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• chrisper 9y ago
  >Too bad you can't long OVH and Hetzner. What does that even mean? Also Hetzner just introduced some AMD Epyc server.
  • golfer 9y ago
    "Long" as a verb means to purchase their stock. As opposed to "shorting" a stock, which means making a bet that it will go down in value.
    • chrisper 9y ago
      Ah that makes sense. Thanks!
• rbjorklin 9y ago
  For some reason I can’t reply to ‘chrisper’ but I think ‘api’ is referring to going long in the stock market. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/long.asp https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/long.asp
  • Splines 9y ago
    > For some reason I can’t reply to ‘chrisper’ HN doesn't let you do this to new comments to avoid back-and-forth commenting that is typical in flamewars.
    • sli 9y ago
      Coming up on 9 years here and I'm still finding out new things about how this site works. I've been wondering recently why some comments aren't replyable.
      • jfoutz 9y ago
        I think there is a time delay. Wait a few minutes or hours and you can reply. That cooling off period has helped me really think through my replies.
      • AnimalMuppet 9y ago
        They become replyable after some amount of time. The amount of time varies based on how active the thread is and/or how deeply nested the comment is. You can reply anyway, but you have to click on the timestamp ("X minutes ago") to do it.
    • pbhjpbhj 9y ago
      Usually you can click on the <posting time> and go to a page that displays only that comment, which has a reply box even when there's no reply option on the main page.