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ssanders82 commented on ‘I just assumed it would happen’: the unspoken grief of childless men   theguardian.com/society/2... · Posted by u/mellosouls
10g1k · 2 years ago
Evolution. It's programmed into you, the drive to reproduce. And that's a good thing. You won't understand how important and amazing it is until you have your own kid. NOTHING is more important.
ssanders82 · 2 years ago
Nah, I've seen the lives of my friends who have kids. I'm happy for them, but my wife and I don't want that life. Sounds like having kids was the right choice for you, that's great, but don't preach at us.

We looked at the choices, and made ours. Don't tell me it was the wrong choice, without knowing literally anything about me or my wife. That's pretty patronizing.

ssanders82 commented on The Kelly criterion: How to size bets (2019)   explore.paulbutler.org/be... · Posted by u/airstrike
chickenpotpie · 4 years ago
Kelly criterion is how I explain the importance of insurance. Insurance is a net loss and you’re better off on average not having it, but you’re betting your entire wealth on that working out.
ssanders82 · 4 years ago
I'm not sure I understand how Kelly applies to insurance, as by definition the Kelly of any -EV bet is 0. Can you elaborate on how to do a Kelly calculation with a wager of negative expected value? Or what am I missing?
ssanders82 commented on Nikola: How to Parlay an Ocean of Lies into a Partnership with GM   hindenburgresearch.com/ni... · Posted by u/aripickar
toomuchtodo · 5 years ago
Be careful with those puts. It’s entirely possible to be right and still not be able to close out your position because the underlying is halted/delisted.
ssanders82 · 5 years ago
Halts are temporary (generally a few hours to a few days). If it's delisted from NASDAQ it will almost certainly move to another exchange (OTC / pink sheets) and the stock will still trade.

If the stock truly is wiped out and common shareholders equity is 0, you can exercise the put, receive 100x the strike value per contract, and deliver nothing.

Source: https://www.optionseducation.org/referencelibrary/faq/splits...

ssanders82 commented on Nikola: How to Parlay an Ocean of Lies into a Partnership with GM   hindenburgresearch.com/ni... · Posted by u/aripickar
sokoloff · 5 years ago
For me "leverage" instead of "use" is like nails on a chalkboard.
ssanders82 · 5 years ago
"utilize"
ssanders82 commented on Have we just stumbled on the biggest productivity increase of the century?   theconversation.com/have-... · Posted by u/rwmj
karaterobot · 5 years ago
> If working from home eliminated an hour of commuting, without changing time spent on work or reducing production, the result would be equivalent to a 13% increase in productivity (assuming a 38-hour working work).

Maybe I'm just dense, but I've read this sentence 20 times, and it still doesn't make sense. If you aren't changing the time spent on work, where is the productivity gain coming from? Surely they aren't including commute time in calculating worker productivity?

ssanders82 · 5 years ago
I think they're defining "productivity" as a fraction, i.e you used to be able to do 38 hours of work in exchange for 43 hours of your life. Now it's 38 hours of work while only using 38 hours.
ssanders82 commented on When I raised my B2B SaaS’s prices   discuss.bootstrapped.fm/t... · Posted by u/stevoski
bachmeier · 5 years ago
I don't want to rain on anyone's parade, but you don't learn anything from this exercise. Unless you somehow know how many new customers would have signed up without a change in the price, you can't infer anything from this. It's tempting to compare with earlier growth rates (as the author did) but for a small, growing business the growth rate isn't going to be constant over time. What is really problematic, though, is trying to do this type of comparison when we're literally in a different world due to the pandemic.
ssanders82 · 5 years ago
Then it would be nice if you could suggest an experiment which would yield useful pricing results for him.

I don't know if this was your intention but it's kind of a pet peeve of mine when someone posts "that's useless" to a content creator without elaborating on how they would've approached the issue.

ssanders82 commented on Show HN: Trade stocks from the command line with no commission   gitlab.com/aenegri/toro... · Posted by u/anegri
supernova87a · 6 years ago
You should know in general, though, that no one trades "for free" despite what brokerages say.

Your order gets routed, delayed, placed differently, and while you may not immediately see it, your trades are getting a different result than if you explicitly paid a brokerage who charges a commission on it.

Learn about "payment for order flow".

ssanders82 · 6 years ago
> your trades are getting a different result than if you explicitly paid a brokerage who charges a commission on it.

Yes...the average retail customer submitting a market order will generally get a better fill with PFOF. This is what most people don't usually mention when talking about those terrible high-frequency trading firms.

E.g. if a stock is trading at 10.00x10.10 and I submit a market buy via Robinhood. Citadel or someone else is going to pick that up and sell it to me for, probably, 10.08 or 10.09. Not the 10.10 I would've paid on the open market hitting the offer. It's in fact illegal for me to get a worse (higher) fill than 10.10.

ssanders82 commented on It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (2015)   drmaciver.com/2015/04/its... · Posted by u/mmcloughlin
BurningFrog · 6 years ago
> Unfortunately, DINKs are hard to compete with professionally

Sure, but people with kids win at life.

Let the DINK make some extra money. You still have it better.

ssanders82 · 6 years ago
> people with kids win at life

That's a pretty insulting statement for those of us who can't have / don't want children.

It's not a competition. We've chosen different paths than you. Not worse, just different.

ssanders82 commented on Algo stock trader: How to protect intellectual property when joining a company?    · Posted by u/ssanders82
cjbenedikt · 6 years ago
Been in a similar situation as a prop trader for a major company. I made it part of the contract that the model(s) I brought to the table and which were part of the decision to hire me remain my IP as well as any new/modified developments based on those models. The original code was placed into a sealed envelope and kept with a law firm in order to be able to demonstrate intellectual ownership later should it be deemed necessary.
ssanders82 · 6 years ago
Awesome idea, thanks.

u/ssanders82

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