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praeter

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    Comment #25986951

    "Pulling margin from long customers — The clearinghouses and broker dealers who finance margin accounts will suddenly pull all long margin availability, citing very transparent rea…

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    Comment #25984442

    Sure, it's a great explanation, but it's also straight from the shorting playbook: http://counterfeitingstock.com/CS2.0/CounterfeitingStock.htm... "Pulling margin from long custome…

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    Comment #22862130

    If you don't get tested - the odds are you won't - the relief of recovery is quickly replaced with doubt, "was it really Covid-19?" And you must fearfully go on acting like it wasn…

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    Comment #22828707

    I can't blame them, just like I can't blame a company for becoming a monopoly. We need to regulate them like we do with antitrust, worker's rights, and other things. The free marke…

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    Comment #22828680

    > The only real advantage I can see is concentration of skill - e.g. people say that you basically have to develop electronics in Shenzhen, there's simply not enough talent in the …

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    Comment #22828450

    >> cheaper workers work for less, but that's not exactly efficiency > It is efficiency, really, because it's making better use of an underutilized resource. Over time, of course, t…

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    Comment #22798543

    COVID-19 is not a normal respiratory infection. It seems to prevent your RBCs from holding onto O2 and CO2 mimicking high altitude sickness. The disease acts like HAPE (high altitu…

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