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For anybody looking into VATSIM and alternatives, the pros of PilotEdge are that there is guaranteed ATC staffing with paid ATC (not volunteers like on VATSIM), controllers are lik…

The controller you're referring to is still very active in the Boston area, he's just "retired" from streaming.

Interestingly, in the US, for all its "optimistic" procedures, a controller isn't allowed to issue a conditional ("behind X") line-up-and-wait. But, if an arriving aircraft is stil…

The rules specifically state how 2 miles of separation is defined. 7110.65 5-8-4-Note 1 says "This procedure permits a departing aircraft to be released so long as an arriving airc…

> Who is saying that procedures allow one plane to take off when one is "3 miles out" The FAA says that, specifically the 7110.65 which governs ATC rules and procedures. In a radar…

While I 100% think the controller in this situation made a terrible judgement call and likely shouldn't be working planes anymore, it's worth noting that that there are very specif…

This is completely correct. One of the first sentences in the 7110.65 (the FAA document governing ATC rules in the US, often referred to as "the book" by controllers) is "the prima…

Halts are based on specific criteria and rules, they aren't arbitrarily imposed. See: https://www.nasdaqtrader.com/content/MarketRegulation/LULD_F...

That's not actually the point of this article. Many many lenders are not on good terms with their counterparties. Distressed debt and bankruptcy exist. And yet, I've never heard of…

I think people are missing the fact that the 3060 that NVIDIA is halving the hash rate on is not yet released. It is expected at the end of this month and different than the alread…

Person A can only sell the number of shares they've borrowed. If Person A borrows a share from Person C, they can sell that one share only. To sell more without borrowing additiona…

> Also, apparently Gamestop itself used the gain in stock price to settle some debts by being able to issue more stock to meet demand at the higher price, thus getting a cash infus…

> that extra 40% will fail to deliver, because those shares don't exist. That's only true if you force all shorts to be covered at once without a chain of trades. That's not how it…

In this scenario, Person C still owns the stock and will gain/lose with the stock's rise/fall. Person A borrowing from C at the end is just borrowing, not buying. At some point Per…

Except you're completely conflating terms and numbers here. A stock can have over 100% short interest with no naked shorting occurring. >100% short interest DOES NOT imply that the…

Yes. I took the question as asking whether absolute revenue per unit was going down or absolute COGS per unit was going up (or both). Obviously there are different perspectives fro…

They also disclose units shipped (1.15MM in 2011, 2.32MM in 2012 and 3.85MM in 2013). A simple revenue/units calculation would imply that revenue per unit is increasing ($205 in 20…

That was, and still is, the case where I went to school in New Hampshire. The decision to treat the body as a container is made at the state level, I believe (as the drinking age i…

Judo business strategy...what? You're telling me that you that motivation is a bigger asset to a few 20 year olds than all of the scale, capital and business experience of Walmart,…

No, as of June 1 the company had $2.8B of cash, cash equivalents AND short-term investments (liquid securities). There's an additional $2.5B of accounts receivable on the balance s…

I stopped reading at "toxic assets like financial derivatives." That sentence either suggests that the author has very little understanding of finance or has a sensationalist motiv…

Even as a credit analyst, I agree that you can't really feel sorry for the bondholders here. If you want to lend in any market, you need to assume the risk that the debtor goes ban…

That's not anticompetitive though, it's purely competitive. Amazon has better underlying economics (because it has deployed capital to build infrastructure) and therefore is able t…

I'd be amazed if Dropbox had a 50% profit (net income) margin. It's likely that their gross margin is around there, but you still have to subtract SG&A and other expenses to get do…

This used to be in their FAQ: Will someone steal my grand piano? Highly unlikely. Grand pianos weigh thousands of pounds and do not fit through doors.