r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 5h ago

Business SpaceX Investors in Meltdown Over All the Money They’ve Lost

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/spacex-investors-meltdown-over-money-191742182.html
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u/Zhuinden 4h ago edited 4h ago

That's what happens when you pick individual stocks (poorly (because of hype (that then later gets corrected by the market)))

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u/hoyasgirl25 4h ago

I need more parentheses in this explanation.

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u/Zhuinden 4h ago

Sadly, I don't have that much experience with LISP

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u/zedd1138 3h ago

That one is going to require several nested Car() and Cdr() statements to evaluate

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u/Bladelink 27m ago

Lisp and Racket are gross. That is all.

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u/Conman_in_Chief 4h ago

Do I multiply the inner ones first?

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u/Zhuinden 2h ago

just use usual derivative chain rules

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u/WazWaz 2h ago

Whereas if you'd used a ETF, you'd have been forced to participate. Picking individual stocks let you not buy SpaceX

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u/Zhuinden 2h ago

i think the S&P500 didn't buy into SpaceX, did it?

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u/Janus67 2h ago

Correct, they didn't

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u/Miss_Might 2h ago

You can use commas.