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Re:Docker Agent on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @06:43PM (#49999769)
I don't think people hate issue tracking system, they just hate Jira.
I understand basic options. They listed only long puts in 13F, the max they could lose is the premium they paid. So there must be some other securities that they didn't disclose (mostly short calls as @tchanglington mentioned) which resulted in the loss. I was asking if hedgefunds can disclose selectively? If so that can be exploited in so many ways.
Thank you. But those short calls are not in 13F, so they can selectively disclose?
How could they lose $7B?

Melvin Capital Recent 13F : https://sec.report/Document/0000905718-20-001111/

It shows they had about $757mm worth puts. Assuming all of that puts are worth zero, their max loss will be $757mm. GME loss would be $55mm.

Hedgefunds don't have to disclose everything? Just trying to understand how did they lose that much.

Re:Personal Wiki for Vim on Thursday June 04, 2020 @02:01PM (#23419730)
Try Spacemacs, default vi bindings
Re:Nassim Taleb, Absorbent Barriers and House Money on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @02:50PM (#16539237)
Don't know about 18th century, but some what similar strategy is already mentioned by Taleb in the interview: Kelly Criterion.
Re:Pentagon Has No Idea Where $800M Went on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @01:13AM (#10504899)
I agree, but why is U.S. subsidizing the whole world without getting as much benefit? Its not just this, U.S. is subsidizing the whole world's healthcare costs too.
Re:Facebook is the new AOL on Sunday January 04, 2015 @06:44PM (#8836391)
One more reason I do sometimes this because I remember the website but don't quite remember the domain (was it .com or .net or .org)
Re:The Raft Consensus Algorithm on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @03:07PM (#8529199)
PAXOS is very complicated, Raft is direct response to it by simplifying the consensus algorithm. From the article:

  "It's equivalent to Paxos in fault-tolerance and performance. The difference is that it's decomposed into relatively independent subproblems, and it cleanly addresses all major pieces needed for practical systems."
One of the authors of Raft is Prof. John Ousterhout(TCL creator, among other things)
I think it is not just about "need for influence".

To learn somthing, is to 1. Read, 2. Do and 3. Teach. So blogging can be "teach" part.

>>web-scale word-of-mouth(social networks, product review sites, recommendations from field- or topic-specific authoritative websites)

All of which are ad-supported and if they were fee-based they wouldn't be that massive, which agian brings back to ads.

>> Relying on ad revenue is a moral failing.

If relying on ad revenue is a moral failing, so is using such a product/service. Have never used a such product/service?

Re:How many 32-bit RISC CPUs fit in an FPGA? Now vs. 1995? on Thursday March 27, 2014 @05:42PM (#7483698)
I also had to implement simple microprocessor on an FPGA about 10 years ago.

I think one of the main reason is programming the FPGA is not easy, the tools needed for FPGA development are all proprietary. Every FPGA has different way to program it.

Re:The Command Line Crash Course on Friday January 10, 2014 @01:04PM (#7038188)
I use pushd/popd/dirs for multiples. I have aliases like p1 for "pushd +1" and so on.
Re:How RethinkDB Works – 7pm tonight at SF Data Engineering on Wednesday October 16, 2013 @04:47PM (#6562070)
More information on what cperciva is saying (from Daniel Abadi)

http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2012/10/ieee-computer-issue-...

Quoting from the post:

     "my past criticism of CAP not actually being about picking two of three out 
      of C (consistency), A (availability), and P (partition tolerance) due to the 
      fact  that it does not make sense to reason about a system that is ‘CA’. (If 
      there is no partition, any system can be both consistent and available ---  
      the only question is what happens when there is a partition --- does 
      consistency or availability get sacrificed?)"

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