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kippsteron Heavier cars are safer for their drivers, but far deadlier for everyone else

Poor people drive pickup trucks too

kippsteron Nearly a third of new subscribers to news publications cancel in the first 24hrs

> When your product is so worthless and uncompelling on nearly half customers don't use it and your business model relies on them forgetting they're paying for it, then your industry is DONE.

I think this is the model most commercial gyms operate on.

kippsteron Mount Athos, the “Autonomous Monastic State” of Greece (2016)

How feasible would it be to do a pilgrimage there without knowing Greek?

kippsteron Robinhood now valued at $11.2B with new fund backing

> A trade executed at NBBO and filled at a better price in a dark pool is perfectly legal and somewhat commonplace. This is what Citadel et al do.

Client orders are protected in this scenario by FINRA Rule 5320 - they can't trade ahead of client orders. https://www.finra.org/rules-guidance/rulebooks/finra-rules/5...

kippsteron Why I’m Not Looking to Hire Computer-Science Majors

The big exception is the prop trading industry based in Chicago.

kippsteron Ask HN: Do you feel like you're missing out?

No