4 ms·

Posted and "[dead]"ed yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1744855 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1744855

• raganwald 16y ago
  Why would it be killed? At first glance this looks like someone who hacked the system to have no permanent address, yet was able to execute financial trades. That seems masterful to me.
  • mquander 16y ago
    I was unaware that being homeless was now considered "hacking the system to have no permanent address." I agree, however, that he demonstrated considerable mastery of the telephone at the senior center.
    • raganwald 16y ago
      I guess you're trying to make a funny. Have an upmod for effort. What you may not be aware of is how difficult it is to perform certain types of financial transactions without a permanent address. Trading in stocks, for example. Quite often you need to do certain things in person and need to provide identification, which in turn may require a fixed address. He may have been using the seniors centre as his address, he may have been doing something else. The key here isn't that he was homeless and used the telephone in the senior's centre, the key is that he was homeless and used the telephone in the senior's centre AND managed an investment portfolio.