murbard2

Astra 6.1, this is Sol 6.1

It's tricky because if you take the view that rightsholders licenses are necessary for training, it's not clear that the labels hold those rights. If you need the music producer rights, for instance, it's a lot more decentralized and harder to get a catalog.

Well sure, in 2014 you were not too late, but now...

He likely means he's not sending spam.

If 95% of people voted in favour of apple pie, I'd become a bit suspicious of apple pie.

I think my comment come of as too literal. It wasn't meant to imply that there is nothing of value to the club experience, but rather that a busy and loud environment like a club may over-highlight the stimulant aspects of the drug and tone down its more exceptional empathogenic traits, reportedly.

It's really wasted on clubbers. Much better to be shared on a beautiful quiet day with a loved one. From what I hear.

Agreed.

In theory you can claim it back, but it's a major pain in the ass. Some ETF issued outside the US and holding US stocks will do it.

Other strategies to avoid this annoyance include:

1. selling on the ex-dividend date and buying the next day.

2. buying a long-date call and selling a put instead of holding the stock

3. simpler version of 2: buy a deep in the money long-dated call, you won't be paying all that much for the convexity, and you don't have to think about dividends.

The reason to hold stock is that they return value to shareholders. Stock buy backs are functionally dividends but they are taxed more fairly. They also work better for foreign investors, and are a much cleaner and simpler mechanism than directly sending cash to shareholders.

This is very plausible.

Dividends are silly in a world where you can achieve the same result and save everyone 20% tax by doing stock buybacks instead. It's also silly to strongly differentiate between dividend paying stocks and non dividend paying stocks as opposed to focusing on the business' cash flow, unless you're purposely avoiding dividend paying stocks because they suck from a tax perspective.

Yet, dividends are entrenched in many investor's psyche. Even official regulatory training in the US teaches registered representative that it's a good idea to recommend dividend bearing stocks to people who want "income" from their investments, which is a fallacy. Large mutual funds also have special categories for stocks providing high dividend yields.

Sad that this is the strategy as opposed to leveraging the incredible opportunity they have from their fabs.

Plus a tendency to make contrarian bets.

Whoever is backing him is taking on the risk of SBF jumping bail (and I'd assume the house is under surveillance and he's wearing ankle monitors), in exchange for either silence or valuable goodwill on the tiny off-chance he gets out of this.

Having worked as a quant GS on HFT, +1 on Flash Boys being criminally stupid at best and bad faith at worst.

Isn't the sound 7 seconds long though?