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Look, it's great that you managed to be one of the people who came out ahead in all of this.

But while you personally have seen some success so far, it's important to recognize that overall this is a transfer of wealth from people in your financial situation to the wealthy. The fact that this one situation is so incredibly newsworthy should be strong evidence of how unlikely such successes are in practice.

Further, a lot of the people holding on to $GME right now will be caught holding the bag once the selloff begins. Once the reversion happens, there won't be buyers willing to take this rapidly-pluging asset at every price point along the way. Certainly some people will get out at sky-high prices, but the overwhelming majority will be left holding a $10 asset they purchased at $400+.

> I made >40% of my network in the first 2 weeks of January alone...

Only if you've sold. And if you haven't, I do genuinely hope that you're one of those who manages to get out in time. But even if you are, it's important to realize that the eventual winners of this scenario aren't going to be the Redditors holding on to $GME shares, but the wealthy short-sellers who manage to either predict the pop or simply have enough assets to hold on long enough for it to happen.

> I have literally nothing to lose.

No, you had 4 digits of net worth to lose. And while that might not seem like "much", it's quite literally not nothing. And while you've been fortunate to win on this play, the statistics are pretty clear that plays like this keep more poor people poor than make the poor rich.

> Keeping track of my bets even before getting into this, I was right more often than not, and I am aware of survivorship bias and confirmation bias. In the limit, it makes more sense to spend 4-5 hours per day learning about market analysis, observing trends close to me and making decisions about sectors/fields that I know about.

First off, compare your plays to overall market returns, not to net-zero. Your benchmark over the past five years should be something around +90% (about 14% YoY returns). Actually, you need to be a little better due to trading expenses and (in the U.S. at least) short-term capital gains tax raets vs. long-term gains.

Second, it's astonishingly easy to be profitable when the overall market is having record returns. The trick is not losing your shirt when the market goes upside down, and everyone thinks that part is going to be much easier than it really is in practice.

In sum, I genuinely wish you luck, but I'm sadly all too aware that the statistical reality is that spending 4-5 hours per day learning about market analysis and making trades based on your findings is overwhelmingly more likely to leave you poorer than richer.

You can find people who've become rich betting it all on black at the casino, but that money didn't come from the house. It's just redistributing funds from all of the other suckers at the table, while the casino takes home the real winnings.
The addition of an artificial ambient background is known as "comfort noise" for those who are interested to look further into it; usually it's done on the receiver end.
you'd collect interest on money you loaned out. they'd have to be loaning out some amount of money, and even if it's just 'backed up' by all this 'inflight' money, that's not terribly safe. I think the majority of the slowness is just down to old/legacy systems, and the sheer volume of stuff that has to be touched to make upgrades. I'm not saying upgrades/changes never happen, but it's a big effort. Why do we still have relatively poor security around a lot of financial stuff? Because the cost of just writing off fraud is still usually much cheaper than the long-term effort of systemic upgrades.

Other countries didn't have as much infrastructure to upgrade, and have been able to leap frog the US in many ways.
Maybe, just maybe, you've been putting off getting a life for too long. May sound snarky, excuse me, but this is related to the grandparent mentioning new challenges. Maybe you've taken a recipe to life, instead of living it. Maybe your put in an effort to follow (your own) rationalizations (like money), seeded by dominant patterns, instead of relating to what's good, socializing with what's good, finding out what's good and empowering what's good. Which would, partly, mean starting from scratch.

Note that you can't buy the answers to these questions with money. They may also turn out to be so elusive, as society has seemingly no use for them, that you'll end up going back to the job, kinda defeated, but with a new appreciation of purpose.

Or maybe I'm just suggesting things here, and you should ignore me and watch the [best movie on the topic](https://youtu.be/P9-FCC6I7u0?t=79) and explore the insanity on display. Sorry.
I suppose it might be relevant to cite this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8280379
Humbly and in hopes it may be helpful in whatever way, I put forward a (translation of a) Quranic verse that came to mind when reading your post (since you are 44 years old). Happy to expand on my thoughts if you would like me to, but for now here is the verse:

[46:15] We enjoined the human being to honor his parents. His mother bore him arduously, gave birth to him arduously, and took intimate care of him for thirty months. When he reaches maturity, and reaches the age of forty, he should say, "My Lord, direct me to appreciate the blessings You have bestowed upon me and upon my parents, and to do the righteous works that please You. Let my children be righteous as well. I have repented to You; I am a submitter."

Edit: translation by Rashad Khalifa
Why was buying with personal cash disabled?
prag you have been a warpath, I hope robinhood is paying you well for this
SFTP actually works really well. No need to go full "javascript framework" and rewrite it in some meme language like rust just because it's more than 6 months old.
I remember this logic when multi-billion dollar multinationals were issuing and securitizing bad mortgages.

