if the title is “why GNU/Linux viruses are fairly uncommon”, that’s fair game as a topic. In fact, you should expect that most of the discussion will be about that, rather than the self-deprecatory joke answer. Certainly it was last time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20680291.

(Also, my own observation is that it’s regularly far more amusing to take jokes seriously, ignore sarcasm, and otherwise wrest humour.)
It is not a conspiracy but the system is broken.

Everyone seems to be missing the point of WHY collateral requirements have gone up. It is not because of volatility of the price movement, but volatility of whether the trade will clear.

The reason the trade might not clear is because of hedge funds or market makers that might go bankrupt, and not have the capital to pay for the shorts that they need to buy back. The collateral is there so that if the hedge fund can't pay, the clearing house or broker must pay. What seems to have happened is somewhere along the line a broker did not margin call the hedge funds fast enough, and DTCC with their collateral requirements has spread the risk from that one broker or clearing house to all of the brokers. In essence, the hedge funds losses are in a way "too big to fail" now because of the way the risk was spread.

In this system, everyone is working to protect themselves (thus not conspiracy), which in turn happens to be screwing over retail. The big issue is the broker somewhere or risk management team that did not force the short sellers to buy back their shares when it was still possible to do so without affecting the brokerages. They missed the time and now the losses might be too large to absorb.

Meanwhile, they have no problem margin calling retail. Robinhood might be faced with an impossible situation they didn't cause, but they also aren't pointing the finger at the culprits and where the problem started, which is some entity allowing the hedge funds to be over leveraged and then not de-risking from that leverage fast enough when the trade went against them.

A lot of this is explained by the webull ceo in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RS4JIEVyXM&feature=youtu.be
Maybe now is a good time to see EU as one unit and have strategies at EU levels: i.e the same lockdown for all EU.

Of course this is not working under the current way of how EU works, but I think this is the only pragmatic solution as response to such crisis.
Because the honest explanation was that they were near insolvent for a period.
Not 1:1 recreations, but the Assasins Creed games scratch this itch. Im not a big video-gamer, but do love history, so usually buy them when the price drops down to a couple bucks just cause its neat to spend a couple hours walking around the historical recreations.
But even once they did they still lowered the limit to 5 shares, then 3, then 2 then just a single share.
Yes, my understanding is that is one of the reasons why trying to just place something in the public domain is problematic in various countries in continental Europe. There are potentially issues in other countries as well but "moral rights" aren't really a problem in common law countries.
Assuming this is true, what the brokerage needs to do is take a loan against the settled cash they are already holding in escrow for ~24 hours.

Suppose a 3% interest rate (which seems high for guaranteed cleared funds), $1 billion for 24 hours is $82,000.
Interactive Brokers blocked share purchases too (the article claims they only blocked options), and not just on GME, even for Cash accounts (i.e. no margin involved).
Actually, the Clearing Fund Formula accounts for Margin Requirement Differential, so margin is indeed a component of the amount posted.

More importantly, cash requirement effectively reduces the amount of leverage that customers are able to use, and that means (A) no additional firm capital needs to be lent for purchases of GME or whatever other stock, and (B) margin-account customers trade less on a given amount of their own capital.

Are you suggesting that Robinhood would be required by Procedure XV to post more than $1 for every $1 of GME stock that a customer buys in a cash account?
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You continue to do whatever it is you do now.

This idea is just that the actual value of every secret token should be prefixed with a recognisable string.

So instead of your config file looking like:

payment.api-key=sF1VGYGsJVnnb23a
logging.api-key=yunHagrya

It looks like:

payment.api-key=secret-token:sF1VGYGsJVnnb23a
logging.api-key=secret-token:yunHagrya

Your code doesn't even need to change. It's just a convention used by parties issuing secret tokens, to make them easier to spot.
And most importantly, why was only buying of meme stocks disabled?

You gave yourself the answer. The collateral is connected to the volatility. The meme stocks saw their price volatility increase massively, therefore the DTCC collateral demand was raised from 3% (low-volatility) to a whooping 100% collateral.
There needn't be a single answer.
Try

./configure --with-evil-intent
Regular apartments were subject to rent control. Luxury were not.

So one declined, the other thrived.
I like a data driven approach to education and view vocational education choices as an important part of the larger conversation for school choice and education reform that needs to happen in K-12 in the US. But I feel like this particular article/research may need to be performed in a more multivariate manner to be truly useful, although it does highlight the directions these explorations might take.

