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Comment Re:$60B *in stock* (Score 5, Interesting) 63

Don't short stocks. Period. The loss potential is unlimited and you will get margin called if it keeps going up.

If you really want to short SPCX, buy puts on the options market. Your max loss is the cost of the put.

Also, if an inverse ETF gets created eventually, don't do that as the child thread suggests. Inverse ETFs have a specific purpose, same as the leveraged ETFs. They are intended for day trading and short term hedging. The ETFs have to settle positions daily so there there isn't a perfect correlation the the actual rise and fall of the underlying security.

Enjoy. I bought 10 lousy shares at trading started. I always kick myself for not being more aggressive, not much of a risk taker. That little trade is up 30% so far, still holding.

Comment Re:I just want competition (Score 2) 38

Interesting and no idea if any of what you say is true. I don't really care. I mod rsilvergun as I see him on a case by case basis and that includes an occasional "I" rating, maybe 5-10%. About 1/2 I don't do anything. If I'm going to mod, there has to be a "there there." The rest is Flame, Troll, and sometimes Funny even if it's not the intent of the post.

Comment Re:Think of the school children (Score 1) 141

Honestly the time change has never bothered me. I haven't really noticed it in decades. Laptop, tablet, cell phone time all change automatically and alarms ring when they should. If people stopped thinking so much about the time change and using it as an excuse for their ills, it would affect their health less.

I guess a lot of folks here are severely impaired by this minor tweak.

Comment Re:Think of the school children (Score 1) 141

I would be interesting in hearing from people who _want_ the twice-annual clock change.

I really don't care, but I love to see the passion and exhaustion on this topic. I do prefer the change. It normalizes daylight clock hours with how we operate. It's an annoyance once a year from standard to daylight (the 23 hour day). The other side is a little perk.

I laugh at the angst of all the people that seem to die unnecessarily twice a year because this happens. If you are at risk, for the love of God, don't fly horizontal patterns. The pain of going from PT to ET? Awful! Actually, no, it's not a big deal with some minor adjustments.

Let's just be permanent daylight saving (not "savings" you idiots). Fine. I'm in California. Let's just set the locale on our computers to US/Arizona because that's what we are half the time. What a fucking pointless thing to expend even minimal concern. I'm old enough where it really was an inconvenience because of computers across US circa 1990~2000. I haven't heard of a DST shift incident in a decade at least.

Comment Re:Certainly more useful (Score 1) 98

I'm not going to look up or anything. All from memory. In the very early 80s I rode a few friends' dirt bikes. I believe it's left foot half up neutral and full up 1st gear. Then down clicks 2-5 gears then up-up back sequential shifting. I did ride a Harley Sportster too late 80s and I think it was the same pattern.

Comment Re: Opinion leader of a mob of idiots? (Score 1) 403

I think you mean that half of people are average intelligece [sic] or below. Because that's how averages work.

As they say on Who Wants to be a Millionaire, is that your final answer? Because that's not how averages work unless it's a uniform bell curve. It's how the 50th percentile works. Averages are different. Stay thirsty my friend.

Comment I will let AI do aggressive actions, but ... (Score 1) 110

changes must be on top of a Git repo with commit before the potential carnage. I haven't let it muck with databases, but the same general rule would apply. There must be a clean understood line drawn that can be returned, a commit, a DB backup, an image. I am getting aggressive with AI, but the unpredictable always lurks.

This should not be a surprise.

Comment Re:How is this a hard problem? (Score 1) 24

I don't understand how it works. Is there no barrier to entry? If I were a semiserious music artist, I would still pay a few bucks for some discoverable exposure. Charge $99 for your first 100 tracks and $19/yr hosting. More tracks? Scale up the cost. I would think some vetting and light barriers would vet out at least a big chunk of that space filling music junk.

I also don't know anyone that uses Deezer. I've heard of it. Maybe popular in Europe?

Comment Re:Sub Prime Mortgage Crisis Do Over from 2008 (Score 1) 99

The employer and the administrator firm want to force you into target date funds

No they don't. You don't have to participate in a TDF. It's pretty rare for a plan to not offer at least a few low cost vanilla options like a S&P 500 index. Yes, some plans blend in higher cost funds with 12b-1 expenses to cover plan costs. I don't dig that but it's considered acceptable and plan costs have to paid somehow - employer pays the cost, the employee does through fees, or some funds "give back" some management fees.

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