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FWIW, I think there are no conspiracies here on the side of Robinhood, and the attacks by the revolutionary mob are misguided.

Having said that, there is no question that banks ruined the economy during the GFC, and didn't pay enough of a price, and hedge fund managers often make a killing, while paying very little in taxes, and HFT make a killing without providing any social value.

But the answer to that is not, I'm afraid, hyping some gaming stock and trying to squeeze a few shorts.

The answer is political action - voting, pushing for proper regulation. There are lots of proposals out there: stringent capital requirements for banks; closing the "carried interest" loophole; changing the structure of markets (eg auctions every minute instead of continuous markets).
No. A mortgage is a collateralized loan.

Margin loans more like a performance bond. Unlike a mortgage, it gets called in when you cannot cover the loan. Speculation with margin is dumb for most people.
Thank you for discussing this and bringing your perspective.

Question, why are we operating near-real-time settlement systems for securities if it doesn't eliminate such risks? I don't understand why these transactions aren't being netted and conducted as close to real-time as possible.

This aspect of the economy seems like a significant vulnerability.
“there’s an uninterrupted physical connection between the steering wheel down to the wheels and the fact that it turns more than 360 degrees means the gearing is fixed -and- linear.”

Having that uninterrupted connection would mean that car speed cannot affect how much wheels turn when you turn the steering wheel, but I don’t see how that necessarily follows. Couldn’t a first gear change that “more than 360 degrees” rotation in one that’s a lot smaller, and a second gear introduce a nonlinearity?

(Question isn’t about actual cars (I know very little about their steering mechanisms), just about the logic)
It's 96% effective against the original covid strain, 86% effective against UK variant B.1.1.7, but only 49% effective against the South African variant B.1.351...
> Write shorter sentences, with simpler words

What is the urge to write shorter sentences? Short sentences are akin to verbose code in a language like Java. Every new sentence you write must include the essential components of a sentence, the skeleton, for it to be grammatically correct or in Java:

public static void method1(String[] args)
public static void method2(String[] args)
public static void method3(String[] args)

This is wasted effort that could have been saved if one was to simply reuse the same sentence to add more nuances to it. After all human languages are extremely powerful and the mere fact that it is possible to compose complex sentences is a sign that some found them more advantageous. An average German sentence is probably 2 or 3 times longer than an English one, I think this has more to do with the users of the language than the language itself, if true it means we can make English pack more punch we just have to change our perspective. I love minimalistic code but it doesn't mean code that doesn't do much, minimalism means packing as much into as little as possible, the final result after adding all sentences will be significantly shorter compared to if single-purpose-shorter sentences were used.

It's also the same type of religiosity with unit testing and TDD that turns codebases into monstrosities and shift focus away from understanding to mere correctness. Non-nuanced sentences in the form of tweets and their corrosive impact on culture and communication are probably another adverse side effect of this devoutness to shorter sentences.
If brokers like RH don't want their name associated with regular-joe-lost-everything-trading suicides, then they surely will not allow regular Joes to buy GME stock right before they manipulate the stock price to crash... No wait, that's exactly what they did.
Apples to oranges.

The bank's collateral is its lien on the house. A bank is not interested in foreclosing as long as you keep paying interest + principal every month. In fact, if the value of your house drops 90% it is in your interest to drop the keys off at the bank and say: "You guys can have it".

A broker's collateral, when you buy on margin, is the security you bought. As the value drops, collateral goes towards 0. Of course they're going to cover their own a*. It's in the agreement you signed when you opened a margin account.

Nobody changed any terms.
No, a Dutch auction a single product with the price ticking down. They used an OpenIPO auction format.
Agreed. An important thing to remember about the salon story mentioned above is that it is not 45 independent exposure experiments. Some people never shed much virus, or the stylist might not have been shedding very much on that particular day. If you tracked 45 different infected stylists, each working with one client, you might get very different results. This one story definitely does not prove you are safe at a salon as long as you are wearing a mask! (Although please do wear one if you must go).
How long it would have taken to use a fucking compiler generating buffer overflow checks when compiling sudo and other unix tools?
This GitHub article may be useful:

https://docs.github.com/en/github/creating-cloning-and-archi...

I'm not sure if a mirror repo actually blocks pull requests. Check with GitHub Support for more information:

support@githubsupport.com
There's nothing particularly different between a company having 99.99% short interest and 100.01% short interest.
Exactly. WSB just gave the hedge funds a taste of their own medicine. Good or bad, there's definitely a degree of poetic justice here.
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Inducing other people to make trades based on fradulent, incorrect or manipulative information is a securities fraud, period. Most of what goes on on WSB dances right next to that boundary, so much so that people like you and the OP seem to have forgotten it exists. The comment above is crowing about "signal boosting", which is absolutely not the kind of thing you would say about purely neutral information.

