Takumidesh

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Why? If people really truly deep deep in their hearts, fundamentally disagree about something, why should they continue living together?

Couples break up, roommates move out, people immigrate, empires expand and recede, borders change.

Why must the US be this sea to shining sea empire? It's not like there is some natural or physical reason.

Why does one border have to be here versus there, it's arbitrary anyway, it's changed in the past and it can change again.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Well, a lot of stock trading isn't as simple as just stock picking, buying and selling individual stocks.

Much of the market is made up of derivatives trading, such as options, where you aren't trading the stock itself, instead you are trading the option to buy the stock.

The value of the option is derived from the value of the underlying asset, but it is not absolutely coupled to it (this is how a lot of the money is made, by finding market inefficiencies and capitalizing on things like slippage, where there is a mismatch in the value of the derivative and it's underlying)

What the person above is saying is that, when it becomes no longer profitable to trade underlying assets directly, new derivative markets will be invented that trade around other underlying assets.

Think about unregulated Bitcoin trading for example, while contrived, imagine a crypto currency that is coupled with the price of another asset (these exist, like USDcoin) such as a stock, future, option, or something else.

I should add, typically the derivative kind of collapse into the underlying at some point, but in the case of an option, it might be traded 100 times before that happens, during each of those trades the actual asset (e.g. the underlying stock) doesn't actually change possession, and a given side of the contract may or may not be changing possession. If you write a call option for a 100 shares of Ford you own, you aren't selling the stock unless the actual call gets assigned and you are required to fulfill the contract, but the 'buyer' side of the contract could have been sold 100 times in the meantime.

All this to say, it's complicated and there are lots of opportunities for shady shit to happen.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

You know, you can just do things. Like, laws don't need to be applied unilaterally. You can, at the same time, tax a 100,000,000 dollar loan, and not tax a 1,000,000 dollar loan.

Kind of like how generally, low income people do not pay much or any income taxes, or how certain products are subject to additional sales taxes.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 days ago

I mean I think the guy is stupid, but let's honestly reflect here, who gives a fuck about some leaked Nintendo game getting played a week or two early. Like honestly, it might not technically be victimless (though even that can be argued), but the 'damage' is so small it's like being upset that someone stepped on your grass.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Don't mail in voting concepts kind of contradict a lot of these points?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

What? I've never heard of this. What are those questions?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

More specialized is critical.

You have to understand your domain, what your goal is, how much time and money you have, etc.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

There is a concept called prior art in patent law. Prior art is information about the invention that exists before filing, it can both help secure a patent as well as prevent someone filing a patent for someone else's existing invention.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Trash disposal isn't free, yea the dog poop is probably a negligent amount, but most people have to explicitly pay for trash disposal, and so filling up other people's trash cans can either cause an additional financial burden on them, or mean that they can't effectively dispose of all of their trash.

It looks like in your case, each unit gets a can assigned to it, and service fees and replacements cost the individual directly, additionally, there are fines for trash violations, so having other people put unknown trash in your bins can result in a direct financial burden. I think it's pretty reasonable to be relatively protective over your trash bin if you are the one that has to pay for service, replacements, and fees.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I struggle with trig because it's a lot of memorization. The fundamentals are pretty easy, but I never remember the unit circle and I never remember all of the identities.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Plans? No, threats.

 

It seems deliberately confusing to me since there is no fundamental difference between voting now and voting on the day of the deadline, but the way it's discussed and referred to seems to imply that the correct day to vote would be waiting until the last minute instead of voting just getting it out of the way weeks ahead of time.

 

For example, I would like to group many related communities together and then browse just that grouping.

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