For example, consider this:

> Studies in the Netherlands and Sweden which look at vocational-education reforms that increased the general content in the vocational track find no benefits of additional general content on labour-market outcomes (Oosterbeek and Webbink 2007, Hall 2016).

OK, so if general content doesn’t add value to labour-market outcomes what can we say about the general content requirements that permeate about universities? They too are likely not useful.

But to discuss university education more precisely we would need to break it down from monolithic characterizations like “here are the university outcomes” to a per-degree basis. For example, is it that general education is valuable or simply that university degrees like computer science are valuable despite the deadweight of general education requirements?

Another point that needs dedicated exploration:

> In Norway, Bertrand et al. (2019) find that a similar reform also increased selection into the vocational track and thereby led to improved earnings for those induced into vocational education.

This makes sense - you try to make the vocational education more comprehensive or challenging, and you end up getting a more selective stream of students who would be more successful no matter how they were educated or certified. So isn’t that also true of universities? They’re simply the beneficiaries of a competitive system that gives them access to the highest performers, which then makes it look like a university education has value when it is really just the result of a selection advantage.
Are they really especially common in the Linux world?

UX: Windows 7 -> Windows 8 -> Windows 10 had some pretty drastic changes, even if a big part of Windows 10 was a climbdown. Have you followed the skeumorphic -> flat -> 3d again or Gingerbread to Holo to Material Design guidelines?

Dev facing: How have your migrations to WKWebView, notarised builds, M1, the Mac App Store, away from kexts, etc. been? Did you get onboard for WinRT and UWP?

You could argue in the Windows case you didn't _have_ to follow these trends, but you also didn't have to on Linux. Pidgin still works much the same as it did a decade ago. Thunderbird is still here and fundamentally the same as when I started using it as a literal child. You can still install MATE and XFCE and have pretty much the same workflow for desktop linux you had 20 years ago on Gnome 1, except with much much better chance of arbitrary hardware/software X working.

In the Apple case, you have to follow their guidelines in a much sooner period.
When Oracle was born, there weren't many alternatives for a high-performance and production-ready RDBMS. For a long time, Oracle was technically superior to most/all other options. That is less true now.

On the other side, if you get $10,000 of value from a banana, both vendors are viable options. If there is any reason at all preventing you from adopting the $1 banana, you're still better off buying the $1,000 banana than you are scorning it for its price.
About a dozen brokers simultaneously halted buying, not just Robinhood.
Unfortunately true. I stuck a water cooling system in my home lab machines. Not plug and play as many components expect airflow anyway...
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Covid is transmitted by interpersonal contact, and Sweden has a low population density. There is no equivalent of the Boston/NYC/DC megalopolis, Greater Los Angeles, or even the Bay Area in Sweden. Frankly, there isn't an equivalent of most of central Europe. See this map: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Population_density_b...

So for Sweden to be doing about as well (in deaths per capita) as the rest of Europe is a sign of failure on Sweden's part. To be doing better than the US is no comparison at all.

If you compare it to other Nordic countries (which are more comparable in terms of population density), it's doing much worse: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1113834/cumulative-coron...

Anyway, isn't this all my point? Sweden gets an excuse because other countries aren't doing well. Nobody is expecting anyone to do well. Why bother trying to save lives if nobody else is trying either? Why bother trying to do as well as Vietnam (which literally shares a land border with China!) if nobody is going to hold you to that standard?
Cheap FM radios, at least, are also much, much more power efficient. And, well, really cheap to make. (Not an audiophile, but I imagine these statements would not apply to high end analog equipment.)
They halted buy on stocks(no margin) on Interactive Brokers which powers most of the retail apps in Europe. I think the other brokers did the same. If you listen to this guy it's pretty clear he'a protecting the hedge funds.

"If our customers loose money we have to put ours"
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7RH4XKP55fM
As code ages, people lose interest in maintaining. When you begin coding an application, you're usually adding features and that's fun, but as time passes and the software reaches its goal, you're left with finding and fixing bugs. That's no fun. Microsoft manages to do so because there's a money incentive for its employees, while free software has no such equivalent. That's why we see things like completely dropping X and writing Wayland from scratch: it's more fun and quicker for developer. Sucks to be us on the receiving end, though.

