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One obvious thing is that they might not 'work together' but despite knowing about those shorts none of the big guys took advantage of it. There was a huge potential to 'backstab' there but no one did it.

I will not buy BS that nobody noticed. Its not like they don't know anything just randomly bet. They are on the same team with unwritten rule of not fucking with each others' exploits.

And it took an outsider big enough to actually displace those whale bets and to wreck some havoc amongst big players.

This will not likely happen again anytime soon as the Wallstreet boys will have to be more careful now.
Yep, just like fractional reserve banking, it demonstrates for a lot of people that there can be a “run” on a stock / brokerage / the entire market.

Well, the FDIC insures up to 250k of bank accounts, but what happens when there’s a run on your 401k?
Twist: that was always Tesla’s plan. The beauty of cap and trade is that it puts a price on a negative externality and then let’s the market work to fix it.

Funny that CNN poses this as a secret as it’s always been in Tesla’s quarterly filings and not a secret at all. When companies have to pay to not have electric cars, it spurs innovation in companies to develop electric cars.
Came across this on Reddit yesterday, was a fantastic read. Added The Sweatbox to my "to-watch" list as well, looking forward to it.
OVH does but they don't put it front and centre. It's as an optional add-on when you're configuring your server.
> The price of anything is a result of its some intrinsic value and the volume of supply.

No. The price of a stock is the value of its discounted cash flows.

Shorting creates synthetic shares, that guarantee the new longs an exactly replicated stream of cash flows. This doesn’t make the original shares any less valuable, because they still have the same cash flows.

Imagine someone conjured a new company, called Tesla-2, out of thin air. It’s future profits and dividends exactly match Tesla. Why should this make TSLA any less valuable?

If people are investing in TSLA for the company’s long term viability, the existence of TSLA-2 should be a good thing for holders of TSLA. Now they can buy even more. It’s only bad if people are buying TSLA as a speculative asset to flip to a greater fool. Which is why short selling is such an important mechanism to prevent speculative bubbles.[1]

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1540-6261....
The question I always ask when people suggest warfare, especially an invasion: will you personally fight in it?
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> The $1.6 billion in regulatory credits it received last year far outweighed Tesla's net income of $721 million -- meaning Tesla would have otherwise posted a net loss in 2020.

Perhaps a better way of ending the sentence is "Tesla would have otherwise invested less in future R&D, so as not to post a loss". Whether to spend all the money you make is a business decision. See Amazon turning tiny profits for over a decade as a great example of why income doesn't matter to a growth stock.
Automotive gross margin excluding regulatory credits: 20.7% (ir.tesla.com)
Yeah, but you at least have to go and ask, and get it and bring it back.

Dumb as it sounds, making it difficult means it's only used for important cases.

I'd like to see a lot more consideration. I'm not sure how we can get it though given the current climate...
I'm Greek and
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Why I should be comfortable with people adopting Greek terms in Medicine globally and roll my eyes when people use English in IT?
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A bit far-fetched to link this book to the current COVID crisis, but I actually read it a few month ago and really enjoyed it! It's obviously very specific from the point of view of an old European intellectual and filled with nostalgia, but a fascinating read nonetheless, with some great portraits of famous artists from his time.

His rant on passports feels very relevant in these times of ever decreasing personal freedoms and privacy. Hard to imagine the Habsburg empire was actually not that long ago.
.NET has native ahead-of-time compile options that are getting better all the time. F# actually works better with these tools than other .NET languages because it is less reliant on reflection etc. to build its abstractions.

You can write C bindings for F# libraries compiled this way.
>Because I am a pro web dev who has made a ton of apps and understands the difference in power between HTML templates and JS components

so what you're actually promising is you can make a better website with React than with Django for any website that needs advanced JavaScript interactivity - but then obviously the comparison would not be between Django and React but between React and some other JavaScript based frontend technology.
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Fair point, but no. Not that I wasn't sure before, but I found the video again (I see no way to get a YouTube link, which is a pity), and it's definitely "the one" at Place de l'Étoile. And for whatever it's worth, the game's marker isn't at the Carrousel either (I didn't check it in that much detail before), but at the start of Champs-Elysées near Concorde.
Works like a charm, and when the community tanks (what will most likely be due to the close access innovation model and the main authors behavior), then there is a project to convert Elm code to PureScript. :)
> If there are 5 bananas in the entire world and people are still allowed to pretend and sell 500 bananas - you dont see how this is a problem?

