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by ballenf 6y ago
Maybe amateurs can more easily escape local maximas because they don't know the ingrained rules that lead to them.
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by ballenf 6y ago
> GameStop's financials were and are pretty solid. But aren't stock prices almost entirely about future performance? So will GME's business model work tomorrow? I think the answer is yes. They're the best option for b
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by ballenf 6y ago
The irreparable harm is triggering a crash. Or just an unnatural price correction. Irreparable because no one can predict how the price would have moved under non-manipulated conditions.
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by ballenf 6y ago
People did the same thing with Beanie Babies and lost entire life savings. People get into credit card debt and eventual bankruptcy buying any number of luxury items. Should we require credit reports before you can buy Gucci or expensive wi
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by ballenf 6y ago
If RH signaled to its hedge fund investors that it would be making this change in advance and those funds entered into new short positions with that information, would that open both parties up to additional liability?
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by ballenf 6y ago
I really wonder if a court would entertain a temporary injunction forcing RH to reverse this move. Temporary equitable relief seems justifiable here -- not a slam dunk but not outside the realm. Especially with the circumstantial evidence t
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by ballenf 6y ago
> one of the central conceits of capitalism is wrong (i.e. that the stock market isn't a good arbiter of the value of companies) The "central conceit" is not that the market is a "good arbiter" of the value of a
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by ballenf 6y ago
Not if the cost/hassle of having one is higher than the very specific type of insurance against doors being stuck it provides. I don't think any car company or stranger can answer that for you. Most people don't have non-expi
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by ballenf 6y ago
If you look at giving away stuff as a transaction, it might make more sense. You get to feel better about not creating waste and helping someone else -- if that was worth nothing to you, you'd throw it away. They get a calculator at th
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by ballenf 6y ago
I agree that neither group manipulated the market. I referenced the % just as a convenient label for that group of market participants.
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by ballenf 6y ago
The hardest part of contracting is finding good customers whose priorities in that triangle align with yours. Sometimes fast and cheap is the right answer. And there are devs who enjoy that role (although they often don't have the self
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by ballenf 6y ago
What about retail investors who looked at Gamestop before all this and thought it seemed like a reasonable investment, only to get wiped out by "irrational downward pressure" from hedge funds conspiring to short the stock 136%? We
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by ballenf 6y ago
I just don't get how WSB is engaging in market manipulation more than the 136% shorts were.
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by ballenf 6y ago
> ... this isn't going to end well for the average consumer. My prediction is reddit will shutdown wsb because that's what reddit does. And there will be more laws made targeting individuals engaging in this sort of activity (b
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by ballenf 6y ago
This type of history is also crucial in the fight against overreaching patent and copyright. Talking in broad strokes about a novel solution that is later patented probably won’t get the patent invalidated. Showing the code for the implemen
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by ballenf 6y ago
Just feels like you’re arguing that only short term memory matters. Have you never encountered a problem that became easy once you talked to someone with more background on the problem than you? Why would you want to handicap yourself or yo
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by ballenf 6y ago
Even my least tech savvy friends understand that their wifi password is like a traditional front door key: anyone with a copy can unlock the door. I'd call that very unsurprising to most people. The idea that more sophisticated authent
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by ballenf 6y ago
That's a customizable setting in Flow. You can have it launch your default browser or open it internally. There's also the pros and cons of auth/cookie isolation. You'll need to log in to Slack again. But if you use it f
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by ballenf 6y ago
One of many lies of bootcamps is the boosting of stats by counting hires of grads as instructors. And theoretically talented grads would make great teaching assistants, but those are exactly the people who get much better jobs so they end u
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by ballenf 6y ago
$36.5k for a 2-month online program is like what college? That's what it would cost you if you got a better offer than their internal roles.
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by ballenf 6y ago
FWIW, I use a program called "flow" on MacOS that does this but using Safari. Use it for slack and a music streaming, and dev kanban board. Anything can be made to be stuck to front or back. Eliminates all the buttons, and gets a
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by ballenf 6y ago
Maybe publishing the IP addresses of those is the real "show HN" that we'll see next week.
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by ballenf 6y ago
My experience is that there's a ton of value there, but the trending tab is like a siren call I can't resist even though I regret it almost every time. Usually I can't imagine why something is trending, click on it and lose e
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by ballenf 6y ago
I don't think it's either/or. Yeah we need to act against companies abusing it, but we also need to be prudent and put locks on our houses when we know there are thieves and spies who would love to sneak inside and take notes
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by ballenf 6y ago
Editing tweets to me is not just a feature, it's a fundamental shift to the nature of the platform. Even bigger than doubling tweet size did. Twitter is defined by tweets not being polished Facebook or LinkedIn posts. Except for people
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by ballenf 6y ago
You'll pretty regularly see a story on the front page with a low double-digit score, especially during off-peak times. Point is, it doesn't take that many upvotes coming quickly to rocket a story to the front page. I'm more f
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by ballenf 6y ago
There's a new service SO could offer: help a company under attack or recently attacked correlate the methods with suspicious users on SO, based on IP addresses and the presumption that attackers would use the same system to get help as
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by ballenf 6y ago
Given the focus on enterprise systems and teams, really looks like it was a Solarwinds type (but lower sophistication) attack where SO wasn't really the target. The targets were users of SO Enterprise or teams products.
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by ballenf 6y ago
Maybe a more nuanced status instead of just green could help. Like Purple means I’m signed in and available for synchronous chat.
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by ballenf 6y ago
Ask the question and then follow up with a nvm if they take longer to answer than is useful. You can do it politely and explain you got the answer or whatever.

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