I believe until this kind of thinking shifts, there's not gonna be mass adoption of GNU/Linux systems. People expect software to work and keep working 10 years down the road. The current state of the FOSS ecosystem is full of bitrot and rewrites, with zero incentive for developers to maintain code. Beats the hell out of me why there isn't a distro that allows you to give money to patrons of the packages you use. It's a real no-brainer.
Matches my experiences in terms of teaching college undergrads: https://seliger.com/2017/06/16/rare-good-political-news-boos..., many of whom don't want to be in school and aren't interested in abstract symbol manipulation.
>> hone manufacturers like Samsung are in a much much better position to try. And indeed they have been trying an failing.

Samsung is bothering me. I have an S8 and they want to replace all the standard Google apps - including the basic text messageing one - with Samsung equivalents.

It's not clear why and I haven't gone looking. It feels like they're just trying to displace Google and be another company reading my messages and monitoring my activity. I figure I don't need another one of those in my life. If their intent is to help me by offering privacy respecting alternatives they have not done so. I'm also completely unaware of any app-store Samsung may have beyond a place for them to push their versions of these apps.

Am I wrong? Should I be looking closer at what Samsung has to offer?
Okay. To also mention the result: Installation worked, alsa plugin worked and the filter does work. Nice, thanks again.

With extreme sounds (vacuum) in the background the voice gets a bit more distorted than ideal, but something like a keyboard gets filtered nicely to be less noisy. I assumed that's just how RNNoise behaves, I'm just mentioning it because of the sound quality discussion above. Maybe also to that: Just activating the alsa_rnnoise filter does not significantly lower recording quality, at least not that I can notice.
They failed in communication and lost trust. If their platform could not scale to the needs of their users, they should come out and say it, and should have done so before the fallout.
Seriously.

Gab isn't a far right white supremacist website. It's just right wing Twitter. I don't understand where all this hyperbole comes from but it's a perfect example of the low-information individuals we have in society today.
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Windows Server 2019 Serving Windows Containers looks ready for Production,

but serving Linux Containers ?
(through HyperV)

Our company only want Windows OS for Prod (not linux)

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers/quick-start/set-up-environment?tabs=Windows-Server
Ironically, for SEO purposes, to generate backlinks, there are endless directory websites out there which look like what you just described.

To make it successful, some kind of authority should be present in the sauce.
Nurse to watch entire film festival alone in lighthouse
"A Swedish nurse has won a competition to watch the entire 60-movie programme of the Goteborg Film Festival from a lighthouse on an isolated island off the coast of Sweden.

Lisa Enroth beat 12,000 film fans from around the world who applied.

The nurse, who has worked on Covid-19 wards during the pandemic, said she hoped to enjoy 'being part of a totally different kind of reality for a week'".
I am not holding my breath either, and as I said, there are plenty of protocol optimizations which have been made to fit into that terrible state of things. To the point that Conversations, my Android XMPP client, uses less battery than Signal, despite seeing a lot more activity.
The block coding interface looks smooth. I'm curious about how the interface scales for complex projects.

The documentation integration is nice.

Great work!
also (c) short interest is not a real-time computation.
Not legally possible in many jurisdictions.
Nobody is talking about Docker on Windows or Mac for production use.
I do the same with my Lack! But with two tower PC:s (wfh/private) and a USB switch on top and a switch and surge protector mounted underneath.

One tidy braid of network/power from the wall and one thick but tidy braid of usb/power/dp/hdmi to dual screens and USB hub on the desk.
There's also this:

DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, December 2004

Copyright (C) 2004 Your Name <name@example.com>

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
as the name is changed.

DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION

0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.
I could be wrong about this, but I think it mostly just comes down to the maintainers of libraries and software packages.

If you've got a less used or less known software package and an upstream library dev makes a breaking change, you've got a choice, stick with the old version or update your code to work with the new version.

As time passes, new projects are started on the new version, the new version gets picked up by distro maintainers, old version is slowly phased out as more devs use the newer version. Eventually, maintaining old version and new version in package repos is too much effort to be worth it, old version gets removed, any software stuck on the old version is now broken on that distro without a bunch of workarounds.

And essentially, this is happening all the time with most libraries and such.
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I think pseudo computing is a good way to describe phones. This is probably natural though; it was arrogant to think that the coming of the PC would make everyone into hackers any more than the wide availability of hammers has made everyone into a carpenter.
I think what's more important is somehow getting Apple to allow alternative app stores in their phones. While Android phones are the most popular in many (most?) countries, iPhones are still very common and make it so solutions in one distribution platform don't extend to all phone users.