Didn’t pan out like they thought
Its in poor taste to call it a "meme stock purchase" when it legitimately has a chance to make (and for many has already made) investors a lot of money. While there are memes around the stock purchase (no different than with TSLA) it is a very legit investment strategy and market opportunity.

This was not Robinhood denying a couple redditors some meme material - it was a company denying many regular americans a once-in-a-lifetime investment opportunity (and in itself the practice may have suppressed the power of that investment)
I wouldn't say Californians love expensive housing. They love the speculative market which draws a good investment on their prior investment. Problem is it inevitably squeezes out all those people who cannot to pay market rate. Not for a house or an apartment. Where do they go? Suburbs nearest are already full, the periphery between aren't too far from being the next redeveloped arras. Some resort to commuting 2-3 hours each way since they can at least buy a cheaper home hours away and not infinitely pay rising rent. They do build "cheaper" houses in the exurbs so that helps some but the vacancies are filled by all others chasing the California lifestyle even if only temporary.

One point to add is that it's pretty expensive to build in California. Even to fix an old house could incur 20-25% more due to retrofitting for earthquakes. Getting land and whatever property isn't cheap on top of doing anything further to it. I'm in the field and started wanting to do affordable housing but the pace at which it all moves is pushing me towards other paths. Say 3-5 years for 1,200 new units to get through various agencies and built on time, most of which are not meant to be affordable units. Can people put their struggles on pause in hopes of being lucky this round? Much as may be said to signal virtue, there is an obvious informal aversion living next to poor people.

What made me laugh was when the City of Los Angeles was building those homeless shelters and still charging city fees. Way of the system, ok, but why would the city need to charge itself permitting fees? I feel there's a huge indifference to put only a facade of trying but at least it produces a few units at an astronomical cost to taxpayers. The are already paying for an annual budget half-owned by the police. Relevant point because a lot of cops and city workers don' live in the city either. They take their income and their future pensions elsewhere and the residents paying for these services get so little of those tremendous salaries reinvested back in their own communities.

Greed will always be here. I don't see it changing either unfortunately.
> you can't do anything.

You're right, that happened to me in 2014. My then-employer had to drive to some government office and ask them to give a go-ahead for my degree. But I've never heard anything like that since that time.
Well someone took their own life because they showed him a real data for the moment and it was in red and it was all over news. Either way they target amateur market.
What if the Tor connection is built into the app and enabled by default.
The auto-completion is purely Python's dynamic-dispatch problem though. Lisp has symbol-based auto-completion which doesn't suffer from the same issue (search is a different story!).

This sounds terribly controversial, but I would love to know /when/ the static-typing pays off compared to a looser approach like sound-gradual typing (where you basically export types at a boundary and make sure that you don't violate those).

I do wonder whether a better approach is to prove your code in some other language (say Z3, Agda, Coq) - then implement it in something else, making sure you can prove isomorphism. This has quite a few benefits; you're not tied to a constructive proof on the type-level ala Haskell, Rust, Go etc... and you can automate a large part of trivial proofs.
"[...] human transport is still archaic and restricted to one plane. Let's change that by boring underground transportation tunnels.

Oh, yeah, sure, d'oh! No one ever thought of anything like that before. No sir, nuh-uh.
https://www.altnews.in/old-video-shows-police-breaking-cctv-...

Police breaking cctv is an old footage as per a reputed left wing news watcher.
This seems like a ripe topic for an academic/open source wiki approach to 3D modeling and representation. Imagine if some group, or academic consortium, got funding to build an MMO world and to make available to academics the tools to build it out--3D modelers like Sketchup for buildings, behavioural scripting for NPCs, economic modeling of the surrounding environment... all available for people to walk through.

Obviously no one history department has the budget to licence a serious game engine or maintain an open world; but one would think an endowment from a benefactor plus cooperation and funding from a group of seed universities would be enough to get it started.
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You already have a decentralized app store, namely Fdroid. I think it is pretty decent too. And it is the furthest we can go in decentralized app store right now.
I reject the claim that it is reasonable to capitalize all the string fields of arbitrary objects.

But it can still be done, like you mention, by using reflection. Now, you claim that it is unsafe. This is untrue, it depends how the reflection works. Even if it were unsafe, it would be no worse than in Python, where you get a TypeError or in JavaScript where you get undefined, which probably leads to a crash later.

For an example of reflection which is safer than just a string-dictionary like JavaScript or Python, see GHC.Generics. It works by compile-time generating a type safe structure which is not just a dictionary. The function you want would have a signature involving this constraint, "Generic x => x -> x", which means it works for any "object" implementing the Generic interface.

