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For those that come straight to the comments: This reddit post was written hours before the outage
by bnchrch 2y ago
For those that come straight to the comments:
This reddit post was written hours before the outage
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- neilv 2y agoAmusing conspiracy theory: 1. Quietly compromise enterprise IT vendor X. 2. Sockpuppet post on /r/wallstreetbets, suggesting shorting X, for any reason (doesn't matter why). 3. Place big bet against X's stock. 4. Use your compromise of X to accelerate a big public failure by X. 5. Profit, and the WSB post by your sockpuppet is your plausible reason for shorting X, and you're only one of a crowd who did so. 6. Bonus: sockpuppet account becomes WSB folk hero, as others also profit from tip, which is political capital you can spend later.
- a0123 2y agoCan't use X like that anymore. Makes it sound like you're talking about the site formerly known as Tiwtter.
- josefritzishere 2y agoElon ruined the letter X.
- nikau 2y agoi thought that was wayland
- neilv 2y agoWe shouldn't let billionaires destroy language, and we don't have to.
- quantified 2y agoWhy not? They chose to be named as the most popular independent variable of all time. It would be super ironic if we change how we refer to things because of their preferences for calling themselves.
- tonynator 2y agoSimply search "crowdstrike" or "crwd" in the subreddit for evidence of regular posts about this stock, both positive and negative. Just a coincidence, and not really that special of one. HN should be smarter than this
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