We were talking about naked shorts. Which even the corrupt US market made illegal 20 years ago

No it is not necessary. Most stock markets don't even allow it. Just the ones in corrupt failing countries

Is it disrespectful liking your own home? I guess you lot are very disrespectful then.

No pre 9/11 they had a stupid questionary, but were always upbeat, and kept repeating "welcome to the greatest country on Eath" even as you rolled your eyes at them.

I was told he invented quicksort in college while learning about bubblesort and being told that was the fastest known way, though lower bound should be possible, but no such algorithm had been found. Then he suggested quicksort to the professor..

Here in British Columbia we just changed our clocks for the last time and will remain on UTC-7 indefinitely. Parts of B.C. (the northeast part) have been UTC-7 all year for a long time. The southeast part has been Mountain time (UTC-7/UTC-6) for a long time. Neither are changing how they do time.

I applaud losing the time change but I'm not crazy about permanent DST. People obviously haven't thought this through, what it's going to feel like come November.

...laura

No it means a buggy product not yet ready for production.

Well, they have way more security bugs after moving from 6 week releases to 4 week releases, so they are trying to fix it by moving to 2 week releases :D

Near-lifelong B.C. resident here...

People have grumbled about time changes as long as I can remember. Pick one. Stick to it. Just do it.

I can't say I agree with their choice. Not so much the crazy late sunset in the summer - we're used to that - but the very late sunrise in the winter. The sun will still set by 5 in December and January. So what?

...laura

"Please" and "thank you" are relics of a bygone age to most people.

The one that pisses me off is the habit of customer service people addressing men respectfully ("sir"), but not addressing women with respect ("ma'am" or equivalent). This isn't an issue in places like Texas, but it's very much an issue here in Canada.

...laura

The original native greenlanders were wiped out by the current greenlanders 600 years ago. Not by Europeans

Last year, Trump was in power. If you meant two years ago, that was when all big US IT firms had their post-covid hiring freezes..

You don't buy cables in big box electronics stores they have ~1000% markup. You need to buy online or in the early 2000s in small electronics store, or hobby electronics stores. If he was paying close to the cheapest option in Best Buy he was still paying 10x more than he should.

When I first saw 4k I was startled by the picture quality. I also winced at the price tag, and shook my head at the lack of native 4k content. I now own a 4k TV, stream lots of 4k content on line, and generally like what I see. I shoot my own YouTube videos in 4k.

Is 8K just not that much better? Lack of content? Or just bad timing, people would rather spend money on food than a new toy?

...laura

Knowing Apple, they will try as hard as they can to ruin the francise and piss all over the books. As a result, it would be better if they adapted bad books.