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>there should be no reason why margin requirements would increase for buyers of a stock but not for the shorts

source for margin requirement only increasing for longs but not shorts?

Some non-nefarious explanations I can think off the top of my head:

* hedge funds and their prime brokers has much easier access to credit than retail brokerages, which allow them fulfill their deposit obligations than a discount brokerage

* since the hedge funds shorted GME a long time ago, the trades were already settled, so they're not subject to any deposit obligations (since deposit obligations only exist for unsettled trades)
Exactly. This guy is amazing and his perservarance is beyond my understanding. I secretly wish someone had the courage to actually stream playing these games, would actually take less time as he doesn't need to summarize and write stuffs.

Maybe I'll do that when I'm semi-retired.
Especially given Windows NT, back when it was called that, was portable, and supported various RISC processors.
Wow this is a pretty dark abuse of NDAs. Where is the oversite on legal misuse like this? It's technically legal but clearly against the spirit of local governance.
Incongruent? I've frequently worked full day and then hosted a pool party in the evening. More often, I've also hosted pool parties in the day time and went on to work 12+ hours afterwards.

I'm left assuming either you've never owned a pool and incorrectly assert that it's a full day activity to host a party or since you seem to want to be a myth buster I could assume it's the "naked" part you see as an issue. This completely ignores the fact that in the '80s, it was not uncommon to do business at strip clubs and a naked pool party is really not much different. So maybe the party was his work that day? He sold software, right?
>The future price of the stock has nothing to do with anything

The quote in my previous comment covers that, specifically:

>I am no longer super jazzed to give it to you. I might find a reason not to pay you. The reason might be that I’m bankrupt, from buying all that stock for $400 on Monday.
The whole architecture of the internet is inside out. People have become numb to the insanity of encountering null pointers multiple times per day. This is understandable since the inside out structure is what allowed the web to grow quickly, but it will also be what ultimately dooms it as a real lasting store for knowledge.

The problem is that the foundations are shifting sands, and we need something that has significantly more integrity at the bottom layer, we can't just bolt URNs on as an afterthought. Some organizations are able to maintain persistent data over time, but it is in spite of the technology, not because of it.

I will also note that a world where it is possible to delete things is a world where individuals can be made to have written anything in the past. On the internet, at a certain point the past can be fabricated from whole cloth.

edit: and ironically, the issue is that this is because the internet wasn't actually academic enough in its original design.
Then change the law. Don’t break the law, and manipulate juries and courts, just because you (meaning the prosecutor) feel personally that someone is guilty.
This feels like people protesting against automation by not using the automated checkout machines at a store. Go ahead, faster queues for me.
On and off record discussions are two totally different things!

And that's exactly why ALL financial instruments & systems should operate publicly, transparently.
Never the less, I think we need to be pragmatic about the tyranny and blessing of geography, as well as desire for underdeveloped countries to develop. Climate is changing, we need to calibrate with interest in mind.
Is H&R block actually an independent code base? The last time I opened it, it looked like a page-for-page copy of TurboTax, which made me wonder whether it was just a white-label reskin of the same.
Hilarious! I wonder (not really) if they would have kept the reply-all going if the consensus response was "2-3 days"... Sounds like a case of a survey with only one correct answer.
This was the first year I used Credit Karma Tax. I found it easier than Turbo Tax in some ways. Turbo Tax has these wizards that ask various questions. In some edge cases, I needed to research how a question applies to my scenario. Credit Karma basically just wants raw data. Searching about a form number is much easier than an obscure Inuit question.

Both systems output the same result, so I used CK.
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I encourage you to read my comment again, the second time more carefully.
The issue is not just trading on margin, it's trading with unsettled funds, which you can do in a non-margin account, because it's a non issue 99.999% of the time.

Because of T+2 settlement when you buy/sell stock the actual exchange of shares and money only happens 2 business days later. If you sell a stock and then buy a different stock the same day you're trading with money that technically is not in your account yet, even in a cash account.

It's fine because you wrote promissory note to pay $X in 2 days, but you're also holding a promissory note saying you are owed >=$X in 2 days. (And promissory notes to receive/deliver the respective shares). And there's a central clearinghouse enforcing this.

But part of the reason why it's low risk is that the clearinghouse requires brokers to put up large amounts of cash as collateral to ensure they can pay all their promissory notes even if they go bust. They are fairly conservative in their collateral requirements.

