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> This might indicate that, at least for this sort of fintech, "lean" can't be an option: there will need to be some form of deep-pocket backing in order to stop the company from going belly-up due to a short-term credit crunch.

Honestly, I think this is tough. Building a regulatory regime for a six sigma event is extremely difficult.

That being said, there probably needs to be a better mechanism--maybe a market wide 24 hour circuit breaker plus some sort of emergency credit backstop--to ensure liquidity for these types of events without disadvantaging any particular market participants.

I dunno, I'm making shit up here and don't know what the hell I'm talking about.

Seems complicated though...

Now, I will say, if you ask me, it's about time to start putting in even more short-side controls.

Allowing these massive funds to build gigantic positions with infinite loss potential clearly represents systemic risk, particularly given we've seen over and over and over again that, as much as these institutions are supposed to be "professionals", their risk management is utterly inadequate.

Start with totally banning naked shorts. Increase margin requirements on short positions. Maybe flat out ban shorting over a certain percentage of float. How about limit the amount of short-side risk a firm can hold as a percentage of its total portfolio.

RH is in many ways a victim of a much much larger structural market dysfunction.

> Fortunately RH had sufficient funding for that,

So that I don't agree with.

RH had to completely stop buy-side activity on their platform yesterday and then massively curtailed it today. Not only did they not have sufficient funding to support BAU, they still don't!

Meanwhile, the controls they put in place to allow them to limp along single-handedly produced a massive drop in the price. Then, to add insult to injury, they increased margin requirements and margin called accounts, forcing liquidation at substantially reduced prices, thereby locking in losses for their clients.

My guess is they're buying time, right now, by limiting buy-side volume and dipping into credit lines, until the 1B cash infusion lands on their books, all while preparing for the class action lawsuits and congressional investigations.

Oh, and that IPO? Expect that to be postponed...
Much has been written about it, and can be found here and elsewhere.

I've been 100% remote for 20 years. Its ok. Miss some of the collaboration sometimes. Have a local groups of guys I share contracts with so we can pool skills. So that helps.

Smaller midwestern city is a plus - lots of amenities while still very navigable and understandable. Went to my 2nd-favorite Indian place for lunch today (2st-favorite is in next city over, 20 miles). Post-pandemic I'll be able to enjoy one of half a dozen production companies on their various stages. Fresh local food everywhere. Amazon brings the rest of the world of shopping to my doorstep.

In the end I can only live the one life, one person, right where I am. What does it matter how many other lives are played out around me - 50K or 2M? At some point there's only so much I can sample and enjoy.
It’s mind boggling people don’t understand this. Profit taking is what happens when the stock price drops. We’ve yet to see that happen... but my guess is that the institutional whales will tip the scales as soon as they decide they’ve taken enough from the Reddit crowd.

There’s already a sell wall... so you know they’re gearing up.

As other commenters noted, there were a lot of shares sold that traded hands. But the important thing to look at is not shares, but how much money moved into the security, and who now holds it, and who will be in a position to keep it.

And these hedge funds that are supposedly feeling the pain. Most of them have got plenty of capital to manage this.

Think if it this way... how many billions of capital was invested by retail investors... and how many of those are “holding” in order to “stick it to the hedge funds.”

Those billions are going to go somewhere as the stock price drops.. and I’m going to guess that most of it won’t go back in the pockets of the retail investors when this all ends.

So they basically just made a bunch of rich people richer.

How can the hedge funds not being laughing?
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> is possibly a hardware dead-end.

I'm thinking the opposite, there been an unending succession of different accelerators for doing this, and that which eventually been obsoleted, and forgotten when general purpose CPU caught up to them in performance, or comp-sci learned how to do calculations more efficiently on mainstream hardware.

Just by seeing how morbid are the sales of the new "NPUs," I can guess it's already happening.

A number of cellphone brands experimented with such to run selfie filters, or do speech recognition, but later found that those work on CPUs not any worse at all if competent programmers are hired, and then threw the NPU hardware out, or disabled it.
Riddle me this, if you know...

How is it possible that a $20bn company threatens the stability of clearing houses. Tesla moves by $20bn regularly. How does one affect the clearing house as a whole differently from the other?
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This is an aside to the overall story, but

> At any given time, there are more than 1.4 million seafarers plying the world's waterways, according to the International Chamber of Shipping.

I mean, I guess this is obvious because SOMEONE has to ship all the stuff everywhere, but that's a truly crazy number of people to me. I guess it goes to show that the oceans are almost unfathomably huge that they can still be completely empty, even though a million people are living there on a daily basis.
Sorry, I should have backed up my statement. Apparently, most hedge funds are actually doubling down on their short positions, believing people who are holding will sell. GME is still shorted more than 100%, so it's basically a game of chicken between short and long gamers.

