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flefto

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    Comment #27528017

    How about you do things that actually have merit? Not by some stupid elite standard, but by your own standard. Stop comparing yourself to others. Be yourself, everyone else is take…

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    Comment #27526849

    Everything must be squeezed.

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    Comment #27526056

    I think you might have missed the point of what Yacht Rock is. It ain’t Elvis.

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    Comment #27526037

    It’ll get sorted out now it’s on hacker news.

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    Comment #27499208

    Good luck with that. Secrecy is a drug that governments become addicted to, and with zero down side for the government, nothing ever gets wound back. Things will only get ever more…

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    Comment #27491916

    I don’t believe in private variables/fields. They shouldn’t be used or implemented. A waste of time and effort.

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    Comment #27483593

    Meh. All your objections are hand wavey and not factual. Databases actually work fine as a queue but emotionally you don’t like it. That’s fine it’s just not real strong objections…

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    Comment #27483458

    So use a separate database. Is contention with the application your only objection? That’s pretty weak. What’s the real compelling reason not to use a database? You haven’t said.

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    Comment #27483434

    MySQL and Microsoft SQL server also support SKIP LOCKED.

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    Comment #27473025

    On the day in question, Robinhood posted to say this is what it was doing, and it explicitly stated that it was doing so to protect its customers from volatility. It absolutely sai…

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    Comment #27471370

    If so, why doesn’t this happen all the time? In fact, when has it EVER happened before, or since? If it was normal wouldn’t there regularly be stocks that can’t be bought but can b…

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    Comment #27471296

    Robinhood’s own customers got tossed to the dogs because Citadel told the CEO of Robinhood to manipulate the market. If you have a Robinhood account then you risk Robinhood making …

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    Comment #27471112

    Just a reminder that robinhood prevented people buying certain stocks while allowing them to sell, causing many people to lose money, but supporting the short selling hedge funds, …

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    Comment #27470705

    Errrrr.... did they get the news that crypto already crashed?