skookum

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by skookum 4y ago
"Worried about a bubble? Could I interest you in a ponzi instead?"
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by skookum 4y ago
With the direct indexing products many brokerages have rolled out lately, you can now also create your own subset, superset and/or re-weighting of an index and invest in that.
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by skookum 4y ago
I've been visiting the Vasa every few years for 3 decades and there has never been a time when museum goers were allowed onto or into the ship. I haven't been to Stockholm since the start of the Covid pandemic but I very much doub
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by skookum 4y ago
Perhaps there is no difference. https://journal.sjdm.org/15/15923a/jdm15923a.pdf
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by skookum 4y ago
The people farming the healthy food are not a big enough voting bloc for this to happen.
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by skookum 4y ago
Are trading blackout windows enforced in any way other than threat of dismissal? I don't think there's any external repercussions to trading during an applicable blackout, and trading on NPMI is illegal regardless of whether it is
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by skookum 4y ago
With a mortgage, the side-lined young people who couldn't afford a house at 3.5% interest rate still can't afford the same house after a 10% price drop at 5.5% interest rate.
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by skookum 4y ago
More than this, you can have the funds in your brokerage account backing cash-secured puts. I'm not sure if Robinhood allows their customer to write options, so that may not be the case here.
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by skookum 5y ago
More perspective: - A year ago 1B USDT would have been more than 5% of it's market cap. - A year ago 1B USDC would have been 33% of it's market cap, today it is 2.5%. A lot of stablecoin mintage has occurred over the past year.
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by skookum 5y ago
I last had this happen 4 years ago at a pharmacy that was having network issues. But now I no longer have any cards with embossed letters so the imprinting fallback would not longer work for me. I supposed they could fill in the slip manual
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by skookum 5y ago
If you think the magnetic strip looks cool, wait until you see a credit card imprinter!
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by skookum 5y ago
I doubt that. If you're in an ATG squat, I think your desk height would need to be below your (squatted) knee height - probably well below it. I'm about 9 cm taller than dgan and doing a quick test I think a desk height of even 17
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by skookum 5y ago
It doesn't really mean anything in layman's terms. It's a transparent lie: If one were to actually take it at face value it would imply that Tesla plowed $1.5B into a "store of value" whose liquidity they were unsur
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by skookum 6y ago
Maybe they meant to say 0.4, without any qualifier - i.e. that the rate went from 0.7-0.8 to 1.1-1.2? A change from the lower end of the old range to the higher end of the new range would match the 70% increase in transmissibility . ( thoug
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by skookum 6y ago
positive earnings == profits. I am not questioning their profitability but simply pointing out that without the regulatory credits they would not be profitable. The linked earnings release confirms that the profits ($331M) are lower than th
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by skookum 6y ago
The comparison doesn't really work: Apple makes a healthy margin on their lower sales numbers and has an associated services revenue stream to boot. Tesla loses money on car sales and has managed to squeeze out some positive earnings b
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by skookum 6y ago
> You haven't lost anything yet, as you haven't sold them. That's not how it works. The difference between a realized loss and an unrealized loss is only tax consequences. If your shares have a book value of $1200 from whe
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Facebook will buy REI’s unused headquarters complex in Bellevue(seattletimes.com)
7 points by skookum 6y ago|0 comments
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by skookum 6y ago
> Companies that are dependent on financing might not get financing if loud short sellers are able to change the narrative How would this scenario play out for a non-fraud and non-zombie business? If a publicly-traded company is in such
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by skookum 6y ago
> This is... a bit surprising to me. This surprise is likely due to the power of hype in an echo chamber. Tesla has drastically lost both market share (relative decline) and sales volume (absolute decline) throughout Europe. Norway, whic
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by skookum 6y ago
> VE day was responsible for the largest outbreak because of parades and parties. VE Day was two and a half decades after the Spanish Flu pandemic.
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by skookum 6y ago
If the postulated basis is correct and acts on a continuum, it wouldn't be a huge leap to think that doing physically challenging outdoor sports that require a high degree of reaction to constantly-changing surroundings would be even b
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by skookum 6y ago
The list feels like the equivalent of an 80s canon that includes Rick Astley but omits Depeche Mode. The approach of taking what was most popular at the time and intersecting it with what is most recognizable now doesn't seem like the
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by skookum 6y ago
> ...shelves built, home improved, practical skills acquired. Shoveling snow/dirt/other substances, chopping wood, pushing wheelbarrows, or loading trucks would be better examples of real-world equivalents to the more-maligned
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by skookum 6y ago
> ...this was before there were any Whole Foods in the Seattle Area. I'm not sure where this story originated. The first Whole Foods in the Seattle area* predates the filming of that season by about a decade and is closer to downtow
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by skookum 6y ago
For that to work requires not only a strict but a globally coordinated lockdown, otherwise one infected traveler can get the whole thing started again.
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by skookum 6y ago
Opinion pieces in favor of keeping the lockdowns going are a dime a dozen right now. Why are none of these smart people extending their opining to cover exit strategies and timelines? What are the steps being taken to make sure that an even
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by skookum 6y ago
Unfortunately Costco has been one of the Seattle-area employers who've resisted remote work even after it was obvious the area was experiencing community spread. One of their HQ employees has since died of COVID-19 and others are begin
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by skookum 7y ago
Many people would argue that your fourth criterion rules out all options. We're in historically unprecedented territory - there is no reasonable assurance of anything. The broad market is 30% off recently-set all-time highs. Whether i
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by skookum 7y ago
If stocks double and everything costs twice us much, you're 2X better off having invested than held cash. If stocks double and everything costs the same, you're 2X better off having invested than held cash. If stocks double and ev

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