The problem is the shorts have to pay interest, so they need an out ASAP, while the sentiment of the longs is that they will hold indefinitely.

Disclaimer: I'm not a financial advisor, and I don't even have any of the shorted stocks. I'm just following the news.
They already do. It's called Safari
I agree, but his argument is that in general doing a burn-in is still not going to be a substitute for good starting values, and if anything it's even easier to get a bad starting value using burn-in on a difficult problem.
Seems like a linear model would work equally as well, without all the deep learning bits.
I used a MacBook, first Air and then Pro until 2018. Then I switched to ThinkPad because I had sold my MacBook pro 2015 and needed a new laptop. And the new MacBooks were not to my taste. The Thinkpad was fantastic. T470s, took care of all my needs, lots of ports, upgradeable RAM und SSD.

Recently I upgraded to a Ryzen-based Dell but it is hot and loud. I am considering going back to MacBook depending on what they release next.
The guy struck rich! Same with people who shorted crude last year when it went straight to -40. Billions were made.
Seconded. Marketing 101: Make it easy for the consumer to see why they might want to try the product.

I use Stardock's Groupy, and it does this well (and is inexpensive). I'm not sure why I'd want to switch to this when I already have Groupy, although the general idea is one that I think should gain more traction.
Question for those familiar with the industry: What actually are these large investors in GME doing right now? Like, suppose you're some investment manager at Blackrock. Is that even the title that'd be responding to this? Would there be escalations going up to some VP? Is there some a team figuring out an exit strategy?
Compared to the general air I've been seeing about articles hating on a bunch of Redditors, this one is decidedly more neutral and seems to speak more about what is actually happening than "redditors bad, mess with stock, they evil".

I appreciate that. Not enough to give WSJ $20 (!!!) a month, but I do appreciate it.
Surely the price is soaring because that's what it takes for the seller to keep selling it back?
The problem here is fundamentally Robinhood is in an industry where screwing up has huge consequences for their customers.

If Apple has a supply chain issue and my phone is 10 days late, I might be irritated but the most it will cost me is a few days frustration.

If Robinhood fails to execute a trade for me, it can and has potentially cost a user tens of thousands of dollars.

What happens when the share price starts to give way and Robinhood fails to execute trades as the share-price is dropping rapidly?

If I owned shares in GME (or AMC etc) on Robinhood, I'd be getting out now because they've done nothing to suggest they are capable of serving users when things get sketchy.

I don't own GME, and will never put money in RH at this point.
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A ton of people aren't doing any thinking for themselves. I'm pretty convinced there's some kind of organized manipulation attack going on within r/wsb.

The same reason Parler got taken down for inciting violence without proper moderation, I'm seeing a lot of baseless claims from literally millions of people who do not understand how large/complex the financial systems at play are.

I'm kind of worried Reddit could shut down r/wsb because of the amount of influential misinformation being spread.
I'm honestly confused by the press around this event.

I get it, /DFV started a short squeeze and got rich, that is great for him. I don't support naked shorting, it should probably be illegal (if it is not already) and it looks that was part of the reason this happened. Everyone has been suspecting for a while (especially here) that a lot of volatility in stocks like TSLA etc was due to Robinhood.

As of 5:33 EST, I'm on CNN right now and the main headline "Inside the Reddit army that's crushing Wall Street" (And the reddit army isnt crushing Wall Street, it's crushing a few hedge funds that happened to hold short positions in a few stocks.
) , so now a lot portion of America (and the world) is paying attention.

Hedge funds blow up all the time. Enron blew up, basically all of the Investment Banks blew up in 2008, LTCM blew up. Why is this such a big deal?
I saw this study from USC: https://covid19pulse.usc.edu/

You can't link to the exact thing, but choose "Coronavirus Risk Perceptions" and split by age.

People under 40 believe that their risk of dying from the virus is over 10% on average. The actual risk for that age group is somewhere around 0.02%, which means they're overestimating their risk of dying by a factor of 500.

Five hundred! It's mindboggling how wrong people are.

But once you see those numbers, it becomes clear why there is such widespread support for strict lockdowns.

However, even with the accurate numbers, I would still say the case for the mRNA vaccines is strong. I think you are exaggerating the risks of the mRNA vaccines, in the same way that regular people are exaggerating the risks of the virus.
> But nobody you were arguing with even remotely thinks this.

The SEC thinks this, the linked statement suggests believe they can foresee rapid and severe losses that normal traders can't. Someone in this argument likely agrees with the SEC.
It can be spun. "We did it to ensure the stability and integrity of our platform."
> So you're saying that even if a developer doesn't want to bother with the tracking, the FB store will demand you put stuff in to feed their beast?

