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So it may not be illegal in all cases (although it is in many cases), but how does failing to deliver close out a short position?

I work in markets. No, you cannot just fail to deliver. I'm also not sure how the ETF thing would work. If it's 1% of the ETF you're going to hedge out the position using a giant notional. It doesn't work.

It amazes me that a fourteen year old company with a mature business model requires equity financing. I'll never really understand how tech companies work, I guess.

Why do they need financing? How is a company that sells $2000 exercise bikes not profitable?

Wendy and Lucy! Also, TV is better: Atlanta and the Wire are great about poverty.

I'm genuinely fascinated by this comment. You're saying that mutuals offer lower prices (not typically true), but they were out-competed by private companies? I'm not sure that makes sense. In my sector (life insurance), there's no real pattern to mutual vs public company pricing, but maybe it's different in auto insurance, for instance.

Yes, but the dollar also has a very long history of being extremely stable. Said another way, the dollar has never had a 30% shock in a year (BTC did today...)

Sure, but there's like umpteen million terrible accounts...seems like a lot to ask of your users.

No, how about users (me, at least) are leaving Twitter because it's a rotten cesspool of misogyny, racism and stupidity. Maybe users should get a choice to avoid some of this?

If you were looking to exercise, wouldn't you just ... ride a bike? And if you aren't looking to exercise, why do you want to walk on a treadmill while riding an e-bike?

Yes, there are lots of complaints about it handling curves poorly, misreading overpasses as solid objects, etc. etc.

I just ordered a Model S with Autopilot, and as I've been reading the comments on the various Tesla forums, I'm not sure I'm ever going to use it. Some of the stories are honestly terrifying (sudden deceleration on the highway, swerving into other lanes, etc).

It's a food company, and its product is fully baked. Why aren't they bootstrapping? Are they not profitable? If so, how do they have a business? If I sold ketchup at a loss, would I be able to close a $50M financing round?

My weird and unrelated question is: if I donate software to an open source group like the Linux Foundation, can I write it off my taxes? And if so, how do I assess the value of it? RethinkDB probably has some legitimate market value...can the founders reflect that on their taxes?

Yes, but Keras works just fine using Theano as a backend as well...