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There are quite a few downsides to the built-in AppleRAID functionality. There is no notification or warning when one of the drives in a mirror goes offline and the RAID is running in degraded state. The RAID will also not automatically rebuild when a missing drive re-appears. (There is an AutoRebuild option mention in man page, but whenever I tried to enable that, the entire disk management stack froze in a way that required a reboot.)
RAID and macOS
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If this sounds familiar, it is broadly similar to the trade that Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. did earlier this year to sell stock. In each case, there is a weird instrument that looks like a convertible security, and a big “investor” who is buying most or all of it. But in each case, the buyer is not really set up to be a long-term investor in the company: The investor is getting the stock in installments, at a discount to market value, and selling each installment to retail investors on the stock exchange. And the investor is getting paid a nice fee for structuring the trade, giving the company the money upfront, and generally obscuring what is happening. “We are selling $365 million of stock to retail investors to raise $300 million” just sounds less good than “we are selling a $340 million convertible with a 30% conversion premium to a big investor.”
A Stock Fund That Can’t Go Down - Bloomberg
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Shorter-dated options bets have become so popular they have their own nickname, 0DTE, shorthand for zero days to expiration. Already this year, there have been tens of thousands of mentions of the hashtag #0DTE across Twitter, YouTube and Instagram, and a litany of online communities on Reddit, according to analytics company Hootsuite. A few years ago, there were hardly any such mentions.
Amateurs Pile Into 24-Hour Options: ‘It’s Just Gambling’
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