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Yikes. That's a car that looks like it gets its lunch money taken by the other cars.

It's good, but you still have to pay monthly for it. Feels like it kind of defeats the point of having a local collection.

What? Most (all?) platforms let you opt out of this, and you receive payment when your shares are borrowed. And shares are fungible, how would it matter if one share is borrowed by 10 people or by none?


“What? Most (all?) platforms let you opt out of this.” Genuinely didn’t know that appreciate you pointing it out.

“Shares are fungible, how would it matter if one share is borrowed by 10 people or by none?” Lets hedge funds create disproportionate downward pressure


Why mess with all this shit unless you're trying to retroactively justify a really heavy bag you're holding.

If you invest in good companies making good profits you don't have to care about any of this stuff. Free yourself, you have nothing to lose but your bags


I am not messing with these just looked really fkd up how Citadel was able to abuse it's position


It wasn't, and the fact that you think market makers are "abusing positions" is so fundamentally wrong it's hard to even argue with you

I'm sorry but your brain has been fried by ape memes and you need a full reset on your understanding of finance


You literally produced 0 arguments. Market maker is pretty irrelevant to the situation influential institution who's goals are aligned with other major players having pull on DTCC actions would be more relevant. I again have not dug in too much as was not relevant to me but looked fairly suspicious. I have direct knowledge of relevant situation where investment bank arm or top 5 US bank had Knight Capital Group type moment. They had enough pull to make all transactions not clear and get unwound so exerting that type of influence would not surprise me.


Not comparable at all. Xbox would be mostly transient traffic. It's probably not much more than packet forwarding for a lot of traffic.

Github is a giant complicated stateful mess with a lot of reads and writes. It also has a lot of features at this point. Hard to scale and hard to optimize.


I think this is minimizing the Xbox platform. They are also a massive digital distribution platform where almost every game is a digital download now.

That being said, you are correct. It is absolutely no surprise to me that Actions has the worst uptime.


Why would you ever accept a mismatched certificate? Even assuming that you think your ISP has no nefarious plans, are you going to be able to rigorously confirm it's their certificate? At that point you've bypassed all the mechanisms in your browser that do this heavy lifting for you.


Erm, where is the danger in a mismatched certificate, if all I want is to get some noncritical information from a blog or something?


Local privilege escalation in your browser is a danger. They can also abuse any privileges you gave to the website, such as camera and microphone.


Why would I give a "random blog" access to my camera or microphon?

And how can a wrong certificate lead to local privilege escalation?


Why wouldn't you? Your computer is not gonna be hijacked by it, and you want to see what shit your ISP is now up to.

Obviously I don't do my banking like that...


Or the Cinco Encyclopedia of Numbers https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZI3QxgjLGbQ

Thanks, Cinco


It'd be nice if AI-written articles had an [AI] after the headline


What kind of self-disrespecting dev is using MacOS in TYOOL 2026?


The ones who like using local LLMs

The ones who like top-notch hardware

The ones who build stuff and don’t make a religious issue out of everything


Unfortunately it's the only laptop some companies provide their developers


It seems unlikely that "is user adult" is not already easily modeled by any of these companies to within a very high degree of confidence. Even 15 or 20 years ago Google search could bracket your age pretty effectively. It doesn't seem like this adds metadata that wasn't already there.


Google prompts me to verify my age on my account I created in 2004. They’re not trying too hard.


If they admit this, they wouldn't be able to advertise to children anymore without breaking many rules.


Except that in the legal sense, "is user adult" flips from false to true overnight, and there isn't an easy way to account for that in any model that doesn't include verified ID. Same reason many liquor stores ID anyone who looks younger than 40.


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