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bboygravity commented on Margin debt surges to record high   advisorperspectives.com/d... · Posted by u/pera
nabla9 · 3 days ago
> On the flip side, trading with margin debt can also exacerbate losses because if a stock's value were to depreciate, the investor may face a margin call and would need to come up with additional cash to reach the minimum requirement.

That's just the flip side for individual investor. There is also collective risk.

The worst comes when there are too many investors with margin debt and they start to get margin calls at the same time. This causes prices to drop and it triggers even more margin calls, starting an avalanche where stock prices drop just from forced sells.

bboygravity · 3 days ago
The main issue are not household investors, the main systemic risks are in overleveraged hedge funds and banks (and a completely corrupted SEC and FINRA, with essentially 0 policing).

See Archegos Capital, Evergrande in China, 2008 financial crisis, Citadel (the hedge fund) with assets almost equal to "securities sold not yet purchased", etc.

Then there's just tons of crime like JP Morgan making 10 billy by spoofing gold prices and then paying a 1 billion fee to pay off the complicit regulator and be able to "keep playing".

It'll pop, the question of course is when? Ponzi's can go on for decades before something breaks.

bboygravity commented on Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation   npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/geox
newyankee · 7 days ago
In an ideal world this should incentivise more people with single family homes and capital to invest in Solar + batteries and even with tariffs I am sure the breakeven time will still be less than 10 years (also after accounting for the fact that utilities will not be paying a lot for your electricity though time of use pricing and batteries may help a bit)
bboygravity · 7 days ago
Man that's some environmentalist centralist government planner thinking: mess up your energy policy so badly that prices rise like crazy and it starts making sense for people to switch to way more expensive ways to convert energy.

Is this supposed to be positive?

bboygravity commented on Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt data   neowin.net/news/report-mi... · Posted by u/bundie
gchamonlive · 7 days ago
While this is largely true, that's no excuse for a system such as Windows to brick SSDs like that. It's still by far the most popular operating system despite Microsoft's best efforts into enshitifying it.

Windows is therefore going to be used by a wide variety of systems, including those with low grade hardware parts. So it either has to be part of windows quality control to test these low end systems or it should make it very clear about the system requirements.

Either way, the problem was patched, which makes it a problem on windows side.

bboygravity · 7 days ago
There's also not really an alternative to Windows on PCs.

Linux still has tons of driver issues and is a massive time vampire with its "type magic spells into a terminal for hours to get something done" GUI.

Mac is way more expensive and doesn't run a ton of apps available on Windows.

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bboygravity commented on The End of Tesla?   youtube.com/watch?v=2znwo... · Posted by u/agnosticmantis
postflopclarity · 7 days ago
link a video that remotely resembles what elon did.
bboygravity commented on The End of Tesla?   youtube.com/watch?v=2znwo... · Posted by u/agnosticmantis
Revisional_Sin · 7 days ago
It was clearly a Nazi salute.
bboygravity · 7 days ago
Ok. By that definition other people have done nazi salutes in the past: Hillary Clinton, Obama, etc.

plenty of videos of that you can find online.

So those don't count, because?

bboygravity commented on Anthropic's CEO says in 3-6 months, AI will write 90% of the code (March 2025)   businessinsider.com/anthr... · Posted by u/amarcheschi
gf000 · 8 days ago
Because we already are in the diminishing returns phase with relation to LLM reasoning capability - exponentials can almost always only exist for short durations.
bboygravity · 7 days ago
source needed

I see 0 evidence or even hints of that.

Most of the internet was broken before LLM's and still is today. I haven't noticed it getting worse, if anything, maybe slightly better.

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