I was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor less than a year ago. It is a tumor that has been growing inside me for at least 5 years. Had it been correctly detected/diagnosed 5 years ago, it would have been an operable tumor with a high chance of a cure rate. Unfortunately, now that tumor is currently non-operable.
Current cancer screening guidelines aren't sufficient and in almost all cases they utterly fail in the early detection of cancers for people under the age of 50.
I applaud anyone working towards a better method for early detection!
I am so sorry to hear that! My mother, also, was found with a tumor that we didn't know about for a long time. She fought as long as she could. She never gave up hope.
Doctors don't know everything. There are ways to fight, even natural ones. Fighting with anything is better than giving up. Hope is very powerful. Don't give up. Keep fighting.
Best wishes to you from one who has walked this road with another.
Stay strong. I use your application as well, rescuetimer. I really like the logging it does. Can you tell me if it is written in C++ or is it mostly and mixed with other languages as well?
I purchased a fair number of TSLA when they IPO'd, for a bit lower than the actual IPO price of $17. A little over a year ago, my brokerage offered to borrow my shares at 4% annual interest (paid on a monthly basis). I was told that I would retain the ability to trade the stock at any time, but I gave up my shareholder voting rights while the stock was "loaned" out.
I had never heard of that happening to small individual investors like me, and at that time I looked into it and learned that this was typically done because there was a lot of interest in short sales for the stock and there wasn't enough borrowable stock to cover demands.
I renew the loan agreement on a monthly basis and in March 2013 I was offered an increase from 4% to 6% interest for the loan of my shares, indicating that short-sellers were very eager to get their hands on TSLA stock.
I'm curious to see if today's activities cause my June offer to drop my interest rate or if the offer just expires altogether. I would guess that at minimum I'll see a lower interest rate.
What?!!! Just so I get this straight. In order to short the stock you have to pay an annual interest rate of 46% of the stock value? I realize most shorts are probably only in it for short term, but that is still pretty insane.
Not sure if you're joking or not, but I'll offer a quick explanation. Interest in this context does not mean interest on a loan, but rather how many people are interested in shorting the stock. The 46% short interest meant that almost half of Tesla's stock was shorted. To put it another way, 46% of Tesla's stock was loaned out from various parties to sell to other various parties. This is a bad thing for the short sellers because they now have to pay more for their borrowed stock than they got for selling it in the first place. It's like owing more for your car than the car itself is worth.
olympus actually misunderstood me, and you were spot on :)
Brokers do charge interest rates and the rates for TESLA really were 45% (current) and 85% (once upon a time) annualized, mostly because of a deficiency in available shares. At that point it was costing 60c per share a week just to keep your short position.
Oh, wow. With numbers that high it never crossed my mind that you were talking about loan interest. Normally the interest you pay to short a stock is single digits, and if you have enough money it can be <1%.
If you sell puts against a short position from May 8 to May 17 (strike: 55.00, price: ~3.40), you can make >5 percent in 9 days. I'm guessing that most of the people borrowing shares at that rate are selling straddles to retail that make the overall position look less crazy.
So you are saying that a lot of the short interest is coming from people hedging their long bets?
I can somewhat relate to why one would take this strategy, as Tesla is getting a lot of hype, implying that the stock might break out (or already did, currently at $71), but they are also in a fairly precarious financial situation, with a ton of debt. Elon himself warned that if the company didn't get to positive cash flow it was likely they would go under. Still it seems like a high price to pay for a hedge, wouldn't it be simpler (and possibly cheaper) just to reduce your long position?
Do you have a recommendation for a good reference to learn all this lingo? I understand what a short is, but WTF is a 'put'? 'Straddles'??? 'Unhedged longs'?
A put is an option that gives you the right to sell a stock to someone by a specified date at a specified price. If you buy a put, you are betting the stock price will go down.
A straddle involves buying both a call and a put. If a stock is trading at 10, and you buy a PUT at 8 and a call at 12, you make money if the stock goes above 12 or below 8, between that, you eat the option price. Basically a straddle is betting on volatility.
You can also sell a straddle, sell a put and sell a call, and bet that stock will remain at the same price.
I was initially very excited by this as I skipped over the part where it was "Shared App Passwords". I'm currently using 1Password and sharing the password file via a dropbox account, however, as I look into the details, it appears Meldium would only work for a portion of what we use 1Password for.
I need a solution like this, but allows the storage and potential sharing of other types of passwords not associated with a specific website or service (server passwords, door codes, etc)
We definitely agree that this can apply to more than just apps and we may extend to more kinds of data over time. We just opted to focus on apps for this first release.
This was extremely timely. I just got off a call where I was struggling how our team could communicate appointment availability with a third party. This is a great solution and you don't have to share personal/sensitive calendar information with others.
I am currently in SF at the Game Developer Conference, and I have been using Unity w/an iOS license for the last year for a side-project. The timing is great for us, since we are just now working on re-deploying our project to Android for testing.
If you have ever considered doing any type of game development, I would strongly encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity.
Unity has allowed me to be immensely productive working relatively few hours a week. Being able to prototype up a game idea in a few hours and experience that on your mobile device is hugely powerful.
If you're trying to make it perfect, you'll waste all of your time in tiny unimportant details (and you won't even manage to make something good). There are a lot of would-be writers with beautifully polished first chapters, and nothing else. Software is the same.
Likewise with making it good -- everything takes longer than estimated, and so life will likely intervene to stop you working before you even have anything working at all.
Lesson: get it working first (however badly), and evolve it from there.
All of us at RescueTime want to wish Tony the best of luck!
We will still be seeing Tony on a regular basis as he continues working on some special RescueTime projects, so hopefully we'll get the early scoops ;)
Current cancer screening guidelines aren't sufficient and in almost all cases they utterly fail in the early detection of cancers for people under the age of 50.
I applaud anyone working towards a better method for early detection!