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I'm not saying that if you buy an option that ends up OTM that you'll globally lose money, but in the context of that one specific trade you lost. Perhaps you're willing to take th…

For options trading, there is always a winning and losing side. Someone is always harmed.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2017-11-17/blacks... The tldr is that they bought credit default swaps for debt owed by Codere SA, and then offered the company financial…

The original commenter also made a random assertion: "doing math is not thinking." The person you're responding to attempted to provide a definition of "thinking."

Financial instruments are incredibly complex. It's very dangerous to engage with them unless you fully understand what you're getting yourself into. Other people have a huge incent…

GStreamer has a much more sane CLI interface. FFmpeg generally works better than GStreamer, but it's definitely possible to make a better command line interface.

The issue with FFmpeg is that it's complex, so you need to understand what all the options do, but the interface is also complex, so you need to understand how to format what you w…

The patent approval process isn't perfect. Had you violated the patent, and had Google sued you, you could always argue prior art. What would your evidence be?

They’re probably referring to the diameter of a circle. The way it’s written is unclear, but not necessarily an error per se.

This seems like programmer error. Don't put restricted fields into types you're deserializing off the wire. It's like accepting user input and directly inserting it into a database…

A little known fact is that rental assets depreciate in the eyes of the government. This is why you can deduct depreciation from rental property on tax returns. The corollary to th…

> As a meat eater, I understand I'm the driving force of this issue. How did you come to that understanding? Did you dedicate your free time to studying the impact of meat eating, …

Yes definitely. No analogy is perfect.

The entire point of electing someone to represent you is that they should take care of things for you without bothering you too much. Imaging you hire a lawyer to represent you in …

> and the biggest one imo is dietary choices. Yes, let's blame the consumer. First of all, the consumer has no idea how their specific spending habits contribute to an issue. For i…

Ah yes, I forgot that two wrongs make a right /s.

I use pen and paper as well, but rather than print out all the source code, I write down the call stack. A calls B calls C, etc. along with the line numbers of the call. Much easie…

We put our kid into daycare around 7 months old. Obviously every kid is different, but we're happy we chose that time. Around 7 months, our child had developed an understanding tha…

Why? Having shoes that tighten themselves sounds cool and convenient. Personally, I hate tying my shoes. If anything, the technology has failed by being so brittle.

Roombas could definitely be better. Mine gets stuck all the time. The reason I keep using it, however, is that it cleans a lot of stuff prior to getting stuck, so it still feels wo…

> Her idea was that some tech will change world so much that there will be 100X return. Is that really so different from the VC approach?

> Privacy regulations can make it very difficult for competitors to gain traction for incumbents This is an oft repeated argument that makes no sense. The point of privacy legislat…

I don’t know. My school wasn’t very good, so I can’t imagine it was on any type of approved school list.

Yea I was in school at the time.

I got a job at a FAANG by writing a for loop to check if a number was prime right around that time. The solution was completely naive and the interview was done over the phone in l…