So when all your customers are trading a highly volatile stock with a notoriously high rate of failure to deliver (this is a whole other discussion), the clearinghouse gets antsy and may ask you to put up ridiculously large amounts of cash as collateral.
At that point why not engage an accounting firm? Yes it would probably cost more, but you're supporting your local economy and have a human being to discuss any questions with (as well as be responsible for any mistakes).
> no reason why margin requirements would increase for buyers of a stock but not for the shorts

There are tons of reasons why (counter-party risk, correlated risk of brokerages with high exposure, T+2 settlement, etc). You seem particularly keen on ignoring them though.

> Robinhood may have simply been coerced to do this, but regardless

Please stop ignoring known facts in favor of your conspiracy theory.

> I and many other retail investors switched to bigger firms that won’t have liquidity issues

It is completely logical that larger brokerages will be able to weather liquidity issues more easily. If this was super important to you, going with the discount brokerage was a poor decision in the first place.
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Thank you for restoring my faith that I can occasionally effectively communicate on social media!
Agreed, better chance to publish.

Although, not sure what would get published, there's not much of a game that anyone has ever seen according to the posts on HN.

Not sure access to an SDK was really the biggest challenge.
This is an incredible site. I rarely feel so grateful to come across something on the web these days.

I'm writing a book about the experience of playing RuneScape - needless to say I'm fascinated by Why We Play.
What's telling is that TurboTax's UX is really, really, good, deceptive pricing aside. Like, so good I almost enjoy using it to do my taxes.

The very fact that Intuit has clearly invested money into making a beautiful interface for a tax program, a program that people use once a year, just goes to show how profitable the current arrangement is for them, and how determined they are to keep the average taxpayer from switching to any competing tax filing ecosystem.
Thanks for your input regarding critical thinking skills. Below are my suggestions for you, inspired from CBT skills. Normally it is a faux pas to point out cognitive distortions in other people's thinking, but looks like you're up for a direct conversation so I'll reciprocate;

- don't read minds; dialectic can only happen if we allow the flow of conversation back and forth. Cutting that flow prematurely happens for example when we assert that we know what the other person is thinking.

- don't use should statements; don't enter the scene with imperatives and normativities. At best it is insulting to fellow adults you're talking to, at worst it again kills the dialectic. Conversation requires trust in the other person being able to unpack and reality test what is being said. It requires an assumption of good enough character. Talking down to people is a self fulfilling prophecy; when you show you have very little expectation in having a good faith conversation you have already created it.

- let go of black and white thinking; simple categories are useful but have serious precision errors. I invite you to consider "truth", "knowledge", "validity" as shades of gray instead of discrete categories while talking to people, because it allows parties of a dialogue to puzzle together the subsets of truths they have.

- don't overgeneralize; don't take a comment and overgeneralize that to a person's essence e.g "they are a person who always does this". Don't take a few comments and overgeneralize that to the entire forum. Don't use labels.

- don't discount the positives and filter in only the negatives; instead of focusing where people might have missed your expectations in critical thinking, see if you're downplaying or outright ignoring when they are in fact demonstrating it.

Hope it helps.
Nothing of what you wrote here relates to this link by PG or to what I wrote. Thinking that hard work is good and should be encouraged does not mean you think working class people shouldn’t have healthcare or that class mobility shouldn’t be easy.

This is really the fundamental issue I alluded to. Long political screeds filled with emotional appeals that have little to nothing to do with the topic.
Dating at work is especially a bad idea.

Things could be perfect, but (with high probability) a relationship will abruptly end and managing every social aspect can be difficult.
But what would we think to the legal start-up that automatically checked all of github to see whether the ai could be persuaded to spit out a significant amount of any project code verbatim?

Somehow p-hacking springs to mind
> As far as chatter goes, nobody wants that.

I interpreted "social chatter and engagement" not necessarily to mean people are yapping at their desk, but that people say hi in the break room, have lunch together, etc.

> Young professionals need to learn the difference between friends and colleagues.

I hear that a lot on HN, and I'm sorry if I have to roll my eyes a little. TONS of humanity make friends at the place where they spend nearly half their waking hours, and there is nothing wrong with that. It's fine that not everyone does, but this "rule" people like to spout about "your co-workers are not your friends" - well, maybe your coworkers are not your friends, but I've made plenty of deep, lasting friendships through work.
One more reason that I am no longer renewing my Amazon Prime this year when it is up.

Amazon is on a slow slide to hell. I came to realize this last year. And Prime membership is a large part of the problem. Two issues:

1) It reduces friction so it is easiest to default buy from them.

2) The price on those handcuffs / membership has gone up, a lot, and it is basically a driver to dilute the cost burden via volume.

