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Re:Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties by laidoffamazon on Saturday November 16, 2024 @04:59PM (#42159716)
A somewhat small subset of my net worth is Cloudflare, which has the ticker symbol $NET
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Re:Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties by kristianp on Wednesday November 20, 2024 @06:03PM (#42199055)
TIL that stocks can have a "$" in their code.
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Re:Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties by kentonv on Wednesday November 20, 2024 @10:33PM (#42200847)
They don't. The symbol is NET. But I think Twitter lets you use $ as an alternative to # (hashtag), and people use it specifically in front of stock symbols, and now it's becoming customary to prefix stock symbols with $ everywhere.
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