Once a competitor is able to operate in both Android and iOS, I think we will see a real threat to official app stores, whether it's Github behind it or someone else.
Have you watched Rome the TV show? I think you might enjoy it.
One reason is that people with ideas and a drive to implement them are often not experienced developers. They have a product mentality, and see the need to implement things in code as a nuisance that stands between them and their idea. So they pick the easiest, lowest-hanging tool, not the sharpest or cleanest.
> (define (self-apply fn) (fn fn))

Out of curiousity, what would be a practical application of this?
Do you think that no one has ever unironically used "politically correct", "social justice warrior", or "woke" to describe themselves or their opinions?

I'm not saying that the response to it isn't rooted in some deeper fear, but that doesn't mean that the phenomenon they are afraid of doesn't exist.
Just about anyone who disagrees with the left is classed as [White Supremacist/Nazi] these days. And it's not just whites. [Whiteness] is a term being applied to people of colour too when they don't fall in line with the re-education program. Orwellian doesn't even begin to describe the nonsense afoot today.
It's not exactly like a bank run in that there doesn't seem to be any question of solvency once trading is stopped. Customers could always get their money out.

It's more like a denial-of-service attack. Customer orders take server-side resources to execute. Except that the server resources taken up are literally money, and execution takes days. Blocking orders fixes the problem.

They didn't allocate enough server resources (money) to execute all requests under extreme load.

Customer money is a separate pool, not used for execution.
In Step 5, my check resulted in NSF_BOUNCE. I was eventually able to replenish, but then wound up receiving an 'ACH_DELAY = 3-5 biz days' message. I apparently have to wait before evilmalware is available on my system.
> If a broker blocks buying and the price goes down, there are real benefits to the holders of the shorts

Which is not an actual harm to a Robinhood user. Avoiding liability means avoiding actual harm.
>Meanwhile, they have no problem margin calling retail.

Presumably because hedge funds have more lenient margin agreements than retail. After all, it's easier to collect from a hedge fund with billions AUM compared to a bunch of millennials living paycheck to paycheck with $50k of student loans.
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Yes. DTCC and their T+2 settlement are the villains here. It's a ridiculous legacy system that needs to go.
> at least one has to be below (average)

this is the pedantic part. Normal usage of average means "pretty much what I expected", which is what they are trying to convey, imo.
Because those are the ones that push up the required collateral with the settling firms. The meme stocks are buy-heavy and highly volatile. Stocks that are less volatile and have matched buy-sell rates don't. Halting buys of meme stocks meant that RH needs less collateral with settling firms. Halting other buys doesn't change a thing.
When it was Luna, I tried using it because I love new programming languages. It froze my MBP completely and was an absolute pain to uninstall.

I hope the rebrand and rewrite fix those issues because it seems awesome
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I don't get why people feel the need to shove pop culture references into everything. Why not share a meme too while you're at it?
I have seen multiple indie developers successfully begin marketing on their unfinished / unremarkable prototype far in advance. In fact some of them get so popular they pivot into "I make videos of myself making games" instead of "I make games"

I would recommend doubling up exposure by recording your streams, then cutting up the best clips and releasing them as Youtube videos. Also posting these Youtube videos to Reddit when possible (obviously following their self-promotion rules)

Here is an example channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEhOhNgoZHI
... [Personal narrative and anecdotal story cut out] ...

.... motivational interviewing. https://motivationalinterviewing.org/ The central premise: Instead of trying to force other people to change, you’re better off helping them find their own intrinsic motivation to change. You do that by interviewing them — asking open-ended questions and listening carefully — and holding up a mirror so they can see their own thoughts more clearly. If they express a desire to change, you guide them toward a plan.

... [evidence how it works ] stop smoking, abusing drugs and alcohol, and gambling; to improve their diets and exercise; to overcome eating disorders; and to lose weight. The approach has also motivated students to get a good night’s sleep; voters to reconsider their prejudices; and divorcing parents to reach settlements.

... [backlash, it didn't work] ...

.... The pioneers of motivational interviewing, William Miller and Stephen Rollnick, have long warned against using the technique to manipulate people. It requires a genuine desire to understand people's motivations and help them reach their goals.

... Psychologists find that when we listen carefully and call attention to the nuances in people’s own thinking, they become less extreme and more open in their views. ... Social scientists have found that asking people how their preferred political policies might work in practice, rather than asking why they favor those approaches, was more effective in opening their minds.

... became open to a new mode of conversation, with no points to score and no debate to win. The only victory I declared was against my own prosecutor tendencies. I had prevailed over my inner logic bully. .... I no longer believe it’s my place to change anyone’s mind. All I can do is try to understand their thinking and ask if they’re open to some rethinking. The rest is up to them.