Now you may say "but I asked for a function that handles all objects", but I don't see the point. In statically typed languages you get an additional option of using generics when you want. It doesn't make sense to me to require all types to implement reflection when you don't actually need it everywhere.
> They're going to lose much of their base, and they deserve to

Where are they going to go? Even with their problems, the RH app is pretty good - especially for the first time trader with a few hundred dollars. My primary brokers app and website works, but is very cumbersome. The closest thing out there might be ToS from when I used to use TDA.
Given how few corporations last any significant length of time, it works until it doesn’t.
> Fewer than 20 percent inherited 10 percent or more of their wealth.

That's a very misleading statistic; it takes less than 25 years and the long term average return if the S&P 500 to get a 10× multiple; so with that much time, an inheritance that represents only 10% of final wealth is quite easily the source (with just basic passive investment) of 100% of it. At 40 years from inheritance, it's over a 42× multiple, so an inheritance or less than 2.5% is the source of a whole fortune.

And, surprisingly, your statistic doesn't cover how many had “business” (whether genuine or as a tax dodge method of giving large gifts as “businesses expenses”) funneled to them to build their fortune directly from their wealthy family members, businesses controlled by wealthy family members, or people seeking to curry favor with wealthy family members. Which is how the pros do it.
The title is misleading though.

The vast vast vast majority of migrants to the US are random agricultural workers and the vast vast vast minority of them are IMO gold medalists from Singapore.
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> If you’d like, I can send you examples of these as I see them in the future.

That would be great! And thank you for the thoughtful reply.
Amazing stories & big props to Microsoft for pushing this thing on with their accessibility controllers.

I mean it sounds like common sense that gaming would help the metal state of people with this level of disability.
When it comes to scientific and technical achievements, the United States is still leading the remainder of the world and has for an entire century. When it comes to societal change, we're (still) pretty bad. It's almost like they might be related phenomenons.
I’m not very familiar with stock settlement, but I’m quite familiar with the settlement of some other, less regulated instruments. These often also have two-day settlement but seem less dysfunctional. So I’m not convinced that the T+2 settlement is the problem per se. To the contrary, T+2 settlement gives people a chance to correct errors, if any, before anyone takes the money and runs.

I can imagine a two-day settlement system that works better. Specifically, all parties would need to post cash with the clearinghouse before buying and to post stock before selling. Customer funds would be expected to be used for this purpose — no broker should ever go bust because their customers bought stock too fast. And, critically, unsettled receipts would be valid collateral, possibly with a small haircut. So, if you sell one stock, you can immediate use (most of) the proceeds to buy something else without needing to come up with additional collateral.

In effect, this would be immediate settlement plus two-day escrow.
I'm in the same boat. I find it so hard to get work done. It causes me a lot of anxiety to even sit in the chair. Once there I feel so antsy it takes awhile to be able to focus (instrumental music helps with that sometimes). I'm dreading having to go back into the office.

I'm also in my 40s and have a family to provide for. I totally think if I could just have a change of scenery (moving somewhere new in the world) it would help me so much, but as you know it's not that simple at this stage in our lives.

For now I try to get stuff done around the house to let me feel tangible things. I also work on side projects to let me work on something that I find interesting.

I wish you the best of luck. I don't have the answer, but would love to know what it is.
Regardless of which side of this you’re on. I think it’s pretty weird they didn’t clearly explain why they disabled buy orders. The reason given in the user interface was “volatility”, not much else.
The messaging was not forthcoming, I’ll grant you that.

But they are actually correct if you take a step back. Protecting the DTCC protects all brokers and thus in turn protects their users.

The regulations and the practices followed in the industry are to protect against against real scenarios which can lead to brokers collapsing and investor funds being decimated.

Maybe it would have looked better had robinhood come out and said “we don’t have enough liquidity”, though that’s still not a reassuring message for their users.
100% yes.

It's also about the entire internet & its users, not just threat models on specific sites.

We can't ask the general public to consider threat models and evaluate what sites should need HTTPS or just HTTP. General, non-technical intuition is basically useless for this eval; it's not a good path.

It's much smarter to just make HTTPS the default, make it easy & free for any site to provide it, and then let browsers show big warnings for any site that's not secured.

(Browsers are moving this way already)
Hmm I've seen on r/wsb that many are going to Fidelity, while a few are trying weird apps like Webull.

But maybe a better way to put it would be "they're going to lose the trust of much of their base", which might be fine short-term but long-term isn't great for them.
If you want an "App Store" of open source software install gentoo.
Sweet! I pitched the idea to a Manning editor a few months ago in a different context - glad they found an author! Have a github repo?
Is there room for the argument that Robinhood should have seen this coming days, possibly weeks beforehand, and been raising capital preemptively?

