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buffalooon Money Stuff: GameStop Is Just a Game

Now that GameStonk is a $25 billion company, how long until they buy Steam or EA or somebody? If GME is distribution, then Steam seems like a logical acquisition.

buffalooon Ask HN: Is the systemic risk on stock market getting too high?

The very best answer is: Nobody knows.

If you are not emotionally or financially prepared for your portfolio to decline by half, you shouldn’t be in the market.

buffalooon CNBC is running ads that claim Melvin Capital closed its short position ($GME)

Seems legit. Everyone can sell now.

buffalooon Ask HN: Is the options pricing model broken for deep GME OTM puts?

Compound put?

buffalooon Ask HN: Alternatives to HN?

Try Parler.

buffalooon It’s time for police to stop lying to suspects

Good point. Crime is down. Sounds like policing is working. Give the boys in blue a raise. Anyone who thinks police are overpaid should apply for the job.

buffalooon Ask HN: How do you start new projects?

Could you expand on this some? Do you have a blog or something? This interests me.

buffalooon Robinhood now limiting trading in 50 stocks, incl. GM, Beyond Meat, Starbucks

Is this a brokerage? At some point us it something other than a brokerage if they restrict use of funds?

buffalooon GM Plans to Sell Only Zero-Emission Models by 2035

GM plans to declare bankruptcy 2036.

buffalooon Show HN: I made a physical button to end Zoom Meetings

With a hand gesture so expressive incident to activation of the button, there really should be a buzzer sound.

buffalooon Facebook and the Surveillance Society: The Other Coup

Occam’s razor: just one coup, not two.

buffalooon It’s time for police to stop lying to suspects

10 years ago, I could get behind the anti-cop bit as things had gone too far police state, but today with dangerous crazed chaos in the streets and the being made to do all the kneeling and feet washing... Anybody who can stand working as a cop deserves a medal.

buffalooon Tell HN: No, I won't enter my WORK email

I always knew deep down my gay cannibal drug addict nudist kleptomaniac gambler alter ego would one day come in handy... Thank you for the excellent advice.

buffalooon Netflix is testing a sleep timer feature on Android

They need to do research on less boring shows.

buffalooon Robinhood is now limiting users to 1 share of GameStop, has restricted trading

I’m looking in starting a brokerage where we take all your money and then change TOS so you can only have shares in the brokerage, which you can’t sell. Nonvoting. Then I’m leaving town. I’m calling it Don’t Kill Puppies brokerage.

buffalooon ‘The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy

Can we get more of these type of guys? Can we ship any of our current politicians off to Russia to get trained better?

buffalooon Tell HN: No, I won't enter my WORK email

If only cults were required to follow this. The Mormons refuse to leave me alone. They call me. They email me. They have for years. Refuse to take me off their list.

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They oughta name ‘em after CCP notable party leaders.

buffalooon Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

Yeah, “media doesn’t certify the...” I think I’ve heard that before. Some government process does it all according to Hoyle, sure. Sounds familiar.

buffalooon NY Post publishes false article about GameStop buyer based on Twitter hoax

Does “false” still mean what it used to mean? I hear “false” thrown around a lot these days.

buffalooon Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

We’ve got billions of people who need to feel sufficient confidence in the media and authorities to take vaccines nobody has used before at a time when every media outlet has some agenda to monkey around with what we know to be true. Not cool.

buffalooon What if Elon Musk went to Harvard?–The costs of the brain drain

Bachelor’s degree in business, master’s degree in business, and a law degree. I would have been far, far ahead to have continued to develop a business I started in middle school.

buffalooon Robinhood’s Founder on Limited Access

My own investment criteria preclude Robin Hood as no longer investable. This is not investment advice.

buffalooon What If Wall Street Bets Was a BBS?

There have been some bad bbs operations with criminal content that got shut down.

buffalooon What if Elon Musk went to Harvard?–The costs of the brain drain

I regret every one of my degrees. The “big lie” isn’t the regular round of election skulduggery, it’s convincing millions of young people to waste their time and treasure on useless degrees.

buffalooon Ask HN: Was the housing bubble as ridiculous as we are led to believe?

Why are your options limited? I’ve got more options than ever. They’re all lousy, same as ever. The housing bubble was the same nutty crap excited bankers do every time they get de-regulated. The liquidity is a palatable way to surrender reserve currency status.

buffalooon You Wont Have a Family

This is just absurd indulgent whining. Find something useful to do; there is plenty of work for everyone. Find simple pleasure in being kind. Be thankful for what you have. Tinder dates and sex calendars reflect a lack of character not a problem with society.