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There have been grand total of two good companies worth anyone's pity have come from Netherlands, ASML and NXP both spinoffs/offshoots of Phillips.

The Netherlands is the last bastion of entreprenuership and innovation in deeply communist and anti-innovation, anti-rich and anti-prosperity EU.

Not sure how long before Netherlands nationalizes their big companies.

He's implying that workers should work hard and give all the earnings and IP to the govt so they can "redistribute" and "rehire" for communal good.

Communist europe's startups? All they ('companies') do is get free handouts from Brussels and govt agencies.

Of course not, through the southern border illegaly!

And vote the populists who will give you free citizenship and scholarships!

Naked short selling through unlimited "Puts" is totally LEGAL for these hedge-funds, but when people caught them pants down they are using every ILLEGAL move to cover their asses and losses.

These are the corrupt and insane people who should be punished not the people who sussed out their bullshit!

What Robinhood and other platforms are doing is market manipulation which is illegal.

The legal and reasonable thing would be to allow trading these stocks with additional "e-signs" letting the individual know that there are additional risks here.

That would actually help the retail investor.

But these brokers and buddies are happy to help their hedge fund buddies!!

bad idea. indian companies haven't shown any competence or compassion in this space.

if they force Apple to pre-install appstore on phones? say bye-bye to $10 B manufacturing dream.

Having local controls and slightly stricter rules is good! But these chinese-commie style is bad!

You are right, but Options trading isn't available to people with less than $5k deposits on Robinhood and I think same is true with margins.

Robinhood is more agressive when it comes to margin calls, that actually protects inexperienced investors.

I hate hit pieces, Robinhood actually provides a REAL opportunity for poor people with aptitude and high risk tolerance a way out of poverty!

How? In your world there is no concept of personal responsibilty?

If I lose ALL my investments, it doesn't change my way of life or status in society. I have no dependents or collateral.

On the other hand, if my investments pay off, I have a real shot of upward social mobility within 5 years, instead of 5 decades.

You want only millionaires investing in securities? I don't have any right to invest because I am poor?

I am not against regulations, I think all existing regulations are perfectly adequate to protect inexperienced investors from themselves.

Exactly, It is ridiculously hard for poor people to invest in securities without Robinhood.

Who decides that I am too stupid to invest?

I should be the only person to decide that, already there are strict regulations about day trading, volume of trades on a mobile platform, access to margins and access to after hours trading.

Robinhood adheres to all these regulations and doesn't easily dole out features to anyone.

What? I put on orders to buy two funds in Fidelity IRA and they still haven't closed my position and no explanation of what's going on.

Robinhood actually sent me an email and follow-up on outages, even though it didn't affect me one bit.

Robinhood actually gives tools and resources to explore and learn about investing, instead of it being "experts" only.

Every software platform has bugs and user issues but that risk is far outweighed by the services provided.

COBOL programmers rise!

But what about my survival if I go to the grocery store mor often and get sick and die?

that's impossible, all 5 levels?

Forget it

No Aliens found unfortunately :(

Yup IRC is a simple and robust technology with minimal cruft.

Fascinating story. I think there is value in the service provided by Lambda School but the questionable revenue tactics like selling ISAs or using ISAs to secure loans means students can't really trust them with placements.

> it's become less and less viable.

isn't it because of some unnecessary regulation and some materials technology being behind.

nuclear fission is the second densest form of energy, It is absolutely worthwhile to improve it for the future humanity, IMHO.

I think most countries and national bodies are just giving up on nuclear all together.

This is just sad, I thought the regression of civilization described in Foundation by Issac Asimov was far fetched BS.

How wrong I was! This is the exact example he uses in his books.

is that a bad thing? Shouldn't the local governments be smarter in giving fair incentives to tech companies?

If $760 M is fair for HQ2, I don't see a problem if it isn't fair then the onus is on elected officials to explain their decisions.

I see value in Amazon's product and services, why should I care how they operate and whose arms they twist?

If I don't see value in Amazon I am free to buy products and services from other companies.

Now I can write dank front ends to my awesome monte-carlo simulations!

I don't know about the compute capability of GPUs on this Mac Pro, but if one were to write CUDA like programs. HIP is basically the same API as CUDA.

For and Engineer or Computation Scientist, I think this is not a bad investment

But Yes existing CUDA libraries won't work.