So cancelling Prime is the key to kicking Amazon to the curb.

You can still use it, for times when you cannot find something anywhere else, but it no longer becomes the default.
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> > where do you start from?

My answer for this has been to scroll all the way through the git history of a repo structurally similar to something I want to do and read each of the first month-or-so of commits.
Different prosecutors.
tldr:

DA1 says "we won't prosecute, so what did you do?"

BC says "oh I did X, Y, and Z"

DA2 says "gottem! we're charging you for X, Y, and Z"

PA Supreme Court says "err, yeah you can't do that. you can leave BC"
No, they do. And you can see the aggregate scores of everyone in the company on a dashboard afterwards.
> which allow them fulfill their deposit obligations than a discount brokerage

Not even just easier access to new capital, but you can be sure they are able to move money faster than someone doing an ACH transaction to Robinhood that would take multiple days to actually settle.
What should I use to file my taxes if I want to move away from TurboTax?
Oh, get a grip. Have you considered that other people might have different experiences from you?

The switch to WFH _destroyed_ my productivity and made me extremely depressed. At a previous company I switched to remote because of a move and the same thing happened, so it's not the pandemic that's causing it either.

Different people are different. For me, WFH is absolutely soul sucking.
It's a vertical/niche market, branded for NYC.

It's a fun-side project more than anything else.
Why would trade restrictions or sanctions have any effect on people in those countries donating code to an open source project? No trade is taking place.
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i work in sf. i'm in florida right now for the nhl finals and covid is fake news here, and it's utterly refreshing.
> even if they break the law and put an innocent person in jail

Which innocent person are you talking about here?
It looks like archive.org also has it: https://archive.org/details/The_KGB_The_Computer_and_Me_1990
Which has gotten worse over time, and one of the several reasons why my Prime membership will not renew this year.
Gambling implies negative expectation value, which is the exact opposite of what's happening here.

This is investing (a.k.a gambling with positive expectation value)
I think its fair to blame both.
Assuming US military continues to be functional and at the top, and US society remains relatively peaceful and productive and reliable, then next 5 to 10 years will being decrease in price of dollars and increase in price of other asset classes.

Just like it has for many decades now. Some things that may de-rail this are war, sudden demographic changes, societal instability, weather catastrophes and/or changing weather patterns, or some other destabilizing force that causes the US to no longer be the premiere option for "order" compared to the rest of the world.
I’ve been programming in Python since version 3.6 and I had the exact same thought.
Back in 1600 someone declared they owned all the land in a valley. Their descendants still own it, or have benefited from selling it off at various points.

It seems wrong that a decision 400 years ago has bearing on people today.

In the UK it's even worse -- much of the land is still owned by the families that were mates with William the Conquerer back in 1066. About 1500 years ago the king fell out with some landholders (monasteries) and confiscated it, giving it to his mates, who still own it.

Land should not be owned, it should be rented from the people. You improve its value? Great, you shouldn't be charged for that, but the unimproved value of that land is something that should be of benefit to society as a whole.
Are you asking: "Why would you do less work when you could do more work?" -- not meaning to be trite I just think the answer follows directly from your question -- its much less work to say "I haven't optimized or even evaluated this for mobile" than to optimize a site for mobile, particularly if there is some important interaction you want which is easily achievable on a desktop sized screen (like drag and drop columns for instance).
Personally, I have found it useful to make private estimates, and then be honest with myself about why I did not meet them. It has made me a better developer, and incidentally also better at estimating.

What, if anything, I say about these estimates to anyone else depends on the culture of the environment, but the experience of estimating has made me better at explaining why it is going to take longer than you think, when that case needs to be made.
Where do you think the tech industry would be without the endowment funds of universities? They almost single handedly gave rise to VCs in the 80s/90s -=-> fast forward to today.
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I mean this is already happening. When you hire a specialist in C# servers, you're copying code that they already wrote. I find people tend to write the same functions and classes again and again and again all the time.

We have a guy that brought his task manager codebase (he re-wrote it) but it's the same thing he used at 2 other companies.

I have written 3 MPIs (master person/patient index) at this point all with the same fundamental matching engine.

I mean, one thing we can all agree on is that ML is good at copying what we already do.
And technology-wise, what would be "the simplest thing that might work"? aside from hand coded HTML?

Ideally businesses would make their own entries and possibly update their own 1-page listing.
My earlier hack was a ICL 2903 running George OS, involved creating large file in area previously used for system journal and could then dump that file out and read the content of the system journal and that was how I got the admin password. Other one I did was in effect a keylogger that I ran on the system that would take control of the terminal it was directed too and present login, take the input and then pass to the system making the user oblivious.

