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- jgalt212 9y agoThis is trading in a nutshell. I love this stock at $40, but it's $50 now. And two weeks later, it's trading at $38 and our protagonist is afraid to buy.
- Operyl 9y agoA side note, since when has posting Wikipedia articles to Hacker News become so popular? I've seen it a number of times now in the past few days, and virtually never before.
- teh_klev 9y agoIt's been going on for as long as I can remember on HN. Anecdotally I've noticed peaks around the time one article is submitted then you get a rash of me-too submissions. After that things quieten down, on the front page, for a few months. Some are interesting because they can be articles on, at the time of positing an idea, an obscure theory where current world events make the article more relevant. Everyone's mileage may vary of course.
- partycoder 9y agoSounds like cargo cult programming. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming