What’s arbitrary (from what I can tell so far) are the symbols you can join together and the addition works (1+4, 1+6, 1+8, 2+7, for example) and most of the rest (looking at you, 3) where it does not.
But still, probably an improvement over Roman numerals. ‘Arabic’ numbers hadn’t quite caught on when the monks did this, if I’m reading the internet correctly.
It’s straightforward in the sense that upper right is 1’s place, upper left is 10’s place, lower right is hundred’s place, and lower left is thousand’s place.
Back of the envelope and quick internet search calcs indicate that Mr. Salinas’s total disability payments would have amounted to a million bucks on the high end if they had just paid him from the get go. And they are in fact just arguing over the differential between what they want to pay him and what he thinks he should get.
So, likely, the retirement board went all the way to the Supreme Court for about 10k a year - and are still going to have to go thru another court proceeding if they don’t just settle.
Like for realz, this was Wolf of Wall St’s business plan. He knew that he couldn’t compete with big institutional investors and financial houses, with their pre-existing relationships. So he sold off the radar stuff to retail investors.
Now, these things were off the radar because they were barely functioning, mostly has-been enterprises. And he & his crew straight up lied to people to make these trades.
What all this gamestop amc theater etc action actually is is penny stock action but on still listed companies. Which historically, is usually squashed by the exchanges before it even gets started. It used to be one of the key aspects of ‘listed’ securities.
“NASDAQ CEO: We need a complete and total shutdown of Gamestop transactions until we figure out what the hell is going on”
That was lich rally the unwritten (& maybe written?) rule stock exchange operators had with their stakeholders & the SEC from 1934 until I guess sometime in the past few years. Historically, trading would have been halted last week on swings in price and volume of that magnitude.
The hedge guys treat the stock market as a casino where they themselves have the house advantage. Often they are right, but every so often a jackpot multiplier will come along to skew the odds. Or the long tail odds finally pay out. Or both)
I think the ‘bailout’ is from other hedge funds/financiers/vulture capitalists, which (tin foil hat) may also be part of the game. (Though probably not, cause as Density Duck says above, that’s totes illegal and the people involved had real skin in the game.)
(Not that financial types are too good to do anything illegal, but it’s got to be worth it)
If that other short position is closed out, I imagine someone is going to start looking at catching the falling knife. (Not me, I got burned - not badly just a little singed - trying to do that with bank stocks in the 2008 meltdown)
There’s like four or five people that have built replica Oval Offices in their private homes (I.e not Presidential libraries or movie sets) including, I think, Dick Morris
Rose bay, between Lunenburg and Bridgewater. Yeah, I remember my grandmother using the pump a few times, and I have a picture of me as a four year old with it (and other one with me as I think a twenty year old with the pump handle still there, long deactivated)
I’m just barely old enough to remember my grandmother’s Nova Scotia house having a hand pump in the kitchen pantry that she used before a new well was dug and a regular (cold water only) water line was run to that space.
This was though a house that my grandmother had bought after she retired from nursing, and only lived there in the summer. (She had grown up in the area, but as like the second daughter of some 12 kids overall, wasn’t even close to getting any part of the ‘family homestead’
(There was indoor plumbing, a regular full bathroom, in another part of the house, installed at my mother’s, her daughter-in-law’s, insistence after I was born, if my grandmother wanted for her grandson to visit ever again)
Re: the inauguration. I think the DC government and the incoming admin were planning to make the inaugural as low key as possible anyway due to Covid. And there’s been at least one inauguration, maybe two in my lifetime where all outdoor stuff was cancelled due to bad weather. (Reagan’s 1985 swearing in was inside the Capitol because outside temps were near zero Fahrenheit)
On “The Chairman of the House Committee II”
It was certainly a Wayne & Garth thing, but I'm pretty sure they got it from the generic Valley Girl thing a decade prior.
But yeah, this is like discovering a pre-Clovis arrowhead.
On “Thursday Throughput: TYC 7037-89-1, or Six Star Edition”
What’s arbitrary (from what I can tell so far) are the symbols you can join together and the addition works (1+4, 1+6, 1+8, 2+7, for example) and most of the rest (looking at you, 3) where it does not.
But still, probably an improvement over Roman numerals. ‘Arabic’ numbers hadn’t quite caught on when the monks did this, if I’m reading the internet correctly.
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It’s straightforward in the sense that upper right is 1’s place, upper left is 10’s place, lower right is hundred’s place, and lower left is thousand’s place.
On “All She Wants To Do Is Dance”
Golf clap for the headline.
On “Supreme Court Nazi Art & Railroad Retirement Board Decisions: Read Them for Yourself”
Back of the envelope and quick internet search calcs indicate that Mr. Salinas’s total disability payments would have amounted to a million bucks on the high end if they had just paid him from the get go. And they are in fact just arguing over the differential between what they want to pay him and what he thinks he should get.
So, likely, the retirement board went all the way to the Supreme Court for about 10k a year - and are still going to have to go thru another court proceeding if they don’t just settle.
On “Video: A Russian Attempts To Pass As American”
“I’m gonna call my lawyer, .... he’s my cousin, Vinny”
On “Robinhood, Reloaded”
Buying insurance when your house is on fire.
On “Oh Man! Questions, Questions”
That’s how I read it, not the ‘I’ve lost my job and have been faking it’ read.
On “Locked Out”
Robinhood & NASDAQ on left in the window, wallstreetbets redittors with the snowball.
On “From Vox: The GameStop stock frenzy, explained”
Some of you have not read your dad’s copy of Louis Engel’s classic “How To Buy Stocks” and it shows
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Like for realz, this was Wolf of Wall St’s business plan. He knew that he couldn’t compete with big institutional investors and financial houses, with their pre-existing relationships. So he sold off the radar stuff to retail investors.
Now, these things were off the radar because they were barely functioning, mostly has-been enterprises. And he & his crew straight up lied to people to make these trades.
What all this gamestop amc theater etc action actually is is penny stock action but on still listed companies. Which historically, is usually squashed by the exchanges before it even gets started. It used to be one of the key aspects of ‘listed’ securities.
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You’ve invented pink sheets.
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“NASDAQ CEO: We need a complete and total shutdown of Gamestop transactions until we figure out what the hell is going on”
That was lich rally the unwritten (& maybe written?) rule stock exchange operators had with their stakeholders & the SEC from 1934 until I guess sometime in the past few years. Historically, trading would have been halted last week on swings in price and volume of that magnitude.
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To be fair, they are not senators anymore. The political market works!
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The hedge guys treat the stock market as a casino where they themselves have the house advantage. Often they are right, but every so often a jackpot multiplier will come along to skew the odds. Or the long tail odds finally pay out. Or both)
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I think the ‘bailout’ is from other hedge funds/financiers/vulture capitalists, which (tin foil hat) may also be part of the game. (Though probably not, cause as Density Duck says above, that’s totes illegal and the people involved had real skin in the game.)
(Not that financial types are too good to do anything illegal, but it’s got to be worth it)
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Up to the mid 300s now (1130 am eastern Jan 27)
If that other short position is closed out, I imagine someone is going to start looking at catching the falling knife. (Not me, I got burned - not badly just a little singed - trying to do that with bank stocks in the 2008 meltdown)
On “Inauguration Day in America”
There’s like four or five people that have built replica Oval Offices in their private homes (I.e not Presidential libraries or movie sets) including, I think, Dick Morris
On “Pardon Me, Sir”
Someone on Twitter pointed out that Bannon got a pardon, but his accomplice in the We Build The Wall scheme, Brian Kolfage, did not.
On “Thawing The Pump”
Rose bay, between Lunenburg and Bridgewater. Yeah, I remember my grandmother using the pump a few times, and I have a picture of me as a four year old with it (and other one with me as I think a twenty year old with the pump handle still there, long deactivated)
Not sure if this will work
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0RvE-tETCBpOl2U4pO_krb3dg
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I’m just barely old enough to remember my grandmother’s Nova Scotia house having a hand pump in the kitchen pantry that she used before a new well was dug and a regular (cold water only) water line was run to that space.
This was though a house that my grandmother had bought after she retired from nursing, and only lived there in the summer. (She had grown up in the area, but as like the second daughter of some 12 kids overall, wasn’t even close to getting any part of the ‘family homestead’
(There was indoor plumbing, a regular full bathroom, in another part of the house, installed at my mother’s, her daughter-in-law’s, insistence after I was born, if my grandmother wanted for her grandson to visit ever again)
On “Inaugural Dread: What Happened January 6th, and Will it Happen Again January 17th or January 20th?”
Great piece here.
Re: the inauguration. I think the DC government and the incoming admin were planning to make the inaugural as low key as possible anyway due to Covid. And there’s been at least one inauguration, maybe two in my lifetime where all outdoor stuff was cancelled due to bad weather. (Reagan’s 1985 swearing in was inside the Capitol because outside temps were near zero Fahrenheit)
On “Thursday Throughput: Dark Matter Edition”
Oops, yeah, aether
On “From Twitter Safety: Donald Trump’s Twitter Account has been Permanently Suspended”
But, for the record, was locked yesterday evening as Trump try to post from there and a few other campaign accounts.
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The official acount is still there.
https://twitter.com/POTUS?s=09
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