Obviously WSB posters haven't been prosecuted in the past. But the reason for that is that WSB activity hasn't so far been responsible for large-scale distortions in the market. Clearly that's no longer true.
And done: https://plopezadeva.com/helisim.html
More importantly, neither heads of the party agree. It's more like the extremists vs the centrists.
Well I think the case for regulation is that they are giving inexperienced investors the ability to make life altering (in both good and bad ways) decisions that they may not fully understand, compounded by a gamified and potentially addictive UI.
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You don't think any of the high finance billionaires who were losing billions of dollars reached out to the people in the government whose campaigns they funded for support?

Calling this a conspiracy theory is...inaccurate in my opinion.
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She gave the business to her staff and started riding a bicycle around the world? This one is bookmarked for reading tonight:

https://www.lingsbiketrip.com/about
He didnt explain anything beyond “market volatility “. He seems to point to the same reasoning the ceo of interactive brokers did: they didnt have enough money on hand to meet the regulatory requirements when the shorters defaulted. Why cant robinhood say this?
Wasn't that my point, that the effect is the same because it convenient to allow others to take away the rights the government isn't allowed too?

I mean your basically arguing my point.
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Yes to all except P/Invoke. I don't know what that is or why I'd need it. I'm writing web services, not replacing C++. I also haven't used native pointers, but have read about them.
> sure, they said, we can do the research, listen to customers, and make recommendations for improvement. But what if leadership not only ignores our recommendations but tells us to do something different?

Do the research? Listen to customers? These are so 1990s.

I'm surprised the author didn't cover that one explicitly: how much of the problem with UX comes with it being "data-driven" these days? In lieu of acquiring direct feedback from the users, everyone these days just overloads their products with telemetry, runs countless A/B tests, gaze tracking experiments... just about everything imaginable except talking to the users.

It's nice to be data-driven - good, quantifiable data is easy to gradient-descent on. But somehow, the metrics tend to be selected in context of what profits the business the most, and not what maximizes the value of a product to the user...
LOL
Isn't the whole point of cryptocurrency to produce an alternative to the current financial system?

Coinbase entering the traditional stock-market is a flat-out rejection of that; They're just another bank, except they trade in ponzi schemes rather than government-backed currency. Awful
I think this is big in NASA culture - I mean they built half of openstack IIRC.

So I am not surprised it's getting released - I am surprised that, after a minutes thought, this is a big, open field.

I mean prometheus/ graphite grafana - hell even RRD (?) have been around for years. But that's all plumbing, the porcelain is what's missing - to have a singular platform that it just gives you a real time view of what's going on, it that embeds probably decades of hard won experience - yeah if this is even half decent it's going to be the beating heart dashboard of choice.

Want to impress the C-level execs - give them a read only access the the "company telemetry" - mission control from NASA.

Aw hell. There ought to be a good consultancy in just installing this stuff.
No like I said they are fundamentally different. In a normal mortgage the bank cannot take your house if you make payments. With margin they can force you to sell if your account becomes too risky (usually happens because your positions lost value, but could also happen in cases like these where an investment is deemed to have a high probability of losing value). They can do this even if you are paying the interest on your margin on time.
I assume Gamestop the company (and all the people they employ) are better off than they were a week ago. Maybe there won't be many lasting positive effects from having their stock briefly worth a lot more than it rationally should, but on the other hand you could make a reasonable case that they have been significantly harmed by short sellers, and that if a bunch of hedge funds lost their shirts because of their short positions they'll be more careful about shorting Gamestop or any other company in the future. Maybe that's a good thing.
And that's why I don't trust Google reviews. This is not they first time they've done that.
Wasn't this the stand that caused people to be very angry with GCC, fork the project into EGCS, and eventually jump on LLVM as the the new favorite open compiler?
IB put in the same limits as RH
If my point was to have accessible code, then I think I would care about not using components that are inaccessible.
I'm not sure what's going on there:

1. Something renders that appears to be the entire article. Winning the FF Reader Mode race confirms it is indeed the entire article.

2. Bullshit Div appears blocking my access to content. First paragraph of said article is greyed and now ends with an ellipsis, or "To read the rest", or some such bullshit text.

3. If I lose the race, FF Reader only shows me that first paragraph.
She reminds me of Trump in his early primary days.

Lots of zingers on Twitter - no experience - no compromise.
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Thanks! we'll change to that from https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/raphael-sistine-ch... - which is still worth reading for background.
If you want to feel good, buy it for pennies and then forgive it. 100$ to you can be several thousand to someone owing the debt.
Not entirely true - since people had to enter a single point on their demand curve as a price and quantity of shares (instead of their entire demand curve) the market clearing price was artificially low. Hence the price pop on day one. To think about it more in depth - assume I enter a bid of 100 shares at $100. If the market clearing price is $50, I’ll be awarded 100 shares at $50. However, I was willing to buy far more than that at a higher price, so I’d go buy more shares on the open market, driving the price up.
Sounds like you're doing a fine job.