No - why would this conversation have anything to do with developers who don’t want to do tracking?

I’m saying that developers who do want to track users across apps (including anyone who used the Facebook api) would be able to do so without getting user consent. If they couldn’t get an identifier from the OS, they would be able to get one from the store app, so OS based permissions would be irrelevant.

> Again, I still say that the device itself will need to grant an app access to things like GPS, etc. If the user says OK to that request, then whatevs, but the OS will still force the app to request permission.

This is irrelevant to preventing tracking of user behavior across apps without consent which is what Facebook is arguing for.

However you raise a good additional point. An app which asks for GPS to provide a local feature would also be able to sell that data behind the scenes without consent, if the app was sold on a store other than Apple’s.

None of this is good.
OT, but I've never seen anything autocorrected to `watthour!' Isn't it supposed to be hyphenated?
Sure, but consumers should be free to make that decision themselves. The government shouldn't force it upon them.

Apple has not deceived consumers with regards to their App Store practices. On the contrary, they've been quite boastful about it. There are (and were) plenty of open computing platforms, allowing consumers to experience their benefits and tradeoffs. If consumers prefer to use a more locked down platform, then so be it.
I remember enjoying this with Fluxbox back in 2003 or so :)
"Best Reasonable Efforts" is defined in clause 1.9 of the contract:

> 1.9. “Best Reasonable Efforts” means (a) in the case of AstraZeneca, the activities and degree of effort that a company of similar size with a similarly-sized infrastructure and similar resources as AstraZeneca would undertake or use in the development and manufacture of a Vaccine at the relevant stage of development or commercialization having regard to the urgent need for a Vaccine to end a global pandemic which is resulting in serious public health issues, restrictions on personal freedoms and economic impact, across the world but taking into account efficacy and safety; and (b) in the case of the Commission and the Participating Member States, the activities and degree of effort that governments would undertake or use in supporting their contractor in the development of the Vaccine having regard to the urgent need for a Vaccine to end a global pandemic which is resulting in serious public health issues, restrictions on personal freedoms and economic impact, across the world.

On this basis, AZ can argue that they have indeed made reasonable best efforts to manufacture the vaccine within the EU: I believe most vaccine companies are struggling to fulfil their targets at the moment because of things like a shortage of supplies, worker sickness because of coronavirus, etc. It would seem to be difficult for the Commission to point to a company who's doing it any better except perhaps US-based companies.

Furthermore the contract does not mark their UK manufacturing facilities as being exclusively for the EU - AZ can then argue that this contract is naturally subject to available resources in their UK manufacturing facilities and so, given this is a condition precedent, their obligations under this part of the contract have not become due just yet.
I have lived in Riverside, California my whole life (about an hour east of Los Angeles), but I've been working remotely for companies in SF for the past 5 years. There are a ton of advantages over living in SF:

- Houses are probably 1/3 the cost of houses in SF (or the bay area in general).

- I can get to SF with a 50 minute flight and I live 15 minutes from an airport. This was a huge plus when I convinced my last job to hire me as the first remote engineer.

- I am in the same timezone as SF.

- The cost of living adjustments to my salary have been either zero or very small (like 5% less salary than an engineer in SF). Totally worth it in my opinion.

We have talked about moving to a cheaper CoL state entirely, but my whole family is in this city and it is definitely cheap enough. My wife is also a teacher, and teacher salaries in CA are much higher than in lower CoL states.
And yet it is the format documents are in. Government websites are full of PDFs.
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I'm the original commenter. I don't have any of the shorted stocks. I only find the story fascinating. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Obviously brokerages still make money in lots of ways such as low interest on cash accounts, fees on their own mutual funds, etc. But the point is that there's noting unique about RH not charging commissions.
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“Safe Infections”

Google internet search for “can you have a safe infection”:

Although for most people COVID-19 causes only mild illness, it can make some people very ill. More rarely, the disease can be fatal. Older people, and those with pre- existing medical conditions (such as high blood pressure, heart problems or diabetes) appear to be more vulnerable.Feb 25, 2020
www.who.int › situation-reports › 2...
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Situation Report

Is it misinformation to assert that a person can have a “safe infection” when the vast majority of people do not experience life threatening infections? Isn’t that like calling all BLM demonstrations riots because a small number involved property destruction?

Your point about the potential for second order infections from an initial one is well taken but doesn’t change the definition of “voluntary” in that the first is voluntary. Now that I read the article in question, I see that the proposal does consider and address the concern of second order infections. You may have an idiosyncratic definition of “voluntary” but writing about subsequent infections as if the article didn’t address them is a mischaracterization.

