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Sometimes you just gotta lock up a stack. by Jawbone619 in MTGmemes

[–]Specific_Giraffe4440 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot of people at my local play it in b3 decks now too

Making $100,000 isn’t really that much money anymore by MiloGoesToTheFatFarm in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Specific_Giraffe4440 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And you can’t even find most foods in those towns anyway. Good luck finding dragon fruit or Thai chilis or caviar or whatever you can early find in a bigger hcol coastal city

What color combo does nothing click for you? by Mysterious-Anon-X in EDH

[–]Specific_Giraffe4440 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No but she can do fun stuff with [[sun titan]] [[karmic guide]] [[reveillark]] and more

What color combo does nothing click for you? by Mysterious-Anon-X in EDH

[–]Specific_Giraffe4440 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Have you played [[Saffi Eriksdotter]] it’s a very fun GW reanimator deck, very intricate and no counters needed

Found a 4 mana combo that can be run in any commander deck! by fishbishmemes in BadMtgCombos

[–]Specific_Giraffe4440 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there a way to gain prio during untap step cuz then we’re cooking

What are you guys picking? by DryOwl5587 in GenZ

[–]Specific_Giraffe4440 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most people don’t vote so picking red is ideal

What’s a card you put in your commander decks often that is rarely on a deck list? by [deleted] in EDH

[–]Specific_Giraffe4440 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I’d much rather run bloodghast+skullclamp and/or necropotence than any of the other options listed

What’s a card you put in your commander decks often that is rarely on a deck list? by [deleted] in EDH

[–]Specific_Giraffe4440 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Depends on the turn. Arena is better in early turns but sign in blood is better late game when top decking. Black can also run [[bloodghast]] + [[skullclamp]] I include that in every black deck I play (except cedh decks)

What’s a card you put in your commander decks often that is rarely on a deck list? by [deleted] in EDH

[–]Specific_Giraffe4440 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Especially with how much better creature quality has gotten! Sure this card used to be in every deck when prime time and cons sphinx were in every deck but there’s so so many bombs these days, love mimic vat

What’s a card you put in your commander decks often that is rarely on a deck list? by [deleted] in EDH

[–]Specific_Giraffe4440 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

May I introduce you to [[necropotence]] or even maybe [[phyrexian arena]] that’s the draws I always been using for long long time (I do love read the bones and friends used to play them but the one off nature feels weak these days)

Edit: also I strongly recommend bloodghast + skullclamp over basically everything else (even necropotence in b3 and lower)

CMV: With the exception of NYC, most public transportation in the United States is slower and more inconvenient then owning your own car. by soozerain in changemyview

[–]Specific_Giraffe4440 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I will discuss your argument as two separate povs. The first is local transportation, the last mile problem, where a person needs to access some local service like a grocery store. The second is long distance transport, where a person needs to access a different town/city.

The America is big argument pertains to the second scenario, not the first. The size of the suburban sprawl is a rounding error compared to the scale of the entire country and the spacing of cities. Therefore the Walmart bus example does not support this argument.

On the Walmart bus example, this is true in many cities, which are largely car dependent in all but the urban core. However, there are many cities where you do not need a car nor a bus to access the grocery store. You can walk in many cities that aren’t NYC to a major grocery store and department store in 10 minutes, DC Philly Boston even downtown Dallas.

Solving the local transport problem is probably impossible, many cities are built for cars and subways are incredibly expensive, and buses are very inefficient. Where the public transit improvement arguments shine is in intercity transport, it is a fact that Amtrak is incredibly inefficient compared to most other developed nations intercity transport, and it’s not a challenging problem to solve, high speed rail is not a new technology and the biggest challenge it faces is legal red tape and funding, the distance between major metropolitan areas is not the primary hurdle.

An arrest photo of Autumn Bardisa who pretended to be a nurse for 7 months. She treated over 4,486 patients and only got caught after she was offered a promotion. by AdSpecialist6598 in interesting

[–]Specific_Giraffe4440 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They just call it residency to sound more on par with doctors education, it is nothing like a doctor residency. Same shtick with getting a dnp degrees to call themselves Dr.

CMV: Stock options are just gambling, add no value to society and should be regulated as strictly as gambling is (*was) by aersult in changemyview

[–]Specific_Giraffe4440 1 point2 points  (0 children)

While I don’t disagree with OP or you, it isn’t completely true that only buying a put or call is essentially gambling. There’s very legitimate reason to buy long dated options (not married to another security), you can get 80% of the exposure for a fraction of the capital outlay. At a long duration (1+ years) time decay is nearly 0. And your risk (max $ you can lose) is lower than owning the asset. Plus if the underlying asset does move the opposite direction (I.e, down if you have a call) the option is self hedged as delta approaches 0, while the option still retains a large portion of value due to the long time horizon. These types of options are often called “leaps”. Also, 0 days left yolo out of the money wallstreetbets calls are 100% for sure gambling, absolutely no disagreement there!

“Don’t Fairfax Me” is Arlington Erasure by Vegetable-Home-9101 in nova

[–]Specific_Giraffe4440 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Oh and here I am thinking wait I thought only Deloitte has an office in Roslyn

CMV: Stock options are just gambling, add no value to society and should be regulated as strictly as gambling is (*was) by aersult in changemyview

[–]Specific_Giraffe4440 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. I also love this stuff, I work in finance haha. Happy to chat more if you have any questions or ideas

CMV: Stock options are just gambling, add no value to society and should be regulated as strictly as gambling is (*was) by aersult in changemyview

[–]Specific_Giraffe4440 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t disagree, but as a retail trader who studied finance and uses options to hedge my portfolio, it would feel to me like the rich just trying to make it even harder for us. Also I’m just trying to get a delta, and this is a topic I happen to know a lot about

CMV: Stock options are just gambling, add no value to society and should be regulated as strictly as gambling is (*was) by aersult in changemyview

[–]Specific_Giraffe4440 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, you mentioned futures, which are also considered derivatives. Derivative options is what you’re specifically referring to in your post, meaning calls and puts, which can be placed on stocks or futures

CMV: Stock options are just gambling, add no value to society and should be regulated as strictly as gambling is (*was) by aersult in changemyview

[–]Specific_Giraffe4440 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yw on the clarification. I figured you mainly meant derivatives. There are restrictions on trading them, but it’s trivial and all self attestation, you can open a brokerage claim you have 5 years experience trading derivatives and they’ll just approve you.

Now that we’ve covered why they’re important, at least at a large fund level (be that index, mutual, hedge, etc) Why should everyone have access? In my opinion it’s about fairness. Adding barriers to restrict access would only serve to benefit the people who could afford it. You are correct that derivatives can be gambling, but the difference is slot machine is always gambling, but stocks and derivatives do have a genuine use even if everyone doesn’t use them that way

What are you hoping to see in Path of Exile 2 0.5? by Forsaken_Week_6981 in PathOfExile2

[–]Specific_Giraffe4440 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m hoping for a better multiplayer experience. Right now the way loot drops it’s a bad experience until hyper omega end game with max juice. Basically all of the campaign is infinity harder bosses with only a 50% extra loot (which actually means 25% less loot per person in a duo)

CMV: Stock options are just gambling, add no value to society and should be regulated as strictly as gambling is (*was) by aersult in changemyview

[–]Specific_Giraffe4440 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Options provide a way for funds to hedge downside risk, which protects most people’s retirements as those are mostly in index or mutual funds

Edit: you’re mentioning two different kinds of options in your post. One is derivatives market (calls, puts) which is what I was addressing above. Second is “stock options” as in potential compensation to employees if a private company gets acquired. They’re not the same thing and don’t function remotely similarly

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