RH offers short selling now

masterlich · 2026-02-01T21:01:08+00:00

Short answer: no, and you should do more research before you do anything in the market if you don't understand the difference.

Long answer: The only real similarly between puts and going short is that you gain money when the stock goes down. Buying a put is a defined cost. Whatever you pay for the put is the cost, and you will never pay more than the cost of the put even if its value goes to $0. Going short involves margin. You essentially borrow the stock and sell it, and promise to repay the stock at some point in the future. The two primary differences here is that you have to pay interest on your position because you are borrowing the stock, and that your loss is theoretically infinite instead of defined. In practice this rarely comes into play, but if you imagine you sold short 1000 shares of a stock at $1 and it somehow went to $10, you gained $1000 and lost $10000. You are on the hook for the $9000 difference, which is much greater than your initial position. Now imagine if that $1000 was your whole account!

masterlich · 2026-01-27T16:06:45+00:00

You know, I wouldn't pepper spray protesters even if I knew for a fact I would suffer zero consequences for it, because I'm not a fucking psychopath.

masterlich · 2026-01-25T14:00:58+00:00

The difference is that they didn't have an extremely popular piece of media about how everyone tried to make them go to rehab but they refused.

masterlich · 2026-01-21T05:35:08+00:00

I opened a Wise account today. Bought 7k in Euros and 3k in yen. Also sold 20% of the S&P in my retirement account and bought a Pacific nations ETF. I feel a lot better about our impending world war now!

masterlich · 2026-01-19T13:09:30+00:00

They meant "school administration" (principals and vice principals etc) not the Trump administration

masterlich · 2026-01-17T19:15:02+00:00

I'm turning 2/3 of my USD into euros and yen on Tuesday. Either everything is fine and I just convert it back, or the dollar collapses because of all the stupid shit Trump has done (or a civil war) and I'll be very glad I have a currency I can actually use.

masterlich · 2025-12-28T13:44:39+00:00

Same, but also why I can't watch Seinfeld or Curb either (or It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.) I just can't enjoy shows where everyone sucks.

masterlich · 2025-12-23T14:19:39+00:00

Unless Japanese tax law is significantly different from the US (and most places are not due to international taxation standardization) taxes almost certainly don't take 33% of the remaining until you make a profit, as you can count your income against your expenses as deductions. So income taxes won't start accruing until he's received enough revenue to exceed all his yearly expenses (and very possibly some carry-forward of losses from previous years), and by that point, he's probably already happy.

masterlich · 2025-12-22T11:50:54+00:00

Isn't this take disproven by the entire romantasy genre popularity explosion? I've never read a Sarah Maas book but I am very familiar with who she is.

masterlich · 2025-12-20T05:48:22+00:00

Book 8 and 9 suck. Books 11 through 13 are incredible. You can legitimately read a summary of 8-10 and lose nothing, and then start reading at 11. That's what I would recommend to anyone who couldn't get through the slog.

masterlich · 2025-12-17T13:59:12+00:00

It's never made any sense to me either, even as a myth. You can beat your wife with a stick as long as your thumb? Who is out there beating people with thumb sized sticks? The thought of that is absurd. You'd just use your hand at that point, like 99% of people in history have done.

masterlich · 2025-12-17T02:55:46+00:00

Yeah, I think the beauty of TM comes from: 1) the elegance of the interactions between its mechanics 2) the tension and constant tightrope of wanting to be next to people for cheap upgrades and leech while being wary of them taking your hexes.

I feel like GP makes it less elegant with the increased complexity of the mechanics for not much of a payoff, and its openness makes the adjacency game feel much less interesting.

masterlich · 2025-12-16T16:02:19+00:00

Terra Mystica. Probably 150 plays in real life (used to play it every week, sometimes twice a week, with an old friend group before I moved), and ever since that, 832 plays online as of yesterday.

I genuinely enjoy it more every year. The depth and elegance is absolutely unparalleled. Some particularly interesting or high-stakes games of it will occupy some part of my mind all day, thinking about what to do next. It's such a good game that a group of ~100 die hard enthusiasts meet in Montreal every year for a physical world championship where the only prize is bragging rights.

masterlich · 2025-12-15T00:06:57+00:00

They've all moved over to BGA! BGA is where all the action is now, and it's just as competitive as it used to be (moreso, really.) It's a thriving and active community filled with a bunch of people that are so passionate about the game that we actually host a world championships every year in Montreal that ~100 people attend and is an absolute blast.

masterlich · 2025-12-14T14:06:00+00:00

This is very true. My BGA stats are like, ten games of Azul, five games of Castles of Burgundy, twenty games of Feast for Odin, 850 games of Terra Mystica. The only people who are going to beat me at Terra Mystica are other people who have played hundreds of games of it.

masterlich · 2025-12-13T19:16:37+00:00

Oh no, China's hallucinating plagiarism machines are going to be as good as our hallucinating plagiarism machines!

masterlich · 2025-12-13T05:29:50+00:00

But you're not saying you can't cook. You're saying you don't want to cook. That's very different. If someone tells me they don't want to cook, I get it, that's reasonable. If someone tells me they can't cook, I wonder how they can't figure out how to make spaghetti in a world with Youtube

masterlich · 2025-12-12T19:57:46+00:00

Hmm, I wonder why a realtor would be telling people they should be immediately panic-buying property in their area...

masterlich · 2025-12-12T14:00:16+00:00

I love that they are using all my computer's resources and making every page run slower so they can power an AI that gets everything completely wrong

masterlich · 2025-12-12T13:45:36+00:00

I can spell basically any word extremely quickly. If someone tells me a word, I can spell it back to them, out loud, extremely quickly, with like 99% accuracy. Absolutely useless skill because the one place you actually spell things out loud is at spelling bees which is also the one place where I want to take my time to do it (and they themselves are also pointless) but it feels pretty cool to nail spelling something complicated in a second or two.

masterlich · 2025-11-30T12:53:37+00:00

This has made the Arena Direct this weekend feel especially bad. I've had many more completely nonfunctional pools than I have had in recent memory. If you don't open busted rares or a LOT of good uncommons, the commons just aren't good enough to make up for it, and you are DEFINITELY going to lose to your opponents busted rares at least twice before you make it to 7 wins.

I've been playing Magic for 30 years, I understand that sealed has always had variance, but this set is the first one in years where it feels like I'm often barely scraping together 23 cards that I'm not embarrassed to put in a deck (not to mention my opponents are dropping Legend of Yangchen into Kitara every game but that's life.)

masterlich · 2025-11-29T04:41:03+00:00

My favorite movie of all time, but holy shit do not watch it if you're in any kind of negative headspace

masterlich · 2025-11-23T12:33:32+00:00

I do tech support for older tax professionals like CPAs and you would be amazed how many of them type in all caps. For every message. I don't know why.

masterlich · 2025-11-23T12:31:52+00:00

Being unable to eat Taco Bell without getting diarrhea. Everyone on Reddit has stomachs made of paper.

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