One thing you can do is let people flounder and fail on irrelevant small tasks for a week or two early, to help them learn the lesson that they don't know what they're doing.

The best way to make someone appreciate guidance, is to have them fall on their face, receive guidance and notice the difference.

One suggestion I had was, if you're stuck for more than 30 minutes, ping me. Juniors will almost always be stuck with something trivial you can answer within a few minutes. It gives you a break and it is something they really appreciate. If you communicate to them that they're not expected to know anything and that the first few years on the job is their real world education and a chance to ask questions without raising eyebrows, they'll be far more likely to do it.

Juniors are nice in my experience, you can mold them into something half-decent if they've got a bit of a brain and their mistakes are ones of innocence, not cunning or apathy. It's the 'senior' devs who don't know shit that you have to put up with that's almost always a disaster. They'll be well versed in lying and politics, wasting everybody's time.
Huh, that's strange, because the comment I read said:

> ...particularly after having a child diagnosed with an autism...

Which to me says the dichotomy in particular is "before autism personally affected me" and "after autism personally affected me".

Calling people "autists" as a joke is either problematic and worth calling out or it isn't. You being personally affected doesn't change that. At least that is what I would argue is required from a consistent moral framework.

Don't think that says much about my morals, just that I like them to be consistent / not myopic.

Think about the thread we're posting in. This is basically about a company/industry that was like "these retail investors don't need protecting, they're adults and can make their own decisions, even if it means losing money", until those retails investors started costing them money with their adult decisions, at which point they change their mind and decide "actually they need protecting from themselves".

The way you phrased your comment, it sounded like you did the same, just swap out financial shenanigans for name-calling.
16 GB of RAM seems fine even on a 256 GB disk.

(It's plenty at that point, but hardly seems to be the yes/no on the whole deal)
Really? I've never used bluetooth, one of the first things I turn off in any device I come across. I do use wifi daily however.
Recent, related, and really big: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25507942
Uhhh, thanks. I think.

(And get off my lawn!)
My argument is government intervention is the problem. You can’t fix the problem with more of the problem. Say your house was on fire do you add more fire until it burns down and call that problem solved.
I have sympathy for the anger against Wall Street but correct me if I'm wrong: the short seller hedge funds are already out and now it's a bunch of little guys left holding the shares until the bubble bursts?
Seems to work now! :D
> I don't know how you could possibly argue that when RH is preventing the purchase of a stock, but not the selling (Which pushes the stock price down), and trying to use the argument of "we're trying to protect you from volatility!"

I'm not really savvy on the complete details, but there have been a smattering of comments pointing out that the actual financial details of what goes on when you buy something could be putting Robinhood in substantial counterparty risk that doesn't happen when you sell something.

> The funds are using their money to kill a company. While this is technically legal, I think it's incredibly immoral and unethical.

And, quite frankly, the short squeezers are trying to do the same thing to the hedge funds. I don't think you can condone one and criticize the other; to me, everyone involved in this fiasco have some ethical shortcomings they should look at.
I noticed a change--philosophically and in perspective--when 'usability' was slowly replaced by 'user experience'.

With the advent of the Web, this idea of 'the experience' has mostly supplanted much of the research and test-driven usability I participated in.
Shorting a stock, then going on CNBC and explaining why you shorted it, possibly catalyzing a profitable selloff: totally legit.

Buying $300 worth of stock and then posting a rocket emoji on a message board: an assault on the basic foundations of capitalism.
What does this mean "implements the Grammar of Graphics"?

Plotly really does look like ggplot, but Altair doesn't look nearly as friendly:

alt.Chart(source).mark_bar().encode(
alt.X("IMDB_Rating:Q", bin=True),
y='count()',
)

I guess I can see how it does the same thing, but the ergonomics don't really appear to be in the same league.
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Harder to use the grandfather clock to signify your wealth when out and about
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Nah, i have tons of open-protocol stuff on my cell phone. And i could make more (with some time and my technical knowledge) if i wanted/needed.

It would be nice if it was easier to enter/exit the garden at will, sure, but thats not the same thing.

I'm technically competent but these systems are so complex i don't think i could defend against malware in a complete open system. Actually, they're so complex that i do not think its possible to completely defend against malware as an end user without serious changes to behavior that is undesirable to most (eg. stop download apps so freely)
Google search is abysmal. It ignores most of my keywords and doesn't support literal keyword searches anymore.