That only becomes a problem if at settlement time there are not 500 bananas. Since you can plant them that's not much of an issue.
Agree Apple should reverse course wrt their control freakery. When I bought my PowerBook in 2003, Mac OS (10.3, 10.4) was fantastic in this regard, being able to boot off a FireWire drive, with OpenFirmware a much more powerful boot loader compared to the archaic pre-UEFI PC BIOS. You could also just use another Mac's boot disk.

Today (well, for years now), Mac OS can only be upgraded with Apple's installer. Went to an Apple reseller to buy a hard-disk with Mac OS (Mojave or earlier) to test-upgrade my old Mac Mini and whether my somewhat involved builds still work, only to find out that the old Mac Mini's firmware can't boot from APFS, and a firmware upgrade for APFS isn't a separate download like it used to be but comes only as part of Apple's monolithic online install.

This is very significant for delivering/testing Mac OS apps on newer OSes, and in particular to F/OSS developers who can't always go with the program and buy new hardware all the time. It's also relevant with audio and video professionals who need their driver- and timing-sensitive rig to work rather than going through yearly upgrade treadmills.
> Isn't selling something you don't own a fraud or the stock market has an exemption?

I call up Dominos and order a pepperoni pizza. They take my order and process my credit card. They’ve just sold me a pizza that doesn’t exist. Is this fraud?
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I recently tried to initialize warranty process (I bought it directly from shop.allnetchina.cn with shipping to Central Europe) but I got no replay.
What if I wanted to build a non-portable one which acted as a base station (antenna on roof or something)
> I worked at a startup a handful of years ago which decided early on that mongodb was good enough. We figured we'd move to a proper database down the road.

Yeah, that can't end well. It's a bit ironic from parent poster's viewpoint but "boring", well-understood technology is generally also the easiest to migrate away from. That's one key reason to choose it at the outset even over more "innovative" and perhaps more "ergonomic" choices like mongo, that in reality aren't nearly as simple to deal with.
Wait but if microsoft completely blocks a cloud provider wrt. any mail sending this is a form of illegal hindering of competition as far as I can tell.
While I understand it not being worth it to you/making sense (them not having their own device, presumably) yet for a 4yo, there's not much incentive for Spotify because in most cases like that they want to sell you a multi-account plan.
I really really miss stumbleupon. This site is pretty cool though...those 90s music videos were so....those were the times
>Person A has 1 share of company Y. Person B borrows 1 share of company Y from person A, and then sells it into the market. This is called a short sale. But person B just sold their borrowed share. Now that share is owned by person C.

What happens to Person A in this scenario?
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I suppose someonte could create a HID service. That lets Games download WASM drivers for any device on demand, and new devices could be added without any change to the application.
Kinda like how webfonts mean a site no longer needs to rely on fonts being installed on the browser, and Google fonts means CMS providers don't need to provide every webfont. (If the platform allows Google Font's or similar).
I would guess because Blazing Saddles is so clearly anti-racist in its actual messaging. If it gets pulled for racism it's an unambiguous case of either cognitive dissonance or uninformed judgement.

To add insult to hypothetical injury, racism is weaponized in the film by an upper-class railroad baron to divide the working poor amongst themselves so they don't unite against him. Having the film spark yet another battle along ideological lines among the less well-off of society would be weirdly poetic.
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Funny I have been making a 'data assembler' for AVR8 program memory which serializes a graph of data structures and all strings and arrays start with thr length.
It allows xhr.open, just not with a string literal, so that's not the issue.
Now I wonder how come an "unlock app" paywall with that amount of money goes through the Apple review process unquestioned

Or for some reason if it's a Chinese app Apple will just not bother?
> Inline functions are still fine though for writing zero-cost helpers, and I don't think C# has them (there's an <AggressiveInlining> attribute but IIRC it's just a hint, the compiler isn't required to actually obey).

In F#, you cannot disable inlining of small functions. It does IL source code inlining, like copy-paste, not machine code inlining. That increases generated dll/exe size a lot for generics. And sometimes you do not want to do that because it's worse for performance. There is an issue for that: https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/838

In C#, the AggressiveInlining attribute works well, in predictable manner. Non-inlineable cases are well known (`throw\switch\fixed\try..catch\calling delegates` and some more https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/master/src/coreclr/ji...).

> because it supports directly inlining IL instructions intermixed with regular code

This works for very simple things only. And using InlineIL.Fody, Sigil, raw IL.Emit or just raw IL code as text is not that more difficult if you already know IL.

