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You're buying unsecured debt in IB. Even worse, you're buying unsecured debt in a holding company that actually has no assets of its own, but owns the constituent parts of IB so hopefully they'll provide the cash necessary to pay off the notes. And somewhere Peterffy owns 70% of something...

If you're working in code you could certainly set up an algorithm that finds the edge of any straight line and then randomly removes pixels from that line to blur it. Here's a quick link of a topic on StackExchange on the subject...

That's such a gross oversimplification of the situation at the VA that it would be disingenuous if thought you were actually familiar with the complexity of the VA. Active duty members also have socialized medicine and Walter Reed is an active duty hospital. The VA system, on the other hand, is...

Put on some glasses with the wrong prescription? Or maybe stop magnifying your screen like you've done in the pictures you show, which incidentally seem to be conflicted with your assertion that LCD edges are "too clean" given that they attempt to show the edges as fuzzy or blurry. Not for...

I'm guessing he believes no-one has died from it, they all died from whatever risk factor they had, and only a few thousand have actually contracted it, the tests are all false and mistake the common cold for COVID. Everything else is just a conspiracy by the man to keep the enlightened few like...

It's a very different thing to convince people to use your product then "they will not only believe it, but no amount of proof to the contrary will convince them otherwise." As evidenced by the fact that the vast majority of Americans at least no longer eat pork and eggs for breakfast. Our...

Sure thing buddy. Over 50 million cases, over a million people dead worldwide. Also, the earth is flat, the sun revolves around it, there's a cabal of Democratic pedophile cannibals trying to take Trump down.....the crazy train has clearly already left the station on this guy.

pan·dem·ic /panˈdemik/ (of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world.

It is amazing how you can almost guess which blocked troll someone is responding to, the trolls are very consistent in their own respective irrationality.

Another thread on the FTT reminded me of this. Looks like our wagers might be settle on Jan 5th with neither of us winning. That's actually more disappointing than if I'd lost!

I can only guess you're looking at the line item "Vendor payments - medical" and assuming that's Medicaid? The total federal, state, and local spending on Medicaid is around $600B but the federal portion is only 62.5% of that total...

Which is a funny statement on their grasp of the concept of unpredictable events.

Got a reference for that?

I actually know almost nothing about the withholding rules for non-US citizens on U.S. security trades, so I'll let someone with more experience answer that, maybe @luisHK?

The guy's apparently blocked me for having the audacity to disagree with him using my personal story and pointing out that his second hand report of what's happening at Bloomberg is just as anecdotal as those he was accusing of providing anecdotal evidence. Looks like he's far too special of a...

Since I was referring to the federal budget, I'm not sure what cherry picking a single combined federal, state, and local number has to do with anything? It certainly isn't "neglecting" to not include state and local Medicaid budgets in a discussion about relative weights of the federal budget!

That's a fight that will cost you tens of thousands in attorney fees to win. US tax code is full of ambiguity, try taking a look at qualified business use of a company owned aircraft if you're really bored one day! The fact of the matter, as depressing as it is, is that there is a whole industry...

I don't think anyone would consider SPY and QQQ substantially identical, or QQQ and XLK. Those are well accepted ways to legally get around the wash sale rule. Certainly you could "get away" with buying a different option strike, just like you can "get away" with not declaring income you...

I guess it's ultimately just the difference between a renter and owner mentality. I own my houses and own my business and don't let politics rule my life. That has worked out quite well for me, taking me from a lower middle class background to the point now that I could quit working on Monday...

Your "evidence" is just as anecdotal, any articles to support your "I know tons of managers..."? Again, the whole "if this worked someone would already be doing it" and "because we've always done it this way" are exceedingly stupid rationales for contacting to do something. Curious where you...