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jaxwerk

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    Comment #37755996

    I'm 31, retired a couple years back. Instead of going into FAANG I went the high-risk route and worked for small start-ups from ages 15-28. I've had a ~25% success rate on those co…

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    Comment #30530908

    Yep, this situation is pretty frustrating. I used to live in old town Superior which is entirely burned, and am good friends with some of my previous neighbors who have lost their …

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    Comment #29097038

    Wow, I can't imagine the struggle you must be going through in a masked-up world. That's got to be just incredibly frustrating and alienating. Do you think maybe your hostility mig…

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    Comment #26864254

    Terse technical prose, for example, is useful for rapidly communicating concepts to readers with requisite comprehension skills. Nobody talks like that though because even if you c…

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    Comment #26813156

    I bought my OP-1 at a steal for $600 two years back. I'd pay $1200 for it today, maybe $1600. There's a lot of more technically capable stand-alone gear that can be had for less of…

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    Comment #26593864

    Even though the overall space is small, during the workday the logistics really boil down to us just sharing a table. If you're able to work at a desk with someone directly across …

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    Comment #26569743

    My partner and I have worked most of this year from a little 13 ft Scamp travel trailer all across the U.S. and we're currently building out a van to get a bit of extra mobility. I…

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    Comment #26319096

    > Here's my primary concern: what evidence do you have that this code actually works? This is a strange concern to try to address with code-review. I don't think most folks actuall…

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    Comment #25947487

    I would love to see a good argument there, because while that argument is easy to accept at face value, when I dig deeper at the concept of what market manipulation is, I fail to f…

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    Comment #25934354

    Margin calls are surely coming for large short positions, starting Friday and likely continuing in coming weeks. If the short positions need to cover, there's forced demand.

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    Comment #25933089

    The thesis that many Bulls are approaching Gamestop stock with is that the company was fundamentally undervalued prior to the current short-squeeze event. Even after the current sp…

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    Comment #25933041

    WallStreetBet's consensus on buying Gamestop was born from an understanding of its share price being undervalued, based on basic profit and loss analysis, as well as a promising bo…

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    Comment #25932976

    If the play here were a simple pump and dump, that would all be accurate. Your ability to sell at 10,000% relies on there being a greater fool and that greater fool that ends up ho…

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    Comment #25736481

    As an engineer who has worked briefly with one of the start-ups focused on here on their core product, Robert's critique of the the technology driving the current generation of tem…

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    Comment #21422932

    What benefit do folks get out of running their build scripts from a browser vs from a terminal? Isn't a terminal a much more efficient interface for this vs needing to click into a…

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    Comment #21420873

    Red is a property of a car totally unrelated to its performance characteristics. The language software is implemented in absolutely has an impact on the performance and behavior of…

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    Comment #16868585

    > Sounds like you haven't ridden a motorcycle? Repeating this is so unnecessarily condescending. > In a hard right turn, you will need to keep constant pushing pressure on the righ…

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    Comment #15705197

    > It is blog post and email, most likely scrutinized by PR experts. Written to sound convincing, because it is the goal and the job of people writing it. Nothing wrong with that. E…