> you _can_ write F# that's about as fast as non-unsafe C#

I tried this several times. It always ends with fighting the compiler more than just rewriting in C#, even without the `unsafe` keyword. In most cases due to generated IL that I cannot control from F#.
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https://reasonablypolymorphic.com/blog/elm-is-wrong/

Here's a good starting place. Look for some discussions about typeclasses and read for yourself. Ask yourself if you'd bet on this person, and if you'd build critical tools for your org with a tool dictated by them.

I have no ill will for Elm. I'm grateful it exists and that we can all learn. I'd never invest in it though, it's too much a risk for things that could affect my ability to put food on the table quickly enough.

I'm not a frontend guy, so if some crazy frontend bug happened and crunched up my landing page or any of my forms, I'm not confident that I could debug it fast. I hate to say it, but honestly I think TS has to be the future of front end web. It's simply too solid to consider very many other options.

The one-man-running-the-show act kinda works for small things, like Tarsnap is a great example. But for languages that are powering business frontends, I can't have some goofball with a bad opinion holding up progress on something important.
Fraud requires intent to deceive. Where's the intent to deceive in short selling?
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No mention of my favourite source for that kind of data: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php?module=statistics&vi...

> On Linux, most AMD enthusiasts have probably started by adopting CPUs for quite a while since they fared better for parallel workloads – and now AMD is even catching up on single-thread performance with their latest processors.

I did the opposite, and started with AMD gpus, as those provided best bang for the buck in ~2008. Driver situation on Linux was quite dire, but it improved tremendously around 2013 (when Steam appeared on Linux).

Even though I was still advising AMD in the bulldozer era, Intel was winning performance-wise. On the GPU side, though, GPU drivers have been quite hassle-free since 2015, provided your GPU wasn't the latest and greatest. They got better at supporting their latest GPUs recently.

Intel and Nvidia always had despicable market segmentation and anti-consumer practices, which is the main reason I always went ATI/AMD.

Intel: No ECC on consumer CPUs, reduced number of PCI lanes, restricted frequency multiplier.

Nvidia: Signed GPU firmware, non-redistribuable. Driver limiting the use of GPUs in datacenters. Proprietary tech everywhere: G-sync, 3D vision, Physx. Artificially restricts the speed of nvidia libraries on non-nvidia hardware (Intel did that too, to a lesser extent). Cripples FP16 and FP64 on "consumer" hardware.

I recently got myself a HTC vive. It works fine, while not perfectly, on my R9 Fury under Linux. Go team red!
I don't know if there's a name for it, but while not naked, it's still a dubious situation unless Bob has secured some way to get the share back to Alice when Alice wants it back. Say Charlie has decided to go hold that share forever; how is Alice ever made whole?

In the only-one-share-exists situation, there's no real way out of that. In a situation where more than one share exists, Bob could, say, obtain a call option so that he at least has a plausible way to acquire a share in the future to make Alice whole.
You are mixing long term investing vs short term trading.

Short term trading has nothing to do with fundamental.

The market can be irrational.
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with the proviso that anywhere you try to work at doing this will probably complain because you are not using the new way of doing things.
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> You mean, if I (a person that lives in the US) sees someone lose a human right, I should shut up, because some other guy who also lives in the US, who I've never met did something that I never approved of or endorsed?

No, of course! I agree with you: individual citizens should have the right to talk about anything, there's free speech after all.

What I mean is that if you are too focused on the (truly horrible) injustices perpetrated by other countries while you consistently turn a blind eye to the injustices perpetrated by your own, then you are not being very useful. For example, in your case, the last three US administrations have been outrageously war-mongering zealots, starting wars all over the globe, participating in the violent overthrow of several governments for petty economic interests, and routinely engaging in extra-judicial killings abroad. While you can talk about whatever you find interesting, your critiques of China are not really going anywhere, but you could be somewhat effective in opposing the violent policies of your own democratic country. Call your representatives! Make them know that you don't approve of U.S. warmongering international politics!
> The price of anything is a result of its some intrinsic value and the volume of supply. So a precious stone is valuable because of its beauty, but also because it's rare.

The price of something is just what someone else will pay. Period.

Intrinsic value factors into what people are willing to pay but only indirectly.

See: beanie babies, trading cards, status items, old land rovers.
You can think of shorting as betting that the stock will go down. For example, Alice can write on a piece of paper: "Anytime anyone wants to sell this paper back to me, I'll pay a sum equal to the price of GME at that moment". Now if Alice sells the paper to Bob, Alice is short and Bob is long, even though none of them touched any stock.

