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You lose all of the money over the amount that isn't insured. If the bank even has insurance.
Re:Making Insider Trading Legal on Sunday November 01, 2015 @01:35PM (#10487514)
Telling people to buy stock you shorted is a bad idea. You're goal is for the stock to go lower.
Re:Making Insider Trading Legal on Sunday November 01, 2015 @01:01PM (#10487331)
Bad argument because you stated the problem. Insider trading is bad because of what you pretty much said. Liquidity is only important when considering how fast you want to buy or sell your stakes in a company.

If an insider knows a stock will yield him 10% profit and has a month of time to buy stocks, even if the daily volume is 500k shares. They can gradually buy shares at 20k/day, and once that news becomes public and the liquidy goes up they can sell off all of their shares in one shot pretty much. And people just just got news of the information would think that their stock has a 10% upside, but since someone already beat them to the 10%, they aren't going to get anything.

Not sure how he plans to get this to work without IP addresses at some layer.
I havn't heard in a while "hey check out this mobile game". All I hear is about new gaming console games coming out.
Re:Markets are doing horribly right now, below DOW 17,000 on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @12:59PM (#8005468)
As sharp as the decline is, I am not sure if this is a buying opportunity. Most investors made big gains so more can easily afford to cut their losses.

I keep hearing realestate and low rates, so that may easily be an outlet for the money to go to. I guess we'll see.

Re:NASA Tests LDSD 'Flying Saucer' on Saturday June 28, 2014 @04:07PM (#7959171)
It looks like that is their way of keeping a visual on the air craft.
Re:The IPO is dying – Marc Andreessen explains why on Saturday June 28, 2014 @04:05PM (#7959166)
I try not to buy too much into what he says. What he says is usually too philosophical, so the reader is making their own sense of what he says and gives him credit. He is almost a dictator the power people give him.

He actually went as far as to tell investors beware of investors not from the valley. So people don't steal in the valley as they do anywhere else?

Re:27 Websites to Submit your Startup after launch on Friday June 27, 2014 @07:15PM (#7956717)
cool

Show HN: Doblun's draft

I realized a big problem that I have with being a solo developer on my projects. That problem is I would rather not show a peep until things are finished.Not too long ago someone asked to see my progress, long story short, I showed them the basics of the UX. The javascript is vanilla so I need to use a framework as the next step to add crossbrowser support and maintainability. There is also a...

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Re:Ask HN: What would it take for you to do surveys? on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @05:13PM (#7940690)
It's not traditional to say the least. The focus is to be more like a youtube partners program.

So the users of the application aren't trusting a random source to deliver, but people they are already familiar with.

Ask HN: What would it take for you to do surveys?

Does anyone have any features that they would like to see a survey based application provide?I have the base of a site, but ironically I realized that I didn't survey people to see what features they would like.http://doblun.com is the site. From the landing it might seem like I am just getting started. Reason for that is I don't like landing pages. I want to just have the application ready to...

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Re:Tell HN: I want out on Sunday June 22, 2014 @09:16PM (#7929756)
If you do all of your work "perfectly" and can't do it any other way at any expense you may just have anxiety issues. Quitting doesn't do away with it.

This entire story says to me that you are a selfless person that wishes to be more selfish. Be selfish. It's cathartic. You don't have to go overboard, but buy yourself pizza and don't share. Go to a movie and not invite anyone. Baby steps.

I have in mind a database that provides a simple extensive cache API that can double as a search engine.
Re:Ask HN: Is it Madness to do a Hardware Startup? on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @09:29AM (#7305067)
The best way to go is getting preorders to fill orders. You won't have to deal with leftover inventory, or debt. You'll also know in advance if people would buy your product.

Crowdfunding seems to work best with hardware startups.

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