In addition, DTCC raised collateral for specifics stocks from 2-3% to 100%, is there not room for investigation why aside from "volatility"?
How does this compare to the current implementation of proof of stake in Ethereum 2.0?
Ransomware for Linux servers would take down most of the servers on internet. One of them made news on November https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-version-of-ransomexx-ran...
It's a large pile of open source software. It's able to be redistributed freely, by design. Everyone is in the position to take advantage of the catalog, if they can somehow solve the demand side -- that's what the entire problem of a store is about. F-Droid has been trying for years!
The problem is the CEO specifically said they did not have a liquidity issue. That means one way or another, he's a straight up liar.
It seems they might under certain circumstances, but you need to ask for a correction within 30 minutes? I don't know how you'd do that on Ameritrade.

I'm guessing this isn't about the normal UI that most customers use, though. I imagine it's possible to submit bids and asks at any price, and someone could fat-finger that. So, someone who put in a bid at 222 for a stock that's trading around 22 might have a reasonable case that it's a typo for 22.2 and should be reversed.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/erroneous-trade.asp
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This sounds like a terrible way to work and like an unbelievable nightmare to me. Are you willing to trade income for a more relaxed job?

I am asking because I do believe that a healthier relationship with your job is absolutely worth the salary cut long term. I have already seen and heard plenty cases were people just dropped to 30ish hours/week rather than working full 37.5h or 40h (and obviuously all of the overtime that just... occurs).

I think finding a sweet spot quality of life is really important. I am completely content at this instance in time and have no desire to make my work life more stressful for more money because I don't need it. I have everything I desire, including an SO I care for more than "the next level" at work. It's not that I am not ambitious but I have seen jobs wreak havoc on people's lives with nearly nothing in return to show for it (aside from shit you don't need).

Work is never worth more than you need to feel content. You're not going to make serious money slaving away for some corp anyway. Assuming you're a normal employee, use vacation days and call in as sick as often as you truly need it because you're not gonna help your team/project being frustrated and burned out.

Health is more important than some corp's bottom line. You can power through shit at 22yo but even at 32yo your body will make itself known quicker than one would expect. I mean you must know better than me. No product releasing tomorrow is worth breaking your mental or physical health over!

You're not really going to get more than a fishy handshake once you leave for whatever reason - even if you shouldered 80% of the weight for 10 years.

Also, you apparently amassed decades of experience - leave before you break if you can't make it work. You're worth something on the market. You will find a job with healthier conditions. Maybe less salary or whatever but again - unless you really depend on the money I'd rather take a cut here in favor of health.
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#CC0
It doesn't look like there are any guides for most of the champions. I've clocked on 5 or 6 and the only one I see is for the first champion alphabetically, so 1/6. It's a little hard for me to make anything of this unless it's relevant to familiar champions. Is this a bug of the website or to-do?
Settled funds means two days that is longer than the whole situation. It was mainly new money anyway so the accusations and anger would be the same?
I used that for lack of a better term.

Generally, I agree. But to me, input lag and performance does impact.

Like watching a movie cam rip with choppy audio. You can still admire the film, but it's not going to be a pleasant experience compared to watching it in the cinema.
Your guide would be a blessing for techies looking to improve their audio quality. Please, do it!
>Who, specifically, do you claim is conspiring? And to what end?

I'm happy to retract the conspiracy definition on the basis that there isn't explicit coordination. If you'll allow me to move the goalposts a bit I'll settle on the fact that my frustration is in the excuse-making that these actions are just regular checks and balances, instead of being the nefarious acts they are, unfair interference in the markets to the detriment of retail investors.

When you have heads of brokerages coming on talk shows (my memory of who isn't great) recently claiming that they'll open things up "when things settle down", and actually claiming "this is a $17 stock" (nothing wrong with the opinion, it's just unfair for a marketplace to be wielding their influence like that), we're living in bizarro world when the media isn't calling them out on it.

Then you have the CEO of nasdaq saying they'll consider halting trading if they can match social media chatter to movements (as if it's possible to prove causation anyway) so that large institutions get time to adjust?? When does the retail investor with their pension on the line ever get time to adjust?

>extreme volatility.

It might be extreme but it's not unpredictable. The helpless "how could we have seen this coming?" from institutions rings hollower each time throughout the decades that it's used.

The answer here is to stop the interventionalism that tries to hide natural volatility. Do you think social media is causing volatility and leaving pump and dump bagholders? Fine, let it happen on the small scale more frequently and sooner or later people will learn through frequent exposure that you can lose your shirt.

However, if you constantly intervene? You're hiding the volatility until a large event is allowed to hide in plain sight and deliver a liquidity crisis for many.