Of course if many Alices do that, that will push down the price of GME, because it's market-relevant information that many people think GME will go down.

The real problem is counterparty risk. What happens if Alice runs out of money and can't pay up, or there's a run on all Alices at once? So a system of guarantors is needed. But this is far from the simple argument that "selling a borrowed car is stealing".
I think Telegram is trying to get people to migrate their chat histories now.
Then enforce your copyright. No one will do it for you.
That is a nice strategy. They bring in a lot of revenue selling these 'credits', and by the time everyone else wakes up to the fact and starting doing 'electric', they will be far ahead in R&D, quality, experimentation, etc.

They become the front runners for this industry.
Note that I said "from the company". My point was that the company only pays dividend to real shares, and the stock market intends to track ownership of those real shares. This does not prevent lenders and short sellers to replicate dividends from IOUs of shares via contractual agreements, but it is not the same thing.
> The price of a stock is the value of its discounted cash flows.

Nearly. There ARE a few other reasons to own a stock, such as the right to influence the governance of a company.

(I agree that shorting is an important market mechanism that protects against frauds and bubbles. I am much less sure that naked shorting provides value. In fact, I'm not sure I have ever heard an argument for why naked shorting is valuable... they always turn out to be arguments for why shorting is useful.)
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EDIT: Here's how it's done: https://github.com/kaegi/alass/blob/master/documentation/sli...
Yeah homebrew has some major compatibility issues with tcl/tk used by math inspector. I ended up installing python from the website and removing the homebrew install to get everything to build properly. Hopefully this issue can be resolved with virtualenv moving forward.
> Adding accessibility features isn’t making a standard "bloated", it is simply doing the right thing.

Yes, and the other million people are going to say their proposed features are "simply doing the right thing".

It may be that marking up what language a short except of text is in is a good feature to have (and would be fairly easy to achieve if Gemini used the Markdown format as you could simply us a <span> tag). A counterargument would be that traditional text doesn't do this, so a text file format ought not to unless it is aiming at being something more than what text does.

But add too many features, the project becomes something else, is maybe less useful & doesn't gain traction. A Gemini project that is too bloated and thus gains no traction helps no-one, disabled or otherwise.
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'member when HN was pro-capitalist and would have savaged a company for banking on regulations rather than the market?
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> People can just NOT buy these things.

You cannot sell yourself into slavery. You cannot sign a contract if you are a child. You can’t give up your right to basic work safety standards. The government does not allow people to enter into fundamentally abusive or exploitative agreements. I’m all for voting with your money when it comes to quality. When it comes to basic rights to privacy for you and those around you, this is not a free market issue, it is a rights issue. The police are overstepping and it should not be allowed.
People sell things they don’t own all the time line their house or car. When you borrow a share and sell it, you’re really renting it to find one much like someone rented it to you. It’s like subletting an apartment you’re renting from a landlord.

In the end there’s a chain and if the person who lent you the share wants it back then the person you loaned it to will need to produce it for you, etc.

This is why we have margin accounts (and limits to how much margin we get/can support).
> will you personally fight in it?

Personally, like in piloting a drone? It's a good question to ask, to be sure, but its value continues to diminish as more and more tech is deployed in warfare.
This is the amazing part about retail investors. There are all sorts of diverse ideas out there and most aren’t rational.

This is one of my main reasons for not trying to consciously invest as my urges are pretty dumb and shouldn’t be followed.

This caller’s message is so bizarre as to make me wonder what their long term plan is.
What if you hire a US lawyer? You're still not in the US, but I would assume that Apple is still required to follow US law, regardless of where you happen to be.
Is it?

I mean, if I brought an EV to prevent 5 tonnes of carbon emissions per year, but the EV manufacturer engages in carbon credit trading and sells a coal-fired power plant the right to emit 5 tonnes of carbon emissions per year, I might as well just buy a gasoline car because the same amount of pollution ends up in the atmosphere either way.
You're being downvoted, I suppose for the 'fake mainstream media' vibe, but giving the benefit of the doubt what you say is true.

The stations aren't in the business of informative newsworthy news so much as they are providing addictive 'entertainment', somewhat like facebook but less effective.

What they say is not false, but it's often not quite the essence of the matter.
Regulations are part of the market.
Not so fast. They reported an operating margin of 5.4% last quarter. You can't really ignore opex for a car company...

https://tesla-cdn.thron.com/static/1LRLZK_2020_Q4_Quarterly_...