Search and Gmail seem to be first-class citizens, but almost everything else seems like it's in maintenance mode. I also know from friends who work(ed) there that Google's culture rewards things that are new, not improving existing products.

Google Assistant is a particularly egregious example of a product that has gotten worse over time.
Legal != moral

Just because you can exploit the system doesn't mean you should.
Yeah the overall mindset is just to look for pieces of the form "convert values A..X into value Z", which can be lopped off into a pure function. Wherever you can do this, you probably want to.

But this generally only works if all of the information going into Z is under your code's purview. If the auto-increment were happening in your code instead of in the database then you could make the records a pure function of the domain data + the next auto-incremented ID, and the procedural code which calls the pure function would retrieve the ID and increment it, call the pure function with it to generate the records, and then call another impure function to persist them. But of course moving the auto-increment logic and state from the DB to your application code is a huge undertaking involving many other trade-offs, and is not necessarily recommended just for the sake of something like this.
I think the specific nature of the baseless accusation is what makes it a conspiracy theory.

Market manipulation is happening but mostly cuz Robinhood doesn't do anything on their own they rely on other companies
Nah, there's still ~250% of the float shorted, apparently. The shorts have doubled down.

The (maybe a bit of a conspiracy) theory is they shorted more knowing that Robinhood and other brokers would limit buying today.
I dunno man, the big boy brokerage of IB did the same thing
I've been a big proponent of GitLab but this doesn't look at all good.

I work at a consultancy and the word over the past day from many of our clients after hearing this is that they're now looking to move off GitLab.

Going from $5.20AUD/user/month to $24.50AUD/user/month would be a huge price increase, especially when most of them only needed a paid license just to enable the MR approvals feature.

One of them has around 300 users, this will change their bill from around $18,000/yr to a $88,000/yr.

I understand they were losing money on Bronze subscriptions, but I'm hoping they did consider other options such as potentially scaling back some of the (many) features that are baked into the platform. For example out of the many GitLab installs I've seen - I've not once seen anyone use or care about the Kubernetes/Infa orchestration and monitoring features. From what I can tell people mostly care about MRs and the workflow around them, CI/CD, Security Scanning, code Issues and Kanban and Wiki functionality.

I feel like as a product - it's trying to do too much and really what most people want is an alternative to Github, Jira and Confluence.
Did I stutter?

Leave the kids alone. Adults who market harmful products to kids are predatory assholes. I'd hope there is a special place in hell for whoever dreamed up count chocola and all the other bullshit used to sell candied cereal to kids. Just because it's legal doesn't mean it was ethical. And in the case of Juul, going into highschools with their marketting material, I doubt it was even legal.
It suspends/resumes just fine as long as your OS supports it. The issue is that you need much better runtime power management since it's now up to the OS to put parts in a low power state rather than relying on the firmware to do it.
I actually saw that and wondered what are the chances that I wake up tomorrow with that stock high as hell as a redirection from gme buyers...
Neat!

Got any keywords that'd lead me to something like that on Google quicker than me randomly searching? (Or even a link to such a carb?)

Edit: Found it. "High Altitude Compensator". Thanks anyway.
And the same people Robinhood was trying to "save from themselves" weren't able to buy the dips, but the hedge funds could recoup the losses from the shorts in that time frame.
Yes it seems that E46 is a great car and one of the easiest car in its class to work on, but it does not make it any more reliable. Check this BMW E46 car owned by one of Throttle House's presenters (one of the popular car channel on YouTube with 1 million subscribers), and watch on how his never ending complaints and ramblings about how unreliable is the car [1]. Compared to the Myiata car shown in the same video, the reliability is night and day. Granted it is a newer Myiata but even a similarly maintained 20 years old Myiata will be much better than the 20 years old E46. There is a reason why Mazda is considered one of the most reliable car brands in the world today [2].

There is also a reputable story where Toyota's engineers had to delay their Supra development that is based on the BMW Z4 (or comically known as Zupra) due to the lower standard of components being used by the BMW engineers [3]. The culture for car or vehicle engineering in Germany are notorious for favouring the high performance rather than the high reliability. The were also some of the historians that claimed World War 2 ground battles were won due the cheaper and more reliable Russian made T-34 tanks compared to the over complicated and less reliable Panzer tanks by the Germans.

[1]https://youtu.be/wlNkfaNcbNM

[2]https://www.motorbiscuit.com/how-mazda-outranked-toyota-and-...

[3]https://youtu.be/_jbyzmtgU_0
Yup but coinbase and binance regularly stop trading to stop pumps in the crypto market. The thing is in crypto there’s DEXs and DEFI. Coinbase and binance are doomed long term. If you haven’t look into uniswap and 1inch.