[-] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Why? If people really truly deep deep in their hearts, fundamentally disagree about something, why should they continue living together?

Couples break up, roommates move out, people immigrate, empires expand and recede, borders change.

Why must the US be this sea to shining sea empire? It's not like there is some natural or physical reason.

Why does one border have to be here versus there, it's arbitrary anyway, it's changed in the past and it can change again.

[-] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Well, a lot of stock trading isn't as simple as just stock picking, buying and selling individual stocks.

Much of the market is made up of derivatives trading, such as options, where you aren't trading the stock itself, instead you are trading the option to buy the stock.

The value of the option is derived from the value of the underlying asset, but it is not absolutely coupled to it (this is how a lot of the money is made, by finding market inefficiencies and capitalizing on things like slippage, where there is a mismatch in the value of the derivative and it's underlying)

What the person above is saying is that, when it becomes no longer profitable to trade underlying assets directly, new derivative markets will be invented that trade around other underlying assets.

Think about unregulated Bitcoin trading for example, while contrived, imagine a crypto currency that is coupled with the price of another asset (these exist, like USDcoin) such as a stock, future, option, or something else.

I should add, typically the derivative kind of collapse into the underlying at some point, but in the case of an option, it might be traded 100 times before that happens, during each of those trades the actual asset (e.g. the underlying stock) doesn't actually change possession, and a given side of the contract may or may not be changing possession. If you write a call option for a 100 shares of Ford you own, you aren't selling the stock unless the actual call gets assigned and you are required to fulfill the contract, but the 'buyer' side of the contract could have been sold 100 times in the meantime.

All this to say, it's complicated and there are lots of opportunities for shady shit to happen.

[-] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

You know, you can just do things. Like, laws don't need to be applied unilaterally. You can, at the same time, tax a 100,000,000 dollar loan, and not tax a 1,000,000 dollar loan.

Kind of like how generally, low income people do not pay much or any income taxes, or how certain products are subject to additional sales taxes.

[-] Takumidesh@lemmy.world -5 points 4 days ago

I mean I think the guy is stupid, but let's honestly reflect here, who gives a fuck about some leaked Nintendo game getting played a week or two early. Like honestly, it might not technically be victimless (though even that can be argued), but the 'damage' is so small it's like being upset that someone stepped on your grass.

[-] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Don't mail in voting concepts kind of contradict a lot of these points?

[-] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

What? I've never heard of this. What are those questions?

[-] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

More specialized is critical.

You have to understand your domain, what your goal is, how much time and money you have, etc.

[-] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

There is a concept called prior art in patent law. Prior art is information about the invention that exists before filing, it can both help secure a patent as well as prevent someone filing a patent for someone else's existing invention.

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It seems deliberately confusing to me since there is no fundamental difference between voting now and voting on the day of the deadline, but the way it's discussed and referred to seems to imply that the correct day to vote would be waiting until the last minute instead of voting just getting it out of the way weeks ahead of time.

[-] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 87 points 3 weeks ago

I got downvoted for this before, but, when you sublet your property like this, you take on an inherent risk. This isn't any different to a bad tenant, or an investment not panning out.

Any business who accepted these red boxes should have either a) established contingency with Redbox themselves or, failing that, b) established a contingency through their own means by keeping liquidity to handle disposal of the machine (or something like insurance)

Don't feel sorry for these businesses, they took a calculated risk, likely made lots of money over the last decade, and now are faced with potentially needing to use some of that revenue to dispose of the machines. Any normal business keeps assets and liquidity available to cover expenses of doing business, the same way a landlord needs to use some rent money to clean up after a bad tenant, it's part of their business model. If a business thought these machines would just live there forever and magically go away when they aren't making money anymore, that's their fault.

[-] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 58 points 1 month ago

These isekai titles are getting too much.

[-] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 53 points 3 months ago

Good news is, you will never be able to stop hobbyist 3d printing.

Sorry patent trolls, you can't make aluminum extrusion, stepper motors, an extruder, and a short circuit illegal.

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