Mea culpa about not checking the author’s credentials claim. I uncritically accepted The Times’ assertion since it didn’t seem a point of contention. This was an oversight in my part. It isn’t correct to call it a deep dive though, I just highlighted the name, touch Look Up, and scan the first CVish source, very simple, very easy, just like Chef Tell. Now that I’ve seen the licensing issue, it doesn’t seem fair to characterize the author as unlicensed either without acknowledging that the license expired just 3 months before the article was published. The Federalist and author should have disclosed it for sure. On the whole, the author’s business experience and medical training lends more credibility to the proposed solution than the academics with no skin in the game.

Again, there doesn’t seem a clear case for classification as misinformation. Without defining “safe” as a specific threshold within a continuum of risk, the author didn’t make a claim that purposeful infection was risk-free and much of the article is spent describing risk mitigation of prescreening, monitoring and quarantining. It isn’t much different from the steps I went through to be vaccinated. Aside from your nonstandard definition of “voluntary” the author specifically describes how to mitigate secondary transmission using the best information available at the time.

Going further I think the term “misinformation” is overused and has too many potential meanings, ranging from errors, misapprehensions, discovery-diffusion latency, parody, sarcasm, and lies (coverups, scams, National strategic influence operations, statistics), and differences in judgement, perception, and perspective.
Working in an office and being incidentally exposed to how others work, debug, talk about code, collaborate with other engineers, etc. was incredibly important to my growth as a software engineer at my first job. There are a lot of things you see and learn that you would never think to ask a question about unless you overheard someone else say it or like see someone do a nifty command line trick while sitting next to them.

After that first job, I would say there hasn't been much advantage to non-remote.
If they legitimately are experiencing a liquidity crisis, then limit purchases on securities other than the ones retail investors are buying in their war with the hedge funds. Go limit Apple, Microsoft or Tesla.
> I'm honestly confused by the press around this event.

A lot of people wish they struck it rich, just like him. Money (to some degree) buys happiness. Gets you out of a job you don't like. Gets you more time with your family, less time doing stuff you don't like (like working).

If the poor can "eat the rich" and "catch them with their shorts down" in a stock trade that literally millions of others are pouring into (check how many subscribers r/wsb has gained past 7 days), it's literal herd mentality.
I've done it a bunch of times. The big thing to be aware of is that managing remote people requires better management skills, so you need a boss who cares about doing it right. I had two experiences go sideways, in both cases my manager got stressed and busy, and because I was their only remote report, they did a crappy job. Prior to them getting too busy to do a good job, it was fine. It really is a lot better if they are a mostly remote shop.

pro tip: apply to places you want to work anyway, whether or not they say they will hire remote. I worked at a couple where they had not considered hiring a remote Canadian, and just needed me to tell them how easy it was after they saw I was a good fit. (one form, the W8-BEN. So easy.... but so many payroll departments don't know that!)
I've been working remotely for 10 years and I agree that for junior developers, onsite is a much better way to learn and create a network.
Not completely ineffective, but ineffective at filtering the designed 95%. Here’s NIOSH’s page [0] defining fit testing and why it’s important. You don’t see this warning because it’s on NIOSH’s site, just like you don’t see the definition of all the stuff and just have the certification is for your test.

Some masks are just incompatible with some faces, it’s greaT that Aura’s have an instruction video, that doesn’t mean it will work for all people.

> An ill-fit N95 that might not be perfectly adjusted to conform is still way better than a cloth mask which isn't intended to seal at all.

I think you’re probably right. But I don’t know of a study that tests this because N95s are measured as conforming to spec, not when they are worn improperly without a seal at the nose and chin. I hope we get some info on this.

The Dirextors (and Fauci’s) comments weren’t about this though, they mentioned how N95s are uncomfortable and thus hard to wear consistently. Try wearing an N95 for 6 hours of school. Especially without training. I think the recommendation for cloth masks is because of the ability for people to wear them.

So the recommendation is not based around optimal standards of use, but around likely use.

This doesn’t mean that N95s don’t protect people. I wear them in public. I’m just trying to correct GP’s criticism that someone the CDC director’s comments are incorrect or illogical.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/topics/respirators/disp_part...
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Other brokerages still have restrictions as well. I haven't been able to write a covered call against my AMC shares. Hopefully they let us "normal" traders start writing options next week, and the premiums remain relatively high.
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In practice, all of the C compilers will (or can be made to) conform to IEEE 754, although #pragma STDC FENV_ACCESS ON support is very spotty (and consequently non-default rounding-mode support), although Clang/LLVM has been working on this for the past several months.

(That reminds me, I need to harangue the llvm-libc folks to add that pragma to their fpenv code for correctness sake).
That does not say anything about exclusivity of doses. It just states that manufacturing has to occur in particular places. What the EU gets out of this is parity between different purchasers within the group.

Also it doesn't seem reasonable to expect AZ to ignore other contracts.