But for practical use, the old 0800 free calls trick of the early 80's was probably most favourite. Back then they introduced 0800 free calls, when landline calls in the UK wasn't cheap. These got used for marketing, so companies would have there 0800 sales etc. Now, outside office hours they would direct to a recorded message on the PBX. Then what you could do is after the message, if you stayed on the line it would drop you into the exchange and you then pressed 9 on tone dial pad and could dial any number you likes as if you was dialling from that exchange location. Most being in London so was nice for free calls. Had limited use for BBS access, case of all that routing and line quality at times as well initial set-up. But still fun.
> I doubt a scenario where taxpayers benefit by funding a municipal competitor will actually work out.

Umm, I hear your concerns and I agree if muni-broadband reduces competition, that is not ideal. That said, this is an odd statement to make. There is data to show muni-broadband can be successful and is many times successful.

> The cost to taxpayers of the muni-broadband are less then the decreased prices to consumers brought about by this competition.

Again, I hear you. The municipality has to be competent and use funds appropriately. Ideally, no net-new taxes should be used. Ideally, muni-broadband is a net-positive venture funding other municipality endeavors.

There are a lot of cases where both versions of this story are true, the same way a lot of companies succeed and a lot of companies fail. It is not intrinsic to muni-broadband but rather intrinsic to the people running it.

Meanwhile, I was just responding to "do all of the taxpayers in the municipality benefit from the muni-broadband?"

And specifically to that one question, yes if there are 0 or 1 broadband providers serving a municipality, then every tax payer benefits from muni-broadband.

Either:

1. The price of the muni-broadband is too-low, i.e. everyone in the municipality move over to it.

2. The price of the muni-broadband is competitive, i.e. everyone in the municipality has reduced prices through competition.

3. The price of the muni-broadband is too-high, i.e. everyone in the municipality learns that their elected officials need to be changed. And/or some policy changes need to be made by learning from other municipalities.
A thought on the ROI: You can buy a plot for $2-3 in some volume. It's 9 plots per TB, so this is 91 plots or so. Value = $180 to $270 approximately to purchase. Self creation is a fraction of this, and the plots needs to be served up with the keys. Then there is the trouble of transferring 10TB. The return can be calculated by going to chiacalculator.com.
> Offices are full of people trying to give each other eating disorders through passive aggression, politics and generally pointless power games.

Seriously, does half of HN work in the real-life equivalent of "The Office"? Yes, office politics exist, but this idea that it's some sort of scheming, back-stabbing environment is a caricature I have never experienced in my nearly 30 year career.
I’m not sure you can disappear completely, but you could obfuscate your “persona” by faking likes, stories, and all type of content.
I think the obvious problem is that the people who make the decision of office vs. WFH are the people who benefit the most from working in office: people managers
More that we have a well-regulated, well-constructed power grid.
Citizens voted these people in, the blames lies with the electorate.
What's unfortunate is that ideally fairness & quality should be in the interests of the marketplace.
Watch War Games and that'll give you a general overview of how you'd access a system back in the 80s. They were still networked and accessible remotely, just not the way they are today.
>offer US citizenship to Hong Kong era that want it.

Can someone fill me in on how this would causally improve the prospects for Hong Kong's freedom?
I mean yes, if you are extremely motivated. But the wayback machine is pretty klunky and slow, honestly. And there's no good "diff" view that summarizes the changes to a URL over time AFAIK.
You’re right, vanilla Kubernetes has a level of complexity that starts paying off at a certain cluster level. But the wide adoption of K8s also shows that people love the standardization and API it offers for orchestrating workloads even if they don’t take advantage of its scaling capabilities.

My hope is that projects like k3s will manage to cover that small scale spectrum of the market.
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TLDR?: IRS can't feasibly inform beneficiaries of CTC. Because it doesn't have a relationship with them. Because Intuit cock blocks.

Right?

Doctrow always baffles me. By the end of any article, I can't remember what we're talking about.

Where's the call to action? Doctrow had me at "Intuit sucks". Just tell me where to shoot.
You make it sound as they are talking about full rewrites but it's actually about rewriting stuff here and there.

You are also assuming one just rewrites stuff blindly and randomly without any prior new insight.
It is a 3d representation of a 4d object that is basically the equivalent of a 4d mobius strip. There is only one side, no edges, and in 4d it doesn't bisect itself. You could store a liquid in it, but it is impractical to clean or drink from. Mostly mathematicians would be interested in it, as a novelty.